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Series Talk: North Division Round 1: Leafs (1) vs. Canadiens (4)

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To all the "Be humble" folks..

We could not a single one of us say a single cocky or bad thing. We could all say the Habs would beat us. And no matter what, people will invent a narrative and say we were saying it. I see it all the time on the mains which is why I am rarely there.

f*** em. This might be the best Leafs team I see in my lifetime I am going to enjoy talking shit when I can.
 
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Suntouchable13 said:
I am willing to give the Leafs a pass on that, kinda. You're coming in to a playoff situation after 4+ months off, things can get a little quirky. Like I said earlier, though, I hope they learned something from that series still.
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Let's hope so. I know a lot of people think this is going to be a sweep, but I'm not convinced.
 
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I still cannot even fathom how Montreal is able to make the playoffs with a 24-21-11 record. That's 32 losses and 24 wins. 5 losses in a row headed into the playoffs, two against Toronto of those 5 games. I'm not gonna be a humble Leafs fan, their fans talk all kinds of crazy crap, I love seeing their team lose as much as they have been.

Habs have NO chance against the Leafs.

Leafs in five.
 
This team lost 5 straight games heading into the playoffs.

If Leafs don't handle them in 4-5 games, we should be pissed.

You can't go on a deep run when you let teams like this go 6-7 games deep in a series.
 
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A1LeafNation said:
This team lost 5 straight games heading into the playoffs.

If Leafs don't handle them in 4-5 games, we should be pissed.

You can't go on a deep run when you let teams like this go 6-7 games deep in a series.
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I expect we'll see a much different Habs team in the playoffs with Gallagher, Price and Weber. We'll also be battling some demons and need to stay out infront as much as possible.
 
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Have they announced when this series will start?

Crazy to think the Habs were done their season and we have 2 games left given how tight they were down the stretch
 
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C'mon man, that was 42 years ago. They swept us in 78 and 79 and then went on the win the cup both years as we barely made the playoffs. We were nothing and they just trounced us. That's not a rivalry, that's a beating. Do you consider Ottawa our main rival because we swept them a couple of times? A rivalry needs two to tango. You might think that they are our rival but we aren't theirs. Boston and Montreal agree on their rivalry.

I don't know many Habs fans but the ones that I do know don't think much of us. Like I said, it's similar to how some Jets and Canucks fans think that there is something between us. There isn't. We just don't have that kind of history in the modern era. In the modern era we've missed the playoffs about 20 years and the Habs have 8 cups. Between us being pretty bad and lots of division realignment we haven't really had a chance to build something. Ottawa was fun for a few years as was Philly but you have to consistently make the playoffs and then play the same teams to build a real rivalry and we just haven't been good enough. Hopefully we can get something started with Tampa or someone like that but for now we having nothing.
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You seem easily confused. The Habs are our #1 rival regardless of how many times we've played them in the playoffs. We are the two most sucessfull teams in NHL history, with the longest rivalry on and off the ice.
 
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I honestly don’t know. It comes down to if Price decides to turn back the clock and go MVP mode like he did last year in the playoffs. Montreal will need that (or a Toronto goaltending collapse) to have a chance of grinding out a series on the back of a lot of 2-1 games. On paper the Leafs are a far better team though both on paper and in the regular season, so if I were to lay money on it I would say Toronto in 6. You never know though; this isn’t like Basketball where the better team wins a seven game series 95% of the time.
 
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Bluelines said:
Yeah I think Superstar Carey is gone too but there are those stories about those old grey hair long toothed players that find god mode in the playoffs for one last hurrah, not that Price is old but he is probably on the downslope of his career. Like take me for example, I'm on the down slope of my years, getting a little long in the tooth, yesterday I was playing pool watching a game and I thought can I walk all the way upstairs to the fridge to get a beer? Lesser men would have thought nope, can't be done but I powered through the climb up 13 steps to get all the way to the fridge... now in my younger years, I might have not had the old man determination to power through that climb but hey Old man determination will beat young man effort every time ... :)

Joking aside, the Habs are less at every position than us but that is what can be their advantage, they have nothing to lose, they can play all loosey goosey, the pressure is on us to not choke.
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price also will have not played a real game in exactly a month when game 1 starts(injured april 19th)i think this is a campbell vs allen series, and i believe its a tossup...allen has more experience in the playoffs but has always seemed to struggle more when called upon as the clear cut number one for a team. should be an interesting battle.

edit: i mean the goaltending battle, i picked leafs in 5.
 
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A1LeafNation said:
You can't go on a deep run when you let teams like this go 6-7 games deep in a series.
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Boston and Washington go on deep runs after lowly “cant win in the playoffs” leafs take them into game 7 OT.

Hell even the Bozak-led abysmal Leafs took Boston to the wire in their heyday.

The only requirement is to win. It’s not going to matter by how much.
 
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Matthews GQ said:
I still cannot even fathom how Montreal is able to make the playoffs with a 24-21-11 record. That's 32 losses and 24 wins. 5 losses in a row headed into the playoffs, two against Toronto of those 5 games. I'm not gonna be a humble Leafs fan, their fans talk all kinds of crazy crap, I love seeing their team lose as much as they have been.

Habs have NO chance against the Leafs.

Leafs in five.
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There is no 3 vs 3 OT or SO in the playoffs so the format would actually benefit them. The Habs IMO are a tougher 5 vs 5 team compared to the spattering Jets, even their last 2 defeats against the Oilers came in 3 vs 3 OT which isn't really a factor in the playoffs.
 
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zeke said:
Weird how leafs fans have to be humble but Habs fans with the worst team in the playoffs get to be cocky and talk shit.
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We all know them. They’re our teammates, co-workers, some of us even have them in our families. Hab fans get this look in their eye when you talk about how we beat them, or how they were so bad this season when they were “supposed to be so good”. The historic number of Cups is on the tip of their arrogant tongues. We must crush them, preferably in 4.
 
Is it just me or is anyone else a little worried about the reffing?

If it’s fair I’d say Leafs in 5, but I can also see the refs hand the habs an extra win
 
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