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garce said:
Fair enough it’s true i don’t dispute your points on Kucherov I just don’t see you here often if at all. Curious as to why you would would cross over to a fairly innocuous playoff thread on another teams board. I read the Ottawa board when someting interesting is going on. And you are a prolific poster there. The radio/media thread most often because I’m from Brockville and for a time that’s all I had for sports radio. I know more about the Sens then I care to lol. I may have posted there but don’t recall.
It seems comparable to me going on the Sens board in a thread like I see tonite say Tyler Boucher, and saying that it was a reach and gosh Cole Sillinger was sitting right there… but why as a Leaf fan who rarely if ever posts over there would I do that? It’s accurate but what would my motivation be? To be a liitle bit of irritant perhaps. Anyhow I don’t care who posts what just interested in the whys when I see something unusual, no hockey is going to send me to bed, Kershaw and under isn’t gonna keep me up, but deal Clayton.
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Just more for the record, and the Leafs are a big story. I do believe Kuch is still the best player in the NHL and think he’s going to carry his team far. I’m sensing a TB-Cal final and Cal winning so a rematch of their final and TB first win. And the question is who will be the series MVP so just putting my 2 cents into the conversation. After Kuchs comments last year when they eliminated Montreal and he’s such a dirty player - will be watching to see if Toronto can do what CLB did to him and just never take a step back when he’s on the ice swinging his stick around.

I do think Matthews wins the regular season MVP and like I said I think Kucherov is an ass, but I do have my doubts that Toronto has the focus to take on a guy like Kucherov who plays dirty hockey and I wonder who in the T.O top 6 takes him on because it can’t be Spezza or a roll player, it has to come from someone who plays top PP because if not the fear will set in and TB by the end of period 1 will have the game play advantage
 
Tuna99 said:
Just more for the record, and the Leafs are a big story. I do believe Kuch is still the best player in the NHL and think he’s going to carry his team far. I’m sensing a TB-Cal final and Cal winning so a rematch of their final and TB first win. And the question is who will be the series MVP so just putting my 2 cents into the conversation. After Kuchs comments last year when they eliminated Montreal and he’s such a dirty player - will be watching to see if Toronto can do what CLB did to him and just never take a step back when he’s on the ice swinging his stick around.

I do think Matthews wins the regular season MVP and like I said I think Kucherov is an ass, but I do have my doubts that Toronto has the focus to take on a guy like Kucherov who plays dirty hockey and I wonder who in the T.O top 6 takes him on because it can’t be Spezza or a roll player, it has to come from someone who plays top PP because if not the fear will set in and TB by the end of period 1 will have the game play advantage
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Nobody here gives a shit about what you think.

Go talk to your fellow fellows about the draft lottery or if u want to talk playoffs go to the mains
 
Nylander is my pick since he usually plays well against Tampa and did well last playoffs, but Matthews getting no calls all season may be a blessing in disguise. The abuse he took this year forced him to learn to push through all the hooks/holds/trips and he started to excel in those situations and flat out took over games at times when he did. He's ready to be the guy.
 
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garce said:
Fair enough it’s true i don’t dispute your points on Kucherov I just don’t see you here often if at all. Curious as to why you would would cross over to a fairly innocuous playoff thread on another teams board. I read the Ottawa board when someting interesting is going on. And you are a prolific poster there. The radio/media thread most often because I’m from Brockville and for a time that’s all I had for sports radio. I know more about the Sens then I care to lol. I may have posted there but don’t recall.
It seems comparable to me going on the Sens board in a thread like I see tonite say Tyler Boucher, and saying that it was a reach and gosh Cole Sillinger was sitting right there… but why as a Leaf fan who rarely if ever posts over there would I do that? It’s accurate but what would my motivation be? To be a liitle bit of irritant perhaps. Anyhow I don’t care who posts what just interested in the whys when I see something unusual, no hockey is going to send me to bed, Kershaw and under isn’t gonna keep me up, but deal Clayton.
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This is what I was talking about - the tip of the spear for TB and their violence is Kucherov and if you don’t have something to put him in his place Toronto will be playing TBs game - but sadly sounds like Keefe is already willing to play TB at their own game and not Torontos game. I guess Keefe is taking head on so let’s see what Toronto can do with this and what they are made of because that’s ultimately what the playoffs do - they tell you the truth about your team

From Sportsnet - “I expect it to be a very physical, borderline violent series in a lot of ways. And our guys will be ready for that,” said Keefe, following Sunday’s peppy 60-minute practice.

 
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Tuna99 said:
This is what I was talking about - the tip of the spear for TB and their violence is Kucherov and if you don’t have something to put him in his place Toronto will be playing TBs game - but sadly sounds like Keefe is already willing to play TB at their own game and not Torontos game. I guess Keefe is taking head on so let’s see what Toronto can do with this and what they are made of because that’s ultimately what the playoffs do - they tell you the truth about your team

From Sportsnet - “I expect it to be a very physical, borderline violent series in a lot of ways. And our guys will be ready for that,” said Keefe, following Sunday’s peppy 60-minute practice.

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Man, I think you are deliberately missing my main point. Your views of the series are likely better appreciated on the Ottawa or main boards.
 
garce said:
Man, I think you are deliberately missing my main point. Your views of the series are likely better appreciated on the Ottawa or main boards.
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Good luck today, a Canadian team winning would be good, long overdue.
 
I'll go purely gut feel and say Willy. He has always performed for Sweden on the world stage, and was our best player last playoffs. He's going to be doing some hiding in the weeds at times on the 3rd line. Also, just the way he came into Boston and looked like a player playing down a league shows me he's likely going to hit the ground running here. Difference as opposed to when he was our best player last year, Matthews & Marner are going to be big time players too. Healthy JT and a better D core 1-6. Not to mention Campbell has now had NHL playoffs experience, which should help him tremendously imo.
 
Conventional think would say it needs to be AM34/MM/Soup but i'm going to pick Mo.
I think he will be our best player in this series.
 
Tuna99 said:
This is what I was talking about - the tip of the spear for TB and their violence is Kucherov and if you don’t have something to put him in his place Toronto will be playing TBs game - but sadly sounds like Keefe is already willing to play TB at their own game and not Torontos game. I guess Keefe is taking head on so let’s see what Toronto can do with this and what they are made of because that’s ultimately what the playoffs do - they tell you the truth about your team

From Sportsnet - “I expect it to be a very physical, borderline violent series in a lot of ways. And our guys will be ready for that,” said Keefe, following Sunday’s peppy 60-minute practice.

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Tampa is a mean, aggressive, sometimes dirty team. If they want to beat them they have to be prepared to get into the mud.
 
I think JT is going to have a big series! Missed out on something special last year with him injured. He's going to want this bad!
 
HamiltonNHL said:
It has to be Campbell or we’re doomed
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Disagree. Campbell has to play well but if he has to stand on his head then we're already doomed because we're clearly not playing our game. If the forwards do their job, this won't be a goalie battle.
 
TheGoldenJet said:
Picking the important positions…good call.
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People are gonna be shocked when not many goals get scored in this series .. it will be a series of defensive attrition .. it is one of those series where you could find 5-7 guys go out with injuries .. say McD and Sergey go down with broken ankles or Vasi gets concussed well that's it for Tampa
 
If we win, Matthews was the MVP. There is no question in my mind, that he will put this team on his back, and will it to win. That is what great superstars do.
 
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