It just keeps on getting WORSE for the leafs...
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- The Toronto Maple Leafs lost to the Boston Bruins in game 4 of their series, Auston Matthews got hurt and Mitch Marner and William Nylander were exchganging words, it's a really negative scene in Toronto right now
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Ah, hockey's greatest rivalry: the Leafs vs. The first round!
Or Leafs vs. Themselves
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It hurts
I’m done with em. I didn’t even waste my Saturday night cause I knew they’d choke AGAIN! Lol trade em alllllll
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"The core four"... that is a nice name for a golf club!
Lmao u are soo right
the core fore
lol this comment section is on fire
"The soft core" is a lot more appropriate 🤣
google "pictures of The Leafs golfing...it looks like the cast of Glee...just sayin'.....looks 10 ply
You can't coach heart. Matthews was disappointed that he didn't get that 70th, and didn't seem too excited about the upcoming playoffs. He doesn't get paid for playoff games, and it shows. love him or hate him, Marchand makes almost HALF the money of at least 4 leaf players and plays with everything he's got every night.
Are you just copy pasting this post on everything about the leafs lol Jesus. How desperate are you for likes
He outplayed them all and yes Matthews doesn't look like he cares. The Bruins are crushing the Leafs hopes and dreams again lol.
interesting observation. I noticed that during the last few games of the regular season when he wasn't scoring, he did not celebrate when teammates scored.
Oh yeah I feel bad for the players. Multimillionaire players...not the idiots who spend $1000+ a ticket to watch this effortless garbage
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I feel bad for the one kid who has the balls to openly cheer for them in small town ontario lol that's about it.
Effortless Garbage 🤣 🚮
@@truecrimejungle hey dont say that i feel bad for all leafs fans its not like they go completely fucking ballistic in comment sections when you tell them that this year isnt different from the rest…. wait 😂
The whole thing is a waste of money and time
Anyone that knows hockey would know leafs aren't built to go anywhere in the playoffs. They're only regular season entertainment.
+ 1. Shanahan needs to go.
I absolutely agree! Well said!
The same with Boston & I’m a Bruins fan.
Dallas cowboys of the nh
Same with the Jets :/
Marchand has outperformed their entire lineup.
I hate that I have to acknowledge that as a reality.
Ya and he makes 6.2 mill.
@@doubledcanada that’s a one spicy meatball.
"Stop f**king crying Marner, this isn't f**king junior anymore"
Ouch
willy said it best
do we know if it was actually Marner he was talking to? Regardless I can’t fathom that this level of frustration is being allowed on the bench. Not what Nylander said, but the fact that players are complaining so much that it’s annoying their teammates. Someone (a coach) needs to tell players to stfu and play at some point, you can’t have your players arguing on the bench like jesus christ, ofc everyone’s gonna tilt and lose focus if that shit’s going on.
@@darrenfleming7901 finally though, some emotion
Crazy Willy saying he hasn’t done anything since signing his big contract
Keefe will bench Nylander for being mean to Marner.
I must have missed it. Lost focus on the game. That clip shows Matthews and Willy jawing at each other, with Mitch in the middle, tossing his gloves. What happened?
@@canadianroot Nylander apparently told mitch to basically shut up this ain't junior . . . after mitch was complaining.
@@swavekbu4959 He looked like he was jawing with Matthews. What was Auston doing? Standing up for Mitch? The editing didn't tell the whole story, I guess.
Fuck sakes, move them all. We need accountability to be a good team going deep
lmfao 😅
Am shocked that Shannahan is still there. Grab a clue Leafs 🧐
Grabbing a clue is knowing the franchise is finished and there isn't a damn soul that can save it.
@@vangoghsear8657 wow what planet or you from? that franchise could print money in last place. Put down that pipe 😵💫
@@bartcanuck734 So you'd pay to see a bunch of neutered males lose endlessly. Just sell your home already.
@@vangoghsear8657what?
This team needs to be boycotted
Sell them all!! Except Matthews.
@@leadnsteel1428 yes sell them all but keep the biggest disappointment who never show up in post season, really smart.
Yours post show what is exactly wrong with this entire organisation, names before trophies.
I am 100% positive you are one of those who were saying Leafs players are better than Bruins players, what a totally delusional fan base
@@marcelobrozovic9872 true but who would take on his contract? The they really just need to clean house all the way up starting from Shanahan and get rid of all their 10 million dollar forwards.
