they've played 2 rounds of playoffs against a third string goalie or the back up, game 7 both times they got the 3rd stringer. Needed 7 games both times, they've gotten some good fortune. Tampa will make short work of them this round.
WHAT IS CONVENIENTLY BEING LEFT OUT here is the fact that Tampa was a good team through this whole period and the Leafs were in a 5 year rebuild. The comparison looks even better for the Leafs are consistently making the playoffs through subtraction of contracts and players. Meanwhile Tampa is up and down, making the playoffs winning rounds then missing.
When Dubas took the Leafs GM role he was responsible for preparing a long term strategy that would produce a sustained cup run. If an impactful D man was a priority, you wouldn't simply spend the money on JT instead because that was available in the UFA market at the time. That's not bad luck, thats bad GM'ing. But perhaps JT was part of his strategy - was it a good one?
No the World Cup shouldn’t be abolished playoff format is a tournament. You win you win the tournament no questions. Does it mean you are the best team? Absolutely not, does it mean your team sucks because they didn’t win, absolutely not. Leafs are a good team no need to fire everyone is the only point I’m trying to make. Play it again we would certainly have 4 different teams today, I’d bet on that.
Dubas has acquired impactful Dmen, in fact he's completely rebuilt the defence to the point where is it leaps and bounds better than it was when he took over. Seems strange to penalize him for not doing by signing UFA's, especially when you can't count on such players being available every summer, much less being able to count on them being willing to sign with us.
Is that what's happening? For me personally, I've been saying all along that we should have beaten CLB and MTL, no excuses. And Boston while losing to them was perhaps "more acceptable", the way we disappeared and gave it away at the end was not. So that's 4 years of really bad endings IMO, I'd even call it disgraceful.
100% agreed.
I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that Pittsburgh was a superior team normally (especially without Crosby), and both Pittsburgh and Carolina lost their starting goalies (and at times, also their backup).
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There will be 31 losers this year, everybody fire everybody. Hey the Habs went to the final and they did. Didn’t make the playoffs this year. Maybe they should fire everybody again.
You believe all 31 teams are at the same stage?
For me it comes down to expectations. I expected more from this team, you obviously didn’t expect as much.
I hoped for a Cup, sucks but we lost to the 2 time defending champs by a goal in 7 games and they may well 3peat. I’d say we were pretty close. We will have to see how this tourney shakes out.
So Tampa nor the Avs wouldnt be in the final 4 if played again? Ill take that bet
Sorry for not writing clearly ( lifelong problem) Good Chance Tampa and the Avs would be there but certainly not a lock. I meant all 4 present teams wouldnt be there. Ofcourse a couple may be.
