GDT: NSCBN ,SAVT ,CBC | MP 00:7 32 lirpA | )2( sfaeL elpaM otnoroT @ )3( sniurB notsoB | 6 emaG FQCE

[Damisoph]

Whose idea was this

 

[saltming]

So no leo

 

[AnomX]

Someone start a new thread.....

 

[DarkKnight]

Let’s go boys!!

 

[Liferleafer]

Great GDT!!

OG SFAEL OG!!!!

 

[Damisoph]

So no leo

Is it bad that I'm relieved?

 

[SprDaVE]

I hope the players buy in to that one.

 

[Liferleafer]

Rat and Limp Noodle....lol.

 

[saltming]

Is it bad that I'm relieved?

Not really. I think the coach gets too much hate around here but I didn't want to see Leo get back in when he did at all

 

[Pi]

CBC is not reversed in the title...

 

[saltming]

CBC is not reversed in the title...

That's a 5 minute major for shenanigans

 

[Warden of the North]

Refs stay the same for the whole series right?

Great

 

[MapleLeafs9]

They do not

Refs stay the same for the whole series right?

Great

 

[Budsfan]

Monday game preview: Boston Bruins at Toronto Maple Leafs

The Leafs could use a breakthrough game from centre Auston Matthews.

Monday game preview: Boston Bruins at Toronto Maple Leafs | The Star

Boston’s David Pastrnak, left, has 11 points in the first round but he hasn’t scored a goal since Game 2. (Michael Dwyer / The Associated Press)

By Mark ZwolinskiSports Reporter
Sun., April 22, 2018

AIR CANADA CENTRE
Game 6: Boston leads series 3-2
FACEOFF: 7 p.m.
TV: CBC
RADIO: Sportsnet 590 The FAN
KEY PLAYERS
Pastrnak/Matthews
Bruins forward David Pastrnak had an incredible 18 shot attempts in Game 5 Saturday night, but he has not scored a goal in this series since the second game. He still lead all playoff scorers with 11 points heading into Sunday. Leafs centre Auston Matthews, held to a goal and an assist so far, continues his battles with the Bruins defence, especially Zdeno Chara. Matthews has been improving but the Leafs could use a breakthrough game.

NEED TO KNOW
Nazem Kadri had a success rate better than 71 per cent in the faceoff circle in Game 5, showing his value to the Leafs as he returned from a three-game suspension … Boston will no doubt be going over video of Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen, who was the difference in the third period, when Toronto was outshot 20-5. The Bruins had 39 shot attempts in the period. Boston will likely attempt to get more traffic in front of Andersen, and possibly push the envelope in terms of contact with him … Leafs defenceman Jake Gardiner had an assist in Game 5, his first of these playoffs after a career-high 47 in the regular season. Gardiner has seven points in 17 career playoff games … Toronto killed off five of six penalties in Game 5, and is now 11-for-17 in the series.
UP NEXT
Game 7, if necessary, Wednesday, at Boston. Time: TBA

Leafs come home with increased belief in a comeback
Lance HornbyMore from Lance Hornby

Leafs come home with increased belief in a comeback

Seeing the Maple Leafs walk into the Air Canada Centre on a sunny Sunday with no scheduled practice usually means locker clean-out.
This assemblage, however, was a team meeting to prep for Game 6, their belief tank topped up by a huge 4-3 in Boston the night before to stave off elimination. Coming all the way back from a 3-1 series hole remains a formidable feat not done by a Leafs team in 76 years, but here’s betting the in-house camera finds the 1942 Stanley Cup banner in the rafters at some point on Monday night.
Coach Mike Babcock had to feel personal relief at such a huge road win, his faith rewarded in the lineup he relied on most of the year, getting the required goals, penalty killing, netminding and surviving a late Boston rally that raised the spectre of the 2013 playoff meltdown.
“You don’t have to believe this if you don’t want to, but at no time last night did I feel we were going to lose,” he said. “Why? Some nights you’re playing so poorly (you think) you’re never going to win. Last night wasn’t one. These are opportunities and you want to be known as one of the guys who gets it done this time of year. To me that’s the measure of your career. You want to be in the big moment, you have to relax and execute. But you have to believe and I think our group does.”
No softies eluded goalie Frederik Andersen, Nazem Kadri came back from suspension and played a whale of a game, Ron Hainsey stayed out three full minutes while on kill duty and despite temptation to get rugged Leo Komarov back in the lineup from a nagging knee injury, blind loyalty gave way to lucidity and Andreas Johnsson stayed in. Komarov had told the media Saturday morning he was ready to go.
“What was sent to you and what was told to me was a little bit different,” Babcock insisted. “When he talked to our (medical) guys, he was 85% and that doesn’t cut it at playoff time.”
As for some other radical roster moves, such as bringing Matt Martin or Josh Leivo out of mothballs, Babcock said “none were considered.” Of Monday’s plan he said “we’ll have the same people, I’m not sure the same lineup. Because we have last change at home might make that different.”
For survivors of the Game 7 meltdown in Boston in 2013; Jake Gardiner, Kadri, James van Riemsdyk and Tyler Bozak, saving their season instead of turning a 4-1 margin into an overtime loss was soul cleansing.
“We had a lead, similar to five years ago,” Gardiner said, beating reporters to the 2013 analogy. “Glad we got over that curse so that’s out of our minds. It was intense, especially when they made it 4-3. We just tried to relax, not take our foot off the gas. You’re going to win in all sorts of fashion in the playoffs and that being one of them was nice.
“We know they’ll be coming hard (Monday), but it’s our building, it will be loud and well be ready.”
Alternate captain Morgan Rielly shares the boss’ enthusiasm about how much the Leafs have grown in the cauldron of this series.
“Last night when we were going back and forth to the penalty box and their crowd was pretty loud, I was trying to talk to the ref and we couldn’t really hear each other. That’s a pretty cool atmosphere and I wouldn’t expect much difference (Monday).
“Going into Game 5, we had belief in ourselves and within the group. When you go out and play a good game, that just adds to it, makes you that much more excited for Game 6 and adds to the belief, the comfort and the confidence. We feel good moving forward about what’s left to be done. We believe we can get it done.”

 

[BodaciousBeefBazooka]

Do or die. Let's go!

 

[Mugzy97]

racecar

kayak

 

[Mugzy97]

What's with all the palindromes and backwards writing?

Holy ****e. Bad start to the thread. I guess I'm old school, but I prefer English.

Can all backwards words become an infraction?

Whose idea was this

Someone start a new thread.....

We are 1-0 with backwards threads. If we get out of this series you better get used to it lol

 

[SprDaVE]

God I hope we don't lay an egg like Philly and Colorado.

I hope we can get a couple good bounces to go our way tonight. It feels like every goal we got were earned, not like goals from weird bounces off the boards, net or skate.

I would not be surprised if the game tonight has very little PPs, so 5 on 5 will be very important.

 

[Maplebeasts]

kayak

Red rum.... dang it.

 

[ACC1224]

Refs stay the same for the whole series right?

Great

I don't think so.

 

[Budsfan]

 

[Marshy]

I don't think so.

Just the uni

 

[Budsfan]

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Take it to game 7 boys!

 

[ULF_55]

This is a pretty big game tonight.

Want everything on display.