I’ve already been boycotting them since about 2010z
@@leadnsteel1428 I am totally sure there will be at least 2-3 teams very interested in Mathews if he is on the market even with his biggest contract in the league.
Feel bad for them? are you kidding?
The Leafs are losing... "Life is good"!
I feel bad for the Leaf diehards who can't afford to go to the games. It's impossible to feel bad for the overpaid players or their corporate ticket base that keeps funding this failure.
hahaha I was thinking the same thing, feel bad for these overpaid primadonnas? As if...
Feel bad for them? They one game away from months off in the sun with money, women and mansions. Boo hoo
A tale of two captains: Brad Marchand cranks it up to 11 when the playoffs start and becomes as clutch as David Ortiz. Meanwhile, John Tavares disappears and makes Toronto wonder why he wears the captains C.
No one should have the C on the leafs. Cuz no one literally comes to play come playoffs
Tavares the captain. Lol. Worse captain in loaf history
@@scooter29 not exactly but go off
@@jeremy9717 ok maybe Dion then Tavares
5 years in to the most expensive rebuild in NHL history & they're getting booed off the ice after the 2nd period.
Too many cooks in the kitchen?
No grinding #3 line?
No respect for their goalies?
Captain invisible?
An infant throwing tantrums for the camera?
No true desire to win a cup for their fans?
No will to sacrifice?
I must repeat:
5 years in to the most expensive rebuild in NHL history & they are getting booed off the ice after the 2nd period.
i blame shanahan for not signing ohtani.....
We'll see if Otani San is a performer in October. Playoffs a different beast.
Well played! But $20 says Ohtani had money riding on this game! 😂😂😂
@@dereksbooksit all depends on if he takes the over or under. You better hope Shohei take the over 😂
@@dereksbooksdifferente beast youre its call no fucking ❤
Ohtani can win a Vezina as best goalie and a Richard as best scorer.
You cannot pay 4 guys $11M+ and expect to be successful.
They'll just get a new coach. Its always worked out well for em in the past. 🤣 😂
New coach is needed but I also think Tavares and Marner need to go. Marner only tries to do enough to get the heat off him and Tavares is barely worth half of his contract at this point. That all being said.. Shanahan is the big one and we all know this is his team, you can put all the talking heads you want between him and this team but the truth is, he made this group and he chose what to do with it. If I was Treliving when I first showed up here, everyone of the coaching staff would have been gone and I would have done something shocking with the big four, literally whatever was available. Since he didn't do that, I can only assume that was the Shanaplan at play...
@@dylanjones268 I was a real supporter of Marner, but we played better without him for a stretch and he looked like a real baby last night. Tavares is a good player and he always looks like he's putting in the effort. If we can keep him at a lower amount, he's a good captain and works hard.
@@MichaelBelseytavares is too old but he still has that effort however he is trying to do WAY too much for his speed and age
Leafs biggest mistake was signing Tavares at 11mill caphit! No goalie defense sucks! Its actually pathetic thank god I'm no leaf fan
You know you have to wonder if it’s actually entirely the core’s fault and not the coach. You think they’d teach them how to play defence by now, and take away half the net to make Woll/Samsonov’s life easier.
Tavares should do the right thing and retire.
They need 2x 11 mil defenseman. Bye bye Tavares. Bye bye Marner.
@@emperoralvis6559 Keefe is the worst coach (coaching a great lineup) that the Leafs have ever had. He starts a goalie in the playoffs with garbage numbers. He has NEVER benched Marner. The lunatics run the asylum right now and Keefe does F all to reign them in
This season proves they are just a regular season team
The other 10 seasons didn't already prove it? 😏
Where have you been the last 500 seasons 🤣
To quote shoresy, its not that the boys dont love to win, it's that they dont hate to lose
At least it’s the first time Marner dropped the gloves.
The Leafs GM screwed up big time by not upgrading the Leaf Core 4 over the past this. This isn’t the players - it is the Leaf Executives screwing up. 😀
Matthews left because it was reported by the Leafs he has food poisoning. Was that an excuse because of what was going on at the bench. The Leafs are a mess, the Leafs will be strapped with contracts. They can't afford to retool the team especially with Matthews and Nylanders contract. If I was a GM and had to choose between Matthews or MacKinnon, I would choose MacKinnon because of his work ethic.
