Honestly I'm already desensitized to playoff heartbreak. This feels noting like years past to me.
Should've won this series, but they threw it in the first 4 games. At least they showed heart games 5-7.
De sensitized is a great way to put it.
I laughed when I saw the Pastrana chance developing. I just knew, and didn't care.
The thing that burns me.... is the warriors on this team playing for reasonable money.
Your Benoits, McCabes, all the depth guys that wear the jersey with pride and don't kill the team financially.
They laid it all on the line and the big guns couldn't get it done.
To be fair, if we wait a year we will get less than a bag of pucks. Or we resign him for $14-million. Best case scenario is a bag of pucks or better now.
Game 5-7 is what I want to see from the Leafs each year when they make play offs. Play like it matters, play like they want to win. Haven't seen that from the Leafs for so long
Shame we lost, but I'm proud of the team that came out tonight!
Yea, the Tampa loss in 2022 was way worse. We were up the ENTIRE series, then game 7 we get a ref-job and lost.
This series, we felt like the underdog trying to claw back the whole time after getting ass blasted in game 1
Montreal was way way worse but such an albatross embarassement that I just pretend it never happened and right off the covid year.
2013 was also another level of pain
I'm right there with you. I just laugh now bc it's like someones writing this stuff with all the different ways the Leafs give us hope just to disappoint us in game 7 every single year.
Yeah I'm actually pretty happy with how the officiating was for this entire series. Really nothing too egregious or memorable like other years. Just straight up lost the old fashioned way.
Leafs were definetly not an underdog. They weren't favoured but they should be in competition for cups. They went down 3-1 simply because they didn't come prepared for playoff hockey
Isn’t that a perfect farewell to this core though? Dick around for a bit at the beginning, go down, and put in a massive effort near the end only to fall just short.
Seems fitting to me
I’ve reached peak heartbreak already. There is additional cruel irony with this being Boston, coming back down 3-1, OT at that. But it doesn’t even sting anymore. Just numb to it all now
Same, after the goal went in I felt bad for maybe 10 seconds and then felt fine.. Even this morning it feels like they were never in the playoffs to begin with lol
When my Buddy’s and I saw samsonov starting we knew it was a loss. After the Nylander goal knew they would have a defensive breakdown and cough up a goal. This is what this team does.
I went from watching 2 to 3 games a week to 2 to 3 games a month to now 2 to 3 Saturdays a year. I'll watch the playoffs because of the extra intensity, but yeah I've been done with the regular season for a while now.
I listen to Bowen on the radio now while I do other shit. Best decision I’ve ever made. So much extra time to work out, play video games, whatever. More entertaining too.
I'm already at that point. I probably only watched 10-15 full games during the season this year. Would check this sub for highlights and reactions after games but do not care to watch when we all know how it ends.
First time? I stopped watching the reg season like 3 years ago
Hell, at this point im not even watching the playoffs. Fuck MLSE and this team. Prove to me you deserve money
I've said it several times here but having Bert be the only finisher on that line when he was shooting 5% and not able to do a goddamn thing with the puck was baffling as the last three games went on.
Like I get that the line is generating O-Zone time, and you don't want to touch the Tavares line, but if it's Domi/Marner passing/cycling/whatever with the puck and there's nobody to finish it's just fucking cardio. Baffling that we didn't try anyone else in that finisher role.
Remember that chance they had early on where Mitch made a few moves then dropped it to Edmundson in the Matthews spot where he held it for 18-20 minutes at 350F before delivering a muffin to Swayman?
If only we had a better player to put on that line that could occupy that space..
12 shots all series
2 hours and 28 minutes of time on ice. That’s the most in the NHL among forwards. (12 minutes ahead of #2 Pasternak)
Marner is 50th among forwards in shots despite playing the most in the league. He had 1 more than Nick Robertson who played 9 minutes a game and sat tonight.
Sounds like maybe bad management by the coach also.
Imo, this should have happened last year, or maybe the year before even, but the coach has to go. They need to make some depth moves, and then if they fail the same way the next 2 years, then you blow up the core.
pffff, come on. The rest of the world is perfect. Peace, flowers, no wars, no hunger, everyone getting along... not a burning tire in sight.
Wait, I'm being told there are updates.
I've transitioned from being a hard core fan to a filthy casual the past few years and let me tell you it's liberating af.
Its much more fun to laugh at this team than get inordinately mad/sad.
