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Series Talk: Leafs vs Lightning Pre-Playoff Thread

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Who wins?

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TorMapleJays said:
Win a Cup in Toronto and you will never pay for dinner in this city again.
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He’ll never have to pay for almost anything in Toronto.
saffronleaf said:
statues will be erected, streets will be named and renamed, stories will be passed on to the next generation, hockey lore will be rewritten
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future visiting Aliens would think these statues were gods. And they wouldn’t be wrong.
 
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Statsman1 said:
For whatever reason, this time, it feels like it’s our time.

Having said that…wouldn’t it be kind of odd to see Dubas working in Pittsburgh next season? Please don’t let that happen.
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He'll have Keefe play Crosby on D like he did with Marner

PromisedLand said:
Anybody having issues with HF?

My browser keep freezing everytime I try to load HF. Am on google chrome on my laptop
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On my phone but no
 
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The Management said:
Maroon-Bellemare-Perry feels exploitable, imagine their ice time is limited. Not really impressed with their bottom six. This is when we'll see if those depth deadline additions pay off.
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If the Leafs are playing the right way that line shouldn't be allowed to be a positive factor for Tampa Bay.

Pat Maroon is going to be met muscle on muscle when he tries his bullying act.

Bellemare sounds like the greatest player to ever score 4 career playoff goals and make mean faces and get his stick and elbows in the way.

Corey Perry should be hit hard and often.
 
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Sick of other players targeting our stars every playoff. Can we please get bodies on Kuch and Hedman. Kuch is such a douche. Why aren’t we giving him face washes every scrum amd little shots. He does it and gets away with it over and over.

I wonder if we lose so many game 7s because we arent physical enough early n the series. Get them bumped and bruised so when game 7 hits they are playing hurt.
 
Rude Dog said:
Sick of other players targeting our stars every playoff. Can we please get bodies on Kuch and Hedman. Kuch is such a douche. Why aren’t we giving him face washes every scrum amd little shots. He does it and gets away with it over and over.

I wonder if we lose so many game 7s because we arent physical enough early n the series. Get them bumped and bruised so when game 7 hits they are playing hurt.
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Early in the series is when we've been the most phsyical, and it's also when we've had the most success. Go back and watch the first few games of our series last season, we came out smashing them, remember Clifford?
 
colchar said:
While I badly want them to win, and to finally beat those turds from Boston, them doing so would save Kyle 'Spreadsheet' Dubas' and Keefe's jobs and I want both of them gone so I am conflicted.
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I'm much dumber having read this. Thank you.

AllHeartNoSkill said:
But people WOULD sacrifice a cup win just so Dubas doesn’t win one?
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These are trolls

saffronleaf said:
statues will be erected, streets will be named and renamed, stories will be passed on to the next generation, hockey lore will be rewritten
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I, for one, can't wait to get drunk at Yonge and Dubas.
 
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Arzak said:
Game one might decide this series. I would rather see us win the first two and gain some confidence ->roll it down the hill.

I can see us shit the bed if we lose the first one.
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They gotta take at least 2 of the first 4, and at least 1 of game 3 or 4.

A series ain't over before you lose at home. If the Leafs go up 2-0 and Tampa comes back 2-2, they've stolen all the momentum. Heck, even a 1-1 split at each venue would be preferable. Up 3-1? Then they've really got a chance.
 
colchar said:
Took him long enough! And some success this year will not erase his failings. Looking at his overall tenure, he has been a failure.





I've been a fan longer than most here have been alive. I survived the Ballard years and never lost hope, but the loss to Montreal broke me. It just broke me.

It wasn't just who they lost to, but how they lost. Since then I have hardly watched any regular season games, because I just can't. Last year I don't think I watched any, but did start watching in the playoffs only to see them bow out in the first round yet again. Same old, same old. Nothing new at all.

This year I have watched 2-3 complete games and parts of a handful more. Again, I am getting interested for the playoffs but based on their history over the last decade I am not expecting much and think that Dubas and Keefe have to be removed for the team to have any hope of progressing.

They have accomplished nothing under Dubas and Keefe, absolutely nothing (and no, the regular season doesn't mean a damned thing nor do the idiotic advanced stats that some people cling to as if they are gospel), and I do not see that changing and them becoming a perennial Cup threat. For them to take that step, Dubas and Keefe have to go and winning a round or two this year will stop that from happening and just prolong the underachieving.




See my comments immediately above.
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Wait so a pedophile who abused everyone he worked with running the team into the ground and alienating captains who bled for the team is A-ok by you but losing to Montreal is where you draw the line. Hahahahahahaha
 
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PromisedLand said:
interesting they are stacking one line and Bogo is outside looking in while he played all games with us
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That’s honestly one of the worst looking Tampa lineups in years. Size on D and game breaking talent that turns it up in the playoffs is always a factor but we have quite a few favourable matchup options if that’s how they roll into game 1.
 
crump said:
Predicting Perry shenanigans, need to take him out of the equation early.
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He is a -28 on the season where the next worst on his team is a -10. His linemates are also -9 and -5. And the production from all 3 of them is at career lows. We shouldddddd be running over that line on the scoresheet.

Leafs87 said:
That’s honestly one of the worst looking Tampa lineups in years. Size on D and game breaking talent that turns it up in the playoffs is always a factor but we have quite a few favourable matchup options if that’s how they roll into game 1.
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Yup, 21 career NHL games on one half of their second pairing with 0 playoff games experience. Gotta expose that.
 
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