Ouch! Should I be glad to have missed this one? Thanks, schedulers???
Fast has been a different player in the playoffs, I’m finding. So impactful.Martinook has to be the most unexpected MVP for this team so far. Dude has skated his ass off every shift in every game, while laying some big hits. He's LaRose on steroids. Staal and Fast too. That's the kind of veteran leadership that wins Cups. Not that we will but we certainly aren't lacking it.
Whoo-pee.On a positive note, this was the least embarrassing loss of the day.
Don't forget that we don't have the proverbial $10M+/yr superstars that get their tires pumped furiously. The media would much rather sell their "Tom Brady" guy than a well-balanced team playing at an elite level.Make no mistake, nobody is really rooting for us other than us Canes fans and I like it that way. We're well past the cinderella story of 2019. We're Metro division winners and a thorn in the side of most Eastern Conf teams. We especially draw the ire of the so-called hockey "purists" who dont believe hockey belongs in places like Raleigh and Nashville. We can count ourselves the minority from top to bottom.
Not just the media but ESPN in particular. If you don't have a player or team they can hype up as the best ever, you're worthless to themDon't forget that we don't have the proverbial $10M+/yr superstars that get their tires pumped furiously. The media would much rather sell their "Tom Brady" guy than a well-balanced team playing at an elite level.
Don't forget that we don't have the proverbial $10M+/yr superstars that get their tires pumped furiously. The media would much rather sell their "Tom Brady" guy than a well-balanced team playing at an elite level.
You sure about that? Because getting eight hung on you by a bunch of smurfs is pretty embarrassing. I think the Leafs loss this game is the least embarrassing. 2-3 in overtime against a hot team with a hot goalie, at home...no shame in that. That fact that they haven't won a second round game in two decades is embarrassing, but not this singular game.On a positive note, this was the least embarrassing loss of the day.
You sure about that? Because getting eight hung on you by a bunch of smurfs is pretty embarrassing. I think the Leafs loss this game is the least embarrassing. 2-3 in overtime against a hot team with a hot goalie, at home...no shame in that. That fact that they haven't won a second round game in two decades is embarrassing, but not this singular game.
8-4. 7-2. Series choke job to go down 3-0.You sure about that? Because getting eight hung on you by a bunch of smurfs is pretty embarrassing. I think the Leafs loss this game is the least embarrassing. 2-3 in overtime against a hot team with a hot goalie, at home...no shame in that. That fact that they haven't won a second round game in two decades is embarrassing, but not this singular game.
You sure about that? Because getting eight hung on you by a bunch of smurfs is pretty embarrassing. I think the Leafs loss this game is the least embarrassing. 2-3 in overtime against a hot team with a hot goalie, at home...no shame in that. That fact that they haven't won a second round game in two decades is embarrassing, but not this singular game.
That’s without mentioning Dallas who lost by 5 and gave up 7 goals, and is now down 2-1 to a 2nd year expansion team.That all makes sense from inside a Canes bubble.
This morning I tuned into XM’s Canadian Talk station (no need to ask why) for literally about 5 minutes. It’s like Canadian NPR, there is no sports content. Within that 5 minutes, unprompted, the host diverted the topic toward the Leafs, and the guest proceeded to say he is going on strike from following hockey in general because there’s something so fundamentally wrong with that team that it can’t be fixed and will end up ruining his kid psychologically. The other guest, from Winnipeg, acknowledged that the Jets recently went through a similar defeat, then spent the remainder of the segment mercilessly roasting Toronto and the Leafs, calling the We Want Florida chant “the most Toronto moment in history”. This is how NON sports pundits on a NON sports channel are reacting after that loss.
We had a bad matinee game that is easily blown off. They’re ready to burn the players in effigy — or otherwise — because an OT goal went the wrong way. Careers will end over the result of that game. The embarrassment factor for us isn’t in the same stratosphere, it’s just an ordinary L.
That all makes sense from inside a Canes bubble.
This morning I tuned into XM’s Canadian Talk station (no need to ask why) for literally about 5 minutes. It’s like Canadian NPR, there is no sports content. Within that 5 minutes, unprompted, the host diverted the topic toward the Leafs, and the guest proceeded to say he is going on strike from following hockey in general because there’s something so fundamentally wrong with that team that it can’t be fixed and will end up ruining his kid psychologically. The other guest, from Winnipeg, acknowledged that the Jets recently went through a similar defeat, then spent the remainder of the segment mercilessly roasting Toronto and the Leafs, calling the We Want Florida chant “the most Toronto moment in history”. This is how NON sports pundits on a NON sports channel are reacting after that loss.
We had a bad matinee game that is easily blown off. They’re ready to burn the players in effigy — or otherwise — because an OT goal went the wrong way. Careers will end over the result of that game. The embarrassment factor for us isn’t in the same stratosphere, it’s just an ordinary L.
Up until this series I was texting with my buddy whose from Toronto and a diehard Leafs fan. He's gone radio silent. I was really pulling for the leafs for his sake, and honestly the fanbase in general. Not that it's over. They could certainly win tomorrow, and give it another go in Toronto but statistically it's unlikely they come out of that series.
If they get swept, does Wonder Boy get shitcanned? Five years is a long tenure in that town.
Our broadcast yesterday had a feature of the previous(?) TOR game, and there was some emphasis on their very frustrated GM throwing a bottle in the brass' box.If they get swept, does Wonder Boy get shitcanned? Five years is a long tenure in that town.
If they get swept, does Wonder Boy get shitcanned? Five years is a long tenure in that town.
If you don’t win a game in the 2nd round, have you really made it out of the 1st?
If they get swept, does Wonder Boy get shitcanned? Five years is a long tenure in that town.
That all makes sense from inside a Canes bubble.
This morning I tuned into XM’s Canadian Talk station (no need to ask why) for literally about 5 minutes. It’s like Canadian NPR, there is no sports content. Within that 5 minutes, unprompted, the host diverted the topic toward the Leafs, and the guest proceeded to say he is going on strike from following hockey in general because there’s something so fundamentally wrong with that team that it can’t be fixed and will end up ruining his kid psychologically. The other guest, from Winnipeg, acknowledged that the Jets recently went through a similar defeat, then spent the remainder of the segment mercilessly roasting Toronto and the Leafs, calling the We Want Florida chant “the most Toronto moment in history”. This is how NON sports pundits on a NON sports channel are reacting after that loss.
We had a bad matinee game that is easily blown off. They’re ready to burn the players in effigy — or otherwise — because an OT goal went the wrong way. Careers will end over the result of that game. The embarrassment factor for us isn’t in the same stratosphere, it’s just an ordinary L.
But it's all the same embarrassment, you see. One long and neverending embarrassment.Now, if they had lost a game where their own Zamboni driver was the goalie, well, that would be embarrassing