GDT: 2022-23 NHL Playoffs

[shtorm2005]

Always good to see a former Cap choke in OT during the POs:

Jonas Sinkenthaler?

You reminded me of this meme

 

[notDkristich]

I'm now firmly in the Panther's fan club. Until its them vs Kraken. Go Panthers, then go Kraken!

 

[HTFN]

I no longer believe in the New Jersey Devils.

How does he do it?!

 

[Brian23]

You reminded me of this meme

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Me to this post.

 

[AlexModvechkin8]

Poor Siegs. Knew the Canes would score on it it is just about how it has gone for most of the former caps in these NHL playoffs.

How does the old saying go, you can take the boys of the Capitals but you can’t take the Capitals out of the boys. We are spreading our playoff disease one player at a time like professional saboteurs.

 

[kicksavedave]

I'm now firmly in the Panther's fan club. Until its them vs Kraken. Go Panthers, then go Kraken!

Kraken vs Panthers in the Cup final. Two franchises that had combined total attendance five seasons ago of 11 fans.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Let’s go Panthers…Seattle is done.

 

[shtorm2005]

 

[Calicaps]

Let’s go Panthers…Seattle is done.

All of this.

Need a repeat of the Bruins game 7 loss (but game 5 in Toronto). That arena was a damned graveyard.

And I think the Kraken are a really well-built team, but they don't have enough high-end talent to overcome Dallas.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

All of this.

Need a repeat of the Bruins game 7 loss (but game 5 in Toronto). That arena was a damned graveyard.

And I think the Kraken are a really well-built team, but they don't have enough high-end talent to overcome Dallas.

Yeah, Ive enjoyed the Kraken but they are overmatched now. Well run and good young team….

 

[Marshall]

For sheer entertainment value, I'd like FLA to put TML away.

 

[marcel snapshot]

Man, you give Verhaige any daylight, he punishes you

 

[HTFN]

I've held off on saying this, and maybe now still isn't the best time, but we've seen the Capitals of yesteryear do similar things to this.

The win a round, feel this wash of relief, and then don't come into the next series with the chip on their shoulders anymore. Then in the series itself they feel the pressure again, win a game or two, and do the exact same thing and lose anyway.

Maybe it's human nature to find a way to shed some of that stress but Cup teams don't ebb and flow like that, the goal is always on the finals. 2018's team felt very much like that, the job was never done until it was done and I don't think the Leafs have the collective experience to manifest that.

They could still win, but it won't be like that.

 

[um]

I've held off on saying this, and maybe now still isn't the best time, but we've seen the Capitals of yesteryear do similar things to this.

The win a round, feel this wash of relief, and then don't come into the next series with the chip on their shoulders anymore. Then in the series itself they feel the pressure again, win a game or two, and do the exact same thing and lose anyway.

Maybe it's human nature to find a way to shed some of that stress but Cup teams don't ebb and flow like that, the goal is always on the finals. 2018's team felt very much like that, the job was never done until it was done and I don't think the Leafs have the collective experience to manifest that.

They could still win, but it won't be like that.

I feel like we always went up in round 2, only to choke.

 

[HTFN]

I feel like we always went up in round 2, only to choke.

The trigger might have been slightly different but to me you can just see the attitude of "haha, we did it, now we're gonna do it because we're awesome and we did it already" and the second you stop fighting in the playoffs you start losing. There's no doubt in my mind that's how Toronto got in this hole to begin with, after finally breaking through that first round barrier and then getting Florida over Boston to boot.

But now they're learning the second component of the lesson, the one the Caps learned in those second round chokes. The only difference so far is that when they punched out Pittsburgh they absolutely dialed in.

 

[ChaosLord]

For sheer entertainment value, I'd like FLA to put TML away.

Every year the Leaf fans get their hopes up and every year they get shattered. It is entertaining

 

[um]

The trigger might have been slightly different but to me you can just see the attitude of "haha, we did it, now we're gonna do it because we're awesome and we did it already" and the second you stop fighting in the playoffs you start losing. There's no doubt in my mind that's how Toronto got in this hole to begin with, after finally breaking through that first round barrier and then getting Florida over Boston to boot.

But now they're learning the second component of the lesson, the one the Caps learned in those second round chokes. The only difference so far is that when they punched out Pittsburgh they absolutely dialed in.

This Leaf’s season certainly resembles the 2010-2011 Caps. So far.

 

[HTFN]

I think he might have maybe actually saved that, but also I can't see an angle that definitively says anything else. That's as close as they come, you're gonna hear it from Leafs fans for the next 5 years.

waiting to be given an angle that works though, they're all awful

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Lol….Leafs fans not getting it was in after the play was dead….refs should explain….

 

[Cappy76]

I think he might have maybe actually saved that, but also I can't see an angle that definitively says anything else. That's as close as they come, you're gonna hear it from Leafs fans for the next 5 years.

waiting to be given an angle that works though, they're all awful

I think it was in its under his pad when he kicks out and then his foot ends up in the net. To me it’s in

 

[pman25]

It’s not a goal. That’s tough timing to lose one for sure

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

It wasn’t in until after the letup.


The damning part is that from the overhead view, it looks like the ref goes to his mouth with the whistle, but in studio the guys are already saying he blew it….if anything he could be saying I meant to blow it earlier I guess…

 

[twabby]

No way Florida loses after the disallowed goal. Seems like a dagger.

 

[kicksavedave]

Biss explaining that the skate and part of the pad were fully in the net, completely ignores that those aren't what makes it a goal. The puck has to visibly cross the line entirely, not simply be hidden under equipment that crosses the line.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

No way Florida loses after the disallowed goal. Seems like a dagger.

I feel like the Leafs are carrying the play. I don’t think next goal wins….