ECSF - Game 1 - Toronto Maple Leafs vs Florida Panthers - 7pm EST, ESPN

[biturbo19]

From what I’ve seen the Florida dman are caught standing still way too often

No. They're moving. That's just the difficulty of appreciating movement at such a low rate of speed.

 

[Daz28]

From what I’ve seen the Florida dman are caught standing still way too often

They're actually moving. It's an optical illusion

 

[HockeyVirus]

Leafs need to clean up a few things but not scared of the Panthers at all so far

 

[Matt24]

Brodie is gonna take the heat for that goal but McCabe can’t make that pinch.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

No. They're moving. That's just the difficulty of appreciating movement at such a low rate of speed.

It's the Staal-Ekblad equation.

 

[BusQuets]

Is Barkov playing?

lol nice timing. Just before he turned great defensive play to a goal.

 

[MoreMogilny]

Brodie with such an idiotic play on that last goal

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

From what I’ve seen the Florida dman are caught standing still way too often

They regularly play Marc f***ing Staal, so yeah it's going to have problems

 

[Leafsfan74]

As much as TO is having problems with FLA forecheck, FLA is also heinous at handling pressure, too. They dont have much ability to move the puck from the back end at all

Tampa had the Leafs hemmed in for long stretches, Florida has the lead but they don't have the same heavy forecheck that T.B brought.

 

[Bruce Granville]

From what I’ve seen the Florida dman are caught standing still way too often

Nah…they are moving…just steady and slowly.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

That’s my point. As Torts used to say about some players - “I can’t find him”

He better show up on the scoresheet at some point in this series. Can't expect Tkachuk to carry the offense every game.

 

[hatterson]

Brodie is gonna take the heat for that goal but McCabe can’t make that pinch.

Yea it’s a 2-2 game and it’s a weird rush. No reason to dive in deep there when you know all forwards are going hard too.

 

[Laus723]

Verbiggoalhe

 

[Daz28]

Brodie is gonna take the heat for that goal but McCabe can’t make that pinch.

If you could completely remove the idea from McCabe's head that he can do things offensively, it would be a big positive

 

[Canadienna]

This made me lol. I don't think Nylander saw the defender go down.

 

[OKR]

Sloppy period by both, Panthers lucky to come out ahead.

 

[BB88]

People need to stop making excuses for him, guy is a complete disappearing act in the playoffs.

He hasn’t been great offensively yet still has 7 points

Atleast he’s playing heavy defensive minutes

 

[Bruce Granville]

He better show up on the scoresheet at some point in this series. Can't expect Tkachuk to carry the offense every game.

Actually, they have to. Barkov’s trying to patch the holes on that blueline.

 

[Roric]

Cats in 5.

Toronto in 4, they’ll come back easily in this game and dominate the cats going forward. Easily 3 straight shutouts for samsonov, florida has no shot

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Leafs need to clean up a few things but not scared of the Panthers at all so far

I assume they are all professionals, but this is the first year both the Cats and Toronto have ever made the second round in the same year. So let's just Bryz on that.

 

[hockeyisgud]

Leafs look better than their opponents for the first time this playoffs.

Bolts were the East endboss and the Leafs are goin to the ship this year.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

Toronto in 4, they’ll come back easily in this game and dominate the cats going forward. Easily 3 straight shutouts for samsonov, florida has no shot

And then yiu woke up.

 

[Bruce Granville]

This made me lol. I don't think Nylander saw the defender go down.

Sportsmanship.

 

[Ghost of Arbour]

This made me lol. I don't think Nylander saw the defender go down.

I never considered WN to be one with a particularly large hockey IQ. His bad pass to Tavares wide open in the slot being another example.

 

[steveat]

That was a fast period. or was it just me?