Around the League | Round 1: FIGHT!

[Zanon]

Pathetic. Call me crazy but I’m actually starting to feel a little sorry for Leafs fans having to endure this year after year.

 

[EpochLink]

Nylander is clearly hurt, yet the Leafs are trotting him out there for reasons unknown.

 

[Red]

Nylander is clearly hurt, yet the Leafs are trotting him out there for reasons unknown.

the reasons are desperation

 

[Angry Little Elf]

ShelDUMB Keefe

 

[ForecheckBackcheck]

ESPN feed absolutely laying into Mitch Marner right now. The clips they showed of his play were pretty damning.

 

[Nomobo]

Pathetic. Call me crazy but I’m actually starting to feel a little sorry for Leafs fans having to endure this year after year.

Can’t believe I’m saying this but I’m actually rooting for the Leafs in this series.
I’m for any of the Canadian teams except the Oilers.

 

[SillyRabbit]

I can't believe in 7 years they've won ONE series

 

[Vector]

This is maybe the least surprising out come to me. Their offseason was incredibly disfunctional. That carried into their free agency and lack of trade decisions. They did nothing to actually improve the team. Had problems all season; were inconsistent, injured, never had an identity, and didn’t generated any momentum.

Couldn’t even call them a paper tiger because beyond Nylander and Matthews, there’s nothing on that roster.

 

[Red]

I can't believe in 7 years they've won ONE series

isn't it 19 years

 

[Vector]

Pathetic. Call me crazy but I’m actually starting to feel a little sorry for Leafs fans having to endure this year after year.

You’re crazy.

 

[JiffyPB]

isn't it 19 years

Damn, that streak was a full grown adult when it was broken

 

[Flik]

Leafs should just trade us Nylander, they can have top defender Hronek

 

[SillyRabbit]

isn't it 19 years

Yeah you're right lol, was just looking at when Matthews joined and they started making the playoffs again.

 

[EpochLink]

I can't believe in 7 years they've won ONE series

Since the lockout of 2005-2006, Leafs have won only 1 playoff series.

The Canucks have won 8 playoff series

 

[Red]

petey has been very blah but at least he seems to be looking inward rather than fighting with his teammates

 

[arttk]

petey has been very blah but at least he seems to be looking inward rather than fighting with his teammates

Well one recognizes that he is not playing well, the leafs ones are like nah not our fault, give me the bag.

 

[Vector]

At no point in the history of hockey has any Maple Leaf fan ever felt sorry for Canucks fans. You can offer them condolences or feel sorry for them but they have reveled in the Canucks’ failures.

Personally, I feel nothing towards that listless organization. They continue to be propped up by the idea that they are nationally important despite continuously proving to the contrary. All I hope is that there’s finally a shift towards more equal marketing of Canadian teams on a national scale, although I know this is but a flight of whimsy.

 

[valkynax]

Marner made it 3-1, a chance.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Marner scores - is it too little too late?

Leafs are in the same boat as Edmonton for me, except no one on their team performs at as high a tempo come playoff time as McDavid and Draisaitl do for the Oilers. Both teams are poorly constructed and heavily flawed, but where McDavid and Draisaitl are capable of willing the Oilers to big wins, the Leafs’ core just hasn’t shown any sort of ability to do the same in TO. And they get bedazzled by sparkling regular season performances from their big guns while failing to address both their playoff shortcomings, and the way the rest of the roster is constructed.

 

[ghostingtaro]

marner finally did something

 

[arttk]

Marner made it 3-1, a chance.

It’s the hope that kills

 

[rypper]

 

[Vector]

 

[ziploc]

Leafs fans have been in full-blown hate-Marner meltdown mode, so him scoring is pretty perfect here.

 

[arttk]

Jesus the leafs neeed major surgery