Whatever the f was happening at the bench has to go. Don't care who it is
90% chance it's BS. Acute food poisoning affecting just 1 player seems unlikely.
Here's the worst thing, they're all signed for next year with no move clauses. Meaning we could be seeing this all over again next year, besides who are you trading? Mathews? who just put up nearly 70 goals and an mvp quality season? Nylander? who just got an extension? Marner or Tavares? who's gonna take on them and you'll get nothing for them. Rielly is the only one I can see being traded, but then you're bringing back the same offense core with a different defense. Next year is gonna be no different.
i am not sorry for toronto all year its about the leafs getting the cup and saying they have the best players ever and yet they cant get through the bruins. Its brutal. Toronto needs to blow up the roster. John Tavares is a no show. Send him packing
Big egos, weak goaltendeing, not playing a team game; but they had no chance against the playoffs built bruins...The bitching on the bench says it all
You have more faith in the Bruins than I do and I am a Bruins fan. I honestly think the only team that the Bruins can beat is the Leafs.
I love the Bruins annual “Bouncing of the Leafs” event _every_ spring. I have zero expectation of a cup run for my B’s… buuut this comes _close_ to making up for that.
I’m a canucks fan but I gotta give it to your players, the amount of times they embarrassed the leafs has made up for the cup loss you delt us.
@@evanobrien7316I wouldn’t go that far
?? we are healthy we have an amazing chance for the cup
@@Razaranger1bruins ain’t winning the cup the bruins are second place to leafs at being the worst choke artists in the playoffs. The only reason Boston managed to win the cup in 2011 was because they were out choked by the luongo led canucks. Boston are lucky they have Torontos number because it’s the one thing they have to look forward to in the playoffs
@@McSorleyFan33 dude ur fried , 2013 Chicago was unreal , we didn’t choke , 2019 we went all the way to game 7 anything could have happened , last year everyone was hurt … this year everyone is healthy, we have the best goalies, best coached team .. remember this comment when the bruins are in the cup . Mark my words.
The core-four? More like soft-core, am I right or am I right??🎤🤣😂🤣😂
But hey, at least Matthews will be getting over $13M starting next year, and Nylander will get his $11.25M starting next year. It's all about those contracts and regular season stats.
And now even if they are willing to blow up this squad, they will be hamstrung by the contracts!
@@dereksbookscan't blow up something that doesn't wanna move 😂 NO MOVEMENT CLAUSES SUCK 🤣🤣🤣🤣 all their contracts on the big 5 have no movement clauses
Whenever the leafs lose a smile is on my face
Only reason I watch the Leafs is to see em lose! I am a professional leaf hater and i am proud of it
Normally I would agree, but the Leafs are losing to the ONE TEAM I HATE MORE THAN THEM
Marchand has more passion playing hockey than the entire Leaf group
The Maple Losers never disappoint their fans. They know what to expect 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I kinda' feel sorry for the Leafs....
Nah, just kiddin'.
Go BRUINS.
In the regular season you can win a lot of games with a small group of highly skilled forwards. In the playoffs however that goes out the window. You win in the playoffs based upon things like your second and third D-men pairings and your second unit penalty kill. Requires a deep team with talent spread throughout. This isn't rocket science. Except to the Leafs. Everyone else has figured it out.
It's also much harder for skilled players to dominate games when the opponent is 100% effort on every shift. There are no easy shifts in the playoffs, and you don't feast off 10 power play games. It takes a special player, and no one on the Leafs has it.
They need some grit in the corners and front of the net like Hyman...oh ya sry.
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If your "Core 4" doesn't include a Goalie, you will never be successful.
Everyone talks shit about Marchand but he is the epitome of heart and a perfect example of "team friendly" deal. You want to chase cups or tee times?
Apparently Matthews left after 2nd intermission because of food poisoning, but this just goes to show the difference between a team like Boston and a team like Toronto....Bergeron played with a PUNCTURED lung in the playoffs and in Toronto in a pretty much a must win game for the Leafs, their star player doesn't even finish the game because of food poisoning. Shows you how much different a team these 2 are.
Food poisoning def sucks tho
@@liamweston2933he could have easily had a quick puke and went back out.
