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

[naslundfan19]

AS @puckhead would say, woof!!

I agree, bad trade, but he was hurt the last 2 games.

 

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[tsawchuk]

Tavares can walk into a pub anywhere in Ontario and will not have to buy his own beer for at least 10 yrs.

 

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Tavares can walk into a pub anywhere in Ontario and will not have to buy his own beer for at least 10 yrs.

Yeah, but he seems like a Zima guy to me

 

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[Bloody Brian Burke]

Just gonna say if they don’t start sending Bowen to the road games we’re losing something. This should’ve been an all timer call and it was blown because Rogers have them calling it on a monitor.

 

[BGDave]

AS @puckhead would say, woof!!

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Cal Foote

all for 3 playoff games.

oh, and Tanner is RFA this summer. Fortunately the Bolts have oodles of cap space.

 

[tabascojet]

What's " the keg " in Toronto? Restaurant or liquor store?

 

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What's " the keg " in Toronto? Restaurant or liquor store?

Restaurant.

 

[mattola]

 

[blindbaby]

Just gonna say if they don’t start sending Bowen to the road games we’re losing something. This should’ve been an all timer call and it was blown because Rogers have them calling it on a monitor.

Pretty much every Leaf fan everywhere wish they had Joe and Jim doing the TV broadcasts. They're really dropping the ball here.

 

[mattola]

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Cal Foote

all for 3 playoff games.

oh, and Tanner is RFA this summer. Fortunately the Bolts have oodles of cap space.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Ha theres plenty of jokes still out there. Til they win more playoff rounds than jim benning did with the canucks, there will still be da jokes!

 

[BGDave]

Last comment on the series winning goal.

If you go back and watch the shot by Tavares, you might think that was an odd shot to take and unusual type of shot.

That is 100% a product of his lacrosse background. That spin and whip is a classic lacrosse move. His family are well known in the lacrosse world and John himself has played a lot of lacrosse.

I would speculate that without the lacrosse background, he never attempts that shot and history is forever altered. I was wondering why Vasy was so fooled by the shot, and I believe that is why.

 

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That is 100% a product of his lacrosse background. That spin and whip is a classic lacrosse move. His family are well known in the lacrosse world and John himself has played a lot of lacrosse.

I would speculate that without the lacrosse background, he never attempts that shot and history is forever altered. I was wondering why Vasy was so fooled by the shot, and I believe that is why.

Canada's other official sport

 

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Last comment on the series winning goal.

If you go back and watch the shot by Tavares, you might think that was an odd shot to take and unusual type of shot.

That is 100% a product of his lacrosse background. That spin and whip is a classic lacrosse move. His family are well known in the lacrosse world and John himself has played a lot of lacrosse.

I would speculate that without the lacrosse background, he never attempts that shot and history is forever altered. I was wondering why Vasy was so fooled by the shot, and I believe that is why.

I saw the tweet earlier and it might have been posted here, but it showed Keefe on the Toronto bench mouthing the words "Go forehand" as if instructing Tavares to do the very thing you described above, Dave. As we all know, it worked out great for Toronto.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Canada's other official sport

Is there a significant crossover out west between hockey and lacrosse players?

I grew up where JT did and at least half the hockey players around also played lacrosse seriously and when their hockey careers eventually flames out they stuck with lax (many to get scholarships, for sure, but a few just were super into it more than they were hockey).

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Well, good thing they realized their mistake.

 

[puckhead]

Is there a significant crossover out west between hockey and lacrosse players?

I grew up where JT did and at least half the hockey players around also played lacrosse seriously and when their hockey careers eventually flames out they stuck with lax (many to get scholarships, for sure, but a few just were super into it more than they were hockey).

there was when I was a kid (many moons ago).
winter was hockey , and summer was split between baseball/fast pitch and lacrosse.
the toughest hockey players I played against usually lacrossed in the summer.

and probably similar to Ontario, everything was box lacrosse.
i can't ever remember seeing it played on a field.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

there was when I was a kid (many moons ago).
winter was hockey , and summer was split between baseball/fast pitch and lacrosse.
the toughest hockey players I played against usually lacrossed in the summer.

and probably similar to Ontario, everything was box lacrosse.
i can't ever remember seeing it played on a field.

I think there are a lot fewer kids playing lacrosse than there were pre covid. BC Lacrosse made many missteps during covid and they went 2 years without games at different age groups. Id say field hockey is growing faster now because its making inroads in high schools. My son had a hockey teammate this season who was on Team BC field lacrosse.

The pitfalls of specialization in youth sports aside, Id say in BC/lower mainland, the season stream for the "serious" hockey kids is hockey, spring hockey and ball hockey concurrently, and then summer hockey development/camps.

Ball hockey is a great workout and great to develop the hands ... There was a "lacrosse" goal at my sons ball hockey Saturday afternoon lol