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Do the Leafs get more credit in hindsight for taking the Panthers to 7 games?

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Louie the Blue said:
I do think my view would be different if Toronto lost in OT in Game 7 or was going back and forth with Florida the entire series without getting pantsed at home twice. But that didn’t happen.
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I agree and that’s understandable. I’ve said that this series was something Toronto can build off of and was more impressed with them this series than any year prior.
 
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avocadosmoothie said:
they would have been up 3-0 or 3-1 though. they still might have lost, but there's no certainty that they would have. it's baffling how many folks are glossing over the fact that the starting goalie was nuked
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This is your basic fault. The goalie was injured while playing hockey.
He wasn’t run or “nuked” or anything intentional. Bennett took the puck to the net and Stolie poked it away. Then they collided as Bennett was turning away to chase puck. He didn’t throw a haymaker punch or an elbow. Bennett certainly has made some plays that deserved punishment, this wasn’t one of them. Many have this big bad dirrrrty Sam narrative drilled into their head and are seeing that as some heinous act, seeing it as way more than it was.
 
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Leaf Fan Book of Excuses 2025 edition Volume one - Playoff Failure Alibis
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SheldonJPlankton said:
Leaf Fan Book of Excuses 2025 edition Volume one - Playoff Failure Alibis View attachment 1042836
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lol this is the problem though. it was a worse series because our goalie died. we'd probably have a better chance if he didn't. we also aren't as good a team and didn't play as well. these things can be true simultaneously. An excuse would imply that we believe we'd guarantee win if x thing didn't happen, but in reality we'd just like one playoffs where we aren't being brutalized by a team not getting called for anything while we're playing horrible hockey simultaneously.
 
Jimmy Apollo said:
Brother they’ve gone through literally 100 roster members, like 6 goalies, 3 head coaches, 3 general managers, and now the president was let go. They’ve changed quite a bit. This is why I said it’s similarly illogical to say that the 2014 Leafs team needed change because they missed the playoffs in 2011 when they’re literally different teams. The leafs have had like some of the highest number of trades and signings over the past decade. The problem is no development, no system, poor management and coaching.
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Change everything except for the clear and obvious problem:

5 players taking up like half of your salary cap and none of them performing up to snuff in the playoffs every single season
 
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Also Ottawa>Washington
As Ottawa took the Leafs to 6, Leafs took the Panthers to 7, Panthers (most likely) beat Hurricanes in 5, Hurricanes beat Washington in 5. So by my calculations Ottawa would have lost to Florida in 6, beat Hurricanes in 7, beat Washington in 6 and they get to claim to be 3rd in the conference….. nice banner too
 
nbwingsfan said:
Change everything except for the clear and obvious problem:

5 players taking up like half of your salary cap and none of them performing up to snuff in the playoffs every single season
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except this wasn't the case for half of the time essentially lol. This argument would make sense if all 4 of them had been paid like Matthews and Nylander just got paid last year and the year before. 3 of the years they were on small contracts being Leafs draft picks. Then they got 8 million and 11.5 and 10 million for nearly the entirety of this run. Which is like perfectly average for players of their calibre, especially when the contracts were signed in 2019.
 
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Jimmy Apollo said:
except this wasn't the case for half of the time essentially lol. This argument would make sense if all 4 of them had been paid like Matthews and Nylander just got paid last year and the year before. 3 of the years they were on small contracts being Leafs draft picks. Then they got 8 million and 11.5 and 10 million for nearly the entirety of this run. Which is like perfectly average for players of their calibre, especially when the contracts were signed in 2019.
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It was “average” if they actually performed every average for players of their calibre. But instead they continuously sucked. Over and over and over again
 
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