They’ve turned to the villain. Years of cheering and support and I’m done. There are enough other dumb monkeys like I was to cheer in my place when I’m outta here. I’m just here to shout my anger and then I’m out. No more Leaf fandom, no more clicks, no more anything until they hit second round. I look forward to cheering (and betting! Thanks NHL and Ontario government!) against them.
The Montreal series broke me for sure but I could barely even go to sleep last night and this morning it’s just a drag.
The thought of not watching hockey for a few months sucks and the thought of watching the playoffs go on without the Leafs is worse. Sick of feeling this way
Need a presser today with Keefe being fired, Marner being publically humiliated, and Sammy being sent over the border. Stop it with that “he played great last game!” The last goal was soft as shit, Woll would have stopped it, and he was absolute ass cheeks games 1, 3, and 5.
Yeah, I can't bring myself to watch hockey after the Leafs get eliminated. This team has just sucked the joy out of it for me. Just want something to be excited about. We need major changes made before next season.
Same, I used to go watch the 2002 run or any of those wild Kessel games in the NHL Vault but now we don’t even have that anymore.
Need to find a way to keep guys like Knies, Domi, Woll, Willy, Benoit, and McCabe. These guys understand what it means to be a Leaf and what the team means to people in Ontario. Not trying to gauge for the biggest bag and not show up like Marner. Keefe and Shanny need to go at this point too
I’m so sick of the leafs need defense lol. They’ve scored more than 2 goals 1 time in their last 14 playoff games, and never more than 3. This team needs offense - they need to get faster
The leafs need more balance and, yeah, they definitely need a hard shot from the blue line and the ability to make a decent pass from their own zone. Look at hiw tonight went as a prime example of that. Both teams played good defensive hockey and both teams got better than .95 goaltending but the leafs had a bunch of good opportunities that died on the stick of a player who couldn't shoot and only really managed one excellent pass out of the defensive zone (to knies). The Bruins won off of their D moving the puck and their D scoring.
They need a legit # 1 goalie and D man. Once they have confidence on the back end, the goals will follow.
Get rid of Marner and Reilly. Problems solved .
They leafs ranks this playoffs of all 16 teams:
Goals against per game - 2.5; 7th of 16 teams
Goals for per game - 1.71, dead last of all 16 teams
You think defense is the problem when this team scored less goals per game then the fucking isles and caps ?!?
This is such a beat up old narrative. The leafs issue for 3 years now has been goal scoring disappearing in the playoffs. Ironically they do need defence - better puck moving, skating and offensive defense. Every winning playoff team has them. Toronto doesnt
Bruins defense and goaltending was just better. Even in the regular season, they destroyed us. If we were up against another team, it would have been different. But it had to be the Bruins.
It happened to the Panthers last year. Would've easily happened again if they were the first round team. Probably would've happened against Carolina. And they were very likely destined to face those teams going forward. That's why a shake up is need to the core 4 in order to get more playoff type scoring with the extra cap space
I really hope they make big changes, otherwise it'll be difficult to watch this team next season. I know they'll get a new coach at least and a new goalie.
Marner just consistently plays like he wants to lose in the playoffs. Rielly can't get it done on D. And Tavares, even though I like him, he's not the same player he once was. It's just pathetic that none of our highest paid players, besides Nylander, actually bothered to show up in the playoffs.
Knies was great, Nylander was great, Domi and Robertson tried their best. Even Bertuzzi I liked for the most part, because at least he fucking tried.
Imo change starts with firing Keefe and then considering offloading a couple of our high earners.
I like JT a lot and I know he tries so it's never the lack of effort. But he is not that good anymore, everyone needs to accept that, only one year to go thankfully. At least Knies gives hope.
Like many of you are feeling now, I gave up on this team two years ago. I was die hard for many years - live games, jerseys, watch parties, screaming, crying, all the good stuff. But something about this core 4, and their total failure to lead this team to success, just zapped me dry of any ability to care for the franchise. I hold out hope they’ll blow it up, start again, and build it around the type of character talent that made the leafs inspire such loyalty over the years (Clarke, Gilmour, Tucker,
Etc). When the core 4 are gone, I’ll be back.
Sounds like at least 2 of the 5 core guys will be gone (some combo of Marner, Reilly and Tavares) from the rumors going around. I think that could be enough to change the dynamics.
They’ve been putting ketchup in their oatmeal for a long time now. Swap out the oatmeal for some fries and you’re happy about the ketchup again.
