Post-Series Talk: Boston Bruins Defeat Toronto Maple Leafs (win 4-3)

[Shanahanigans]

Coming out party for Knies, what a series for the kid. Playoff type player. He'll be a fan favourite for a long time.

 

[Divine]

The Samonov goal 1:29 later killed all momentum.

That was a soft goal.

Congrats to Boston. Congrats to the Leafs. They played hard.

Story of his career

 

[mrmovies779]

"Poke-check Samsonov"

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

Signing Tavares will never not be one of the all time worst choices a GM ever made. And before anyone starts in, they had Kadri, Bozak, JVR and f***ing Hyman in tow with Freddy, Reilly, Matthews, Marner and Nylander. All they needed was another defender

Agreed. If you're going to pinpoint one moment when things went in the ditch, that was it.

But Dubas had to land the biggest fish out there no matter what the team needed.

 

[BlueDream]

Boston is going to get pumped by Florida lol.

 

[bigbadbruins1]

If the bruins didn't have swayman they would have been toast. he was lights out all series.

Great series from the Leafs though. they put up one heck of a fight, and quite frankly I'm shocked they didn't pull it off, they had all the momentum.

 

[EpochLink]

Marner and Tavares time with the Leafs are over, they have to be moved out as they bring absolutely nothing come playoff time. Matthews is reaching Joel Embiid type playoff reputation.

 

[Divine]

Not that Woll wasn’t good, but Toronto started playing much better team defense in elimination games. Bruins really couldn’t penetrate the team formation, or get high risk opportunities.

Seems like the Guy Boucher effect.

Helps with a good goalie in net

 

[HabsQC]

Lmfao again

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

The Samonov goal 1:29 later killed all momentum.

That was a soft goal.

Congrats to Boston. Congrats to the Leafs. They played hard.

Fragile group if they couldn't overcome a tie game.

 

[Commander Clueless]

Ah well. Status quo in Leafland.

Doesn't even sting anymore. Almost a comfortable feeling.



GG Bruins. Got the monkey off your back.

Give the Panthers hell in the revenge match. Should be fun.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Leafs were competitive and Boston respected them as good opponents by the end of the series that's really all leafs fans can ask for

 

[Mez]

Leafs do it to themselves.

Needed Samsonov to win one game. He couldn’t. That final goal where he just stood there frozen when he could have easily poked the puck away is all you need to know.

Another disaster season down the drain

Congrats Boston

Kinda odd to call the goalie out when the team could barely score 2 goals per game.

 

[JTToilinginToronto]

Let's see what PJ Boy has accomplished since he was saved from toiling away on Long Island by Kyle Dumbass, I mean Kyle Dubas.

2018-19: First round loss
2019-20: First round loss
2020-21: First round loss
2021-22: First round loss
2022-23: Second round loss
2023-24: First round loss

Safe to say he is now officially toiling away in Toronto.

 

[AvroArrow]

Signing Tavares will never not be one of the all time worst choices a GM ever made. And before anyone starts in, they had Kadri, Bozak, JVR and f***ing Hyman in tow with Freddy, Reilly, Matthews, Marner and Nylander. All they needed was another defender

That one single signing absolutely destroyed this cores chances of contending. Shanahan absolutely needs to be held accountable.

 

[The Merchant]

Does anyone have a gif of that Nylander controller disconnect?

 

[Stelio Kontos]

Marner 1 shot in a game 7 LOL Anyone notice him?

 

[Mathews28]

Leafs do it to themselves.

Needed Samsonov to win one game. He couldn’t. That final goal where he just stood there frozen when he could have easily poked the puck away is all you need to know.

Another disaster season down the drain

Congrats Boston

Samsonov played quite well tonight.

 

[DFC]

It's amazing how good they are at crushing their fanbase. Every. Single. Year.

 

[Henry Miller]

Toronto desperately needs to trade one of their big guns for a shakeup. It just isn’t working.

As a Philadelphian, I see a strong resemblance between the 76ers and TML

 

[pigpen65]

How much longer does Shanahan get to keep his job that he's terrible at?

 

[the valiant effort]

RUN. IT. BACK.

 

[Divine]

Kinda odd to call the goalie out when the team could barely score 2 goals per game.

Boston never scored 2 goals against Woll

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

Was Mitch Marner playing injured?

 

[PB37]

Gotta give the Leafs props - the past three games was the best team defense I've ever seen the Leafs play in the playoffs against the Bruins. Totally changed the series around by getting full buy-ins from the forwards and blueliners to contest the puck between the bluelines and to clog shooting lanes.

But history repeats itself and its time for the core 4 to have one last spring season of swinging it early on the course!