Pre-Game Talk: Game 7. WHAT AN ORIGINAL CONCEPT

[Peasy]

"Thats just playoff hockey." - Every non Leafs fan.

 

[Ruggle]

Stay out the box and we win

 

[robertmac43]

Nervous but also excited! I believe in this team!

 

[Brobust]

you know whats crazy.... leafs and bruins will probably in round 1 again for the next couple of years
thanks to this wonderful format

Doubtful.

Playoffs are not a lock for the leafs next year. Not even close to being a lock.

I expect both Florida and Buffalo to surpass them next season.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Doubtful.

Playoffs are not a lock for the leafs next year. Not even close to being a lock.

I expect both Florida and Buffalo to surpass them next season.

Why? Neither team is as good as the leafs

 

[Go4soda]

So many emotions right now.
This game needs to happen. We need to know where the team stands. Then hopefully necessary changes come. We can all debate what they are. Coach? D? Nylander/ kadri etc? All the above?
Either way , it’ll be quite clear after tomorrow.

 

[hockeyes]

Doubtful.

Playoffs are not a lock for the leafs next year. Not even close to being a lock.

I expect both Florida and Buffalo to surpass them next season.

Ah yes, the teams that are always 1 step away from being two steps ahead

 

[Polaris1010]

The angst is palpable in this thread . . .

Hope for the best . . . but prepare for the worst, which is more free time for yourself . . .

Well look, if the Cubs can win the World Series, then maybe one day the Leafs can win too.

 

[NinjaKick]

I see it going one of two ways...

an extremely intense heart pounding chess match... lots of trapping and the ultimate duel between Freddy and Rask...

or

a bad blowout

hopefully the first one

I've been talking with random people around my city about the series all month... Canadians really are obsessed with hockey... I walk my dog today and run into an 80 year old something grandma... all pimped out in Leaf gear... even Leaf socks... and we talk about hockey for an hour.... we deserve a cup... don't f*** it up Toronto... the pressure is on....

I'll pm $50 in canadiantire money to anyone that nancy kerrigan's Chara's Knee...

 

[tom leafers]

We are going to win.

I got a feeling.

Agreed. I am confident we win tomorrow

 

[Polaris1010]

I'll pm $50 in canadiantire money to anyone that nancy kerrigan's Chara's Knee...

Tanya Harding was the Bruin here.

Nancy Kerrigan was the victim, Nancy Kerrigan was the Maple Leafs.

 

[AreBe]

Doubtful.

Playoffs are not a lock for the leafs next year. Not even close to being a lock.

I expect both Florida and Buffalo to surpass them next season.

Oh come on! There are some great skill guys on the Marlies and who knows who we can pick up from the KHL!
Thinking that the Leafs won't keep acquiring skill and speed is darn well treason

We got Babcock as coach and he believes in statistics, we have never had such outstanding management with a commitment to professional scouting, they even have their own analytics department! Celebrate! They are telling the dinosaurs to go to hell!

We will keep getting speedsters, play-makers, Harlem Globetrotters on Ice! Celebrate! Technocrat Dubas has bashed down the door and delivered a special package marked "reason"!

 

[NinjaKick]

Tanya Harding was the Bruin here.

Nancy Kerrigan was the victim, Nancy Kerrigan was the Maple Leafs.

I'm calling it now, Matthews will do a triple sow cow past Chara and score in OT....

 

[tom leafers]

Leafs need to learn how to close teams out and not let them back in series.

Serious contenders know this. That's why the Leafs are still in the learning phase. They are close it could happen any time. Even this year if they manage to win tomorrow.

Washington just failed to close out the series and they’re the cup champs. Sometime it takes 7, and I am confident the leafs finish it tomorrow

 

[Brobust]

Why? Neither team is as good as the leafs

This is the strongest the leafs will be over the next 3 years. In the coming years they'll have to constantly get rid of salary and they don't have any high end prospects coming up except for Liljegren and Sandin.

Florida and Buffalo have accumulated way more assets.

Florida also made a huge upgrade in coaching and, more importantly, will make a huge upgrade in goaltending. And the possibility of Panarin heading there.

