Around the NHL 9

[snowkiddin]

SN panel whining about the refs in the Leafs game is simultaneously hilarious and nauseating

Good ol' epitome of locker room cohesion, Evander Kane, is Canadian.

Hell, right now, the rumored issues in the locker room is a Canadian and an American. Before that we had a Finn.

Clearly the solution is to draft more Swedes. Ignore the Karlsson-Hoffman debacle.

Hey, we even had a Swede waive his NMC for the good of the team. Bet you’d never see that from a dang dirty Yank

 

[Ducky10]

American players are often toxic to everyone around them. I often wonder where we'd be had we drafted more Canadians and not had guys like trouba and copp influencing scheif et al.

Wow, this is just flat out ignorant. No other way to put it.

 

[raideralex99]

American players are often toxic to everyone around them. I often wonder where we'd be had we drafted more Canadians and not had guys like trouba and copp influencing scheif et al.

A lot of Canadian players don't want to in Canada some say too much pressure playing in Canada especially in Toronto and Montreal.
Burke has mentioned this a few times that signing Canadian FA is very tough for Canadian teams because they want to play in the states.

 

[SUX2BU]

Leafs imploding. HFBoards crashing in 3... 2... 1...

73 pages of drama on their GDT

But whose counting …..

 

[DeepFrickinValue]

73 pages of drama on their GDT

But whose counting …..

Who is their villain, hero, comedic relief?

A lot of Canadian players don't want to in Canada some say too much pressure playing in Canada especially in Toronto and Montreal.
Burke has mentioned this a few times that signing Canadian FA is very tough for Canadian teams because they want to play in the states.

If you have money, USA is one of the greatest countries in the world. Can’t blame players for shunning Canada.

USA has won the cup 30 years in a row. No coincidence.

 

[tbcwpg]

Tie game!

Now 3-2! That's what you get for playing Zach Bogosian on a 4-on-4.

 

[bustamente]

Leafs woke up and so did CC and Simmer

 

[John Agar]

Crap...

At this rate...

The rest of the World will never hear the end of this...

Come on Bolts... find a way...

 

[bustamente]

Dubas tearing up his resignation and now in full parade planning mode

 

[Mud Turtle]

Crap...

At this rate...

The rest of the World will never hear the end of this...

Come on Bolts... find a way...

Bolts taking lessons from the Jets on how to hold onto a lead? Sit back and let them come at you in wave after wave.

 

[tbcwpg]

Bolts taking lessons from the Jets on how to hold onto a lead? Sit back and let them come at you in wave after wave.

The other team often has something to do with that too. Not just letting teams come at them.

 

[John Agar]

Bolts taking lessons from the Jets on how to hold onto a lead? Sit back and let them come at you in wave after wave.

It's in Toronto...

I don't think they are sitting back on anything... Toronto fans in a frenzy so the Leafs are flying...

Momentum has shifted and the Bolts need to chill it...

 

[snowkiddin]

Setting up nicely for the Game 7 third period collapse, it appears …

 

[Mud Turtle]

Yes!!!

 

[John Agar]

Well there it is...

 

[bustamente]

Mathews D play is nothing to write home about but nobody calls him out because he scores goals

 

[tbcwpg]

No matter where you fall on the Leafs, that building sounds like a ton of fun to be at right now. The difference between regular season Leafs crowds and playoff crowds.

 

[bustamente]

No matter where you fall on the Leafs, that building sounds like a ton of fun to be at right now. The difference between regular season Leafs crowds and playoff crowds.

I think they are pumping in crowd noise

 

[Mud Turtle]

Certainly exciting hockey.

 

[tbcwpg]

The Scheifele like backcheck by Nick Paul on Matthews there

 

[snowkiddin]

No matter where you fall on the Leafs, that building sounds like a ton of fun to be at right now. The difference between regular season Leafs crowds and playoff crowds.

You could say the same about every Canadian market and a handful of American ones too.

 

[tbcwpg]

You could say the same about every Canadian market and a handful of American ones too.

Playoffs amps things up for sure but I feel the difference here is that Toronto is full of business accounts there to network during the season, and not during the playoffs.

Places like Calgary, Edmonton etc are louder but I feel the fan makeup is the same. Similar to Winnipeg - the arena was louder during the playoffs than most regular season games I went to but I saw a lot of the same faces.

 

[John Agar]

TSN...

Here comes the endless hyperbole...

Sportsnet...

Here comes the never ending boot licking...

Yuck...

 

[snowkiddin]

TSN...

Here comes the endless hyperbole...

Sportsnet...

Here comes the never ending boot licking...

Yuck...

Cuthbert was a train wreck that game

But I guess most of Canada are supposed to be Leaf fans so the call wasn’t that bad.

Back to Tampa they go.

 

[tbcwpg]

Fully expect a game 7.

As for the commentary, it must be easy to get caught up in the atmosphere there.