GDT: My Final GDT: Maple Leafs (39-25-15) vs Lightning (39-30-10) | 7:30 PM EST | TSN4

[SEER]

April 6 2017

 

[kk87]

please please please please please please

 

[egd27]

Tampa has to win in regulation or overtime correct?

If they beat us in a shootout it does them no good.

So lets pretend we are in overtime tonight. Anyone think Tampa would pull their goalie with 1 min left or so? They basically HAVE to bc, like I said, if it gets to a shootout they are eliminated from the playoffs.

That would be entertaining AF.

With the way the tiebreakers work
1 ROW
2 H2H
3 Goal Diff

TBL have to win in regulation to stay alive. As long as we take any point tonight, Tampa cannot overtake us without an 11 point swing in goal differential in the last two games.

This however does not eliminate the NYI if they beat Car. So we would not have clinched by just getting 1 point.

 

[ACC1224]

Hopefully Boyle is good to go. They have looked so much better as a 4 line Team.

 

[Woll Smoth]

To keep it simple


Go Leaf Go

 

[BertCorbeau]

Please win

 

[saltming]

To keep it simple


Go Leaf Go

To simplify it further


GLG

 

[pheasant]

Just popping in to say good luck. Will be rooting for your team.

 

[dubey]

Biggest game of the year for sure

Biggest game I've been to in years

 

[yubbers]

I don't ask for much

This I need

 

[Nithoniniel]

9½ hours left, and I'm too nervous to breathe. Ugh.

 

[Cor]

I really want to go to OT this game, just to watch Tampa Bay pull their goalie in OT

 

[Nithoniniel]

I really want to go to OT this game, just to watch Tampa Bay pull their goalie in OT

Stop talking crazy, Cor.

 

[Stats01]

I really want to go to OT this game, just to watch Tampa Bay pull their goalie in OT

And Matthews gets his 40th on the easiest goal he'll ever score to win it.

 

[Cor]

Stop talking crazy, Cor.

I want to watch the world burn man

 

[TheGroceryStick]

Just popping in to say good luck. Will be rooting for your team.

But you're cool.

 

[Budsfan]

Maple Leafs can clinch a playoff berth with a win over Tampa

The turnaround, the rebuild, the reconstruction of the Toronto Maple Leafs -- whatever you want to call it -- has been remarkable.

https://www.thestar.com/sports/brea...ch-a-playoff-berth-with-a-win-over-tampa.html

By Kevin McGranSports Reporter
Thu., April 6, 2017

Ready to celebrate, Toronto?

The Toronto Maple Leafs can cap a terrific, ahead-of-schedule season with a win Thursday night against the clinging-for-life Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Bolts will have an ax to grind from a 5-0 loss to Toronto a few weeks ago that includes the fact the Leafs put out their top power play in the final minute of the game. A no-no under hockey's "code."

The Lightning have more to worry about. They have to go 3-0-0 to close the season to give themselves a chance.

The Leafs are in control of their destiny. One more win and the Leafs are in the playoffs. (There are other complicated ways, as well, including just getting a point from a shootout as long as the Islanders only get two wins in overtime or regulation (Islanders wins in shootouts are okay).

The turnaround, the rebuild, the reconstruction of the Toronto Maple Leafs -- whatever you want to call it -- has been remarkable.

The moment the teardown began -- essentially the firing of Randy Carlyle in January of 2014 -- the thinking was this could take a while.

It was a gimme last year that the Maple Leafs wouldn't make the playoffs. That was pretty much the thinking this year, too. They'd be better, but ...

No one thought they'd be this good. Maybe they did themselves. Players always think that. They go into every game thinking they're good enough to win.

This year, they have been.

 

[Rick74*]

This is most certainly a playoff game boys.

 

[JoeyBeans]

please win

 

[Cor]

And Matthews gets his 40th on the easiest goal he'll ever score to win it.

That would lead to Jets fans complaining that Matthews never actually got 40.

Not because they believe it, but because not only is Matthews better at everything besides scoring than Laine, but he's also a better scorer than Laine

 

[Apotheosis]

I have to study for my exam on Saturday, but I'm too anxious about this game.

 

[Nooodles]

9½ hours left, and I'm too nervous to breathe. Ugh.

Same here...

 

[Man Bear Pig]

This is most certainly a playoff game boys.

Game 80 of the regular season.

 

[Mess]

Punch your own ticket tonight boys !!!

 

[Savvy]

9½ hours left, and I'm too nervous to breathe. Ugh.

i just left work to go back home. Nothing productive getting done anyway