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The entire series against the Islanders in 02. That series was an absolutely bloodbath, and it was amazing.

My favourite single moment would be Roberts 3OT goal, or Niewendyk's second goal against LalIme in Game 7 of 04. Tucker hammering Kapanen would be up there if Roenick didn't kill the mood like 15 seconds later.
 
Dr.Funk said:
Man watching those really makes me miss Harry Neale.

Also Bob Cole better be calling the Leafs games!
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+1000000000!

Can you imagine being stuck with Hughson/Simpson/Healy for our playoff games? It's bad enough we have to put up with their **** every Saturday night:shakehead
 
Nikolai Borschevsky '93 OT winner vs Detroit.

I was only 9 years old. My dad taped the game on VHS and my brother and I use to watch it over and over lol. :)
 
Belfour

First hockey game I had ever watched. 2004 playoffs. Belfour shutting out the sens. I remember thinking he was the greatest goalie of all time and that no one could ever beat him lol. And to think, if the sens won that game I would be a sens fan right now. Eddie won that game and saved me a lifetime of pain. Thanks eagle!
 
Tucker hitting Kapanen and hilarity ensuing as he tries to get to the bench. Too bad the lost immediately after though :(
 
crump said:
Mine as well. Leafs played well that season, but Detroit were all but ordained to win the cup the year.
Lanny McDonald's goal against the Isles was up there too for me.
Overtime, game 7.


Ya I'm old.:laugh: (Carlyle is in the video)
O'Byrne taking his #23 is such a suck up. :)

I vaguely remember the last cup win, but I was only 4. Remember watching it in B&W my bros and dad going crazy.


Time to have some new favourite memories.
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Gotta be Lanny for me. The Islanders were a powerhouse team at the time.
 
Forgive the Old F@%t memories! It's 1964, Stanley Cup Finals against Detroit. Detroit is up 3-2 in the series and game six goes into overtime. The Leafs have their backs to the wall against the speedy Wings. Defenseman Bobby Baun was injured earlier in the game but had his injured ankle frozen and came back for the overtime. He took a harmless and rather weak shot from the point but it found its way into the net! Leafs win and the Wings are broken. Two nights later the Leafs win the Cup for the third consecutive time.

And here's the little detail that makes it all so special, as if the circumstances themselves were not special enough. Baun had broken his ankle. He won the game on a broken limb!

I'll add one more that I will be holding in my memory until the next Cup, assuming I am still alive to see it. It's 1967 and the aged Leafs are up against the favoured Habs who have won the Cup the two previous years. They are hanging on, up 2-1 in what will bring the ancient Leafs to one last improbable Cup of their run. Montreal is completely dominating the Third Period and pulls their goalie. The subject of my Avatar, the Chief, George Armstrong, get the puck and breaks up the right wing. By that point in his career, Armstrong skated as if his feet were buried in buckets of wet sand. The Habs are closing in on him and he plants a long shot in the vacant net.

And the Leafs win their last cup until ???

May I be around to see the next one!
 
67Cup said:
Forgive the Old F@%t memories! It's 1964, Stanley Cup Finals against Detroit. Detroit is up 3-2 in the series and game six goes into overtime. The Leafs have their backs to the wall against the speedy Wings. Defenseman Bobby Baun was injured earlier in the game but had his injured ankle frozen and came back for the overtime. He took a harmless and rather weak shot from the point but it found its way into the net! Leafs win and the Wings are broken. Two nights later the Leafs win the Cup for the third consecutive time.

And here's the little detail that makes it all so special, as if the circumstances themselves were not special enough. Baun had broken his ankle. He won the game on a broken limb!

I'll add one more that I will be holding in my memory until the next Cup, assuming I am still alive to see it. It's 1967 and the aged Leafs are up against the favoured Habs who have won the Cup the two previous years. They are hanging on, up 2-1 in what will bring the ancient Leafs to one last improbable Cup of their run. Montreal is completely dominating the Third Period and pulls their goalie. The subject of my Avatar, the Chief, George Armstrong, get the puck and breaks up the right wing. By that point in his career, Armstrong skated as if his feet were buried in buckets of wet sand. The Habs are closing in on him and he plants a long shot in the vacant net.

And the Leafs win their last cup until ???

May I be around to see the next one!
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Holy crap, wasnt even born until a couple decades after that
 
67Cup said:
Forgive the Old F@%t memories! It's 1964, Stanley Cup Finals against Detroit. Detroit is up 3-2 in the series and game six goes into overtime. The Leafs have their backs to the wall against the speedy Wings. Defenseman Bobby Baun was injured earlier in the game but had his injured ankle frozen and came back for the overtime. He took a harmless and rather weak shot from the point but it found its way into the net! Leafs win and the Wings are broken. Two nights later the Leafs win the Cup for the third consecutive time.

And here's the little detail that makes it all so special, as if the circumstances themselves were not special enough. Baun had broken his ankle. He won the game on a broken limb!

I'll add one more that I will be holding in my memory until the next Cup, assuming I am still alive to see it. It's 1967 and the aged Leafs are up against the favoured Habs who have won the Cup the two previous years. They are hanging on, up 2-1 in what will bring the ancient Leafs to one last improbable Cup of their run. Montreal is completely dominating the Third Period and pulls their goalie. The subject of my Avatar, the Chief, George Armstrong, get the puck and breaks up the right wing. By that point in his career, Armstrong skated as if his feet were buried in buckets of wet sand. The Habs are closing in on him and he plants a long shot in the vacant net.

And the Leafs win their last cup until ???

May I be around to see the next one!
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I've read about the Bobby Baun goal. One of my favorite Leaf stories of all time.
 
Three for me:
1. McDonald's OT goal over the Islanders
2. Borchevsky's OT goal over the Wings
3. Gilmour's double OT goal over the Blues.

Felix the Cat, Cujo and Palmateer provided some highlights as well.

However McDonald's goal literally made my cry in ecstasy. The only other goal I remember in my childhood that came close, was Henderson's in the summit series.

The two funniest for me were ones on Lalime, and the one where Roman Cechmanik was bent down putting his glove on or something while a shot sailed in. :laugh:
 
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April 14th 2003. Kaberle scores in double OT to put the Leafs in front for the series versus the Flyers. Biased because I was there!
 
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Clark4Ever said:
All this talk about the playoffs is making me feel nostalgic. I hope this year's Leafs give us all something to remember. Historically, the Leafs have done well in the playoffs when they've qualified after a prolonged absence.

My favorite memory was Borschevsky's OT goal in game 7 of the 1993 Conference Quarter Finals that capped a stunning upset of the favored Detroit Red Wings at the Joe Louis Arena.

I literally cried when this goal was scored, and I still get the chills watching it...

What is your favorite playoff memory?
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You nailed it: Borschevsky's OT goal with Foligno's OT winner in game 5.
Foligno's goal made me Be-Leaf a series win was possible.

The lead up to Borschevsky's goal: Unexpected regular season success after a decade of misery (44–29–11), coming back in the series with three straight after two blowouts in Detroit (6-3, 6-2), another blowout but in Toronto in game #6 (7-3), behind the entire game 7 until the 3rd, then to OT:



I get chills every time I watch that.
 
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