Last January I had the worst food poisoning and it sucked BAD. But I see your point. As a Blues fan, of course I know Bruins very well with 2019 and other matches. Blues and Bruins consider each other rivals for good reason. I do remember Zdeno Chara willing to play 4 games in the 2019 SCF against the Blues with a BROKEN JAW and even started is some of the games. It’s crazy how some of these players are willing to go through so much for their teams and others are not. Chara literally could’ve died during the 2019 SCF. But he chose to help the team instead. They might of fallen short of the cup that year. But, me and my father have nothing but the utmost respect for Chara for what he did.
I had food poisoning once and felt like I was going to die. There are levels to food poisoning.
@@Konananand none of those levels even come close to broken ribs, punctured lungs, & torn cartilage, but I bet you’re a big tough guy for getting over that tummy ache! I’m proud of you champ 😂😂
I’m not sorry, I’m loving this.
Literally the Dallas Cowboys doppelgängers wow
Without Matthews this would be a sweep. He's the only one worth anything. Every team they face knows that all they have to do is cover Matthews and the Leafs will lose. Welcome to Laughs nation!
Montreal has built a playoff team ! Watch out next year !
Whatever…
@@stevenweint7893 Bettman favours southern teams anyway !
Leafs need two teams: Team A gets them to the playoffs, and Team B gets them to the cup. Send Mathews, Marner and Tavares to the golf course and keep Nylander, Reilly and the cheap players for the playoffs.
Not even a fan of neither but Marchand tripping players right in front of the refs that lead to game winning goals is grimy.
LETS PUT IT THIS WAY...IF YOU WERE PAID MILLIONS AND HAD A CHOICE FOR 5 MONTHS OFF,HEALTHY AND NOT BRUISED AND BEAT UP VERSES PLAYING UNTIL THE END OF JUNE AND BEAT UP WITH ONLY 3 MONTHS OFF AND TAKING A MONTH TO HEAL....WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?
Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m thinking and they’re not getting paid too.
That’s what it looked like last night. They do want to win but it’s sooooo hard .
Well, they r thinkg, "whats the point? We can't beat any of the OTHER teams in the playoffs right now! Might as well get to golfing and jet skiing." They know there is 1 month of summer, with 2 months of bad sledding surrounding it. You can't enjoy millions$ nearly as well when u r hurt....and didn't even make it past 2 rnd. Again.
I predict an OT Boston victory in game 5 with Woll in the Leafs net, standing on his head throughout the game only for them to get their hearts broken, yet again, by a Boston team willing to do whatever it takes.
Being a Leafs fan all my life, my son naturally became a fan, too. Now I feel like an abusive dad.
Honestly the best thing I ever did was not become a cowboys fan like my dad. Made the mistake of investing in this team
Why would your son "naturally" become a Leafs fan; you indoctrinated him. Admit it.
@@sublime8728 Yes, I did...naturally
McDavid gets 5 assists in 1 game, Hyman has 6 goals in 3 games... yall must be envious... I'm not making fun i would be too and you're absolutely right, Tavares and Marner gotta go.
When a team names a group of their players "the core four" it's the first sign of their demise.
This just in. The Leafs have broken UA-cam commentators, all over the internet!
Will never feel bad for the leafs. They’ve had 68 years to make something happen, and yet they’ve been nothing but garbage for that entire time. Will forever amuse me knowing they’re leafs fans out there (who’re the most classless, stupid, delusional people ever) that actually think they’ll contend for a cup with matty (who ain’t top 5) Marner, Rielly tavs, and willie on their team. Dumpster fire franchise.
Dubas gave up Hyman (50+goals), Moore (30+ w LA), Brown (Pk specialist), Marchment, Jared (awesome for Seattle) and Freddy (going on a cup run w Carolina. Oh yes and Kadri, who WON A CUP. 😅
SHANAHAN OUT.
It's not the core 4, the problem lies with coaching. Keefe is not the coach for this team. I realize that this comment has been made before but it is true. Paul Maurice of Florida is a prime example. The Leafs are just as talented as Florida, but Maurice knows how to utilize his talent that he has on the bench.
