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If the Leafs lose in Game 7, will you stop being a fan?

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Will you stop being a fan if Game 7 is a loss?

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Stuck around a long damn time. Sure it'd be very embarrassing losing to this particular Habs team for sure. But definitely not enough for me as a last straw situation.

Still love the team and majority of players. Just sounds like a tweak is needed to shake up the core and instill an identity where they take teams seriously in the game from first minute.

The core is still only mid 20s...that's still very young and lots of time to right the ship. They're not chokers and other stupid labels I've seen thrown around. They're just very fragile.
 
No, but being a jaded pleb of a leafs fan is starting to bleed into other aspects of my life.

Every other fanbase can take pot shots at us all they want. You can NEVER call us a fairweather fanbase though because if that were true there would not be 32 teams right now.
 
Yes and no

They will still in my heart but it has been broken for 47 yrs.

I enjoy watching other teams or players .

Love watching
Tkachuk from Ottawa
Florida watched the. Again st TB
 
Naw, but I'll probably start to avoid HF, Reddit, Twitter etc and just watch the games by myself/with irl friends to keep a myself more calm. I find I get riled up when I read other people getting riled up lol
 
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Define "fan"

Emotionally, I'm burnt out. I've watched almost every single game since 2006, read and post here almost every day, listen and watch a lot of hockey media. I spend tens of hours a week on hockey. It's my main hobby. My job is stressful and requires long hours both on and off the clock. If this year is just another sensational collapse, I don't have the emotional energy to continue engaging this hobby with this amount of dedication, no. My job gives my life enough stress without pursuing a "for fun" hobby that's not actually fun. I actively cheer for this team. It may be time to passively cheer for them instead.
 
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The Apologist said:
God I wish it were that easy.
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Every dissapointing end of the season has this thread and everyone says they will 'take a break'. Then its october and those same people are back here. Unless the summer IS the break but in that case you dont miss much. And most fans here are more passionate than the average fan, so saying they will be more 'passive' is like an alcoholic saying they will 'cut back', it never works like that.
 
I wish I could after all the years of embarrassment and disappointment, but I can't stop being a fan if I tried.
 
7even said:
Define "fan"

Emotionally, I'm burnt out. I've watched almost every single game since 2006, read and post here almost every day, listen and watch a lot of hockey media. I spend tens of hours a week on hockey. It's my main hobby. My job is stressful and requires long hours both on and off the clock. If this year is just another sensational collapse, I don't have the emotional energy to continue engaging this hobby with this amount of dedication, no. My job gives my life enough stress without pursuing a "for fun" hobby that's not actually fun. I actively cheer for this team. It may be time to passively cheer for them instead.
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Well said, as always. It's not always so much about 'f*** the Leafs I'm going to cheer for someone else' but more of slowly withdrawing and letting other things in life take a more prominent role. I mean I'll probably still check scores here and there, catch a highlight here and there, watch playoffs games -- basically, be a casual.
 
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hamzarocks said:
f***ing leafs don't do this. Please don't. Just win tomorrow. Show up on time and dominate a vastly inferior Habs team. Take that and roll with it onto the 2nd round

It burns me having to see and read other teams fans trolling the players, management, fans and the city of Toronto even but I have no defense or counter. The leafs have choked so far but they can fix that by winning tomorrow

The fact that I'm not going to be watching the game tomorrow just screams how bad we've been in the past that it's led to this

So many die hard loyalists are quickly losing passion and they can't be faulted. New born children won't get the joy and experience of being leaf fans if this continues with people looking to cut hockey out or atlwadt the leafs out from their lives.

I'm hoping that history reverses itself tomorrow and we break the curse. The players have to get this done, they owe the fans. Please just pull off the win
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Sadly we all know they won't win.
 
Never. This is the first sport I have played and the first team I was a fan of.

This is the first year since maybe '93 to be fair, that this team has higher expectations from us and maybe even themselves.
My other sport and team failed way worse than this team has for 24 yrs before they got over their hump. They were lights out the favorite everytime they failed as well. Won anything and everything and ranked number 1 leading up to a tournament that mattered and would define them and they blew it time and again.
Im still and will always be a fan. They won a couple of those tournaments since. I would say way easier to win than a Stanley Cup as well. The cup would have to be the hardest trophy to win in team sport surely?
I hope all this BS doesn't matter tomorrow but I will still be a fan if the worst happens.

