ECQF GAME 1 8:14 PM ET - TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS (A3) @ BOSTON BRUINS - CBC, TBS, TruTV, TVAS, NESN (New England)

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TheDoldrums

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Leafs haven't improved their goaltending, and I have no idea why (Samsonov has a sub .900 save %), and Matthews still needs to prove he isn't a ghost in the playoffs.

Enjoy your postseason while you can.

Matthews has been PPG or above the last two postseasons, not really a ghost.

At the end of the day Leafs fans are watching their team play a playoff game today while fans of bad teams pray on their downfall, hard to take seriously when your team isn’t in the arena.
 

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River Meadow

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Matthews has been PPG or above the last two postseasons, not really a ghost.

At the end of the day Leafs fans are watching their team play a playoff game today while fans of bad teams pray on their downfall, hard to take seriously when your team isn’t in the arena.

Matthews can score 69 goals in the regular season. Let's see what he does when the games actually matter.

Hard to take seriously opinions of bad teams? Do you even remember how you got Matthews, Marner, Nylander, Rielly, etc? lol
 

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There’s not enough magic in the universe to where Fairy Bettman could prop the Leafs to a series victory this season.

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Matthews & Tavares vs Coyle & Zacha? Talk about a mismatch. Leafs strength down the middle should win this series for them unless Swayman stands on his head. 24 million vs 9 million in cap hit.

Coyle and Zacha were just as good as JT this year. The advantage, and it’s large, is just Matthews.
 
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The bruins have great goaltending but terrible centers

They have okay wingers, but the leafs have elite centers and wings

The leafs have 4 lines and the B’s have 1/2 of 2 lines

On defense the B’s have 1 very good pair and then garbage, the leafs have 2 ‘good’ pairs and one shakey one

On paper this is a mismatch, the only advantages that Boston can hope to have is wishing their big bad rep gets into the leafs heads and their goaltender puts on a show of the century

Not gonna happen.

Leafs ended Tampa’s run, now they’re gonna burn the bruins, then they’ll dismantle Florida and they’ll have beaten all of the competition in the atlantic

Then it’s on to the other divisions

The Leafs have one elite center. Coyle and Zacha produced just as much as JT this year.
 

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We will certainly be seeing the same as a few Leafs fans love to excuse Kadri by blaming Debrusk for... nothing... in a single game sample size a decade ago as evidence the refs help the Bruins. It goes both ways.
Bruins fans think slewfoots are legal, that's all you need to know lmao
 

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Matthews can score 69 goals in the regular season. Let's see what he does when the games actually matter.

Hard to take seriously opinions of bad teams? Do you even remember how you got Matthews, Marner, Nylander, Rielly, etc? lol

Why do we just ignore when he played well? Like literally last season he was a superstar round 1. When we needed goals the most he came up big, including in the elimination game and 2 goals for the comeback the game before.
 
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River Meadow

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Why do we just ignore when he played well? Like literally last season he was a superstar round 1. When we needed goals the most he came up big, including in the elimination game and 2 goals for the comeback the game before.

He was meh last playoffs, and Vasilevskiy had a .875 save % which is one of the main factors of them even winning that series..

Let's see what he does tonight. Prove us wrong, Mr. regular season goal machine.
 

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Looking at the two lineups, especially the elite guys and just can’t see the Leafs losing this series. Pasta will need to do a lot to match what Marner, Matthews, and Nylander will bring.
 

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Looking at the two lineups, especially the elite guys and just can’t see the Leafs losing this series. Pasta will need to do a lot to match what Marner, Matthews, and Nylander will bring.

Did you not look at the goalies?

(you know, the most important position..)
 

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He was meh last playoffs, and Vasilevskiy had a .875 save % which is one of the main factors of them even winning that series..

Let's see what he does tonight. Prove us wrong, Mr. regular season goal machine.
Ah yes when Matthews scores in the playoffs its because the other goalie played bad....but when he doesn't it's never acceptable to say the goalie played well lmao. Ever stop and think Matthews might have played a part in Vasi and his .875 in that series? Or is that to deep of a dive for you?
 
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Fatass

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Did you not look at the goalies?

(you know, the most important position..)
Bruins will certainly need to limit Toronto’s high danger chances, especially off the rush, that’s for sure. Because TO will not give up much. I see low scoring games (3-2 or 2-1) and the elite guys on TO will be the difference. For the Bruins to have any chance Pasta will need to be phenomenal.
 

River Meadow

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Ah yes when Matthews scores in the playoffs its because the other goalie played bad....but when he doesn't it's never acceptable to say the goalie played well lmao. Ever stop and think Matthews might have played a part in Vasi and his .875 in that series? Or is that to deep of a dive for you?

Vasi looked absolutely terrible, very unlike him at all, against any player and any shot.

You are all over the thread talking about Leaf players being regular season only but saying this when Ullmark has a career .888sv% in the playoffs?

He was horrible last playoffs. Agreed.
 
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