Around the League - ...in 56 Games

[budzz]

 

[Mr Hockey]

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haha that is legit and good

 

[3blizzard4]

Someone need to put that one LOiler fan (yes singular - you will know who it is) on suicide watch. Poor fella needs to step off the ledge. Obsessed with Matthews in their Out of Town Thread!

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Sabres with another 3-goal lead after 2

 

[Carltons Cup]

Another Sabres meltdown incoming.

The tank commander is back at the wheel.

 

[willmma]

sabres up 6-1. 3:44 left in the third.


The flyer goalies make Hutchinson look like a Vezina candidate

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

sabres up 6-1. 3:44 left in the third.


The flyer goalies make Hutchinson look like a Vezina candidate

They've now allowed more goals than the Sabres. Yikes

 

[Gallagbi]

Some of the teams are going to have insane schedules down the stretch

 

[Warden of the North]

Some of the teams are going to have insane schedules down the stretch

It will be interesting whether or not they actually play all the games. Have to think that if fans are in the seats they do indeed get played, but if they aren't? Not so easy an answer.

 

[Warden of the North]

Does anyone else find it comical fans of other Canadian teams use the "Leafs are only good because they play in a bad division" argument while simultaneously trying to justify their team being better then the Leafs?

Do they miss the glaring deficiency in that argument?

 

[Mr Hockey]

 

[Menzinger]

Does anyone else find it comical fans of other Canadian teams use the "Leafs are only good because they play in a bad division" argument while simultaneously trying to justify their team being better then the Leafs?

Do they miss the glaring deficiency in that argument?

Oh that warped logic that I constantly see is always hysterical.

The Leafs can win the cup this year and the same people will whine how it's apparently an asterix win, and the next sentence will try and argue their teams #4 AHL D man is better than Brodie

 

[Warden of the North]

Oh that warped logic that I constantly see is always hysterical.

The Leafs can win the cup this year and the same people will whine how it's apparently an asterix win, and the next sentence will try and argue their teams #4 AHL D man is better than Brodie

Another favourite of mine

Leafs looking at your teams #4 dman or 2nd line winger

"Leafs don't have the pieces to get it done. Nope. Nothing of interest"

 

[Daisy Jane]

Does anyone else find it comical fans of other Canadian teams use the "Leafs are only good because they play in a bad division" argument while simultaneously trying to justify their team being better then the Leafs?

Do they miss the glaring deficiency in that argument?

wait. what? that doesn't make a lick of sense

 

[3blizzard4]

They have it all planned out. We cannot win:

1) If Leafs win, its a weak division
2) If we lose, we suck.
3) We win the Cup, its an asterix
4) We lose, we are perennial losers
5) Our star AM34 is a floater and is just lucky being in the right spot and Marner is the driver
6) Our star doesn't score, well he obviously sucks (no mention of Marner now).
7) Our defence sucks - one of the worst in the league
8) Leafs shutout an opponent, its luck and the other team must have been tired that day


Just can't win.

 

[Gabriel426]

They have it all planned out. We cannot win:

1) If Leafs win, its a weak division
2) If we lose, we suck.
3) We win the Cup, its an asterix
4) We lose, we are perennial losers
5) Our star AM34 is a floater and is just lucky being in the right spot and Marner is the driver
6) Our star doesn't score, well he obviously sucks (no mention of Marner now).
7) Our defence sucks - one of the worst in the league
8) Leafs shutout an opponent, its luck and the other team must have been tired that day


Just can't win.

Who cares, winning the Cup is the only thing that matters

 

[htpwn]

Does anyone else find it comical fans of other Canadian teams use the "Leafs are only good because they play in a bad division" argument while simultaneously trying to justify their team being better then the Leafs?

Do they miss the glaring deficiency in that argument?

Some are almost certainly just trolling.

Others are probably acting out of emotion. They hate the Leafs and thus are predisposed to view us as being terrible. But we're actually good, so cognitive dissonance kicks in, which is uncomfortable. They can either acknowledge that discomfort and accept that we're good or they can contort an argument that justifies why their deeply held opinions about our team are not wrong (i.e. our division sucks). It's easier for their ego to do the latter, so that's what they choose.

Or, to put it very simply, it makes them feel bad to accept that we're good, so they don't.

 

[Warden of the North]

wait. what? that doesn't make a lick of sense

Yup

 

[Mr Hockey]

I would say we are in the weakest division but we are an upper level team overall

 

[willmma]

I would say we are in the weakest division but we are an upper level team overall

Have you seen the division that has Buffalo, Philidelphia and Boston in it.

It's hard to say we have a worse division.

 

[Mr Hockey]

Have you seen the division that has Buffalo, Philidelphia and Boston in it.

It's hard to say we have a worse division.

yea but the top half of that division has some pretty solid teams in it

 

[willmma]

yea but the top half of that division has some pretty solid teams in it

Who, Pittsburgh? meh.


I think ...
Ottawa > Buffalo
Vancouver = Phili
Calgary = Rangers
Montreal > Boston
Edmonton > Pittsburgh
Winnipeg < Islanders
Leafs > Washington

 

[Mr Hockey]

Who, Pittsburgh? meh.


I think ...
Ottawa > Buffalo
Vancouver = Phili
Calgary = Rangers
Montreal > Boston
Edmonton > Pittsburgh
Winnipeg < Islanders
Leafs > Washington

yea, this is a touchy topic with some here, if i discuss this it would offend some and I will be called a troll/not a leaf fan/etc and i would most likely get a penalty out of it lol ... i'm ok with your opinion though

 

[fahad203]

Matt Martin fought Chara tonight. This is the second time Martin fought Chara

I'll take a Martin over Simmonds anyday. A true throwback type of player
He can still skate and actually throws his weight around

He was overpaid but was a very effective player. Him at 1.5 is better than Joe and Simmonds

 

[3blizzard4]

Chara at 40+ still formidable but much more digestable.