Florida Panthers beat Toronto Maple leafs 4-1, advance to ECF

[BlueDream]

ROR coming back home to STL now!

 

[Stammertime91]

I loved the part where their fans thought they were going to come back and win the cup 4-1 second.

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Should the NHL have the Panthers and Leafs redo their series in case it was a big fluke?
No disrespect to the Panthers, I'm a firm believer that Florida beating them in 5 is a huge fluke and robs the Leafs of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few days in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire regular season watching the Leafs play great hockey it's just not fair.
If the Leafs lose again I will face that the Panthers deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to the Leafs and the NHL.

 

[Ragamuffin Gunner]

What do losers do?

They friggin lose.

Leafs are pathetic. Hope Mitch enjoyed his last game in their uniform.

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

Oh no, the emotionally abusive rollercoaster ride is over yet again, just when the great weather has finally arrived.

I wanted to win, but I'm not disappointed at all.

Thanks for making it into somewhat of a series Leafs.

Now I can check out for a few months and enjoy my post-covid summer life.

 

[Mark Stones Spleen]

Matthews is not a playoff performer, completely invisible on both ends of the ice.

 

[Koivu11]

 

[Karl Eriksson]

No shame losing to a better team. Panthers just superior in all phases. And nice to have drama free officiating for a change. Congrats panthers.

 

[OddManRush]

Good night Leafs. Hopefully it doesn’t take another 19 years to win a round. 2042 doesn’t even sound like a real year lol

 

[Mickey Marner]

Good series. Bill Zito has got to be GM of the year.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Lolonto

 

[dirtydanglez]

congrats florida

lots of interesting decisions need to be made in toronto now.

 

[ijuka]

Overall, the series was goalie difference. As I predicted before the start of the season, Leafs' goalie situation came to bite them.

The actual road to the finals would have been Tampa(in bad form), Panthers, and Hurricanes. One of the most fortunate roads to finals possible, yet Leafs blew it.

Credit to Panthers, though if I'm being honest, I think they got outplayed in just about every game overall. It mostly was just a matter of Bobrovsky completely outplaying the Leafs goalie game after game.

 

[Vergil]

Nylander had an excellent game.

But Matthews is a playoff no show as always.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Just shows how much the Leafs core is filled with losers.

The support cast was as strong as it has been in a long time around the core. The core didn't do shit in response. The Leafs will never win anything as long as they keep the same loser core they have now.

 

[Mobiandi]

Good lord the east is weak

 

[JuJu Mobb]

 

[Reparlana]

Congratulations Florida!!!! Excited to see you match up with Carolina should be a great series!!

 

[XX]

Nightmare scenario for Leafs fans. Accomplished just enough to probably avoid Dubas and Keefe getting fired or any major trades.

 

[cole von cole]

I don't know about you fine folks, but I blame Wes McCauley for this

(Joking, BTW)

 

[chaosrevolver]

Can we stop to celebrate that not only did Toronto lose again, but the Florida draft pick that Habs fans thought would be a lottery pick is now pick #29-32? It's rare that the Habs and Leafs BOTH lose so badly at the same time, but I'm here for it.

Tavares, Matthews, Marner = a shocking waste of $30+ million dollars. They deserve to shoulder this blame from their ghostly performance.

I mean the only thing that takes the sting as a Habs fan is when the trade happened this was kinda where we expected the pick to be and we're still happy then.

That being said, that early season tease was annoying lol.

Props to Florida tho. They played a great series and really capitalized on the chances they received.

 

[Channelcat]

Thats going to be a hard pill to swallow for Leaf fans. Cats looked almost done, and were lucky they ended it tonight. . Leafs were the better team tonight

 

[Stark]

Hfboards hasn't crashed yet? I'm amazed.

 

[Firsov99]

So, the Cats are 4-0 in OTs so far. Pretty clutch.

 

[shizovitch]

Bob stole the series for Florida.