Post-Game Talk: Leafs Lose in Game 7. Again.

[Throw More Waffles]

Buddy...Take a breather and inhale some empathy.

Game 6, Tampa needed a 5 on 3 to go to OT. They didn't score again in regulation. That call back goal on Tavares...Gimme a break. This club, this series, dealt with a lot of pressure from within the game that shouldn't have been there.

If the man is fighting back tears...Just pause a moment and think about all the circumstances.

Nothing has changed in the Matthews era? Our best regular season. Our greatest goalscorer.

This series WAS terribly officiated. Maybe he's near tears because the club was good enough to win and that they did enough to win it, but were forced to go beyond that, and against the defending two-time Cup champions on top of it.

Hell of a gauntlet to put any athlete through.

The usual BULLSHIT excuses.

I'm so f***ing sick of it. I honestly can't even take it anymore.

 

[Suntouchable13]

I second this. Whatever, Wherever make this known if you’re on board. B lister celebrities, A lister celebrities, talk about this. I want Bettman’s bosses to know they’re losing money because they bite 7 hands that feed them.

Why are people going on about this? Leafs had their chances on the PP too and they couldn't score. This is on them.

 

[PromisedLand]

Isnt that always the case good cap situation or bad??

Good cap situation IMO would have allowed Leafs to have a few playoff runs before all that

 

[Aashir]

The usual BULLSHIT excuses.

I'm so f***ing sick of it. I honestly can't even take it anymore.

Ah the good old..regular season

Because Matthews and co don’t have to show up after playoffs

 

[ITM]

Empathy…don’t get me started

Matthews, along with the team couldn’t finish their job: which is to win a Stanley cup

Each year they fail miserably

Officiating was not the reason we lost

We scored 0 pp goals in game 7 again, on 4 attempts

Pressure?!? You know who felt pressure: Sidney Crosby, he came into the league and was expected to win, he did

Ovechkin felt insane pressure to win, but at least he won the first round multiple times

Kucherov had pressure for one year, then he shut everyone up

These guys aren’t mentally ready to win, and the pressure they’ve acquired is too much..

Deal them all if they can’t handle big time

Effortless excellence is a myth. There's one series that was inexcusable. It wasn't the one we just played.

Re: PP. And Tampa's blocked shots? And their goalie is who?

By your standard, you believe every team that doesn't win a Cup, every year, should be gutted, correct?

 

[3blizzard4]

Lou has balls. Fired Trotz after the freaking success he gave that team but one stinking season and he was gone? The Isles were decimated with COVID quarantines and not
To mention they started the season 13 games on the road.

But Trotz was shown the door. Balls.

 

[MSZ]

Stay off social media and this website tonight guys. Maybe for a few days. For your own sake

I'm definitely going off until the free agent signings begin whatever the date it will be.

 

[Gallagbi]

That 6 on 5 at the end kind of sums up the Leafs. They must have wasted about a minute just passing it around the perimeter, basically killing time off for the Bolts. It's probably also the main reason why they can't score on the powerplay. They really need to get some guys who can score in traffic and create something down there.

I think they have them, but they're not leveraging them well. It's not where Marner or Nylander wanted the puck to go

 

[Aashir]

Why are people going on about this? Leafs had their chances on the PP too and they couldn't score. This is on them.

0/4 pretty much speaks for itself

 

[Suntouchable13]

Ah the good old..regular season

Because Matthews and co don’t have to show up after playoffs

"But we had our best regular season ever!" This regular season was actually the least meaningful yet. Who cares about the regular season?

 

[Nineteen67]

Why would he share that?

 

[Zur En Arrh]

Your Marner obsession is bordering on sick.

and his name is literally a combination of the two biggest trash players of the sundin era lol. Marner taken dumps that could skate faster

 

[OVO16]

Yeah, Clark, Roberts, Gilmour and Tucker are hated to this day.

Those fans are long gone. This is the new era of Dubas fanboys.

Give me more small soft dudes or big guys who actually don't play physically. As long as they have defensive intangibles

 

[Just Rude]

The Tavares contract will be the albatross of this team until he is done.

For the “great” series he had, he managed six points. For 11 million.

And he’s just going to keep slowing down. That signing will end up as Dubas’ worst mistake.