Maybe winning tomorrow will do more for this team than winning comfortably in 5?
 
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smokes lets go said:
Every dissapointing end of the season has this thread and everyone says they will 'take a break'. Then its october and those same people are back here. Unless the summer IS the break but in that case you dont miss much. And most fans here are more passionate than the average fan, so saying they will be more 'passive' is like an alcoholic saying they will 'cut back', it never works like that.
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I find myself watching less and less. 2013 I watched the whole series. 2017 I watched the whole series. 2018 I watched the whole series. 2019 I turned it off in the third period of game 7. 2020 I watched the first period of game 5. This year I turned game 5 off, turned game 6 off, and am seriously contemplating if I'm even going to tune in tomorrow. The thing is, the Leafs didn't prove me wrong a single time. I've seen this shit before and have no appetite for it. I would rather watch a highlight of them winning their first series since 2004 than suffer through them going 0-8 in elimination games in real time.
 
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At this point the fans give more of a shit than the players do. Game 5 against the CBJ they completely tuned out and looked like they just wanted to resume summer fun with their millions of dollars. Guarantee it's going to be a similar show tomorrow. Pride seems to come secondary in that locker room.

But ya I'll always be a fan ofc.
 
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Suntouchable13 said:
I'll say this: it would be tough to justify spending time watching this team again in the fall if major changes are not made to the roster. Because status quo won't get them out of the Atlantic division. I'll still watch, probably, because I am a sucker and hockey is still my favourite sport.
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That's my point.
Hell, I stopped watching every game years ago, but I have no allusions that I'm turning the set off forever.
 
IPS said:
At this point the fans give more of a shit than the players do. Game 5 against the CBJ they completely tuned out and looked like they just wanted to resume summer fun with their millions of dollars. Guarantee it's going to be a similar show tomorrow. Pride seems to come secondary in that locker room.

But ya I'll always be a fan ofc.
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If you could bottle up the Leafs Nation rage we'd run the Canadiens through the boards. So there's no lack of passion there considering how much we are still buzzing today. That said, being a fan doesn't seem to always equal having fun.
 
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Being a Leaf fan sure as hell ain't easy and just about brought me to my knees last night.

Maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment but I'm not going anywhere, that's for damn sure. I'll always follow religiously, always watch every game, always hope for something good.
 
I've become immune to the heartbreak, Boston game 7 did it for me, nothing beats that.

Jeremy Roenik, Carolina, Boston, Columbus, been there done that.

This one is different, we were up 3-1, heavy favourites, against the Habs, but the Leafs have trained me well for their inevitable collapses.
 
I won’t ever quit being a leafs fan but I won’t invest my money/buy jerseys for a while. Probably will not be on the leafs board for a while. I’d need a mental reset for a while
 
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Almost 40yrs of bleeding Blue & White, have come too far to abandon the team now. Have certainly seen FAR worse than the team we currently have. What's so damn frustrating about this team: They finally built the team the way I always wanted them to! The amount of raw talent on this team is far and away the highest the Blue & White have had in MANY deacdes, perhaps ever. And they just can't seem to get it done. While I'm a hockey geek and won't stop watching, if they lose Game 7, and something drastic isn't done, I may have to step away for a bit and hang on the fringes. I just can't do this anymore. As they pounded Price with shots last night, I told my husband, you watch, Montreal will win this on a crappy goal...under 2 minutes later, bang. I feel for Jack Campbell!
 
Pi said:
That's the problem though man, it should have been this easy. We've gifted them goals to win back to back OT's. Reckless plays. They can dominate and be shit in the same game from shift to shift.

4 goals in 4 games. 3-1 lead. Sure you have a hiccup and drop a game but that should motivate you to play them out of their barn in Game 6 and instead we got a team that didn't even start playing till 50 minutes into the game.

I have zero expectations in Game 7. I am not even angry, just disappointed. I just want to know which new way they are going to lose this time.
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I feel you man, and totally agree. Tomorrow will be an adventure; always is.
 
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