Pre-Game Talk: So We Meet Again

[Gentle Man]

We are slaying the goddamm demons

 

[CatscratchFever]

 

[FinlandPanther]

Toronto keeps their longest playoff win drought. Got to give them congratulations because man they sure do fine a way to make it hard for their fans. But for all their fans that said they were better than us LOL.

 

[CatscratchFever]

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

As much as I feel bad for Leafs fans....it feels good to at least have that monkey off our back lol

 

[Panteras]

Gonna be a tough series vs Tampa.
But nobody said winning the Cup would be easy.
These are the type of series you live and play for.
Seize the moment boys! It’s our time!

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

Excuse my visit, obviously a rematch that you guys want and should like your chances in. We'll have to wait and see the status of Point, but those are just the breaks if Point can't go this year; obviously you guys had to take us on a year ago without Ekblad so goes around and comes around if it's our turn to be missing a key piece for part or all of the series.

Should be some entertaining hockey. Hopefully we aren't forced into visiting cardiologists before it's done.

 

[Gentle Man]

How do you usurp the King?

By simply being bigger and stronger and conquering the king

We can and will do this shit

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

As much as I feel bad for Leafs fans....it feels good to at least have that monkey off our back lol

They're obnoxious enough about it that as much as I try, I can't muster much sympathy.

 

[Chaos2k7]

Our guys should spend tommorrow watching last years series.

 

[PanthersHockey1]

Special teams man. Can we stop their powerplay and score on ours? They got nothing 5 on 5.

 

[FlaPanthers11]

Tampa saw what worked for Washington. They’ll play a similar game. Slow it down and rely on special teams. We’ll still have the better at 5v5. Have to capitalize on those chances.

Biggest key will be playing smart in two ways: 1. Obviously stay out of the box. 2. Don’t take yourself out of position for hits

Just play our game and try anything different on the special teams

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

TNT panel giving us the edge vs Tampa

 

[Gentle Man]

Tampa saw what worked for Washington. They’ll play a similar game. Slow it down and rely on special teams. We’ll still have the better at 5v5. Have to capitalize on those chances.

Biggest key will be playing smart in two ways: 1. Obviously stay out of the box. 2. Don’t take yourself out of position for hits

Just play our game and try anything different on the special teams

Plenty of practice against this Bullshit.

Improve the PP by 15% and we can take this

 

[PBPantherfan]

That Toronto fan chrisk that ripped the panthers in every thread on the mains and extolled the leafs is probably having a bad night.

 

[I am not exposed]

That Toronto fan chrisk that ripped the panthers in every thread on the mains and extolled the leafs is probably having a bad night.

34?

I feel sorry for a lot of Leaf fans, but there are a few that are incredibly annoying

 

[CanePanther]

Another Washington style type series but we know a lot more on how to attack it.

 

[FlaPanthers11]

Plenty of practice against this Bullshit.

Improve the PP by 15% and we can take this

We need to keep their PP under 30%. Preferably under 25. Tall ask but I think Toronto was able to. I mean there’s tape on this stuff we need to adjust

 

[ShootIt]

I feel bad for their fan base but not for the annoying ones on here.

 

[Gentle Man]

We need to keep their PP under 30%. Preferably under 25. Tall ask but I think Toronto was able to. I mean there’s tape on this stuff we need to adjust

I think even if we don't, we just need to score on ours that's all. We need to keep the special teams deficit to 1 a game at most, then let the 5 on 5 fill in the difference

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Kucherov is playing extremely hurt. There's little to no chance Point will play/be a factor. I'm already on cloud 9 but why not us at this point?

 

[kerrabria]

Do we know which day Game 1 will be?

 

[floridada]

That Toronto fan chrisk that ripped the panthers in every thread on the mains and extolled the leafs is probably having a bad night.

Yep. He was the one saying we would be bounced in the first round and that Giroux would be a bust.

 

[KW]

Kucherov is playing extremely hurt. There's little to no chance Point will play/be a factor. I'm already on cloud 9 but why not us at this point?

Yeah, I believe Kuch is “extremely” “hurt” LOL.

 

[Dread Clawz]

In fairness, I think he was playing pretty well in the Tampa series until he got boarded by McDonagh (no call). I think he’s been playing a bit scared since then. Not making excuses; just my observation.

In any case, he doesn't need to go back in yet. Mamin has earned a long look, and I'd rather have Acciari in right now too.