 

[leafsfan2point0]

I’m proud of the boys this season and feel really bad about the way it ended.

We got f***** by the refs unfortunately.

I would not make any crazy changes and the fact we had to play a team as good as Tampa after the season we had is crazy.

There’s more problems with the league then this team.

 

[Apex Predator]

Dude, I like you, but that is hyperbole to the max. You don't ever trade a 60 goal player, we are ALL angry right now, but Matthews is going nowhere, you will NEVER get that value back.

The hate this franchise can come up with will wound him, and I've always been a bit worried of him leaving, but he's as safe as a bet for next year as anyone in this organization.

Fail again, then you think trade, always ATLEAST ride it until the last year. Hope he doesn't pull a Tavares, and if he does, hope the next year McDavid pulls one too.

Regardless covid f'ed us hard, we had a solid cap gameplan, it went south, no one say this coming.

So, you have to make a change somewhere. And we'll see it, since this was very close to last years team at the LEAST. There will be some sort or change.

Keefe fighting for the sake of fighting with the respect line, good on him defending the boys, but guess what? Same result. 6 years. 6 years isn't a process. 6 years is failure.

The thing is every team has a plan and had to deal with COvid.

 

[ruaware41]

Why do they always lose in 7 games? how come they never get swept or lose in 5?

better for the nhl algorithm this way

 

[Riellyfan04]

Marner and matthews and rielly, the rest of the team can go bye bye

 

[Aashir]

Effortless excellence is a myth. There's one series that was inexcusable. It wasn't the one we just played.

Re: PP. And Tampa's blocked shots? And their goalie is who?

By your standard, you believe every team that doesn't win a Cup, every year, should be gutted, correct?

Seriously….what a stupid generalization of my point
Everyone’s at different cycles in terms of competitiveness. If at the peak of ours, we are struggling to get out of even the first round…who knows what it’ll look like in a few years when our “window” that never actually opened closes

We will lose these guys who hold regular season value for nothing and will have to return to mediocrity waiting for another rebuild

 

[Gallagbi]

This style of play will never work in the salary cap era.

Why?

You simply can’t build and hold together an overwhelming offence first team as you can’t pay the individual players enough due to the cap constraints.

They're not an overwhelming offense first team. They largely played tight hockey with limited chances against, tonight was a good example of it.

 

[Kurtz]

So would people now consider evander Kane now?
Def too late as his play will warrant a huge contract again but there was a chance to get him on the cheap but no
Let’s not mess with our dressing room lol

I don't think Kane was going anywhere but Edmonton.

However, Max Domi could have helped. Won the series for the Canes tonight.

 

[3blizzard4]

So why even bring it up Keefe??

 

[PromisedLand]

Dude, I like you, but that is hyperbole to the max. You don't ever trade a 60 goal player, we are ALL angry right now, but Matthews is going nowhere, you will NEVER get that value back.

The hate this franchise can come up with will wound him, and I've always been a bit worried of him leaving, but he's as safe as a bet for next year as anyone in this organization.

Fail again, then you think trade, always ATLEAST ride it until the last year. Hope he doesn't pull a Tavares, and if he does, hope the next year McDavid pulls one too.

Regardless covid f'ed us hard, we had a solid cap gameplan, it went south, no one say this coming.

So, you have to make a change somewhere. And we'll see it, since this was very close to last years team at the LEAST. There will be some sort or change.

Keefe fighting for the sake of fighting with the respect line, good on him defending the boys, but guess what? Same result. 6 years. 6 years isn't a process. 6 years is failure.

Tavares walked from the Isles because they couldn't do anything in the playoffs.

Matthews is good but Matthews isn't Ovi. Matthews' contract is basically a signal that he will chase money.

Toronto media will chase him out of the city anyway with the way things are going IMO.

 

[fahad203]

I ask again

Someone please tell me we won the advance stats
How's the corsi looking tonight?

Someone please share the numbers or python script

 

[dubplatepressure]

The one thing that was a question and still remains a question is this powerplay. They just can't seem to score on it in the playoffs and it was a huge factor AGAIN.

Yeah it’s almost like their painfully predictable regular season shit just doesn’t hold up in the playoffs.