ECQF Gm7: Bolts @ Leafs | 7:00 p.m. EST | CBC, TNT, SN, TVAS, BSSUN

[BFLO]

Waiting for the HF pundits to defend these All i can do is just laugh at this joke of a league.

TB Goal 1: Holds Leafs winger so he can't backcheck, Tampa scores
TB Goal 2: Muzzin interfered on, gets his stick held and ripped out of his hands, no call TB score
Nylander gets interfered with clear as day on a breakaway, no call
Nylander gets tripped on a prime scoring chance in front on the PP, no call

If anyone is seriously gonna try and tell me refs didn't have an absolutely massive impact on this game, you're trolling or don't know hockey. Proud of the boys effort, they badly outplayed the Lightning in game 6 and 7, can't beat the refs. Hopefully they run it back.

Remember when the refs let the leafs get away with punching/cross check Sergachev in the back of the head? Or when Blackwell held Paul on his breakaway and pushed him into the net? Or when they called a phantom hooking on the bolts?

Refs sucked for both teams. It’s not a conspiracy.

 

[AvroArrow]

No, I’m annoyed because you’re bitching about penalties without seemingly realizing that your team just got shut down by a very short handed Tampa team.

What determined the outcome of the game is that Toronto couldn’t solve Andrei Vasilevskiy and couldn’t take advantage of Point going out

Easy to get "shut down" when you can trip, hold and interfere everything there is a scoring chance against Its hilarious how difficult it is for some posters to comprehend this

 

[BostonBruins11]

 

[mix1home]

Can’t believe they didn’t call the dive on nylander

You blame refs? This game was called up to standard. We got our pps as home team, but could not score. No one showed up for game 7. Again.

 

[Wester]

 

[lionsDen]

Some teams just know how to win. The Leafs just know how to lose. Gotta shake up that core after these past few years

I wouldn’t shake it up too much sometimes giving it time to gel works too. It doesn’t help playing basically in the first round

 

[ReddestRum]

Man I don't know what you do as the Leafs....they have a good team, I'm not sure what gets them over the top though, I guess try to spread out the money and trade one of the big guys?

40.4 million for 4 damn forwards? Someone should've been gone a long time ago. That's just an insane hit for just 4 people and unlimited 1st round exits.

 

[TheDizee]

what a great night!

 

[NYR94]

Do the Leafs make any substantial changes to this core or do they run it back with the same group again?

 

[Nikki Potnick]

With the Leafs out, complaints about reffing drops 50% league wide.

 

[Legend123]

Long live the Round 1 Exit Memes!!!

Leafs suck. And they continue to suck year after year. Cup contenders my ass!!

 

[Whoot Whoot]

Soup was pretty good too

 

[SpezDispenser]

Wow, that was friggin insane.

 

[JimmyH]

Easy to get "shut down" when you can trip, hold and interfere everything there is a scoring chance against Its hilarious how difficult it is for some posters to comprehend this

Toronto got beat clean and fair, by the book, for 60-minutes. Watch the highlights.

 

[Mr Bill Waters]

Core is just entering their prime. They'll get it done next year. DO NOT FIRE DUBAS

 

[Rschmitz]

Good game Toronto, honestly thought we would lose this

 

[Karl Eriksson]

They really got very little offense from the supporting cast. The big guns choked when it mattered, but also no one Nick Pauled.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

1 last thought before I prepare jokes for the oilers game 7 loss.

Why the hell was nylander out there down by 1 with extra attacked…. They dude isn’t gunna battle for a puck. Throw bunting out there at least he’s still trying to earn money

 

[Il Stugotz]

Vasilevskiy won this game for the Bolts. The Leafs skaters were better than Tampa’s

 

[Leaf Fans]

With the Leafs out, complaints about reffing drops 50% league wide.

No, it will remain the same.

 

[Eggtimer]

Great .. now we get to hear for months about how the all powerful Knies is going to save the Leafs next season .

 

[Crazy Monkey]

The Leafs got out worked.

They will never win a thing if their star players don’t put in 100% effort every shift.

That’s what separates great teams like the Bolts from the weaklings like the Leafs.

Hot take. Tampas star players were pretty awful this series. It was their other guys that showed up and played their asses off. Paul should have scored every game this series

 

[Legend123]

Do the Leafs make any substantial changes to this core or do they run it back with the same group again?

maybe next season they might improve a shit load and get out in the second round!

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

No, it will remain the same.

It literally might drop 50%

 

[JFleegs]

I know, I think these are the 2 best teams in the East. On its own this is fine, someone had to lose

But at a certain point you just need to get it done man, we've done this 6 straight times and failed. We lost to good teams, bad teams, the best team (Tampa). I don't know anymore

Hockey can be a son of a bitch but leafs are a good team this series doesn’t change that.