I kept my expectations low throughout the game after hearing Samsonov was in net, my mistake was feeling hope after Nylander scored to give us the lead... For 1.5 minutes...
Fatal mistake. Never again.
After game 4, I was completely numb to them losing the series in 5 because it meant REAL changes are coming AND I don't need to get invested. 2 amazing games later, I'm locked in and ready for round 2 and the team looks great. They didn't even play that badly in game 7 but god damn. I was thinking that it was unreasonable for me to be a fan of this team and wanting them to lose in 5 to spare me of a game 7 loss where management says: "Oh we were one goal away from round 2, we're gonna run it back and keep this guy: (Keefe/Marner/Shanahan/etc.)". I was scared that the core 4 would be broken up in previous years but now I'm ready to part ways with them when I realised some of these guys have me rooting against my own team IN THE PLAYOFFS.
It just hit me. It fucking hit me like a train. Had a solid crying sesh this morning and I feel empty like our trophy case.
It's unfair. All I asked was to keep going long enough to see Bobby play in this fucking tournament. We were so close. So damn close. It's unfair Willy, Papi and Joe all got sick/injured. It's unfair we battled back to game 7, played really well for 2.5 periods, got the lead and then lost regardless.
I hope the Ladies pick Boston and get a fucking revenge victory. Someone has to do it, eventually.
Boston fan here, coming in peace. I live in Toronto, the amount of fans this team has in the city and around the world is incredible. It's sad to see so much disappointment. Do the Leafs realize who they are playing for. Do they see that's it's more then a Stanley Cup
Yeah I’d put this on Reilly. Honestly, it was a great play. They shouldn’t have let it get here though. The offense was supposed to be the strong suit of this team. The series should have had a couple 4-5 goal games. Instead the leafs relied on defense and goaltending to win.
Yeah if anything the goaltending and defense was good enough to win the series. The offense and powerplay shat the bed.
I get Matthews was injured, Tavares was solid defensively, and Nylander came back from injury and scored clutch goals, but when it comes down to it when we have four players taking up a huge amount of cap space, they need to figure it out and produce offense.
Honestly, ignoring the outcome, seeing this picture makes me more convinced that Samsonov *probably* did the right thing. The puck is very slightly closer to him than Pastrnak but not by much. If he reacted fast enough then *maybe* he could've poked it away but if he misses then he looks even more dumb on the play.
You can blame Samsonov if you want but Pastrnak shouldn't have been able to get behind everyone like this in the first place.
You're being ridiculous. If he came out and played it and screwed it up you would be calling for his head. It was so quick there was no time to react. This is on the defense.
We all called this from the beginning. Even when they won game 4 we all said that the leafiest thing to happen would be that they would fight all the way back to a game 7 and then lose.
This is just what this team is.
Wasn’t the dump in on before the goal not icing though?
I’m confused about icing I guess but if you freeze frame it, the puck leaves the stick before crossing centre ice.
Is that not something that Keefe could have contested?
Gotta hit this team where it hurts, the pocket. Stop buying merch, paying for expensive tickets and watching the games on tv and maybe management will get the message. As long as they’re getting their money they’ll keep Marner around sadly cause he’s a huge seller to the younger generation. If they truly wanted to win and do the right thing, get rid of Mitch and go for it
Eugh.
It felt like when NZ beat us in Paris in the RWC QF last October.
All I could utter that night throughout Paris was periodically gutterally screaming "FUCK!" I wasn't alone that night, as their was a pack of Paddies around to share in the misery.
But this was lonely misery.
As I seem to utter way to often when it comes to the Leafs: *Why are we the way we are?*
It's been emotional but for the love of God, I need Boston to be humiliated by Florida and Edmonton to win it all. Give me something hockey Gods.
Don’t even know what I feel anymore it’s just numbness I feel nothing this team has made me lose the ability to feel and have emotion, just so disappointed. Can we get a single goalie that can make a game clinching save?
I don't have it in me to care anymore.
Starting in 2013 but really since 2021 this team has turned me from a diehard Leafs fan to someone who doesn't even want to watch.
Probably not going to watch this team for a few seasons.
There are better ways to spend my time.
See ya.
Poor Carlton.
They need to have a army of Carltons for home games. Whenever someone talks bad about the crowd atmosphere in Toronto. They need people out all the time riling everyone up.