Lou would never have gone all in on the core four like Shanahan has insisted. Obviously it is a fundamental mistake. Yes, Nylander is a very good player, but an opportunity was missed by not trading him this year to gain some balance.....Shanahan, Treliving and Keefe need to go....
regards from Vancouver
"You have to split the core 4"
All 4 have NMC.
trade em all for picks. did auston really quit
It's so toront-over
Plan the Parade...... Anyone remember the the April 2018 issue of The Hockey News? I kept it just for such occasions. Series isn't over though so just maybe
Leafs are just not a playoff team.Not built for it.
Marner needs therapy for his Dads abusive hockey parenting.
BINGO. FINALLY SOMEONE GOT IT RIGHT
been sayin that for years...he needs to grow a pair...it is a mans game in the playoffs...it gets mean Mitchy starts crying, Tavares as well...pampered soft guys
Blowout. 10-0 Bruins. Condolences, Maple Leafs. I knew this was gonna happen.
Yep. Coach is gone. Marner is your problem. Tavares is NOT your captain, he should go too. But how now brown cow, how now?
Its a psychological issue in leafs town. This has been happening for years! Never fully rebuilding, outlandishly HIGH contracts, and, like most Leafs fans, self induced blindness to the situation. There is a reason good players have left that team, more importantly, that town. It sucks to go thru a real rebuild. But having a team thag gives you false playoff hopes by having an "ok" season regularly, with "much better" seasons sprinkled in, is just unrealistic in reaching the cup. They should have rebuilt for real before mathews got there, and they would be in a real position to make at least ECF. It sucks, but maybe the fans need to not boo their home team in a pre-season game, because the redwings are whipping them without any starting stars playing. Players want to leave because of the pressure of unrealistic expectations from fans on players who are playing on a team whose management wont go all in on having a well rounded team. As i understand it, the Leafs have very little in regards to draft picks coming in the next 5 yrs.(they r1 of lowest rated teams for draft picks coming up in their system) they have paid cup winning money to players (not mathews) who are literally not cup winners. And unfortunately, they wont be while in tor for yrs to come.
They fully rebuilt bro
Who? Leafs? Rebuilt to lose, again, in 1st round? I am truly curious to know what u mean.
Seems to me, the 1st reply is what management has been saying for yrs. Proof of no true rebuild is example #1 Netminding. For the last 10 yrs or so. (When Leafs have had a good goalie, they have lacked in other positions enough that having a good net minder isn't enough) #2 they have no draft pool of 1st line players itching to get the opportunity; if they did, they would've called them up. #3....I will let others add to the list, so I'm not the only kid in class answering every question!
Don't feel bad for the most toxic fans in the league.
“Stop fucking crying Marner… this isn’t fucking junior” - Nylander. Truer words have never been spoken by any of the core 4 before that
I have been saying this for years. Get rid of the 'Starts' and get players that work hard....like Bertuzzi and Domi. A whole bunch of them is better than these barbie dolls.
Domi and Bertuzi do work hard but are not very smart or talented.
The Toronto Maple Leaf's are like Stan Mikita's Chicago Blackhawks, full of talent didn't play as a team and only won one Stanley cup. You build a team from the back end forward. Brenden Shanahan needs to go.
year 10 of the shanascam 😂
Boston will win game 5 too and send the Leafs packing Bruins in 5. The Leafs lack the grit and toughness in the playoffs especially from the core 4. It’s an absolute disgrace and an embarrassment why Matthews didn’t play in the third period. I mean this your season on the line for him not to play because of an illness nope that doesn’t fly with me this is the playoffs I don’t care how sick you are. I agree they have so many chances with the core 4 it’s time to finally split this current group of players on the Leafs. I’m very disappointed in the Leafs game 4 performance the fans have every right to boo and be upset they are big money to go watch the Leafs in the playoffs. It’s shameful how easily they just fold up like a cheap suitcase in the playoffs year after year. And I don’t consider last year a success either they only won one game in the second round against a Florida team that they were favourites to win against before the series started winning one game in the second round I don’t consider that a success
Toronto has outplayed Boston for most of this series other than game 1 where they got dominated. They just can't score & have stupid penalties.
It's the leaders. Keefe is a horrible coach. Woll should have started game 2. JT is NOT A CAPTAIN. Give the C to someone who cares. Keefe and JT don't demand ANY accountability
Bruins in 5 boys
Bruins in 5 boys??? Are they Roman Catholic?! 😧😧😧
Move the team to Arizona, make matthews captain watch them win the cup.
