Problem about learning their lesson this season, if indeed they have learnt it, is that next season we won’t have an opportunity like the one that presented itself this season to play in a joker division right into the conference finals.
All the Leafs had to do was close.
We had a cake walk to the semis.
Honestly, we blew the window we had between 2018-2021. Now Hyman is UFA, Rielly UFA next year and cap is flat for a couple of years probably.
They is not lacking roster wise by no means sire. What genre should they have better sire? The goalie is top solid, their D is better than ours, they have great role players, suzuki, danault, PERRY, EDMUNDSON. Etc. They cool. Also their young gangstas kotkaniemi and especially another young g and special player ARMIA stepped up. Their team is much better built for the playoffs than ours or like edmontons. We have dolls in our core. They do not. No dolls there milord.
In back to back seasons, Montreal has had the lowest point total of all playoff teams and this year they had 59, they were also 18th in goals against, and 17th in goals for. Acting like they're some how a great team because you want to feel better about yourself, is not my problem but its delusional. Montreal will not survive 4-6 games vs Boston, Florida and Tampa next year. They aren't better than The Panthers, Hurricanes, Islanders, Flyers , Penguins or even the Rangers, whom they have to fight for a wild card spot because they certainly aren't getting one of the guaranteed top 3 spots over Boston, Toronto ,Florida or Tampa. And when they inevitably miss the playoffs next season, they'll miss their chance to trade pieces that will help them build for the future, so they'll be in perpetual no mans land of not being good enough to make the playoffs, but not bad enough to land a superstar draft pick, like the Leafs were with the Burke and Nonis era.
Montreal is further than us milord. They are moving past winnipeg too.
THat's cool and hard sire. We ain't been that since the pat quinn era. I loved those teams. Randy carlyle's team was hard too, that one was a close one. This montreal team has a chance to win something big, they already have. Beat us, and now they is moving on from the jets. They build it correclty and have all the special, key guys. In every possible situation. I salute.
WE IS DOLLS: Others is not.
it makes the Leafs look a little better, but feels worse. It should've been them demolishing Winnipeg
All the Leafs had to do was close.
We had a cake walk to the semis.