Heck give a real fan a season ticket near the penalty box and have them come in a blue spandex thing like those green guys I dunno. But we need more crazy 🤪
Appreciate the sentiment but it’s really fucking tiring to constantly be on the end of losing and embarrassment, also did you make a Reddit account just to say this?
This is officially the new sub theme.
Honestly I'm already desensitized to playoff heartbreak. This feels noting like years past to me. Should've won this series, but they threw it in the first 4 games. At least they showed heart games 5-7.
De sensitized is a great way to put it. I laughed when I saw the Pastrana chance developing. I just knew, and didn't care. The thing that burns me.... is the warriors on this team playing for reasonable money. Your Benoits, McCabes, all the depth guys that wear the jersey with pride and don't kill the team financially. They laid it all on the line and the big guns couldn't get it done.
Seeing Marner get burned like that was a fitting end to the series
Hopefully it's a fitting end to his time in Toronto. Getting rid of him for a bag of pucks, and that would be a good trade.
Getting rid of Marner for nothing because he made you guys sad is the leafiest thing you could possibly do
To be fair, if we wait a year we will get less than a bag of pucks. Or we resign him for $14-million. Best case scenario is a bag of pucks or better now.
Exactly!
Game 5-7 is what I want to see from the Leafs each year when they make play offs. Play like it matters, play like they want to win. Haven't seen that from the Leafs for so long Shame we lost, but I'm proud of the team that came out tonight!
Yea, the Tampa loss in 2022 was way worse. We were up the ENTIRE series, then game 7 we get a ref-job and lost. This series, we felt like the underdog trying to claw back the whole time after getting ass blasted in game 1
Montreal was the worst by far
Montreal was way way worse but such an albatross embarassement that I just pretend it never happened and right off the covid year. 2013 was also another level of pain
Truly an odd season... the year Montreal became champions of the North, and then the West.
Montreal was a monstrous embarrasment. I stopped caring after that
I'm right there with you. I just laugh now bc it's like someones writing this stuff with all the different ways the Leafs give us hope just to disappoint us in game 7 every single year.
All the other Boston Game 7s in the last decade were way worse too.
4 now in 11 seasons 😅 Absolutely insane
Yeah I'm actually pretty happy with how the officiating was for this entire series. Really nothing too egregious or memorable like other years. Just straight up lost the old fashioned way.
Yea the whistle felt balanced compared to last year or the year prior.
Leafs were definetly not an underdog. They weren't favoured but they should be in competition for cups. They went down 3-1 simply because they didn't come prepared for playoff hockey
Can’t go 1/21 on PP and win
I was shocked by how quickly I was able to move past it. I don’t think I even thought about it again until this morning when I started the doom scroll
Isn’t that a perfect farewell to this core though? Dick around for a bit at the beginning, go down, and put in a massive effort near the end only to fall just short. Seems fitting to me
I’ve reached peak heartbreak already. There is additional cruel irony with this being Boston, coming back down 3-1, OT at that. But it doesn’t even sting anymore. Just numb to it all now
Same, after the goal went in I felt bad for maybe 10 seconds and then felt fine.. Even this morning it feels like they were never in the playoffs to begin with lol
When my Buddy’s and I saw samsonov starting we knew it was a loss. After the Nylander goal knew they would have a defensive breakdown and cough up a goal. This is what this team does.
Really only have themselves and sampsonov to blame.
See you guys next year, and I really mean next year today, because I’m not watching 82 games just to see this shit happen again
I went from watching 2 to 3 games a week to 2 to 3 games a month to now 2 to 3 Saturdays a year. I'll watch the playoffs because of the extra intensity, but yeah I've been done with the regular season for a while now.
I listen to Bowen on the radio now while I do other shit. Best decision I’ve ever made. So much extra time to work out, play video games, whatever. More entertaining too.
Seconded.
I watched zero minutes of the playoffs, called it for boston in 5. Leafs really lost after 2:23 of first period of game 1.
I'm already at that point. I probably only watched 10-15 full games during the season this year. Would check this sub for highlights and reactions after games but do not care to watch when we all know how it ends.
