April 20, 2004 TOR vs. OTT game 7 - Where were you that night?

[Ianturnedbull]

It's still a long wait until trading camp. I thought I would start a thread about the last time TOR won a playoff series.

I'll start. I had to work a wedding reception that night and couldn't see the game. I was downtown near Yonge and Dundas Square. I didn't have a mobile phone then, but I knew they won because of the car horns. Back then you could see long lines of cars waving leaf flags when they won a playoff series.

I remember Bob McCowen on the Fan predicting the Leafs would win the series due to how good Belfour was playing.

Had I'd known that TOR would go on to miss the playoffs/not win in the playoffs I would have celebrated a lot harder.

I still can't believe those 2 goals that Joe Nieuwendyk scored.

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[ACC1224]

Section 323 Row 17, fun night.

 

[Ianturnedbull]

Section 323 Row 17, fun night.

Lucky!

 

[ULF_55]

Sitting my couch with my Dad counting down to the end of the game

Oh, sorry that was in 1967!

I don't remember 2004.

2004 I was in Calgary, same address as now, never expected that to be an important date.

 

[andora]

Section 323 Row 17, fun night.

Wow that must have been amazing

 

[ACC1224]

Lucky!

Little did we know at the time that would be one of the last good nights in the building.

 

[Morbo]

yeah back then it was the other team's goalie that let in backbreaking softies in critical playoff games, instead of ours.

 

[Le Magnifique]

@ Kelsey's with my cousin and he's half wit cronies.
I can still taste the Clamato Ceasar's on my lips.

 

[Fonzieleaf]

Probably on my couch in the living room with the rest of the family. I would've been 10 at the time.

 

[Brown Dog]

I'm 43 years old. I really got into hockey when I was 10, watching the Flames run to the Cup and ultimate victory over the Canadiens in the finals. Joe Nieuwendyk was on that '89 Flames team.

Crazy to think that a player of that vintage (Nieuwendyk) was a key part of the Leafs' last series win.

I remember that game in 04 well, watching in my buddy's parents' basement, eating Pizza Pizza with him and another friend and on cloud 9 every time another softy got past Lalime.

18 years later, the three of us have all gotten married and had a total of 7 kids, including my own 12-year-old son who is a die-hard member of Leafs Nation in his own right. I'm now balding, have a mortgage, and have upped my pizza game considerably.

This thread makes me feel old and sad.

 

[Langdon Alger]

I put a guitar stand through my wall that night after Ottawa lost. God I hated losing to you guys in the playoffs.

 

[mccabe2424]

I was 19 or 20 in my friends basement watching on my friends massive rear projection tv's man those were massive hah didn't realize that was the last day I would have true happiness

 

[Eternal Leaf]

I was 12 and watched it with my dad at home.

Lalime choking was a memorable experience, especially the second Nieuwendyk goal.

 

[AvroArrow]

I was 12 and watched it with my dad at home.

Lalime choking was a memorable experience, especially the second Nieuwendyk goal.

Damn, same here, was 12 and watched it in our basement at home with my dad.

 

[tmlms13]

High school (boarding high school) so without boring you with details of how that works..... the tv lounge for 3rd period and following gamecast on nhl.com for first 2 periods.

 

[the squared circle]

My son was born four months later.
He is now EIGHTEEN and has never seen the Leafs win a round in the playoffs. That is freaking unbelievable and absolutely horrible.