There's no team in Arizona
@@sean367 Perfect they'll have the whole market to themselves.
Bet you they still find a way to lose in 7, just to give us fans that last little bit of hope before crushing it again
Hogtown Hoser here... My Buddy is an avid Golfer and Leafs-supporter. I told him the Bruins would win the Series in five games - I didn't have the heart to say "FOUR!"...
Needs to go:
1. Sheldon Keefe
2. Brendan Shanahan
3. Auston Matthews.
You can't win with Auston Matthews.
4. Mitch Marner
marner before matthews. you don't trade a guy like matthews away. he'll thrive on a proper team
5. John Taveras. He is the captain. Where is his leadership? Nobody talks about this.
@@leonroberts01his leadership is non-existent.
1. Keefe
2. Marner
3. Tavares
You need a coach with a spine to stand up to players and actually make them accountable. You need a number 1 D-Man (for Marner). You need an actual captain to lead by example and ramp up the players' intensity.
This HAS to be it for Tavares as a Leaf .His massive $11M salary is preventing the LEafs from getting effective depth peices in goal ,on D and bottom 6.They had to settle for Edmunson at the deadline becsue that was all they could afford .Treliving HAS to approach Tavares this summer and ask him to waive his NMC so they can get rid of him and the final year of that deal .If he refuses they should sit him out ,put him on the 4th line and piss him off until he asks to be sent out .
Gilmore, Clark, Andrechuck and Potvin is the last Leaf team to do anything in the playoffs and that was 30 years ago.
You must of been hiding in a bunker in 1999 until y2k panic was over.
Everyone in Canada except for Toronto is having a jolly good time 😂 move the team to Quebec City if it doesn’t work out
I’m not a leafs fan at all. But I hope lessons are being learned here about hockey. Anyone who’s watched enough hockey knows it isn’t over until it’s over. The game is a game of momentum swings and anything that can happen WILL happen.
In this league the last thing a team wants to be is down 3-0 or 3-1 in the playoffs. We have seen teams come back from a 3-0 deficit and win so it is not over until it is over. If this happens again i do see a major shakeup within the organization.
The Bruins have two top tier goaltenders. The leafs... not even second tier. That's a huge swing.
I'm not defending the Leafs, all that is said is true, but here are some other factors to consider. It's not injuries that plague the Leafs currently, it's illness, whether flu or stomach bugs, I don't know, but one can't play when they are ill. Willy was out not due to injury, but migranes. Notice his tinted visor? Sammy is a terrible high pressure goalie. What is he doing 3 feet out of the blue paint during that Boston PP? What was he doing on JVR's goal. That shit would never have gotten in on Swayman or Ullmark. Both plays are not his fault, but his goaltending is. Let's not forget what happened to the Boston president trophy winners of last year in the first round. You don't think they have something to prove? Credit to them for doing so. Tavares has one year left? Marner also with a NTC, which I hope he will exercise in terms of allowing the organization to get something for him, instead of him just walking to free agency. I would not sign him. Matthews is actually playing well this series, despite being sick most if not all of it. He's clearly dealing with a respiratory illness. How do I know? Because the lack of common curtesy camera crew zoomed in on his nostrils in game 3 and you could see it all flared up, peeling, red, from excessive nose blowing. Good luck next year Leafs. Sincerely, your die hard fan since 92-93.
The Leafs are done because their coach won't demand his team to fix their lack of defence. They bunch up, all going for the puck in one spot and get in each other's way, while the opposing team remains spread out so they can pass it to each other, and not collide with each other. Also, when the Leafs are on the defensive and boxed in, they will just stand still and watch the other team pass it to each other, instead of skating towards the opposing player with the puck and forcing him to shoot the puck too early to be of any use. This has been going on for years. First step for improvement is to fire their entire coaching staff.
To all of the Leaf fans that watch this video, I am not.
You all deserve it. 🍻
ALL Shanahan's fault. Rebuild was on the right track until Dubas was hired. They have gone nothing but down since. In addition Shanahan held onto Dubas for WAY too long. We could have had a better GM than Dubas. Dubas made one dumb move after another and Shanahan just let Dubas walk all over him. Keefe should have been fired after that collapse against Montreal and Shanahan and Dubas should have been as well. He does fire Dubas but then what does he do? He hires the first GM available and does not look around or do any research. Treliving is NO better than Dubas if not worse. The ENTIRE coaching staff NEEDS to be replaced including that lunatic Sheldon Keefe. This has gone on for FAR too long. We need change and we need it NOW!!!!!!!!!!
