GDT: SCQF Game 1 | Leafs vs Habs - 5/20/21 @ 7:30pm - CBC, SN, TVAS

[Pi]

I'm just so sad right now.

It's the same feeling I have right now. We could be up 4-0 right now and I'd feel the same.

I am just crushed. If I feel this way as a fan, I can't even imagine how the players are feeling. They are a really tight knit group and you can see that in those Leaf Blueprint videos, press conferences etc. It's not fake, they care deeply about each other on and off the ice.

 

[TheGreatOne11]

The boys are going to come out with the biggest fire in their tummies.

You haters on here who i don't even consider fans, saying our season is over after one period need to give your heads a shake.

One of their own went down, they are not just hockey players they are people and they're hurting.

We will come back and win this for Johny.

Hope you're okay big guy, that thumbs up got me a little choked up.

 

[Coachcorner]

Do it for JT. Light up these fools.

That's the best way sire We also might get tavares back the next game. Remember paul kariya back in the day, with scott stevens. Imagine tavares coming back in the dirty third period. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE SIRE. NOTHING.

WE WILL WIN THIS GAME TOO. TAVARES MIGHT BE BACK IN GAME 5. Maybe in the third round of playoffs. WE AINT KNOWING THIS YET, NORE DID KARIYA after the STEVENS HIT. REMEMBER TH EHISTORY AND THE GEZAME YALL: WE HARD STILL. LIKE STILL DRE.

 

[TheProspector]

Leafs in 4.

 

[hockeyes]

Leafs looked fine until the JT injury then they were sleep walking for 10 minutes trying to get motivated again. Hopefully the intermission lets them reset.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Did anyone almost lose it watching Simmonds? When he said "We gotta win it for Johnny he wouldn't want it any other way"? Man...

I expect a big 2nd period by leafs, and I’m going to change my marner goal to hyman.... he just seems like the type of player that gets it and knows what he’s got to do to get the team rolling

 

[The Apologist]

It will be easier to think about hockey getting some good news about Tavares but the salt in the wounds to see Montreal score after all that chaos. Hopefully it’s not too bad all things considered. Visually it just looked awful like what you’d imagine a “career ender” to look like.

I blame myself.

 

[admiralcadillac]

Perry has no friends

Are you talking in the third person or are we talking about the hockey player?

 

[ashs]

Perry knew exactly where Tavares was, he had plenty of strides to move prior, he wanted a piece of him. Leafs need to wake up and stop playing nice.

 

[Sniper99]

I'm no Pollyanna, that's for sure. Fan? Probably longer than you've been alive.

yeah, ok junior

 

[PromisedLand]

What are the chances JT only misses 1 game

I think JT should take about 7 to 10 days to make sure there is no severe concussion just to make sure.

Leafs gotta find a way to get it done. If losing JT means losing to the habs then I don't even know where to begin describing what this team is.....

 

[lottster14]

Dumb by Foligno to be honest. I'm not sure anyone on the leafs wanted him to do that

 

[dubplatepressure]

Since when does deserving to score matter? Campbells been solid apart from that goal, but he played that goal almost identical to the goal Andersen scored on him a couple games ago. Down early and then beat high

do not care.

 

[TimeZone]

Was I watching a different game? They were hitting, getting chances, looked good to me.

Evidently. They were being outshot and outchanced by a bottom 10 team in the NHL.

And yes, I'm aware they didn't officially finish bottom ten, but they certainly would have under normal divisional circumstances. They're a bad, bad Hockey team.

 

[mcleex]

I'm sick and tired of seeing Anderson running around too. Someone needs to put him in his place

 

[Sherpaderp]

It was the fact that he jumped. If he would have absorbed the contact, it would have been nothing.

as if he could think all of that in the .01 seconds he had. When youre in a position like that your instincts completely take over, no time to think. Perry also looked shook as hell standing at his bench

 

[Rielly4]

the reality is Perry is notorious for drive by shots, usually just a little shoulder bump or whack but its his instinct to blow by guys and get a piece. Now he didnt expect Tavares head to pop up into his knee, but he saw JT there and he made no effort to go around him. It wasnt intentional to injure him like that, but it was reckless and his reputation makes it really hard to believe that the game was too fast for him to avoid that.

 

[Victory Avenue]

No one commenting on Spezza probably took Perry out of the game with a hit.

 

[IrishInOntario]

If you’ve already jumped off the deep end, after one period, under those circumstances, it actually says more about your weaknesses and why you’ve never been successful at ANYTHING in you “life”.

Relax.

It's simply the fragility of a fanbase that has been let down too many times lol.

Playoff series are wars and you have to overcome a ton of adversity. Nothing different about this game and what's happening in all the other series. Toronto came out, got out hit, gave up a goal, had a couple great chances themselves and hit a goal post.

That's the way she goes.

 

[Doublerum1975]

We need to play our game don’t worry about the hits just play our possession game

 

[Daisy Jane]

Was I watching a different game? They were hitting, getting chances, looked good to me.

honestly, they were looking good until Tavares got hit, which shook them, which is understandable because that would shock anyone. Montreal took advantage of that, with the Anderson goal. but i thought we were coming back to snuff by the end of the period.

the leafs need to score (early) in the 2nd, and then press the advantage.

 

[Azazel]

Sportsnet / CBC whatever need to have some policy on showing really bad injuries over and over again. Kids watch hockey, too. And even adults don't want to see it over and over again.

They are going to milk this as much as they can
Using severe injuries to stoke some sort of 'rivalry'

Its f***ing disgusting.

 

[Mitch nylander]

I'm sick and tired of seeing Anderson running around too. Someone needs to put him in his place

My thoughts exactly.

 

[OppositeLocK]

Perry knew exactly where Tavares was, he had plenty of strides to move prior, he wanted a piece of him. Leafs need to wake up and stop playing nice.

Yeah I suppose when they slow it down 50x it looks like that, but that happened immediately.

Some people have never played hockey and have no idea how fast a game it is.

 

[HEAVY DUTY]

such an unfortunate accident. i'm not even mad at perry. dude looked shook by it. he didn't even fight back against foligno.

leafs are just cursed man. i'm praying for the best.