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Around the League Volume 5 - Stanley Cup Playoffs Edition

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lovemyleafs

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had we won vs the bruins, we would've played the jackets in the 2nd round. then if we had beaten the jackets we would've played the isles or canes to make the stanley cup finals
looooooooooooool leafs really fcking blew it.
FIRE BABCOCK
 
HoweHullOrr

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I Believe said:
Every wildcard team moves on. Craziest 1st round i've ever witnessed.
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Tracer Bullet said:
Insanity. These playoffs are the most wide open I've ever seen. And we won't be able to take advantage of it. Unbelievable. Disheartening. Shameful.
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Buds17 said:
Bad year to win a division apparently!
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Ya, wild playoffs. Should be interesting though.

Kudos to the Canes though. They came back from 2-0 and 3-1 deficits in this game. Kind of what they did throughout.
 
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Cans totally outplayed Caps in both OT periods, dominated them and it was only matter of time I thought. And then they put them away. They overcame two goals deficits twice! What an effort!
All divisions winners are out in first round. That was opportunity Leafs totally missed.
 
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Crazy first round but outside of cbj/bos, none of the other series look that good. Sj/avs might be good too.
 
rumman

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:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

Hurricanes just eliminated the Stanley Cup Champions.

It is rather embarrassing how horrible the Maple Leafs are. Hurricanes don't have Matthews, Marner, Tavares and Nylander, and they made it past the 1st round. NY Islanders don't have Matthews, Marner, Tavares, and Nylander, and they made it past the 1st round.

Are we ever going to perform anything meaningful with Matthews, Marner, Tavares, and Nylander?

There are 8 other playoff teams now that are doing just fine without Matthews, Marner, Tavares, and Nylander...​
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they might not have all of the above players, but they have a ton of heart, hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
 
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Canes with a first time head coach playing to win takes game 7 on the road in OT to advance.

We fail 3 years in a row with a loser head coach that hasn’t got passed the first round in 8 of his last 9 series. It’s time to be bold and go with Keefe. Also get rid of game 7 chokers like Andersen and Gardiner, and bring in beauties that can perform in game 7 like Williams.
 
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yeah I'm sure the dozen or so Canes die-hards are celebrating right now.
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That's how the cosmos works. When you are interested she will ditch you like that girl you always dreamed about. When you are not interested at all she always comes around and wants to mate.
 
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lovemyleafs said:
had we won vs the bruins, we would've played the jackets in the 2nd round. then if we had beaten the jackets we would've played the isles or canes to make the stanley cup finals
looooooooooooool leafs really fcking blew it.
FIRE BABCOCK
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mix1home said:
Cans totally outplayed Caps in both OT periods, dominated them and it was only matter of time I thought. And then they put them away. They overcame two goals deficits twice! What an effort!
All divisions winners are out in first round. That was opportunity Leafs totally missed.
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There's a reason why those division winners have been eliminated. It's not like CBJ, CAR, and NYI are bottom feeders either. The difficulty would not have changed either way.
 
Jimmy Firecracker

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rumman said:
ah excuses..............
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Hey man, I’ll give the players plenty of flak. Their effort in games 5 and 6 were uninspiring to say the least. That doesn’t change the fact that this coaching staff ran a historically bad PK, a bad PP, and refused to play it’s best players when they were needed most.

Everyone in the organization deserves blame for this seasons failure. Some more than others, but no one is exempt.
 

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Meh. I mean. We were literally the only non favorites in the series to go out.

Imagine how Tampa. Jets. Nash. Flames and Vegas fans feel.

Only one team wins every year. Getting to the finals doesn’t matter. Ask Nashville and Vegas.

If anything it shows anything can happen with parity. Just get in and see.

The only thing that bugs me is that all of our best trade partners are advancing. They won’t give up RHD.

St. Louis, canes, Columbus, sharks has potential trade targets.

Now that’s disappointing
 
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Jimmy Firecracker

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I posted this in yesterday’s Postgame thread, but now that Carolina has won the list grows.

With the Carolina winning, Leafs now get to watch the Sharks (Marleau’s former team), Islanders (Tavares’ former team), Bozak, Martin, Komarov, Polak, McElhinney, McKegg, and Lamoriello move on to round two and maybe beyond.
 
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