Post-Game Talk: ECQF GAME 5 - BACK TO TORONTO - Leafs 2 BRUINS 1 F/OT - Boston leads series 3-2

[Carl Hungus]

It’s cliche crap. Leafs didn’t play with desperation at all. They played like the inevitable was going to happen and the Bruins said “nah, don’t feel like it tonight”

Completely agree

Leafs came out with 0 physicality and looked like shit. Boston decided to match it and one up them, looked incredibly slow with no urgency or execution at all. That first period looked like a run of the mill game 50 in Anaheim.

 

[Gordoff]

What’s he talking about? The Leafs didn’t look great. I think we lost this game more than they won it.

I really wish Monty would rip into them. Maybe he does behind closed doors. Either way he has to get them game 4 like ready for Thursday night.

He does that absolutely ridiculous cheerleading thing before the game in the locker room where he has someone read the lineup. It's so high school.

 

[bobbyorr04]

Maybe not mess with things after winning 2 big games in Toronto .

 

[22Brad Park]

Tell Zacha he can’t play game 6 unless he does 10000 face offs before now and puck drop

4 for 17

 

[DarrenBanks56]

If they blow another 3-1 lead, I think we all have to admit something is rotten with the leadership on the team.

Way too many playoff no shows in big games to not give that serious thought.

Luckily they aren’t losing the series

you gotta be kidding.
pasta and zacha have been invisible. coach is making weird lineup changes.
when they lose thursday, there is no way anyone can be confident in this bruins group winning a game 7 on home ice.
they will come out flatter than today.

 

[McBrom7]

Montgomery out coaching himself again. Just absolutely horrible effort all around besides Swayman. Unacceptable. Terrible passing and constantly hemmed in by a Matthewsless Leafs team.

Now Carlo’s hurt and we’re stuck with a “now what” dilemma because we just HAD to f*** with what was working. It’s so hard to accept the same mistake year after year. Atleast Swayman isn’t hurt.

That was the most aggravating game I’ve watched in awhile. Is there a point to playing game 6? We all know it’s going 7 let’s just get on with it.

And Mr. Jacobs can we please for the love of God get a decent refrigeration system. I’m so sick of watching my team play on slush when it matters. Holy f***

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Anyone want to do some meth and throw rocks at trains?

That reminds me of the time I threw a rock at the UPS driver when I was 12 as he drove by. He screeched to a halt, backed up, turned up my driveway, and tattled on me to my mom in the front yard.

No meth though.

 

[GordonHowe]

nope.....but close

Monty cannot help himself. His ego has him thinking he plays a big role in each game. Sabotaging is what he does.
Winning line up on the road and comes home up 3-1 . Don't change a frigging thing! Learned nothing from last season.
Over coaches like no coach I've ever seen.

Game 7 Saturday

I'm not going to pile on.

But it's safe to say Montgomery overthinks. In doing so, he creates unnecessary problems for himself and his team.

We will see what kind of coach he is in short order.

 

[SPLBRUIN]

My dislike of Monty is now through the roof after his disastrous coaching job last year with a once in a lifetime team and now he literally did everything he could to increase the Leafs chances of winning with his bone headed changes. If he blows this he had better be shown the door ASAP, it probably comes down to game 6 because we all know the Bruins likely lose game 7 in Boston where they absolutely suck.

 

[TD Charlie]

I’ve never seen a team lose so many pucks just casually stickhandling, or throw so many passes into skates, overskate a loose puck or pass by multiple strides, or having so many pucks hop sticks. Their puck management tonight was high school ugly. That’s not an exaggeration.

 

[TCB]

Under Monty

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

The cliche stuff about Toronto wanting it more is hilarious. They looked like they were waiting for the other shoe to drop all game and for Boston to just take over.

I feel very confident saying if you inserted almost any other team from the playoffs against Toronto tonight, the leafs would have lost by 3-4 goals.

The whole team needs their T levels checked or a sports psychologist to figure out why they forget how to play hockey in any game that has meaning. Top guys turn into AHL scrubs for the 2nd year in a row it’s odd, or is it the 3rd? Grown men in their prime should have higher compete levels.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

He does that absolutely ridiculous cheerleading thing before the game in the locker room where he has someone read the lineup. It's so high school.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure every team does that.

These guys literally play sports for a job. They're going to keep doing things that you and I stopped doing once we realized we weren't going pro some time in middle school.

 

[TP70BruinsCup]

Maybe not mess with things after winning 2 big games in Toronto .

Just like winning two big games in Florida LY……..

Unreal

 

[JOKER 192]

Coyle is perfect all the time. Mac sucks in big games its starting to be a trend

Mac was a train wreck tonight .

He , Carlo and Lindy, who should be leading the d were awful.

 

[trenton1]

The Bruins never win game 5. Especially at home. Of all the shit that has come and gone in the last 15-20 years this feels like a constant. I thought the law of averages would take over at some point. The beat goes on. If Swayman comes out, Monty should be fired on the spot.

 

[The don godfather]

Who had leafs in 5 or bruins in 5 anyways?

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

4 for 17

Who needs to draft big centers anyway

 

[Gordoff]

Toronto played a good first period but they were ripe for the picking after that. The Bruins just decided to crap themselves. Can we fire Monty mid series? He sabotages this team with his braindead moves.

Butch Goring,
Stevie Kasper,
Robbie Ftorek,
Dave Lewis ummmm who's next in this list of
coaching stinkage?

 

[PaulD]

As a Habs fan that can't stand the leafs and their media. It's probably better that Monty gives away another series.
The Panthers will mop up the ice with the leafs and end their season in much more enjoyable fashion.
The Bruins win or lose have already made the leafs look way better than they are.
These two wins probably saved Keefe and Shanahans jobs for another 5 years. If they gofd forbid won a game 7 ....statues will be built, books written.

 

[Sheppy]

Like did Beecher have some sort of disaster of a game I didn’t watch that warranted being scratched? I’m genuinely curious.

 

[The don godfather]

Under Monty

Never know bruins win and go on a run in the 2nd round. Sometimes it turns the other way.

 

[JOKER 192]

Too late. He has to tinker and overthink.

Maroon in OT.

You all just saw that.

And in the last minute of regulation.

This isn't fantasy land.

Like Marchy said " history has no bearing on the future".

 

[22Brad Park]

Who needs to draft big centers anyway

Marchand was 2 for 2 & Freddy 3 of 6 for 50% .rest all brutal.

 

[xStanleyCupsFor]

The Bruins came to the ice at home, with their fans in the stands, winning the series 3-1 and proceeded to play the first two periods very uptight. What is that about?

What happens when they touch the ice in Toronto and things are reversed?


Are we heading home for a game 7?

I can't figure it out. And I've seen it how many times now? Why are they so nervous? Just go out and f*****g play!