The Gr8 Dane
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I can understand how a leafs fan would say hockey isint that serious ( on a hockey message board nonetheless ) when they havent won since 1967
Bleacher Report blogger says that Toronto no longer appeals to free agents, not considered a winning organization
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Enga Olly
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Looking forward to the habs missing the playoffs yet again. I remember habs fans used to insist that their very smart fanbase would "never tolerate not winning the cup every few years". 30+ years and counting.
TheDawnOfANewTage
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“Weird dude hung up on his ex says she’s not even that hot anymore, is too extra.”
They aren’t wrong, it’s just a media obsession more than anything else, so it’s a bit weird to me. Like, ya, we all see them failing to get free agents and go on playoff runs- that isn’t news. “Buffalo isn’t the most popular destination” wouldn’t be a story, but with Toronto everything is. Idk, I’d just feel dumb making a point of this, but somehow this thread keeps going so idk. Ragebait.
They aren’t wrong, it’s just a media obsession more than anything else, so it’s a bit weird to me. Like, ya, we all see them failing to get free agents and go on playoff runs- that isn’t news. “Buffalo isn’t the most popular destination” wouldn’t be a story, but with Toronto everything is. Idk, I’d just feel dumb making a point of this, but somehow this thread keeps going so idk. Ragebait.
The Gr8 Dane
L'harceleur
You can't chirp us , the best player in your franchises history got clamped by Phil Danault in a bo7 , just stop it
. There's levels to the chirp game , you are not in a position to do so
SuperScript29
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I can see it for multiple reasons, for starters, being a hockey star in Toronto is a completely different feel than being a star in Florida, Anaheim, or whatever. There's way too much pressure from the fans and the media, so if a player enjoys that kind of pressure, I can see them enjoying playing in Toronto. Granted, I suspect most players don't enjoy that kind of pressure. The other thing is money, can't speak for all US cities, but odds are you're paying more income tax playing in Toronto.
HockeyVirus
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Yup lol. Approaching the point no active NHL players will remember their last cup win but chirp a drought.
Oh the irony... from a fan of a team whose drought has lasted for 26 years longer.
HockeyVirus
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You are well on your way to the same length drought!
People keep saying there is pressure, but what actual pressure is there? This team has two decades of two different types of abysmal failures, what exactly has happened to the people involved? Not much really, they all got paid a ton while sucking (in different ways).
By which time the Leafs drought will stand at... 82 years ?
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HockeyVirus
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SuperScript29
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The fans and the media are not very forgiving in Toronto land. I've lived around that area and lived in other big US cities where hockey markets are supposed to be big. There's no comparison, hockey in Toronto and I suspect the rest of Canada hits a very different level than it does in the US.
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This is the troll post of the off season.
Just like every other off season, since 1967.
GIN ANTONIC
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The thing though is it's not actually pressure. It's media and fan annoyance and sometimes it goes over the line where shit gets personal and too close. Athletes just don't want to deal with that stuff. It's not because they can't handle it, it's because it's dumb and they don't have to.
The Leafs have a total country club atmosphere where the stars get to do whatever they want and upper management doesn't have to be accountable (see Shanaplan). It's been like this for a long long time.
Playing a game at Scotiabank isn't a bigger deal than most other places in the league. The arena is quiet. This isn't Yankees stadium or Fenway where you have to rise to the occasion those places really are different than many others around the league.
HockeyVirus
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This is the troll post of the off season.
Just like every other off season, since 1967.
Gotta happen eventually why not next year?
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The reason it is still a thing, and will continue to be is what is known as the illusory truth effect. This is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeatedly being exposed to that false information.
The Leafs fans have been told by the media that every superstar player that grew up in the GTA wants to, and will eventually play for the Leafs, even though that is very rarely the case. it happens no more frequently than BC kids wanting to play in Vancouver or prairie kids wanting to play in Winnipeg, Edmonton or Calgary, it just so happens that there are more kids from Ontario than anywhere else. so it appears to happen more.
So when information like this comes out, it becomes a big story as it contradicts the lies that have been fed to the Leafs fans. Those fans struggle to comprehend that a "good ol' Terana boy" would choose to sign somewhere else when the garbage Toronto media starts pumping out pictures of him as kid wearing his Tie Domi or Mats Sundin jersey to feed Leafs fandom and make them believe that this player will inevitably become a Maple Leaf.
In short, the media in Toronto is atrocious and they feed this illusory truth effect solely to generate clicks and views to their own content.
varsaku
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That's what Cubs fans said and took them 108 years to win.
Golden_Jet
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I'm going to need more then a bleacher report blogger before I buy that.
I also don't think Jeff Skinner choosing to play with Mcdavid is a sign of that either.
The Leafs don't seem to have issues recruiting players.
Tavares
Brodie
ROR
Foligno
Marleau
Tanev
OEL
McCabe
Sure there are a couple rentals there but all these guys and more had either full or partial control over where they went and they all chose to come here, I don't see a case to be made for Toronto having trouble attracting players.
as long as Matthews is a Leaf they won't
I missed that entirely then because I never even heard the speculation
I also don't think Jeff Skinner choosing to play with Mcdavid is a sign of that either.
The Leafs don't seem to have issues recruiting players.
Tavares
Brodie
ROR
Foligno
Marleau
Tanev
OEL
McCabe
Sure there are a couple rentals there but all these guys and more had either full or partial control over where they went and they all chose to come here, I don't see a case to be made for Toronto having trouble attracting players.
as long as Matthews is a Leaf they won't
I missed that entirely then because I never even heard the speculation
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