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Wow the playoffs are intense. Can we compete

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Captain14 said:
You must have missed the Boston - Washington game.
We are no match for that type of physical play, however, I don’t believe for one second that a non-physical team can’t win.
It doesn’t help that the zebras fail to call any of the infractions that would normally be called in the regular season. OV’s hit early in that game was a blatant cheap shot, the Boston player didn’t possess the puck at all and just got steamrolled.
Terrible non-call.
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I thought that as well but when you look at the replay the Bruin player got rid of the hit just before OV laid him out. No idea the time between getting rid of the puck and the hit but it was not outrageous IMO.
 
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JT AM da real deal said:
I am worried about Caps, Bruins, Tampa .. those teams can bring it hard . but bottom line we have to amp it up
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Doubt they can keep it up against a fast skilled team like the Leafs after finishing two (hopefully) long grinding series. Let's hope Leafs live long enough for us to find out.
 
I'll stake my reputation, for what little that is worth on this internet forum board that the Leafs have what it takes to compete.

We get past the first round, this team will have shaken the monkey off their backs and will have all cylinders firing for us for the rounds to come.

I am nervous about the first round given our history and that this is a blood rivalry against a franchise we have all hated for a long time.

But we pass the Habs, Matthews, Marner, Nylander, Reilly and Tavares will absolutely bludgeon the next team(s) we face. I have watched these boys play, I know how well they play with rest and confidence.

This team has an ego, and for once we need to sharpen it into a weapon.

I have never in my life taken a stance in the post season about the Leafs but here it is.

The boys are all in.

This, at the very least, is a conference finals Leafs team.
 
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You know how every year, the first game of the playoffs we go "man talk about another level"? That. No worries.
 
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Stinger8 said:
From the games I have watched so far, the intensity and physicality of these first games is staggering. I am unsure if the Leafs can play that style. Now I don't think any of the Canadian teams can as well, but if we are lucky enough to get to the semi's its going to very interesting to see how we compete against some of those ultra competitive and physical teams. Even the Tampa Florida game was crazy hard and competitive. Do you think we will have what it takes??
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The Boston/Washington game ended with a HIT count of 41 for the Bruins and 51 for the Caps & 92 total. The TB/ Florida game ended Lightening 36 & 54 Panthers for 90 total and NYI recorded 72 hits to Pitts 47 for a total of 118 total.

Even with the additions of Foligno, Simmonds and Bogosian it will be interesting to see if our Leaf games take their game to the trenches and up the physicality and crank up the intensity.

Yup that is some real playoff style hockey we're seeing.
 
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Mess said:
The Boston/Washington game ended with a HIT count of 41 for the Bruins and 51 for the Caps & 92 total. The TB/ Florida game ended Lightening 36 & 54 Panthers for 90 total and NYI recorded 72 hits to Pitts 47 for a total of 118 total. In all 3 of those games the more physically dominating team came out on top.

Even with the additions of Foligno, Simmonds and Bogosian it will be interesting to see if our Leaf games take their game to the trenches and up the physicality and crank up the intensity.

Yup that is some real playoff style hockey we're seeing.
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I thought the team that ended up scoring more and had better goaltending won those games...Jarry was awful, pretty much gave the game away to the Isles.
 
Mess said:
The Boston/Washington game ended with a HIT count of 41 for the Bruins and 51 for the Caps & 92 total. The TB/ Florida game ended Lightening 36 & 54 Panthers for 90 total and NYI recorded 72 hits to Pitts 47 for a total of 118 total.

Even with the additions of Foligno, Simmonds and Bogosian it will be interesting to see if our Leaf games take their game to the trenches and up the physicality and crank up the intensity.

Yup that is some real playoff style hockey we're seeing.
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TB won their game, Mess, not florida.
 
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Fogelhund said:
Whole series, vs. regular season.