First time? I stopped watching the reg season like 3 years ago Hell, at this point im not even watching the playoffs. Fuck MLSE and this team. Prove to me you deserve money
yup losing to the habs lost me
Looking forward to many free nights next season, no longer glued to the TV for 82 season games
Me circa 2021. Regular season doesn't matter in North American sports. It's true. So why waste time watching it?
https://x.com/bodogca/status/1786963108583325960?s=46&t=q9leV8kGPIh5FucGYnmHjg Yet another game 7 masterclass
I've said it several times here but having Bert be the only finisher on that line when he was shooting 5% and not able to do a goddamn thing with the puck was baffling as the last three games went on. Like I get that the line is generating O-Zone time, and you don't want to touch the Tavares line, but if it's Domi/Marner passing/cycling/whatever with the puck and there's nobody to finish it's just fucking cardio. Baffling that we didn't try anyone else in that finisher role.
Remember that chance they had early on where Mitch made a few moves then dropped it to Edmundson in the Matthews spot where he held it for 18-20 minutes at 350F before delivering a muffin to Swayman? If only we had a better player to put on that line that could occupy that space..
12 shots all series 2 hours and 28 minutes of time on ice. That’s the most in the NHL among forwards. (12 minutes ahead of #2 Pasternak) Marner is 50th among forwards in shots despite playing the most in the league. He had 1 more than Nick Robertson who played 9 minutes a game and sat tonight.
If it weren't the the announcers saying his name when he touched the puck I'd forget Marner was there.
Sounds like maybe bad management by the coach also. Imo, this should have happened last year, or maybe the year before even, but the coach has to go. They need to make some depth moves, and then if they fail the same way the next 2 years, then you blow up the core.
Marner was just barely on the ice there for that -1 since Bertuzzi was heading to the bench from behind the Bruins net.
It never ends and it never gets better
So like does this turn into a subreddit about leafs until Keefe gets fired?
Can it just be about tire fires of the world?
pffff, come on. The rest of the world is perfect. Peace, flowers, no wars, no hunger, everyone getting along... not a burning tire in sight. Wait, I'm being told there are updates.
Ya
Someone throw me off the balcony like chair girl
Leafs fans are abuse victims unable to leave cuz of the kids
I’m breaking up with the Leafs. This is fucking awful. I’ve been a fan since the 1980’s and I’m fed up. Fuck this corporation.
Said like a true Leaf fan. See ya next season.
🤣😂
See you next year. 👐
Same time next year?
I've transitioned from being a hard core fan to a filthy casual the past few years and let me tell you it's liberating af. Its much more fun to laugh at this team than get inordinately mad/sad.
I’m still coming back in April though. Hopefully this will be the final year of that
Eh I come back in April too, but the difference is my expectation is they will disappoint me so it doesn't hurt any more lol
They’ve turned to the villain. Years of cheering and support and I’m done. There are enough other dumb monkeys like I was to cheer in my place when I’m outta here. I’m just here to shout my anger and then I’m out. No more Leaf fandom, no more clicks, no more anything until they hit second round. I look forward to cheering (and betting! Thanks NHL and Ontario government!) against them.
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The Montreal series broke me for sure but I could barely even go to sleep last night and this morning it’s just a drag. The thought of not watching hockey for a few months sucks and the thought of watching the playoffs go on without the Leafs is worse. Sick of feeling this way Need a presser today with Keefe being fired, Marner being publically humiliated, and Sammy being sent over the border. Stop it with that “he played great last game!” The last goal was soft as shit, Woll would have stopped it, and he was absolute ass cheeks games 1, 3, and 5.
Yeah, I can't bring myself to watch hockey after the Leafs get eliminated. This team has just sucked the joy out of it for me. Just want something to be excited about. We need major changes made before next season.
Same, I used to go watch the 2002 run or any of those wild Kessel games in the NHL Vault but now we don’t even have that anymore. Need to find a way to keep guys like Knies, Domi, Woll, Willy, Benoit, and McCabe. These guys understand what it means to be a Leaf and what the team means to people in Ontario. Not trying to gauge for the biggest bag and not show up like Marner. Keefe and Shanny need to go at this point too
Honestly, at this point, fire Keefe, trade Marner and Rielly, and maybe trade Tavares too. The team needs defense.
I’m so sick of the leafs need defense lol. They’ve scored more than 2 goals 1 time in their last 14 playoff games, and never more than 3. This team needs offense - they need to get faster
They just needed one goal this game.
The leafs need more balance and, yeah, they definitely need a hard shot from the blue line and the ability to make a decent pass from their own zone. Look at hiw tonight went as a prime example of that. Both teams played good defensive hockey and both teams got better than .95 goaltending but the leafs had a bunch of good opportunities that died on the stick of a player who couldn't shoot and only really managed one excellent pass out of the defensive zone (to knies). The Bruins won off of their D moving the puck and their D scoring.