Buffalo's ascension is less certain but their problems are fixable and they have a lot of draft picks and prospects to solve their issues.

My prediction is that the leafs will spend the next 3-4 years in a dogfight to just make the playoffs in a stacked division.

 

[Go4soda]

Tanya Harding was the Bruin here.

Nancy Kerrigan was the victim, Nancy Kerrigan was the Maple Leafs.

Shane Stant....

 

[Marshy]

Washington just failed to close out the series and they’re the cup champs. Sometime it takes 7, and I am confident the leafs finish it tomorrow

We know Washington is a serious contender. They don't need to prove anything. The Leafs on the other hand don't get the benefit of the doubt they need to earn it on the ice.

 

[Cleetus]

We know Washington is a serious contender. They don't need to prove anything. The Leafs on the other hand don't get the benefit of the doubt they need to earn it on the ice.

exactly they won the cup, we have not won a series with this core, id simply like your post but that function has been disabled for me lol.

 

[Dirty Dan]

Stay out the box and we win

theyre gonna be gifted pps and probably score

we need a few PP goals

 

[stickty111]

This is the strongest the leafs will be over the next 3 years. In the coming years they'll have to constantly get rid of salary and they don't have any high end prospects coming up except for Liljegren and Sandin.

Florida and Buffalo have accumulated way more assets.

Florida also made a huge upgrade in coaching and, more importantly, will make a huge upgrade in goaltending. And the possibility of Panarin heading there.

Buffalo's ascension is less certain but their problems are fixable and they have a lot of draft picks and prospects to solve their issues.

My prediction is that the leafs will spend the next 3-4 years in a dogfight to just make the playoffs in a stacked division.

 

[Dirty Dan]

Leafs need to win this game, but if not then at least bring the beating to them

seeing jackets crush boston would make things better for me

 

[Nineteen67]

The Raptors are beating the Orlando Magic tomorrow.

It's not a sin to be a fan of all Toronto teams and we need to get past some thinking that the Raptors distract Leafs management or somehow the Leafs condemn

we got the technocrat Dubas with all his analytics! Executive of the year every year for the next decade! He's like Masai Ujiri! Provided we keep sacrificing toughness for skill in the Post Concussion Syndrome aware NHL, there will be no sorrow !

Leafs in a do or die, Raptors can close out a series, and Jays tank is failing miserably! Raptor got the best player in Toronto in Kawhi Leonard, the Leafs have 2 potential generational players in Matthews and Nylander! Tomorrow could be quite the gem!

Just a little too much basketball talk on the radio for my liking. But I can easily turn it off . Hopefully OverDrive doesn’t go overboard with it after if the Leafs are eliminated tomorrow.

 

[AreBe]

I’m not so cynical that I’d trade in a series win for an I-Told-You-So. I think I speak for most grumpy old farts on here in saying, we’d gladly be wrong and eat all the crow that is coming to us.

Look at it this way: Dubas the technocrat is embracing three key elements: Speed, speed and speed.

The NHL is Post Concussion Syndrome aware and fighting is going to be as odd as it is in other sports, fighting will be superfluous

Our technocrat Dubas has an analytics department! We went from no statistics at all to an analytics department! It's like we got Windows Excel to work! And plotting development of players, always in the first quadrant, up and to the right! Statistics, charts and graphs, our GM can read! (Content - The four quadrants)

We need the Leafs to win so that the age of reason can continue, and the toughness crowd gets no false vindication for their ancient and ill- suited to the modern game ideas. Dubas must be given more freedom to keep raising the skill level of the team and of that there is no need to discuss.

 

[Menzinger]

Would like to see some double shifts with Matthew's, give him a few with Nylamder and trybt on nexplout thatblower half of the Bruins lineup. And maybe don't play the 4th line beyond then first half of the 2nd period.

Its do or die tomorrow, no need to rest anyone.

 

[tom leafers]

We know Washington is a serious contender. They don't need to prove anything. The Leafs on the other hand don't get the benefit of the doubt they need to earn it on the ice.

Ah I see where you’re coming from