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Post-Game Talk: Leafs End the Season with a 4-3 Comeback OT Win

OVO16 said:
On the broadcast they said Pacioretty is healthy enough to play but they couldn't activate him due to salary cap reasons?

Is that true? I do think Pacioretty in the playoffs can be a difference maker. Especially with his physicality.

Salary cap doesnt matter in the playoffs correct?
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I wonder if Robertson will be the odd man out if all are healthy. It will be Berubes instincts that decide
 
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I missed the whole comeback but I find the fact they came back to win a “meaningless game” is actually a bigger sign of progression than not.

In the past, a meaningless game was the fanbase’s invitation to lay an egg because there was no implication on standings. What a surprise it was that they just mounted a comeback and won the damn thing. Because well they like winning more than losing.

That weirdly feels different.
 
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Kiwi said:
Woll was playing behind a team full of guys trying to avoid injury, it wasn't going to look great in that situation

He still won though and will probably have a sv% of 910, that a nice little insurance policy if Stolarz struggles
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Yeah i know leafs didn't played at 100 % but leqfs was not bad

Right now we never know wich Woll will play. He had been great vs Carolina and Florida but tonigjt, anaheim or SJ, he was not good enough. But you're right he will be the back up in case of

Stolarz had been extremely consistent all year long and giving more confidence to the guy in front of him and why i'm pretty confident this year with goalie.
 
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Antropovsky said:
Leafs under Berube are a hell of alot more likeable than under Keefe.

Both Dubas and Keefe were buffoons. What the hell was Shanahan thinking? Talk about not respecting the game, hiring two completely green people to manage the team?

I used to like Shanahan, but he should be fires because this alone.

Finally looks like a real hockey team again, none of that soft, new-era experiment Dubas was trying to pull off. He was too busy trying to reinvent the wheel and prove he was the smartest guy in the room. Tree deserves GM of the Year for making this look like a real hockey team again jn short order.
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Yep. Ultimately so. But as to what Shanahan was thinking...

I think with respect to Dubas, he thought: Lamoriello said he's ready to be the GM, whether in Toronto or somewhere else, and perhaps equally so, Sakic apparently wanted Dubas. On top of Dubas' AHL success and apparent insights as applauded by the likes of LL, I think Shanahan thought he caught lightning in a bottle and that Dubas was a wunderkind in the making.

I still like Shanahan and to the point, if we're bullish on Treliving and everything he's done to redeem the club thus far, then we have to be bullish about Shanahan who stopped short on Dubas and went out and hired Treliving.

In the weeds as it may seem, Shanahan has been very consistent in his fires and hires. He's given everyone the benefit of the doubt and enough time to redeem themselves. And that's Carlyle to Keefe.

Its tough to acknowledge it given the decade of battle scars, but its logically unavoidable and I think sometimes we spite our faces for prioritizing what we want to be true rather than move to the conclusion that is most valid owing to the simplest explanation.

But the simplest explanation I'll look to now is that we just look really different. We're winning every way there is to win. We have a much different looking squad and the swagger of a contender seems evident to me. Looks can be deceiving, but we're healthy, we're happy, and we're entering the playoffs on all manner of team and individual positive punctuation points in a way I don't remember even our Quinn era teams doing.

That our season ending win was against Shanahan's former Stanley Cup winning team and decided by a player we've cast as our latest scapegoat who scored the OT winner, really pushes against type for our club's typical providential playoffs push.

And if there's success, I'd hope the uncomfortable conclusion is, maybe Shanahan sticking to his guns in a certain way was the right path for the club and its necessary maturation process after all. Or, we lose, and he's gone, and we'll get to ask and answer the question again.

Battle-scarred as we all are, we're here to hope again and hope Shanahan was right all along.
 
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ITM said:
Yep. Ultimately so. But as to what Shanahan was thinking...

I think with respect to Dubas, he thought: Lamoriello said he's ready to be the GM, whether in Toronto or somewhere else, and perhaps equally so, Sakic apparently wanted Dubas. On top of Dubas' AHL success and apparent insights as applauded by the likes of LL, I think Shanahan thought he caught lightning in a bottle and that Dubas was a wunderkind in the making.

I still like Shanahan and to the point, if we're bullish on Treliving and everything he's done to redeem the club thus far, then we have to be bullish about Shanahan who stopped short on Dubas and went out and hired Treliving.

In the weeds as it may seem, Shanahan has been very consistent in his fires and hires. He's given everyone the benefit of the doubt and enough time to redeem themselves. And that's Carlyle to Keefe.

Its tough to acknowledge it given the decade of battle scars, but its logically unavoidable and I think sometimes we spite our faces for prioritizing what we want to be true rather than move to the conclusion that is most valid owing to the simplest explanation.

But the simplest explanation I'll look to now is that we just look really different. We're winning every way there is to win. We have a much different looking squad and the swagger of a contender seems evident to me. Looks can be deceiving, but we're healthy, we're happy, and we're entering the playoffs on all manner of team and individual positive punctuation points in a way I don't remember even our Quinn era teams doing.

That our season ending win was against Shanahan's former Stanley Cup winning team and decided by a player we've cast as our latest scapegoat who scored the OT winner, really pushes against type for our club's typical providential playoffs push.

And if there's success, I'd hope the uncomfortable conclusion is, maybe Shanahan sticking to his guns in a certain way was the right path for the club and its necessary maturation process after all. Or, we lose, and he's gone, and we'll get to ask and answer the question again.

Battle-scarred as we all are, we're here to hope again and hope Shanahan was right all along.
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That 2018 Calder Cup win by the Marlies was such a distortion. From Dubas and Keefe on down, it’s like we thought we had the Lightning’s Syracuse Crunch.
 
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I'm going to put this out there with regards to the whole 'If you like Stolarz you have to diss Woll', and vice versa

Woll has been relatively healthy this season, and most of his injuries have occurred when he was attempting something the human form should not attempt.

This season he has reigned in the overly aggressive athleticism. This is an adjustment that will take time and reps.

He will be only getting better from here on.
 
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Old Leafs would have slept walked through this game. 2025 Leafs still cared about a meaningless game. Hopefully a sign of things to come in the playoffs.
 
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