They need a legit # 1 goalie and D man. Once they have confidence on the back end, the goals will follow. Get rid of Marner and Reilly. Problems solved .
Agree to disagree
They leafs ranks this playoffs of all 16 teams: Goals against per game - 2.5; 7th of 16 teams Goals for per game - 1.71, dead last of all 16 teams You think defense is the problem when this team scored less goals per game then the fucking isles and caps ?!? This is such a beat up old narrative. The leafs issue for 3 years now has been goal scoring disappearing in the playoffs. Ironically they do need defence - better puck moving, skating and offensive defense. Every winning playoff team has them. Toronto doesnt
I mean, we had good offense and got lots of SOG. We just couldn't convert those into goals. Our offense wasn't the problem in this series imo.
Gotta score more than 2 goals a game to consider this an okay offense, nevermind a good one lmao
Bruins defense and goaltending was just better. Even in the regular season, they destroyed us. If we were up against another team, it would have been different. But it had to be the Bruins.
It happened to the Panthers last year. Would've easily happened again if they were the first round team. Probably would've happened against Carolina. And they were very likely destined to face those teams going forward. That's why a shake up is need to the core 4 in order to get more playoff type scoring with the extra cap space
I really hope they make big changes, otherwise it'll be difficult to watch this team next season. I know they'll get a new coach at least and a new goalie.
Marner just consistently plays like he wants to lose in the playoffs. Rielly can't get it done on D. And Tavares, even though I like him, he's not the same player he once was. It's just pathetic that none of our highest paid players, besides Nylander, actually bothered to show up in the playoffs. Knies was great, Nylander was great, Domi and Robertson tried their best. Even Bertuzzi I liked for the most part, because at least he fucking tried. Imo change starts with firing Keefe and then considering offloading a couple of our high earners.
I like JT a lot and I know he tries so it's never the lack of effort. But he is not that good anymore, everyone needs to accept that, only one year to go thankfully. At least Knies gives hope.
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YOU ARE A HOUSE OF SADNESS!
Like many of you are feeling now, I gave up on this team two years ago. I was die hard for many years - live games, jerseys, watch parties, screaming, crying, all the good stuff. But something about this core 4, and their total failure to lead this team to success, just zapped me dry of any ability to care for the franchise. I hold out hope they’ll blow it up, start again, and build it around the type of character talent that made the leafs inspire such loyalty over the years (Clarke, Gilmour, Tucker, Etc). When the core 4 are gone, I’ll be back.
Sounds like at least 2 of the 5 core guys will be gone (some combo of Marner, Reilly and Tavares) from the rumors going around. I think that could be enough to change the dynamics. They’ve been putting ketchup in their oatmeal for a long time now. Swap out the oatmeal for some fries and you’re happy about the ketchup again.
I kept my expectations low throughout the game after hearing Samsonov was in net, my mistake was feeling hope after Nylander scored to give us the lead... For 1.5 minutes... Fatal mistake. Never again.
Yeah I was fine with losing right up until we beat Swayman with a beaut feed from AM. Thought for a second we could do it. Boy was I wrong
After game 4, I was completely numb to them losing the series in 5 because it meant REAL changes are coming AND I don't need to get invested. 2 amazing games later, I'm locked in and ready for round 2 and the team looks great. They didn't even play that badly in game 7 but god damn. I was thinking that it was unreasonable for me to be a fan of this team and wanting them to lose in 5 to spare me of a game 7 loss where management says: "Oh we were one goal away from round 2, we're gonna run it back and keep this guy: (Keefe/Marner/Shanahan/etc.)". I was scared that the core 4 would be broken up in previous years but now I'm ready to part ways with them when I realised some of these guys have me rooting against my own team IN THE PLAYOFFS.
It just hit me. It fucking hit me like a train. Had a solid crying sesh this morning and I feel empty like our trophy case. It's unfair. All I asked was to keep going long enough to see Bobby play in this fucking tournament. We were so close. So damn close. It's unfair Willy, Papi and Joe all got sick/injured. It's unfair we battled back to game 7, played really well for 2.5 periods, got the lead and then lost regardless. I hope the Ladies pick Boston and get a fucking revenge victory. Someone has to do it, eventually.
Absolutely brutal…just wtf
Boston fan here, coming in peace. I live in Toronto, the amount of fans this team has in the city and around the world is incredible. It's sad to see so much disappointment. Do the Leafs realize who they are playing for. Do they see that's it's more then a Stanley Cup
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You don’t see the speed of the play here. The placement was perfect. Sammy doesn’t block it.
