horner
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We lost the game in the 3rd period . Had them on the ropes coming out of the 2nd period . Sat back had 4 shots , don't get it.
I predict they play their very worst game of the series on Saturday. I don't believe we are past it.Genuine question from an outsider. I see the leafs winning series but I haven't looked at your team in depth this season. I feel like they are ready to surprise but do you think the past performances will make them a little off for game 7 or do you think this team has put that in the past mentally?
I really think they're passed it, win or lose. Just wondering what you guys think. Not trolling in any way, genuine question about your team. Cheers.
If we had the Lead, i can see it being too late, but tied up on a phantom call 5on3? Yeah, you give them a pity powerplay.I think it may have been too late in the game for that, but the fact that we're talking about expected penalties is a reminder the league is so WWF.
Is he reffing Saturday?Agreed.
It's going to come down to Campbell.
I've never given a heart eyes love reaction to a post before but you deserve the first one. What a beauty of a poster you are.so leave. Go cheer for another 'motr rational' fanbase. The Leafs played great tonight and probably should have won.
What I don't understand is how you give one team a 5-3 on extremely questionable calls on one end and don't call blatant trips, elbows, high sticks on the other.
Either you're putting them away because you don't wanna decide the game or youre calling it down the middle. This series, this entire season has been a f***ing joke when it comes to the refs.
I'm tired of getting f***ed by them.
And I'm tired of 'i told ya so' and 'realist' fans kicking this team and its fans when they're down. Go somewhere else and be a POS since we can't use the other word.
You're stuck with me bud, are you going to be hiking when they lose.. again in game 7? I'll be here bitching about the loss again on Saturday. I have been a Leafs fan my entire life. Are you going to stop apologizing for the Leafs if groundhog day happens again. Or will you continue on your merry way every year until they win a round in 2027? There is nothing hip about blind optimism.So is that a yes?
I stopped looking to the Leafs for personal joy years ago. I love them. Cheer with every ounce I have, but I stopped letting their failures affect me (ok maybe I carry that disappointmen to bed, but not into the next day).Pretty sure it's me. Not allowed joy in my life ever. I'll go now.
Success maybe, but if you are going to count on a piece of entertainment to make you happy in life you are going to have a lot of disappointment.
Mikhayev has the most dissapointing to me. For someone with so much speed and size, he doesn''t use them much
Both of his playoff goals were empty netter in the same game
There were plenty of real calls they could have made, no need for a pity one.If we had the Lead, i can see it being too late, but tied up on a phantom call 5on3? Yeah, you give them a pity powerplay.
And that's the norm, they didn't even have to make it a Light call with all the easy ones in Ot.
Oh the POS retired? Goood f*** him, one less cockroach in the league.Meier retired. Although I wouldn't put it past the NHL if they brought him out for one last game to f*** the Leafs over
I don't think the rink will be like that at all. I think there will be all kinds of electric energy to start the game. If Tampa scores first, I think the crowd stays vocal... if Tampa gets up 2-0, I think then the crown turns.
Playing hard, and playing well isn't enough. We're way past that. Win the f***ing series of f*** off. Because no core that is worth anything goes 0-9 in series clinching games. And trading away Nylander isn't going to fix that imo because the guys who need to carry us to the win are still here.
So, it's on them to change the narrative. They have yet to show they can do it... we all want the defeatist attitudes to die, but there has to be a reason for it to die. Another loss here and it just grows bigger.
It'll be Quebec's finest Gislaine HebertIm guessing it'll be Skilliter or Meier.
I stopped looking to the Leafs for personal joy years ago. I love them. Cheer with every ounce I have, but I stopped letting their failures affect me (ok maybe I carry that disappointmen to bed, but not into the next day).
It's not you... if anyone is to blame here it is Harold Ballard... we probably have centuries to pay for his wrongdoings.
I've been a Leafs fan my entire life and I am voicing my displeasure over a specific pattern that happens every year. Why are you here?Why are you here?
It's not curse, it's culture. Building a culture that caries you in those moments is both painstaking and fleeting. Toronto's culture fails when it absolutely matters.
If you want me to define what culture is in this case, I'll do so via examples. It's taking 2 stupid (one really questionable), careless, high sticking penalties back-to-back, while protecting a third period lead. It's a player not being able to finish a breakaway in overtime, after costing his team all game long with bad penalty and a worse drop pass, that directly led to a goal. It's out playing and out chancing your opponent, significantly, in overtime, but not possessing the class to finish. It's about your MVP caliber centerman, tripping over the red line, with the game on the line. It's about your goalie giving up a "meh" goal, again, to lose the game, while his counterpart, calmly, stands on his head.
Culture means everything. The Leafs have built a culture of losing. They have to find a way, whatever it takes, to build the foundation of a franchise whose culture carries them in key moments, rather than letting them down. I see no other way.
The home games have been quite loud.Nothing like having 19 000 fans - all with a defeatist attitude - to try and spur you on to a win.
So Tampa is +6
I wonder how that spread compares to some of the other series happening