Series Thread: First Round - Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Tampa Bay Lightning

[dash]

Man if Toronto loses this game...

 

[naslundfan19]

This is aggressive.

 

[dash]

Posts being hit at both ends.

 

[dash]

Matthews!! Still a chance.

 

[elocomotive]

looks like I'm in the minority

I want to talk to you all for a minute and like “A Time to Kill,” I want you to close your eyes.

I want to imagine a poor hockey player, fumbling with the puck along the boards. He feels the stick in his back. He feels the pressure forcing his face into the boards. Bloody, and battered. He gets up slow. He isn’t sure where he even is.

Can you see him? Can you see him in your mind?

Can you?

Now I want you to imagine he was hit by Tom Wilson.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Mighty Comeback™!!!

 

[elocomotive]

Come on Leafs. Send it to OT.

 

[dash]

Rats!

 

[elocomotive]

Boo.

 

[Destroydacre]

Let the talk of another choke job begin

 

[tsawchuk]

 

[dash]

Let the talk of another choke job begin

They'd better win game 6. Actually scratch that, they have to win game 6.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Ffffffffff.......

 

[tsawchuk]

That I've been pulling for the Leafs for a couple years, after years of not fond of them, and the last 15 yrs full of LoLeafs, says something.

I feel for you Leaf boys and girls. I hope they can at least win a fooken series for y'all, though it might cause a riot.

I did half ass hope they'd win in '67, because my boy Terry was playing. And I hated Montreal after '66.

 

[mattola]

They'll be fine.

 

[dash]

They'll be fine.

Matty providing the calm, cool, reassuring voice of reason...Meanwhile, Leafs fans be like

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

This really feels like the 2019 Boston series. Vassy played like he did at the tail end of round 1 last year. Tampa’s big guns aren’t going to stay silent. Cernak could be ready at any moment.

And this dope keeps playing this bum.

 

[BGDave]

I will so need therapy in 2 days

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

This really feels like the 2019 Boston series. Vassy played like he did at the tail end of round 1 last year. Tampa’s big guns aren’t going to stay silent. Cernak could be ready at any moment.

And this dope keeps playing this bum.

Is it just sabotage at this point? This guy is not a defenceman on a good NHL team and you have a better player in the press box. Why are you doing this?

 

[BGDave]

Is it just sabotage at this point? This guy is not a defenceman on a good NHL team and you have a better player in the press box. Why are you doing this?

Makes no more sense from 1000 km away.

I did not have the 12-2 stats but it sure seems like every time Tampa scores, #3 is on the ice. Even the US intermission crew last night were calling him out.