The classic hockey formula for success is a couple of star forwards, a star d-man, a kick-ass goalie, and a solid supporting cast. But Shanahan and Dubas thought that they were smarter than everyone else, and they decided to over-invest cap money in four star forwards. And with Tavares getting older and slower, they have four star contracts, but really only three star players. And of those, Marner has consistently shown that he is not a strong playoff performer. Now we have a situation where all four are either injured or old. The Leafs would have been better off if they had kept Freddie Anderson in net, and traded one of their marquee forwards for a great d-man and a bunch of draft picks or supporting players.
As a leafs fan, I am surprised anyone actually thought we had a chance to beat the bruins. I knew we were going to lose from the start. Toronto is a worse team this year then they were last year.
Fire Keefe, Split the core 4, and fill the holes that were never fixed.
It's very easy to understand, they chase stats, don't play as a team, and have no heart.
I cannot feel sorry for the team, or their fans, who come out in high-priced droves to watch garbage, and have the gall to keep complaining about it.
There's no incentive at all for this franchise to change, so here's their purgatory.
Nylander, Matthews and Marner should’ve left at free agency.
Nobody can't get over the pressure of the Toronto market. Maybe if the Toronto market took on a winning and not a winging attitude they might win more.
feel sorry for the players.???? The "top three" have taken $100 million in salary and can't be asked to take a hit, back check or go in the corner...the players have everything they could dream of, meals, massages, free everything ...pampered prima donnas.
The Leafs play ballerina/globetrotters hockey, the flashy moves don't work in the playoffs when time and space is eliminated. They don't know how to play playoffs hockey
Feel bad for the players? Lmao..they get all the blame. They make all the money. And are the last ppl I'd feel bad for in that situation.
Rather than picking out their fancy wardrobe for their arena entrance, maybe Matthew’s, Marner and Nylander should focus on the game
ahead. Those fancy clothes look pretty ridiculous when they get your asses handed to them.
Worthless
Not sure why this is such a shock honestly. The Bruins have owned Toronto in the playoffs for quite awhile now and they swept all 4 games in the regular season. It was strange to me when Bruin fans were upset we dropped our last 3 games and ended up second instead of first. I was happy because it meant Toronto in the first round and not Tampa, a team we have had issues with. Some teams just match up against other teams much better than they would others. Could boil down to systems etc. Throw in lack of confidence due to past results and this is what happens.
What Toronto needs is to deal some of that salary cap weight they carry in 4 players and get a few Bertuzzii types and a good young goalie along with a few good draft picks. They will not win a cup with this crew. I see Edmonton as very similar. Certainly right now Skinner is very confident and playing well, but if he went down or lost that confidence, good bye Edmonton. Due to a much easier conference and division, Edmonton will win a round or 2 but no cup either. Not deep enough !!!!!!!! IMO
It's more so the coaching. Look at van. They would not be the same team without tocchet. They have been doing the shanaplan for too long with the most embarrassing results imaginable only to keep hitting the redo button. Leafs ownership is the definition of insanity.
ON A POSITIVE NOTE
THE LEAFS HAVE SOME OF THE BEST GOLFERS IN THE NHL
Big news Toronto just signed 3 new Russian hockey players Summeroff, Teeoff and pissedoff.
Bruins fan here. Thank you leaf fans, for the yearly entertainment. Not sure how you’re going to split them up. No one’s gonna take on those contracts for these softies.
The Leaf management is responsible for giving long term contracts at big bucks for players who have not performed in playoffs. They are rewarding players who have not accomplished anything in playoffs. They also let go of Hyman and Kadri, 2 gritty players who would look good against Boston or Florida, because of saleries of the core 4. They then try to fill need by getting Bertuzzi, Domi, and last year O'Reilly. There isn't a long term plan. The evaluation of players' character and not just talant is and has been terrible terrible
Feel bad? Are you kidding me.. I wait all year for this to happen..watching the leafs lose brings such joy to my life, I take the family out for dinner and drinks to celebrate the leafs losing, and I am not even a boston fan