Post-Series Talk: Toronto Maple Leafs defeat the Ottawa Senators, 4-2

[Madap]

I mean, it’s obviously good the guy is emotional, but his emotions cost them the game yesterday with his dumb penalty. Tkachuk has a lot of maturing to do, but he definitely had a good series once he gains some experience he may actually be worthy of all the hype.

 

[Enga Olly]

Ottawa put up a fight no doubt Sens fans can be optimistic. The team is young, had a good season made the playoffs for the first time in many years and challenged a top 5 team, pushing the series to 6 with 3 ot games included. Kind of reminds me of the first time the leafs made the playoffs in the Matthews era. Young team, pushed a superior Eashington team to 6 games, 5 of which went into overtime, 1 double ot. Nothing but upside and blue skies from 2017 onwards for the Leafs.
Good luck Ottawa, you have turned the corner and it's only up up up ftom here on in.

 

[maskingagent]

As soon as I saw the type of "open ice", "free flowing" , "opportunity at both ends," type of regular season bullshit, I knew the Leafs were going to win. Ottawa got into a track meet and they lost. They deviated from the playoff hockey template of "tight checking" and "playing the body," so this as we know, plays right into the Shanaplan and the Leafs will win every time.

 

[SensFactor]

Wow. Is that the famous Sens Spartan in your avatar?

Congrats on the Leafs victory dude

 

[34]

Ullmark literally stolen game 5.

Yes he did. He was a wall.

That is a very young up-and-coming skilled Ottawa team.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

As soon as I saw the type of "open ice", "free flowing" , "opportunity at both ends," type of regular season bullshit, I knew the Leafs were going to win. Ottawa got into a track meet and they lost. They deviated from the playoff hockey template of "tight checking" and "playing the body," so this as we know, plays right into the Shanaplan and the Leafs will win every time.

Lmao you thought that game was a track meet? Both teams were at like 10 shots near the end of the 2nd period.

 

[Hotsam Batcho]

As soon as I saw the type of "open ice", "free flowing" , "opportunity at both ends," type of regular season bullshit, I knew the Leafs were going to win. Ottawa got into a track meet and they lost. They deviated from the playoff hockey template of "tight checking" and "playing the body," so this as we know, plays right into the Shanaplan and the Leafs will win every time.

Were we watching the same series? Both teams played stingy defensive hockey. It was a game of who capitalized on mistakes first.

 

[NyQuil]

As soon as I saw the type of "open ice", "free flowing" , "opportunity at both ends," type of regular season bullshit, I knew the Leafs were going to win. Ottawa got into a track meet and they lost. They deviated from the playoff hockey template of "tight checking" and "playing the body," so this as we know, plays right into the Shanaplan and the Leafs will win every time.

Not any kind of track meet I've ever seen the Senators participating in.

The only guy who might have thought he was in a track meet was Drake Batherson.

 

[bert]

Hey bud you can take the rest of the post season off you guys got embarrassed on home ice.

No need to be in here talking about Leafs overpaid players when your 8 million dollar goalie had an .880 save % in the series. Talk about massively overpaid.

Embarrassed? You cant afford cable ? What fans were you watching....

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Only we didn’t sweat at all this time around. This Leafs team is the machine.

Which is why they needed 3 chances to finish off the Sens?

A “machine” indeed.

 

[Divine]

Which is why they needed 3 chances to finish off the Sens?

A “machine” indeed.

They wanted a few more practice games before facing the defending champs. Very noble gesture of them to give the Ottawa fans an extra home game!

 

[SpezDispenser]

Hey bud you can take the rest of the post season off you guys got embarrassed on home ice.

What?

 

[MCR74]

They wanted a few more practice games before facing the defending champs. Very noble gesture of them to give the Ottawa fans an extra home game!

Andlauer probably appreciated the extra playoff revenue.

 

[Incognito]

Two o.t wins and scoring with 5 minutes to go and it was inevitable. What a sad pathetic fanbase. Nothing is inevitable with that group other than they wont win anything important. Matthews is the most overrated athlete on the planet.

No need to rant. The reason I said it was inevitable is because the Leafs were up 3-0 and it’s nearly impossible to come back from that. It obviously could have gone either way before Ottawa went down 3-0, because all of the games except for the first one were close.

 

[mix1home]

Which is why they needed 3 chances to finish off the Sens?

A “machine” indeed.

