We know what Doug Gilmour would have done with that. It's the first and last time I'll use Marner and Gilmour in the same thought. He's putrid ... You want culture change, you start there.
Post-Game Talk: Hit em with the 4 like AM34. Leafs lose 4th straight game 7 to Boston: 2-1
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seventieslord
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This team is the furthest thing possible from clutch.
Think about it, five straight game 7 losses in the Matthews era.
In three of them, we were leading the series before it got to game 7.
In the other two, we were leading game 7 in the third period.
We lost all 5 of them.
We had 4 goals in the 2018 game. In the four since.... 4 goals in total.
Think about it, five straight game 7 losses in the Matthews era.
In three of them, we were leading the series before it got to game 7.
In the other two, we were leading game 7 in the third period.
We lost all 5 of them.
We had 4 goals in the 2018 game. In the four since.... 4 goals in total.
It's an awful goal.. looks like a Sunday morning over 65 scramble.. How Kampf can't get in the lane or Samsonov can't stand up and make a save.. not sure.. just can't explain it.
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The exit interviews really need to be a 1 hour presentation breaking down what absolutely historic losers they are. None of these guys can be Captain, no player entering the league will have any real respect for guys like Marner and Matthews who have been so thoroughly and repeatedly humiliated.
At some point you just start losing respect for them as people, because they have the skills they're just losers
. Every year they have to get in line and congratulate the men that dominated them no matter how heavily they were favored.
At some point you just start losing respect for them as people, because they have the skills they're just losers
. Every year they have to get in line and congratulate the men that dominated them no matter how heavily they were favored.
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And then people say you can't blame Samsonov for allowing a muffin where the 3 goal scorer just chipped the puck to the net with no windup and it hit Samsonov's arm and went in... the next shot after the Leafs score to give the Bruins all the momentum.
Get this ECHL goalie out of here.
Boston will get spanked by Florida. Other than Swayman they didn't play that well at all.
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I think this is what's going to be clear - we lost to a pretty average team
It didn’t matter how much Dubas paid them. They couldn’t perform in the playoffs.
Like if AM plays like Mack in the playoffs, we could had easily won more than one round by now.
If MM plays like he does in the regular season, we could easily won more than one round by now.
JT was supposed to be the player who pushed us over but like the other two, he didn’t have that playoff gear.
Willie seemed to be only one who at the very least maintain his level in the playoffs.
You can’t have someone who only played 4 of the 7 games in the series leading the team in goals at THREE while also had as many goals as the top three forwards in term of salary and expect the team to win a series.
We can crap on Sammy all we want but how can any teams win a playoffs series if they can only score 2 goals per game?
this is hyperbolic. pros have a level of relatability that garners each other’s respect on some level. fans take it too far. no kid entering the league will respect m/m less because they suck in a round of 16 between the best 0.001% of hockey players in the world. truth is most of these dudes are probably okay people struggling to pursue and stick to their goals like the rest of most of us with the difference being millions watch their success/failure with it every week.The exit interviews really need to be a 1 hour presentation breaking down what absolutely historic losers they are. None of these guys can be Captain, no player entering the league will have any real respect for guys like Marner and Matthews who have been so thoroughly and repeatedly humiliated.
At some point you just start losing respect for them as people, because they have the skills they're just losers
marner rielly liljegren tavares and samsonov need to go though. team looks decent with edmundson mccabe benoit woll nylander matthews knies domi bertuzzi and fill the rest with good fits
Not saying it wasn’t a soft goal but Sammy wasn’t the only problem in this game or the series. We just needed to score but we couldn’t.
7even
Offered and lost
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You switch Samsonov and Woll and the Leafs win in 5.
I don't think they lose Game 3 with Woll in net. That Frederick goal when Boston had nothing was a backbreaker. Just like this Lindholm goal when the Bruins had nothing.
seventieslord
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And six if you include game 5 vs Columbus.
It's a cherry picked data set, but if you look at the teams goal differential after taking the lead in game 7 in 2018, game 6 in 2022, game 7 in 2024, after winning their 2nd game in 2020, and after winning their 3rd game in 2019 & 2021, they've scored 10 goals and allowed 32.
That's in approximately 7 full games worth of hockey.
1.42 GPG. 4.56 GAA.
Neither number is acceptable. I don't know which is worse.
Disgusting.
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It's a terrible goal, but Sammy played well, can't really blame him.
Once again though, scoring is our issue, and we will likely double down on low skill/IQ players to solve that so we can lose 1-0 every game next year instead of 2-1
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You win 1-0 and no one is talking about our lack of scoring. Give us average goaltending and we win this series.
Most playoff teams win 2-1 and 1-0 games. The Bruins just won 2-1.
I agree. But the top guys still needed to score.
Swayman was good but he wasnt in god mode.
To me Game 3 was a game that could had gone either way.
Woll played above average, Sammy played below, not sure we win still.
Top guys? Everyone... our D was atrocious once they left their own end.
It is not just the top guys... I'm assuming we had the least points by D.
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then why did Lou sign perenial loser Patrick Marleau to be a mentor to the young leafs. Lou, Dubas, Hunter etc have all sucked for the leafs
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Swayman vs Samsonov 4-0 sweep by Swayman
Woll vs Samsonov 2-0
Samsonov had one win... against Ullmark.
Look at the tale of the 2 goaltenders playing behind the same team:
Yes and no. Some teams do win 2-1 and 1-0 mainly due to both teams lacking fire power up front. We got a 69 goals scorer, two 100pts winger and another 30 goals scorer for a combined of 6 goals in a 7 games series where one of the 100pt winger got 3 goals while playing only 4 games in the series.
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Every franchise has that point where before the window closes you make a big player for trade to shake things up. Leafs and Jays in the early 90s, raptors and Kawhi.
But NMC make that impossible.
We're going to have to run it back one more time before any real change is made when the JT and MM deals expire.
But NMC make that impossible.
We're going to have to run it back one more time before any real change is made when the JT and MM deals expire.
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We had a 69 goalscorer who got injured in the series. He still led our team in points. We had another 98 point player who missed the first 3 games.
Then, here are our 2 goalies:
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