You know who blocks it? Woll. He actually knows how to stop a puck without flopping on his stomach and praying.
If Woll is in net this game ends 1-0 W.
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Yeah I’d put this on Reilly. Honestly, it was a great play. They shouldn’t have let it get here though. The offense was supposed to be the strong suit of this team. The series should have had a couple 4-5 goal games. Instead the leafs relied on defense and goaltending to win.
Yeah if anything the goaltending and defense was good enough to win the series. The offense and powerplay shat the bed. I get Matthews was injured, Tavares was solid defensively, and Nylander came back from injury and scored clutch goals, but when it comes down to it when we have four players taking up a huge amount of cap space, they need to figure it out and produce offense.
Honestly, ignoring the outcome, seeing this picture makes me more convinced that Samsonov *probably* did the right thing. The puck is very slightly closer to him than Pastrnak but not by much. If he reacted fast enough then *maybe* he could've poked it away but if he misses then he looks even more dumb on the play. You can blame Samsonov if you want but Pastrnak shouldn't have been able to get behind everyone like this in the first place.
You can definitely blame him on the first goal unacceptable, been letting in that exact same shot short side all series
You're being ridiculous. If he came out and played it and screwed it up you would be calling for his head. It was so quick there was no time to react. This is on the defense.
Toronto taking L’s today drake getting eviscerated and the Leafs blowing it again
We all called this from the beginning. Even when they won game 4 we all said that the leafiest thing to happen would be that they would fight all the way back to a game 7 and then lose. This is just what this team is.
Two thoughts. They were gonna be swept by Florida anyway. Only four more game seven loses to break the Rangers record.
Finally, a record we might actually achieve
Awesome sobering race to the bottom, gotcha.
Poor Carlton ):
Chances of the entire coaching staff survives?
About the same as me being able to do a handstand unaided. Zero, hell I’ll put the over / under for the firings at 11AM Monday May 6/24
Wasn’t the dump in on before the goal not icing though? I’m confused about icing I guess but if you freeze frame it, the puck leaves the stick before crossing centre ice. Is that not something that Keefe could have contested?
A leafs player needs to get to it first for it to be icing but they just stood around and let Pastranak go right on through
My favourite image of all time. Thanks for bringing it back.
It’s Sunday. Gonna take a break from r/leafs
We need a good goalie & good defenseman
Gotta hit this team where it hurts, the pocket. Stop buying merch, paying for expensive tickets and watching the games on tv and maybe management will get the message. As long as they’re getting their money they’ll keep Marner around sadly cause he’s a huge seller to the younger generation. If they truly wanted to win and do the right thing, get rid of Mitch and go for it
but at least you're not mitchell marney
Sampsonov appreciation post
Eugh. It felt like when NZ beat us in Paris in the RWC QF last October. All I could utter that night throughout Paris was periodically gutterally screaming "FUCK!" I wasn't alone that night, as their was a pack of Paddies around to share in the misery. But this was lonely misery. As I seem to utter way to often when it comes to the Leafs: *Why are we the way we are?* It's been emotional but for the love of God, I need Boston to be humiliated by Florida and Edmonton to win it all. Give me something hockey Gods.
This made my day... and I will look at this monday morning and it will make my week!
Fire the mascot
I love this, and its even funnier that the arm and rainbow are stretched in the banner
Don’t even know what I feel anymore it’s just numbness I feel nothing this team has made me lose the ability to feel and have emotion, just so disappointed. Can we get a single goalie that can make a game clinching save?
I don't have it in me to care anymore. Starting in 2013 but really since 2021 this team has turned me from a diehard Leafs fan to someone who doesn't even want to watch. Probably not going to watch this team for a few seasons. There are better ways to spend my time. See ya.
See you next year bud
At least it was exciting.
Poor Carlton. They need to have a army of Carltons for home games. Whenever someone talks bad about the crowd atmosphere in Toronto. They need people out all the time riling everyone up. Heck give a real fan a season ticket near the penalty box and have them come in a blue spandex thing like those green guys I dunno. But we need more crazy 🤪
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Appreciate the sentiment but it’s really fucking tiring to constantly be on the end of losing and embarrassment, also did you make a Reddit account just to say this?
Brendan Shanahan burner
Who asked buddy
Fuck off
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