Most fans don’t understand, but this team plays the same way no matter what. We could have closed in 4 or 5, but this team does not get excited and change their way. The mode of operation is very simple really - play defence first, know that our talent at F will eventually score and know that our much improved and big D and G will keep game close until that break through in scoring.
And they proved over the course of 82+6 games that they will win more that lose playing that way. And all we need to score one more goal and win one more game than opponent.
And that is exactly what they did. So job well done indeed.

 

[Sens9292]

Hey bud you can take the rest of the post season off you guys got embarrassed on home ice.

No need to be in here talking about Leafs overpaid players when your 8 million dollar goalie had an .880 save % in the series. Talk about massively overpaid.

Calm down. This Leaf “Super Team” hasn’t won anything meaningful since when?

 

[mix1home]

My take away from this series is that if Leafs score 3 goals they win. And that is on its own an accomplishment.
And they allowed 3 goals in the game only once - in game 4.
Another positive is that whey kept Sens not scoreless, not chance less, but shot less for long stretches in third periods and OT all while having quality scoring chances themselves.
Yes, games were close, but ice was tilted and Leafs had better chances probability wise to close games and mostly they did.

 

[MCR74]

No need to rant. The reason I said it was inevitable is because the Leafs were up 3-0 and it’s nearly impossible to come back from that. It obviously could have gone either way before Ottawa went down 3-0, because all of the games except for the first one were close.

It's what he does when things don't go his way. Had the Sens won, the gloating would've been something else.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Most fans don’t understand, but this team plays the same way no matter what. We could have closed in 4 or 5, but this team does not get excited and change their way. The mode of operation is very simple really - play defence first, know that our talent at F will eventually score and know that our much improved and big D and G will keep game close until that break through in scoring.
And they proved over the course of 82+6 games that they will win more that lose playing that way. And all we need to score one more goal and win one more game than opponent.
And that is exactly what they did. So job well done indeed.

Yes they won a playoff series against a lower seed in 6 games. Good on them.

Still not “a machine”.

 

[Incognito]

It's what he does when things don't go his way. Had the Sens won, the gloating would've been something else.

Yeah, the response I got was pretty unhinged So I’m not surprised to hear this.

 

[sxvnert]

Yes they won a playoff series against a lower seed in 6 games. Good on them.

Still not “a machine”.

Agreed, a machine doesn't blow this many leads:

Game 1 (2-0)
Game 2 (2-0)
Game 3 (2-1)
Game 6 (2-0)

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Agreed, a machine doesn't blow this many leads:

Game 1 (2-0)
Game 2 (2-0)
Game 3 (2-1)
Game 6 (2-0)

G1: Win
G2: Win
G3: Win
G6: Win

 

[KniesMadeBradyCry]

The bolded just shows how many leaf fans knew nothing about a team in their division. Let alone a provincial rival.

This sens team is nothing like the leafs. There is real character and players that dont simply want to maximize the pay cheque. We dont need advice from a leaf fan about what to expect, we have watched really good sens teams develop who were actual contenders.

Real character, and a real lack of skill.

 

[93gilmour93]

 

[Strangle]

Personally before the game I was hoping they’d swap him for Robertson as Pacioretty looked slow and didn’t seem to be contributing at all the last game. But I guess that’s why Berube is coaching in the NHL and I’m just couching from the couch.

It’s interesting the impact age has on a person (hockey or otherwise). Perron and Pacioretty are both cup winners, have families and kids, so maybe it’s the additional purpose from things outside of hockey and having won before that let them be more excited than nervous to come through with big goals in that game.

I am sometimes surprised by fans choices on who they want to hate on.

Tavares always was a head scratcher to me and I’ve never bashed on him. The guy has been just as advertised for his entire contract and we even expected these last two years to be significant down years. So he’s over performed by a large margin, like by 20%

But fans go through these phases where they shit on him. Never understood that one.

Same with patches this year. I said from the beginning I really like the line patches plays on when he’s playing. Said the same thing about the 3rd line when he went in for Robertson and was surprised everyone seemed to be bashing him. He looked good, his line looked better with him on it.

I thought Nylander had by far the worst game of any player in the series in game 5, but people wanted to hate on patches. Made no sense to me.

Tavares and knies were probably the only two leafs who looked good in game 5. Patches didn’t look worse than Nylander thats for sure. He just looked as bad as average for the players in that game. Didn’t stand out in a bad way at all.

I actually feel the same about most of the games Reaves has played. With Reaves on the ice the leafs 4th line has about 4 really good shifts per game. Maybe 1 or 2 bad ones and anything else just average.