ECQF: Boston Bruins vs Toronto Maple Leafs (Series Tied 3-3)

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Its very weird seeing so many posters in the Bruins board with a lack of confidence. You guys are 6-0 against us in the past 6 games lol. Are those concerns in your "Series Talk" thread fake news?
Leaf fans were touting their similarly excellent results vs the Bruins back in 2019.

Regular season trends don't mean Richard when it comes to the NHL playoffs.
 
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Also proven to struggle when the refs put away their whistles and the play gets physical.
I think what you meant was the refs put away the whistle whenever they want. I'm glad the Leafs don't have to play the dirtiest team in the league led by the whitest coach.
 
Also proven to struggle when the refs put away their whistles and the play gets physical.

Generally the problem is the refs put away their whistles for one team leading to some pretty lopsided penalty differentials

Either call everything or nothing. Don’t pick and choose when to call stuff based on the scores in the game.
 
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The refs haven't really put away their whistles very much the last couple years. It's just been standard game management stuff in the playoffs for the most part. The Leafs will be on the wrong end of a lot of that as long as Keefe is there, though, imo. Feel like he's screamed at every official in the league at this point and none of them like him.
 
This series is just maximum pain or maximum gain.

How nice would it be to end Jack Edwards career? You don't get that chance often.

Can we just fast forward to Game 7? All the other series went 7 games and this one won't be any different.
 
Boston is a much better matchup than Florida would have been, I like our chances. Leafs in 7. The teams are a lot more even than it would seem, overtime/shootout points are literally the difference in the standings.

3 times now we lost to them in 7 games, something has got to give right ?
 
This playoff format needs to ****ing change. Jesus, Bruins or Lightning every single year. So boring.

Hell, go to 1-16 and give us lots of fresh matchups. Conferences make sense for regular season to cut down on travel but they don't need to be treated as two entirely separate leagues.

I'm sick of playing the same few teams over and over.
 
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Collective melt down from Leafs when they inevitably choke this series to Bruins gonna be good entertainment.

I hate Bruins though but I just have hard time to see Leafs taking this. Only thing Leafs has over them is better high end skill in offense.
 
Its very weird seeing so many posters in the Bruins board with a lack of confidence. You guys are 6-0 against us in the past 6 games lol. Are those concerns in your "Series Talk" thread fake news?
The whole Bruins board could be a foundation for a masters thesis on emotional protection in sports fandom.
 
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Also proven to struggle when the refs put away their whistles and the play gets physical.
The refs have never put the whistles away in a Leafs playoff series. 82 game regular season is very dull for the Leafs with special teams. Normal games end like 1-0, 1-1, 2-1 in PP opportunities. Playoffs come around and it's like 6-4, 5-3, 4-2 in PP opportunities.

Leafs would welcome a series without many whistles on either side. Strangely that doesn't happen though. It's special teams galore and the Leafs always suck at both.
 
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No surprise to see general consensus lean Bruins, but the Leafs have been a significantly better team through this whole calendar year, as well as having more high end talent in general. Boston has a clear edge in net and on defence, but I suspect this will be yet another series where the Leafs top players will dictate what happens - win or lose, they'll decide the outcome.
Bruins are 4-0 this year vs the leafs with 2 wins in less than 48 hrs . If the leafs were the better team there’d be some evidence of that, like say a win this year, or a better record.
 
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