ECSF: Toronto Maple Leafs (A2) vs. Florida Panthers (WC2) ( Florida Leads 3-1 )

[Rob Brown]

HFBoards in Boston vs Florida series thread: "The Cats have no chance at all. This is an easy series for the Bruins." ----> Florida beats the Bruins in 7.

The same day Florida defeats the strongest team in the league, HFBoards: "The Cats have no chance against Toronto. This is an easy walk in the park for the Leafs.

Me:

Yeah I certainly don't think it'll be a walk in the park.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Tkachuk is about to annoy the f*** out of Leafs fans. Don't sleep on this Panthers team. Ive been saying it since they clinched the playoffs. They have been playing playoff hockey since January.

Leafs lose and I will be happy.

Panthers lose and we get 17th.

win/win for this upcoming series!

I am somewhat looking forward to the show he is going to put on and the antics he is going to get up to. Will be fun hating him.

 

[Jason316]

With my kings out jumping on the Toronto and Edmonton bandwagon. Hoping for an all Canadian final for the 1st time since 89.

Leafs in 6(hoping 5 lol])

The best American player Matthews vs the 3rd best!!!!

 

[MAB1]

I don’t think florida has an answer for Matthews

Leafs continue their OT dominance, leafs in 6

Forget Matthews, Florida has no answer for Marner

 

[shaner8989]

Florida just beat Boston 3 straight. Florida is likely the favourite

 

[holy]

HFBoards in Boston vs Florida series thread: "The Cats have no chance at all. This is an easy series for the Bruins." ----> Florida beats the Bruins in 7.

The same day Florida defeats the strongest team in the league, HFBoards: "The Cats have no chance against Toronto. This is an easy walk in the park for the Leafs.

Me:

Whenever fans of a team start cheering for who they want their opponent to be it usually ends terribly.

I got Florida in 5 with Toronto winning game 1 in OT.

 

[waitin425]

Either way the Habs will continue to be in the basement of the NHL for years to come!

One more season of tanking for the Habs and one more season with Matthews and Nylander for the Leafs....good luck with that.

 

[KingAlfie11]

Thank you Bruins for choking and gifting us the Panthers

Be careful what you wish for little man, if the Panthers can beat Boston I'm pretty sure they beat Toronto Lol

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Good Bob - Florida in 7.

Bad Bob - Leafs in 4.

 

[McJC]

Toronto the heavy favourite in this one. Going with Leafs in 5.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Barkov the friendly ghost has to show up. You can't win in the playoffs with your #1C being completely invisible. He's doing all the things defensively very well but he needs to start doing damage on the scoresheet.

 

[KingAlfie11]

Great job Florida

But this is going to be a boring as hell series to watch. Leafs easily win this series in 4-5 games.

tell me why? Why you say that after Florida just defeated the best team in the NHL?

 

[cyris]

Well Panthers fans.
Great job knocking off the Bruins, both our fan bases know misery and and the winner of this series gets to see their team farther than either fan base has in a very long time.
We are in for a great close series.

With that said I now hate you all and will for at least the next couple weeks.

 

[Mr Kot]

i got leafs in 7 this time.

 

[ORRFForever]

When will be the first game? Thursday?

 

[leafsfan5]

Florida is a really good team, better than their record suggest. Their forecheck is going to be a huge issue for us, they come in waves and never stop pushing. The Leafs will need to play as a cohesive unit or else the Panthers will eat us alive with turnovers

With that said, I got Toronto in 6. We're similar offensively, but I trust Toronto more defensively + special teams. Plus the monkey is off our back, the sky is the limit now

 

[KPower]

I think the Leafs clean up the Panthers in 5 or less. The Panthers did the Leafs a solid taking out the Bruins. Leafs have a clear path to the finals imo

As a leafs fan, nothing is ever clear for the leafs.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Be careful what you wish for little man, if the Panthers can beat Boston I'm pretty sure they beat Toronto Lol

Toronto is a better playoff team than the Bruins. Leafs would have beaten either.

 

[MAB1]

One more season of tanking for the Habs and one more season with Matthews and Nylander for the Leafs....good luck with that.

Leafs have $20 million in cap space this summer when both come up for extensions. They'll be good.

Good luck thinking the Habs only have 1 more year of being bad left to go lmao. You'll be lucky if the Habs are cup contenders by the end of this decade. Don't believe me? Just watch frenchy.

No 1C
No 1D
No 1G

 

[The Gongshow]

How many breaks does Toronto need!

 

[ORRFForever]

I am being childish but I don't care...

I called Tavares last night and Carter V, tonight - I wish I could quote the posts. I am on a roll.

 

[Aashir Mallik]

tell me why? Why you say that after Florida just defeated the best team in the NHL?

I don’t see why people see Leafs winning as easily either

I think game 1 is a huge point. Florida is coming in with confidence, if we can win that game we can ruin some of that confidence, otherwise it just goes on and fuels that.

 

[Blasto]

Leafs in 1.
(Sarcasm)

 

[Lilou]

Well done Panthers. I hope the Leafs win this series. It should be fun.

 

[OVO16]

Leafs in 5