The 2020 numbers aren't right though. We had 5 goals in 5 games 5v5, and 2 goals 4 v 4 which is still bad.
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Right, Zeke was talking specifically about the deciding game in each series. If we want to look at the entire series, Andersen in all but one series had enough quality starts to win the game, he didn't not get the goal support to do so though.

When I coached, I taught my teams to never leave it to a winner takes the series final game. Decide the series early. Anything can happen in the 7th game. Fluke goals, one guy takes a major and that decides the game. Your best player(s) get hurt. Last game of the series are a toss up.
 
ToneDog said:
Doubt they can keep it up against a fast skilled team like the Leafs after finishing two (hopefully) long grinding series. Let's hope Leafs live long enough for us to find out.
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Yes hope we get da chance too .. speed and skill against power and grit .. I have not seen OV play like this since 2018 playoffs .. guided missiles .. that full speed charge and elbow to head of Krejci reminded me of old time hockey
 
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RealisticLeaf55 said:
I'll stake my reputation, for what little that is worth on this internet forum board that the Leafs have what it takes to compete.

We get past the first round, this team will have shaken the monkey off their backs and will have all cylinders firing for us for the rounds to come.

I am nervous about the first round given our history and that this is a blood rivalry against a franchise we have all hated for a long time.

But we pass the Habs, Matthews, Marner, Nylander, Reilly and Tavares will absolutely bludgeon the next team(s) we face. I have watched these boys play, I know how well they play with rest and confidence.

This team has an ego, and for once we need to sharpen it into a weapon.

I have never in my life taken a stance in the post season about the Leafs but here it is.

The boys are all in.

This, at the very least, is a conference finals Leafs team.
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For the first time in along time, I don't feel like the Leafs have to get lucky to win a series. If they play their game , they are going to the final four. It really depends on what Betteman wants for a final four.
 
Eternal Leaf said:
Tampa is a legitimately great team.

Quality players in all of the key positions and battle-hardened depth.
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Yes they are .. great mix of speed, skill and grit ... but I still don't want to play a team like caps or bruins who hit to injure .. that was an old fashioned train wreck almost every shift in GAME 1 .. even Pasta went into hiding .. he wanted no part of that game
 
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zeke said:
interesting given that in a series or two the leafs actually needed to be unlucky to lose.
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In every series that we have played in the last 4 years, except for CLB, we were the underdog. Keefe's inexperienced showed in the Clb series, you could say we needed to get lucky with our rookie coaches poor decisions to win that series too.
 
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Fogelhund said:
Whole series, vs. regular season.

The 2020 numbers aren't right though. We had 5 goals in 5 games 5v5, and 2 goals 4 v 4 which is still bad.
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Are you counting the 3 goals scored with the goalie pulled as 5v5?

Because at "true" 5v5, we had 2 goals in 5 games (Matthews & Robertson)
 
We'll see. Matthews was considerably more physically engaged this season initiating contact, taking contact, forechecking more aggressively. That's largely how he seems to have become slump immune. There's that alone as a major factor. The only key Leafs' player I don't expect to elevate his play in intense games is Nylander. Nylander is more of the type who survives that type of hockey to flourish once things settle down.
 
egd27 said:
Are you counting the 3 goals scored with the goalie pulled as 5v5?

Because at "true" 5v5, we had 2 goals in 5 games (Matthews & Robertson)
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I was.... None of the goals were marked with goalie pulled (nor would they be..so I couldn't differentiate.)... Hey, two goals is bad, three goals is bad, five goals is bad in a five game series... they are all terrible.
 
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Bluelines said:
In every series that we have played in the last 4 years, except for CLB, we were the underdog. Keefe's inexperienced showed in the Clb series, you could say we needed to get lucky with our rookie coaches poor decisions to win that series too.
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We were the underdog, true, but still one the possession battle in series 3. That was the maybe 2.

As for series 4, if we're factoring luck into the equation, the luck was definitely against us.
 
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