ESPN Huge Setback: The Toronto Maple Leafs Head Coach is Been Accused Of Been….
I’ve always harbored a slight desire to read lips. It seems like a nice ability to have in your back pocket, but my ears work perfectly great, and I plan to keep it that way. You will be able to discern opinions about you even from across the room in this method.
Regretfully, I’m awful at it right now.
But even I, a total amateur at lipreading, was able to understand every word Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe said during the team’s Saturday night game against the Ottawa Senators.
The defenseman Simon Benoit of the Leafs was called for tripping Senators forward Tim Stutzle while they were in the capital of the country—not ours, Canada.
The call was somewhat ambiguous, though, as it appeared that Stutzle, who was born in Germany, went to town rather easily.
Who concurred with that evaluation, you ask?
Indeed, Keefe.
Yes, that is as simple as it gets in terms of lip reading. Plus, at least in that particular case, Keefe might be correct about the diving.
Keefe wasn’t the only one who felt a little hot under the collar after the Leafs lost this one, 5-3.
Even after Riley Grieg’s empty-netter gave the Senators the victory, tensions increased.
Morgan Rielly, a defenseman for the Leafs, took issue with Grieg’s decision to shoot a complete slapshot from the slot to put the ball in the net.
With the cross-check to Grieg’s chops, Rielly was given a five-minute major and a game misconduct. It wouldn’t come as a huge surprise to me if he also received a ban for it.
But I can see where the anger is coming from. Grieg wrote a crazy play. All it accomplished was let Rielly vent his frustration, as he was clearly not pleased with his team’s second defeat in three games following the All-Star break.
