No one should be surprised. In fact, that wasnt even terrible.

Soup did great and exceeded my expectations by far. Matthews played well and it was fun to watch... but McDavid in their G7 showed what it is to really step up.

At least 3 big moves need to happen... but at this point i have no faith that upstairs will move around or add the guys to the team.

I think it would be wrong to blow up the core over this loss, they were right there. The game was decided on 1 goal. Last year vs MTL was just straight up failure, this stings more because of how well the team actually played. Reg season and playoffs.
I know the "better team won" but I don't always love that argument, Tampa is a monster team for sure, but did they really play that much better than us 5 on 5? I say it was even, if not slight edge to the Leafs.
The 2nd goal last night from Nick Paul, what do you even say? Who do you fault? It was just a goal-scorers goal. It was very unfortunate.

That 5 on 3 fucked us in Game 6, that was the game we needed to close out, and I feel like without that happening we wouldn't be having this conversation right now. I truly felt we would have been able to win that game, as soon as it went to OT, I knew it would be Tampa win. Just because that's the way it goes.

What they need to adjust is the 3rd line. I know Mikheyev/Engvall had their looks, but they needed to get something for us. Kase is also another question mark, really good player but too injury prone.

The idea i've been reading of trading Matthews/Marner is just ludicrous, and would start us from square one, when we were right there... 1 goal, 1 play away. I don't feel like we need to panic on this one.
This one really hurts though. I know McDavid did step up in Game 7, but I don't think it's fair to compare LA Kings to Tampa, they are just 2 different beasts.

This post was edited by Para_Medic on May 15 2022 07:20pm

its here we post memes right?

sucks that they lost to a bunch of cheaters but at the same time i hate both team so it doesnt matter

He wanted to go to a team for a chance at cup, little did he know 1st round is too much for the leafs to handle.

I dont ever really focus on the reffing, leafs always line the box with stupid penalties. But that 5on3 was basically a gifted goal to tie up the most important lead ive ever witnessed the leafs having. I asked myself what was the message the refs were sending, because it changed the intensity moving forward everytime.

It is fair to compare because as you said they blew it against the habs as well.... its doesnt matter who's in front of them, they cant pull through the beast.

Wont catch me even thinking about trading Matthews or Marner.
Funny thing is i never understood picking up JT in terms of cap space. I bitched about it and fast forward to now and everyone is focused on it "maybe" being a bad idea... lmao wake up. Cant get the 3rd and 4th line built with no money

This post was edited by zNick on May 16 2022 09:20am

please leave this on Facebook where you found it

Jt was absolutely horrendous this year. Dude just piggy backed asts and PP points. So bad 5 on 5. He's also un tradable as I wudnt see any teams dumb enough to trade for him. Also wouldn't send a good message as no 1 wants to play for the laffs any ways. We don't even have a goaltender tor next season and losing lebush and gio.

This post was edited by Vtrix on May 16 2022 11:36am

Marner for Doughty

Gio signed for two years

Gg

800k per year

Let’s
Go

This post was edited by partank on May 22 2022 02:04pm

Wtf