Post-Game Talk: Could've been worse. Leafs go down 3-1 in the game and the series.

[djdev]

i mean, he was on it when it was 29th for the last 3 months lol...im not sure why anyone is surprised he made no difference. ugh i cant even listen to keefe anymore "we are one chance away, one save away..." so gross to listen to.

 

[PromisedLand]

Top 15 forwards so far in the playoffs.... (note not one Leaf there while Leafs have top 5 cap hits among forwards and next year it will be 4 forwards with 11AAV+)

 

[Byron Bitz]

Is this an overreaction from Rosie?

 

[KIWILEAFFAN]

Matthews was taken down behind net by McAvoy in game 3?
Play by play guy on feed I was watching wondered about the no call and mentioned Matthews ankle twisted badly?

 

[BallardEra]

Since 1999, the Leafs have lost all 4 series that they have trailed 3 games to 1.

Gonna be tough for them to come back with all of the surrounding circumstances at the moment.

 

[Daisy Jane]

Boston fans also complained that he was terrible and they wished he didn't play.

of course i remember that. and Ryan Getzlaf played with a hernia and looked like garbage. if Matthews is sick, he shouldn't be playing, becuse if he was out there looking like garbage no one is going to be going "oh look at you playing while sick." they'll be yelling at him saying he's garbage and should get off the ice.

anyhoo. i'm very glad i didn't waste any precious time on this team this year. clearly i missed nothing

 

[Optimist]

Matthews twisted ankle. Bad pic taken from my tv. But you get the idea.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Matthews twisted ankle. Bad pic taken from my tv. But you get the idea.View attachment 861306

Isn't that just the natural position of a skate when a guy is down on one knee?
I know that's what I did because it helped me with my balance.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

this team needs change.
I think firing Shanny is first line of business
then fire Keefe
buyout Tavares I dont care if he's only going to clear 950k or something and i really dont wanna see him go but there has to be Changes
try to trade Marner and retain 50% for his final season (IF HE ACCEPTS)

build around Matthews and Nylander

 

[Optimist]

Isn't that just the natural position of a skate when a guy is down on one knee?
I know that's what I did because it helped me with my balance.

The Leaf player above Matthews landed on his leg and caused the ankle to twist outwards. Not natural at all. He could barely skate after this happened.

 

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Since 1999, the Leafs have lost all 4 series that they have trailed 3 games to 1.

Gonna be tough for them to come back with all of the surrounding circumstances at the moment.

The Leafs are not coming back. No way they are beating Boston 3 games in a row. They have beat them 1 game in the last 2 years lol. Yeah, it is over.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

how many of you actually wanna see this core return?

The most Leaf thing that will likely happen is Leafs find away to win Game 5 and 6 and then make everyone believe they got their shit together and they dont show up at all Game 7

 

[PROUD PAPA]

The Leaf player above Matthews landed on his leg and caused the ankle to twist outwards. Not natural at all. He could barely skate after this happened.

Well if somebody fell on it that's another story but yes it is a relatively normal position for a skate when a player is on one knee. It helps with both balance and gives you a little more leverage.
Do you not do that when you go down to one knee?

 

[Optimist]

Well if somebody fell on it that's another story but yes it is a relatively normal position for a skate when a player is on one knee. It helps with both balance and gives you a little more leverage.
Do you not do that when you go down to one knee?

I told you what happened. I'm not going to debate what you do or not do when you go down on one knee. The entire reason that they showed the video was to show how he got hurt.

 

[Arzak]

Blowing a 3-1 series to the Montreal Canadiens and losing a fake playoff round to the Columbus Blue Jackets were "better" losses.

You're truly a fine connoisseur of losing.

I guess those ones went down easier

Yeah, the best part, we failed to make playoff twice by losing to Columbus, yet you'll see posters going,8 years of playoffs, that's not nothing !

Sure, if we count the year we failed to make the playoffs twice (once by not being one of the teams in playoffs position, second time by failing to win the play-ins..)

 

[PROUD PAPA]

I told you what happened. I'm not going to debate what you do or not do when you go down on one knee.

That's fine but how about answering the question i asked?

 

[Optimist]

That's fine but how about answering the question i asked?

Because it has zero relevance as to why Matthews was out.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Top 15 forwards so far in the playoffs.... (note not one Leaf there while Leafs have top 5 cap hits among forwards and next year it will be 4 forwards with 11AAV+)

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One f***ing lottery ball was the difference between Connor McDavid and Mickey Marner. One. Ball.

I know thats absurd to complain about because Marner is a far better player than many guys that do get picked in the Top 5, but McDavid is going to end up at worst as the 5th best player of all time at this rate.

 

[leafs in five]

70 revolving door players have come and gone and you still think they’re the problem, oh boy………

absolutely agree with you that Max domi is a "revolving door player"

 

[Arzak]

"Stop f!@#ing crying bro, this isn't f!@#ing Junior hockey" is possibly my new favourite quote

Nylander - fan spokesman

Why is it that Brad Marchand has 8 points in 4 games in the series while the high AAV players who dubas gave ridiculous amount, signing bonuses and ntcs/nmcs while the Leafs became a laughing stock in the league as no other team did such stupid and ridiculous deals with their RFAs, threw away draft capital and continued to "run it back"; ruining their own future with nothing to show in playoffs....


P.S.
Matthews+Tavares+Marner+Nylander* = 7 points combined
Brad Marchand = 8 points and absolutely trolling the F out of the Leafs

what's Marchand's AAV again?

I was told Marchand is old asf and cooked. Just look at his regular season stats !

You stop Pasta you win the series. It's not like we stopped Pasta, but the strategy still seems flawed.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Because it has zero relevance as to why Matthews was out.

Okay but you did say "Not natural at all" when it is, which started the so called debate.

Have a nice day.

 

[Arzak]

Oh man.....

He caught a serious case of Marnertidis, re-occurring in playoffs. It is commonly known as playoff hockey allergy...

 

[Optimist]

Okay but you did say "Not natural at all" when it is, which started the so called debate.

Have a nice day.

Well I certainly cannot go down on my knee and turn my foot out 90 degrees. Not even close. And apparently, neither can Matthews. That's some special skill that you have.

 

[thewave]

???

Colorado didn't draft Roy
Detroit didn't draft Hasek
Tampa didn't draft Khabibulin
Anaheim didn't draft JSG

That's 4 already and I only got to 2007.

I think that is about it. Its still hugely lopsided.

2x Corey Crawford CHI
2x Matt Murray PIT
1x Braden Holtby WSH
1x Jordan Binnington STL
2x Andrei Vasilevskiy TBL
2x Jonathan Quick LAK
1x Antti Niemi (Undrafted) CHI
1x Marc-André Fleury PIT
1x Chris Osgood DET (+97 98)
1x Ilya Bryzgalov ANA
1x Cam Ward CAR
2x Martin Brodeur NJD
(18) 1x Pavel Francouz COL (Unbdrafted 6w - 0l)
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17(18) of 22 (1 year was lockout)

So I think it's safe to say drafting your own tender is pretty important to winning a cup.

 

[ruaware41]

Oh man.....

so much for we're not disclosing injuries. I guess a player leaving in the middle of the game makes it too obvious though that he's injured