Post-Game Talk: 2022 NHL Playoffs - Round 1: Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Toronto Maple Leafs | 4-3 WIN

[The Gongshow]

Could see alot of Serg - bogo on Matthews/Marner tonight with last change.

With Coop trying to get Ryan "Conn Smyth Votes" McDonagh and Cernak. Hedman against Matthews is also favorable

 

[sampollock]

Could see alot of Serg - bogo on Matthews/Marner tonight with last change.

With Coop trying to get Ryan "Conn Smyth Votes" McDonagh and Cernak. Hedman against Matthews is also favorable

just nail him, make his life rough
look what habs did last year... he is weak

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Side note: I should post on the Bolts board more. I just don't know what to say and I barely know any of you, but posting more would change that. I think I tried to introduce myself once. Maybe I'll try that again. Do we have an introductions thread?

Leafs should give us a run for our money but I'm hoping playoff experience and goaltending can win the series. I don't know what else to say for now. I'm beyond excited for tomorrow. The NHL playoffs are the best time of year in my opinion.

Wasn't your dad a fire fighter?

 

[Summer Rose]

Wasn't your dad a fire fighter?

Mother, father, same thing. Or me. It runs in the family. We volunteered with the Whispering Pines Fire Department (now merged and called Water Wheel Fire and Medical) just north of Payson, Arizona. You remembered something about me!

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Mother, father, same thing. Or me. It runs in the family. We volunteered with the Whispering Pines Fire Department (now merged and called Water Wheel Fire and Medical) just north of Payson, Arizona. You remembered something about me!

Yup. It was a vague memory. I'm the resident drunk guy yelling at his screen. So it's all a little blurry. Welcome back.

 

[JT AM da real deal]

TSN and Sportsnet jerk off the Leafs so bad that every other Canadian city, doesn't bother listening to their hockey talk stuff unless they are Leaf fans. It's unbearable up here. I live all the way in Vancouver and even here I have to hear about Matthews last bowel movement on TV.

Leafs and Habs are 17.5M TV watchers out of 21M in Canada (Leafs around 11.5M of that) .. once Leafs are out then GTA turns out of hockey completely now and only about 4-5M Canadian sets stay on NHL playoff hockey mostly in east and Alberta .. so Sportsnet and TSN take a financial bath if Habs and Leafs are out .. in US in numbers watching across country around same at 21M and as long as NY and Boston and Toronto stay in half da viewership stays into it .. once they are out again it becomes irrelevant across US .. even in US there are 2M Leaf viewers (about 10% of people who watch hockey in US from GTA area)

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Leafs and Habs are 17.5M TV watchers out of 21M in Canada (Leafs around 11.5M of that) .. once Leafs are out then GTA turns out of hockey completely now and only about 4-5M Canadian sets stay on NHL playoff hockey mostly in east and Alberta .. so Sportsnet and TSN take a financial bath if Habs and Leafs are out .. in US in numbers watching across country around same at 21M and as long as NY and Boston and Toronto stay in half da viewership stays into it .. once they are out again it becomes irrelevant across US .. even in US there are 2M Leaf viewers (about 10% of people who watch hockey in US from GTA area)

Oh I get it, it makes sense in the sheer volume of Leaf fans and Habs fans around North America. I don't have to like it at all.

 

[Summer Rose]

Yup. It was a vague memory. I'm the resident drunk guy yelling at his screen. So it's all a little blurry. Welcome back.

I used to be the resident drunk girl*. I had a scare with alcohol in January though and don't really drink anymore. Not saying you can't. Stay safe, okay?

*-part of my aging process also is that I feel more grown up now and don't consider myself a "girl" anymore. I feel more motherly and like a woman or lady instead. I'll be 36 next month.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

I used to be the resident drunk girl*. I had a scare with alcohol in January though and don't really drink anymore. Not saying you can't. Stay safe, okay?

*-part of my aging process also is that I feel more grown up now and don't consider myself a "girl" anymore. I feel more motherly and like a woman or lady instead. I'll be 36 next month.

I'm 36 already, just had foot surgery on both my toes. My liver isn't a spring chicken anymore. But if I have to turn my liver into a black hole for the threepeat, so be it.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

i, too, will sacrifice @DistantThunderRep's internal organs for a tampa threepeat

 

[Joanna]

Ready.

 

[The Gongshow]

i, too, will sacrifice @DistantThunderRep's internal organs for a tampa threepeat

For the good of the team/3peat, sacrifices must be made to the hockey gods.

 

[sampollock]

Come out the gate hot.
perry is due for a huge run

 

[The Gongshow]

brb, gonna watch highlights from the last two years runs on YouTube

 

[dbieon12]

Woah. I missed this game. Looks like a disaster for TB.

 

[Coopers Gum]

Woah. I missed this game. Looks like a disaster for TB.

What game?

 

[AHockeyFanatic]

I used to be the resident drunk girl*. I had a scare with alcohol in January though and don't really drink anymore. Not saying you can't. Stay safe, okay?

*-part of my aging process also is that I feel more grown up now and don't consider myself a "girl" anymore. I feel more motherly and like a woman or lady instead. I'll be 36 next month.

Who is “drunk” girl talking to? You didn’t quote anyone? Lmao

 

[Stammertime91]

Ready.
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They're so ready they didn't even move. Look at em.

This aged well.

 

[Felonious Python]

lIGhtnInG Are tiRed.

 

[AHockeyFanatic]

lIGhtnInG Are tiRed.

Being tired is such a lazy excuse for playing shit hockey.

 

[These Are The Days]

I love how these guys can win 8 straight series but they have to be forced to put their best effort in like a child who after a week only cleans his room after his mom takes away the PlayStation and begs for it back on his best behavior as if his life counted on it.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

toronto had a better gameplan. lets see what tampa can adjust for wednesday. only need to take one of two in toronto anyway.

 

[Felonious Python]

Being tired is such a lazy excuse for playing shit hockey.

They played a really long game two years ago. That catches up to you.

 

[Rschmitz]

The Lightning need to fix two issues, unforced lazy errors and being stone walled at the Toronto blue line. Shift to a grindy style of play and clog the neutral zone and Toronto will have issues

 

[LightningStrikes]

Gotta stop the lazy cross ice passing and especially when we’re on the PP. Toronto was obviously prepared for that.