Drumman44
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Leafs have really played well without Matthews. They need to learn to play this well when he comes back too
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DisgruntledHawkFan
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It's a roster that's playing better than the sum of its parts. Firing the coach and blowing up the roster doesn't make sense to me. They just need more talent.
Hattrick Kane
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Doesn’t sound like he’ll be back for awhile. But the Bruins have lost this series. They will not win game 7.
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BobbyJet
The accountability era?
Hawkaholic
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Agreed, they started off hot (12-1-3) and struggled more down the stretch.
JaegerDice
The mark of my dignity shall scar thy DNA
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This is the 3rd playoff series in recent memory where the Bruins went up 3-1 on the Leafs, then the Leafs pushed the series to 7.
2013, 2018, and now 2024. I think this one ends the same as the others.
Wally1112pac
Three Year Rebuild lol
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BobbyJet
The accountability era?
It looks like Bruins losing streak at the end of the regular season was not an anomaly.
Wally1112pac
Three Year Rebuild lol
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The team was fine for the first 4 games. These last 2 they have fallen off the face of the earth.
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Boston had 15 OTLs this year. Their record was propped up and they’re not a super great team.
ChiHawks10
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McAvoy gets plenty of good looks too. But yeah, their offensive threats are very limited.
Drumman44
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How embarrassing. There's no way banking a lot of points in overtime would ever come back to bite a team in the ass during the playoffs
BobbyJet
The accountability era?
JaegerDice
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It skews perception of the team’s quality, for sure.
Truthfully, standings points have never been a particularly good indicator of team quality, even before the loser point or 3v3 OT.
ChiHawks10
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Right. How often does the President's Trophy winner actually win the Cup? It's a miniscule amount, off the top of my head. Hawks were the last ones to do it, I believe, in 2013.
Went and googled it. Only 8 winners of the President's Trophy have gone on to win the Cup in the 36 times it has been awarded. The last one to do it was the 2013 Hawks team. And actually, of those 8, half of them are since the year 2000. Colorado, Detroit twice, and then the Hawks in 2013.
JaegerDice
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Yep.
The last time I looked, the first place team has won the cup more than any other opening playoff seed, but theres a lot of original 6 era and expansion era skewing that record.
Im confident if you started the count at the 30-team era moving forward, the numbers would be more balanced across the top 8 teams, with some outliers in the bottom 8.
Wally1112pac
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For both those games the bruins had 1 shot in each of the 1st periods.Of course there are 2 teams on the ice.
I think last game they had 1 shot through the 1st 30 minutes.
The leafs are hardly a powerhouse defensive team. They played better but the bruins effort was almost non existent. It was embarrassing to watch.
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Bruins have looked like a different team the last 2 games. They look scared.
Also heard that no team in any league has ever been up 3-1 in consecutive years and lost. Bruins would be in rare air with that record.
Also heard that no team in any league has ever been up 3-1 in consecutive years and lost. Bruins would be in rare air with that record.
ChiHawks10
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The game yesterday they had 1 shot through like 30 mins, and it was a PP shot on top of it.
Wally1112pac
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The game yesterday they had 1 shot through like 30 mins, and it was a PP shot on top of it.
It was brutal to watch.
They should have left the arena with bags over their heads. Everyone but Swayman.
DisgruntledHawkFan
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Last night was AHL slop hockey outside of Woll Swayman and Nylander.
Hattrick Kane
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There are still fools telling me that Florida isn’t going to absolutely run over either of these teams.
BobbyJet
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Leafs played very well with their backs against the wall in the last 2 games. Adjustments were made - they shut down Bruins two main offensive weapons in 88 and 73 and Woll was solid in nets when he was called upon... yet you refuse to acknowledge that, other than to say they were better. The Leafs team deserves more credit than you and others are giving them.
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