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Around The League - 2025 Offseason

Expectations need to be managed IMO - the era of the dominant G is over. Rocket launcher one piece sticks + ultra skilled players who are more fit than anytime in the past make it close to impossible for G to perform as they once did…. unless they’ve got size + positioning perfection… which further highlights Price’s accomplishments

I’m willing to bet no G will maintain 8-yr span of playoff domination the way Price did between 2013 - 2021 w best sv% of G w 20GP+
No one is asking Hellebuyck to dominate for 8 years. They're waiting to see if he can be dominant in one year for 6-8 weeks.
 
Call your shots now.

Arguably the biggest game in Wehave's life in 21 yrs.

Leafs are facing 21 yrs of demons. Win tonight and they will be in Final.

The thought of wanting Mole and Dumbdon to win makes me puke.

Florida pulls it out.
 
I no longer care if the Leafs win or don't. I almost want them to win tonight because ive run out of patience with this timeline. Instead of being glad when they lose, I find myself getting angry at them for being so goddamned inept. Im getting to the point where their incompetence annoys me more than their failure brings me joy.

Besides, it's not like they're winning the Cup.
 
I no longer care if the Leafs win or don't. I almost want them to win tonight because ive run out of patience with this timeline. Instead of being glad when they lose, I find myself getting angry at them for being so goddamned inept. Im getting to the point where their incompetence annoys me more than their failure brings me joy.

Besides, it's not like they're winning the Cup.
This is your "I don't care about Four Nations but will watch every second" playoff moment.

Either that or secretly you love them and suffer Stockholm Syndrome from all your time on Zeke's board.
 
Bob has been amazing past game 2. Trouble with the leafs is their game 7 ineptness may not be a fluke, much like Pete Deboer’s success isn’t either

Florida pulls it out tonight.
 
This is your "I don't care about Four Nations but will watch every second" playoff moment.

Either that or secretly you love them and suffer Stockholm Syndrome from all your time on Zeke's board.
I only watched the 2 games between Canada and the US, mostly just to hear the anthem get booed. Had Canada lost I'd have forgotten about it 5 minutes later.
 
This is your "I don't care about Four Nations but will watch every second" playoff moment.

Either that or secretly you love them and suffer Stockholm Syndrome from all your time on Zeke's board.
I'm just tired of it. I want them to be hateable again. Right now they're just pitiful and I don't want to pity them. I want to be able to hate them. But hatred requires a bare minimum of success.

I never truly hated the Nordiques until 1982 when they eliminated us. Had we beaten them every single time, like the Leafs do with the Sens, then there'd be nothing to get angry about. Nothing to hate.

Hating the Leafs merely for existing isn't getting it done for me anymore.
 
I'm still not impressed, overall, with goaltending in these playoffs. A lot of questionable goals. Maybe I'm just used to at least one guy standing on his head consistenty through the playoffs in recent years.

I can't speak for the Carolina series. Like many in Canada probably, I saw hardly any of it.
These playoffs are fucked , every third goal is a deflection , bad bounce , or some other fluke
 
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