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2nd Rnd '25 Playoffs: Leafs vs Panthers - Flo-Rida them onto the ECF - LFG!

Ekblad's return was the turning point IMO, and the Panthers just got stronger and stronger every game after that. The goaltending got stronger, the forecheck stepped up. The first two games they didn't look much like Cup champs, but the last 3-4 they looked a lot more like the team that won the Cup last year - fast and relentless checking.
 
BG said:
Ekblad's return was the turning point IMO, and the Panthers just got stronger and stronger every game after that. The goaltending got stronger, the forecheck stepped up. The first two games they didn't look much like Cup champs, but the last 3-4 they looked a lot more like the team that won the Cup last year - fast and relentless checking.
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Ekblad will get many offers this summer. Made for the playoffs if he can stay healthy.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
"Bellows"? Like Brian Bellows?

I think you mean "bowels" of the rink and I'm pretty sure that Ballard was dead long before the first shovel went into the ground on the Scotiabank site. Only his avaricious management style survives him. He would look at the half hundred ways that MLSE grinds Leafs fans for their money and say "Now why didn't I think of that!"
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Ballard died in 1990, the arena was completed in 1998
 
Florida dumps and chases more than any team in the NHL but they do it smart. When they rim it around the boards they make sure that it gets past the goalie and that the defender has to play it off the backhand. And instead of one guy they send 2; one to attack the guy retrieving the dump-in and a second to attack his outlet pass. That's what led to all those extended zone times for the Panthers in the Leafs' end.
 
Wayward DP said:
that and after game 2 Maurice made adjustments that we could just not adapt to
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they started pinching like fucking crazy for one. Our wingers sometime suck at getting the puck out on the walls (We're really not very big on the wing) so it leads to us happily dropping back into our parked bus defensive scheme and also we're pretty shit in transition on account of half of the wingers on the team being useless offensively so when we did get out in transition it was a Scott Laughton led rush, or a Steven Lorentz partial breakaway. You live with the handful of times that's Willy or Knies getting free if it means you're going to successfully keep play in our end a bunch of times, and our roster building has already mitigated a bunch of the risk in getting caught on bad pinches a few times a game.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
"Bellows"? Like Brian Bellows?

I think you mean "bowels" of the rink and I'm pretty sure that Ballard was dead long before the first shovel went into the ground on the Scotiabank site. Only his avaricious management style survives him. He would look at the half hundred ways that MLSE grinds Leafs fans for their money and say "Now why didn't I think of that!"
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A) It's an old English idiom meaning down in the belly. Bellows are located in the belly of a boat and its a term sailors used when describing the area

B) go fuck yourself
 
Artnes said:
A) It's an old English idiom meaning down in the belly. Bellows are located in the belly of a boat and its a term sailors used when describing the area

B) go fuck yourself
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A) Bellows does not refer to the belly of the boat. The bellows are used to stoke the furnace or the boiler, which is often located in the bowels of a ship.

B)
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I remember working inside Maple Leaf Gardens before they completely gutted the building; all the seats had been removed, but the rooms, hallways and general structure were still all intact. Right at center ice was a plaque in the concrete with Ballard's name, hand and foot prints. Seriously the kind of shit curses are generated from, not to mention all the other evil shit that happened in that building.

Edit: Not really related to Ballard but I was able to go up into the catwalks in the roof of the building. Pretty much anyone who has ever worked there would sign their name in marker on the I-Beams with the date, it was pretty amazing seeing names from the 30's and 40's.
 
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Feyd said:
I remember working inside Maple Leaf Gardens before they completely gutted the building; all the seats had been removed, but the rooms, hallways and general structure were still all intact. Right at center ice was a plaque in the concrete with Ballard's name, hand and foot prints. Seriously the kind of shit curses are generated from, not to mention all the other evil shit that happened in that building.

Edit: Not really related to Ballard but I was able to go up into the catwalks in the roof of the building. Pretty much anyone who has ever worked there would sign their name in marker on the I-Beams with the date, it was pretty amazing seeing names from the 30's and 40's.
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I remember my first visit there as a kid back in 1973, a game against the North Stars. The steep angle of the seating, and how much bigger it seemed compared to the Forum (even though it was actually a bit smaller in terms of seating capacity) which had a low slung, W shaped roof. That dome ceiling seemed so high up.

I also remember those urinal troughs in the men's room, the flat soda pop served in tiny wax paper cups with pieces of plastic wrap over them instead of lids. And of course all those black and white photos on the walls of the concourses.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I remember my first visit there as a kid back in 1973, a game against the North Stars. The steep angle of the seating, and how much bigger it seemed compared to the Forum (even though it was actually a bit smaller in terms of seating capacity) which had a low slung, W shaped roof. That dome ceiling seemed so high up.

I also remember those urinal troughs in the men's room, the flat soda pop served in tiny wax paper cups with pieces of plastic wrap over them instead of lids. And of course all those black and white photos on the walls of the concourses.
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They actually sold off the urnals via auction. People will buy anything.
 
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