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

[GirardSpinorama]

The leafs have essentially peaked last year and this year. Tavares on the decline and reilly soon as well. Nylander was a steal this year cap wise, that's no longer the case. Matthews is the highest paid player in the NHL. Marner has a NMC. Whats the upside here?

 

[Mick Riddleton]

I wouldn't say that it's 100% that Marner is done in Toronto. They have to first convince him to waive his NMC and from the sounds of it, in the past he wants to stay in Toronto. But if he was a good person, he would waive it for the sake of the team and himself to move on to a new path in his career.

It depends on what his Dad says. Im getting Lindros vibes from that family. Besides, who wants a guy who is a no show in big games at that salary. They need to pay more and retain Lyubushkin and Domi. Leafs have to maintain salary on Marner; that is the only way he gets moved.

 

[Bread and Circuses]

This has to be the end for Sheldon Keefe's Leafs coaching career.

I’d be surprised if he wasn’t hoping to get the axe sooner rather than later, imagine having a team so offensively gifted that can’t score goals in the playoffs, that’s not all on the coach.

 

[Rob]

How can you make changes when Nylander and Tavares both have no-trade clauses? I don't think the team will be restructured until Tavares' contact is done at the end of next season.

 

[SImpelton]

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 had no chance on that goal. Pastrnak was in complete control, 1 on 0 and moving at full speed. the goalie had no chance at all. if he'd somehow managed to save it it would have been completely down to luck.

hell of a pass from the blue line, i've never seen a better scoring chance. The leafs defense were completely caught napping, but the same could have happened to nearly every defensive pairing in the NHL with a chance like that.

 

[BB79]

Reading the FLA board many of them sound confident that they're going to steamroll the B's..really hoping the Bruins at least give them a good scare. Tables turned, now they're the favorite. Get some payback, boys.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Felt like at least 25% of the crowd last night were Leaf fans.

 

[Ghost of Murph]

I've been hard on Keefe this season. Have to give him credit last half of the series. Made adjustments that shut Marchand down after his hot start. Made the right goalie call that ended up tying the series. His system largely shut Pastrnak down the whole series until the OT goal. Took a mediocre D the GM gave him and was able to put in a system that was good enough to win the series.

The big 4 for Toronto are the ones who failed, pure and simple. This series loss is not on Keefe, the D, or goalie.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Pastrnak had a crap series but showed up at a critical time. Outside of Nylander, who I thought had a strong series when healthy, none of the Leafs core ever do that.
Surprisingly I thought the D, goalie and depth players all played well.

 

[Bobby9]

Heartbreaking loss.

Feel bad for all those Leafs fans who are just good people and have had their hearts broken. Sports can be very cruel.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Felt like at least 25% of the crowd last night were Leaf fans.

Did it?

 

[nturn06]

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

To me that is on Keefe, he kept playing the goalie with the worst SV% from all the Leafs ones. What can you hope to achieve going into playoffs with a .890%, and 40 games is a serieous sample.

 

[Commander Clueless]

I was at the game, and it could have gone either way.

Thanks Sway and Pasta

Leafs will get there soon.

Damn that's cold.

There's chirping, and then there's what you just did.


Savage.

 

[danpantz]

Felt like at least 25% of the crowd last night were Leaf fans.

I was there. There was a lot of leafs fans but it was still only like 5%.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

I was at the game, and it could have gone either way.

Thanks Sway and Pasta

Leafs will get there soon.

Get where soon?
The second round. They sure as hell ain’t close to winning the Cup.

 

[BB79]

Felt like at least 25% of the crowd last night were Leaf fans.

The Bruins sent them home happy

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

This has to be the end for Sheldon Keefe's Leafs coaching career.

To be fair the adjustments for games 5+ gave them a chance.

The whining about Marchand also impacted the series.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Damn that's cold.

There's chirping, and then there's what you just did.


Savage.

 

[BostonBruins11]

Delete

 

[HockeyWooot]

He left a decent core. They hired the wrong guy to fill out the rest of the team

Core has demonstrated they are not the group to build around for post season success, or at least not all of the core four at their significant proportion of the cap.

Good in the the regular season but abysmal in playoffs isn’t “decent” in terms of building a contender.

When he interviewed I suspect Treliving indicated he wanted to trade some of the core four but there was a top down instruction to give them one more year first.

The Leafs played well falling short as they don’t have the depth of personnel of a normal contender given cap constraints.

Some of his new recruits performed well, if they can get Marner and Tavares’ caps off the books that opens up a lot of possibilities to develop a legitimate playoff contender.

 

[lawrence]

0pts for Marner in Game 7
0pts for Tavares in Game 7.

Time to step up 10M dollar players.

Those guys UFA after next season. I think trev is gonna try to make a hockey trade for Marner.

 

[HandsomeTom43]

Samsonov sucks overall, but he played well enough to win. It’s hilarious seeing fans shit on him when he allowed 1 goal in regulation. If you score 2, Leafs fans, you win. Stop blaming him.

 

[danpantz]

It looked like a set play from pasta and lindholm tbh

Set play, usually on the PP though. They used to do it a lot with Krug.

 

[BostonBruins11]

Imagine a team with
Mackinnon, Pettersson, Panarin, and McDavid scoring 12 goals in 7 games. That is how the leafs top 4 are paid. Blaming anybody but those 4 guys is ludicrous

x100000000000000000000%

 

[CupofOil]

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

Your team scored 12 goals in 7 games, 2 goals or less in the last 5 games and the skaters just watched (Marner and Reilly controller disconnect) as one of the best goal scorers of this generation rockets by them on a breakaway in a Game 7 OT and somehow it's the goalies' fault. You're looking in the wrong places for the blame. It's the same story as always, the core isn't good enough outside of Nylander. Blaming Samsonov for last night and that last goal in particular is absurd.