Post-Game Talk: Leafs tie Season Series with Senators

[Rare Jewel]

LMFAO damn. It's really not that deep.

I still feel more for her.... marrying a Sens fan?

SHEEESH

 

[Delete1]

I've been on the sens board reading their takes and a few of their posts were worth discussing here. For example, this one.

Is this what it was like losing 4-2 to a veteran-laden caps team in 2017 ? With all games going to overtime) but thinking we were actually "right there with them"? I was optimistic and happy to be there, but were the more realistic fans telling it like it really was?


I think this guy pretty much sees this series for what it is.


... And he expands on this here as well

This series is exactly why I said before the playoffs started that the regular season record against Ottawa meant nothing. The Leafs coasted through a lot of those regular season games because most of the time their talent could overtake a game even when they were sloppy. But the sloppyness tends to disappear in the playoffs, and what we are watching in this series is an Ottawa team that is finding out just how over-matched it is. A bigger test will come in the second, but that will also depend on how healthy (or, more appropriately, not healthy), Florida or Tampa is, because both of those teams are nursing significant injuries.

 

[IPS]

I agree with what you're saying, but it's understandable.

This Leafs team has earned the mistrust of some fans (including me) and has turned optimistic fans into skeptics and skeptics into cynics.

But this series should be enjoyed and made the most of, and hopefully, more ill feelings get allayed.

Time and place for it is after the playoffs atleast. They could very well bomb out and fail against Florida against next round after sweeping the Sens but as a fan you gotta atleast have fun no matter what happens.

 

[Alamo Leafer]

I can't embed it. Stole this from Reddit...

https://packaged-media.redd.it/36lqa0ol7wwe1/pb/m2-res_1080p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1745564400&s=50abaf8694aba78599af81ef0f012ff42e2a11f6#t=3.420211

Thanks for this. I tried so much to convert it. For some reason Reddit makes it difficult

 

[HEAVY DUTY]

OMG, somebody please post that video of the Sens fan crying with his Leafs gf looking at him PLEASE. That was GOLD

 

[Alamo Leafer]

No, nothing unfortunately. But thank for the try

 

[mix1home]

lol I remember in the Montreal series some fans were already discussing round 2 when we were up 3-1.

yeah.

For ppl who spent entire year under the rock, this is how Leafs play these days. And if you didn’t notice it’s us playing that Mtl team style: suppress neutral zone, block everything, towering D boxing / crosschecking anyone who dare to go to inside, and give it to Price as final wall, score some goals and dry the game up until the final whistle.
And at least on paper we have much deeper D corp and much higher end game-breaking talent at F than that Mtl team.

 

[Delete1]

The Leafs are going to have a very long break after this series ends. Probably at least a full week between games.

 

[MK78]

Time and place for it is after the playoffs atleast. They could very well bomb out and fail against Florida against next round after sweeping the Sens but as a fan you gotta atleast have fun no matter what happens.

Many of us who watched the 4 Battle of Ontario's 20+ years ago felt like we could take losing to Florida, Tampa, etc... But losing to the Sens would be unbearable.

 

[PromisedLand]

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Really like this guy.

 

[7even]

TOI for defense tonight:

J. McCabe	21:48
M. Rielly	20:11
C. Tanev	19:59
S. Benoit	19:30
B. Carlo	19:15
O. Ekman-Larsson	18:07

I thought they all played great honestly. I can think of great defensive plays I saw from all of them. OEL alone had like 3 or 4 great defensive plays on the rush. This is the most competent the Leafs have been defensively that I can remember.

 

[PromisedLand]

 

[MCR74]

Wait. l was told regular season was...

 

[Tak7]

Many of us who watched the 4 Battle of Ontario's 20+ years ago felt like we could take losing to Florida, Tampa, etc... But losing to the Sens would be unbearable.

As a fandom, the Battle of Ontario is the only thing some of us of a certain age have.

You take that away from us, and this entire project is not only a failure, but filled some of the deepest, hardest heart ache imaginable.

The 4th win is always the hardest one to get, but you feel realllly good about their chances to win this series now and remain Kings of Ontario.

 

[ITM]

Benoit blocks two shots with seconds left, pins the puck to wind down the remaining time and blasts the OT winner in Game 3 after setting up Game 2's winner.

Every Cup team needs role players blooming like this. Benoit's giving off an Alex Martinez vibe, and there's something of the Kings championship club in ours. Unity of purpose?

I think it was a November interview with Tanev and a subsequent interview the next game with McCabe on missing Matthews in the lineup where each emphasized there was little to no reflection on his absence, rather, a quick pivot to belief in the room and the squad that could be iced.

Treliving has obviously prioritized positional need. But I bet if we could get a few minutes with the fly on the wall in those management meetings post-Dubas, I'll bet dollars to donuts that the primary target in every acquisition, including the coach, was character.

I wouldn't be surprised if Game 4 looks a lot like Game 1.

Plenty of storylines emerging that I won't elaborate here, but yeah, from the beginning of the year and through the end of the regular season and into the playoffs with a potential to...Things look and feel much different - Oh and New Jersey is down 2-0 in their series and Pittsburgh didn't make the playoffs.

 

[Superstar]

Green can't wait to GTFO out of that podium right now
I have never seen a man so broken

If he's my coach, he does not impose any level of confidence

Did he appeal to the linesmen this time? Maybe Leafs are cheating in the face-off dot...maybe Matthews should have been kicked out of the face-off dot in OT?

 

[Daisy Jane]

I mean, they did beat TB two years ago...

Unless you mean ing⠀the Sens?

just having a 3-0 series lead in general

 

[willmma]

it was also over against Montreal when it was 3-1 and everyone in here was already planning out the 2nd round lol

If we win this series can we stop hearing about that Habs series?

 

[Commander Clueless]

On this dive by Stuzle he got a 10 from the American, a 10 from the Canadian, and an 8.5 from the Russian. Tough judges those Ruskies.

Okay so, as a rule I normally don't whine about the refs. I try really hard not to, especially in a win.


But holy yikesatolie....tripping!?!?


Lorentz got called for tripping because Stutzle dodged his hit?


You just gotta laugh.


Sick dodge though by Timmy. Props.

 

[Jozay]

I can't embed it. Stole this from Reddit...

https://packaged-media.redd.it/36lqa0ol7wwe1/pb/m2-res_1080p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1745564400&s=50abaf8694aba78599af81ef0f012ff42e2a11f6#t=3.420211

Lmao his girl looking at him like “he’s not the one”

 

[wingman75]

just having a 3-0 series lead in general

It's been 24 years!

Soaking it in

 

[MSZ]

If we win this series can we stop hearing about that Habs series?

People are still going to talk about it if this team doesn't advance to the 3rd round at the very least.

 

[wingman75]

If we win this series can we stop hearing about that Habs series?

No chance. You cannot erase history. Make a conference final or win a cup and it doesn't matter as much.

Je me souviens ;-)

 

[Incognito]

As a fandom, the Battle of Ontario is the only thing some of us of a certain age have.

You take that away from us, and this entire project is not only a failure, but filled some of the deepest, hardest heart ache imaginable.

The 4th win is always the hardest one to get, but you feel realllly good about their chances to win this series now and remain Kings of Ontario.

The last five plus years of life on earth have been a complete shit show of uncertainty and despair. With as much crap as the universe has thrown at us, it fills me with a deep sense of comfort and familiarity as a millennial Leafs fan to be watching Toronto beating Ottawa in the playoffs like it was still 2001.