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For Borje - The Toronto Maple Leafs 2023 Stanley Cup Champions Thread

If they scored one more goal yesterday, this whole forum would be talking about the never say die Leafs. And expecting three more straight wins. Lost in OT on the road with our third string goalie with less than 10 games experience in net without a warmup.

Don’t let one goal dictate the current or future direction of the team.
 
“I think some of the Sharks heard that message,” Stoll said. “We knew Darryl was in our corner. The things he was saying, I wouldn’t want to hear them if I was playing against his team. What he said rubbed off on us.”

So perhaps for the Leafs to come back against the Panthers, the public messaging has to reflect their own inner confidence.

“We had (the 2012 Stanley Cup) in our pockets,” Sutter told The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun. “We really believed that the pressure was on them and we knew how to win/close out a series better because of our experience.”

On Monday, Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe wasn’t brimming with the same kind of swagger.

“Obviously it’s felt a lot more like what we’ve been through in the past. It’s been challenging, it’s been difficult to understand, yet it’s our reality and it’s where we’re at,” Keefe said of the Leafs’ play in this round.

So while where the Leafs are at isn’t an enviable position, it’s one that former players argue they can take advantage of with a different kind of messaging.

“You just have to put pressure and doubt on the minds of the team that are up 3-0,” Stoll said.
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Lessons for the Maple Leafs from NHL players who came back from a 3-0 deficit

Ex-King Jarret Stoll and ex-Flyer Scott Hartnell explain how teams they were on came back from big postseason deficits to win their series.
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Keefe is shit.
 
What a joke. Nobody's scoring and he just says "lets give it another whirl I guess".

Get a bit creative FFS. Didn't Willy win WC MVP playing the left side? Put him there and tell him that's what you want to see. Turn him loose.

Move JT to the wing because he isn't hacking it. Make it the right side - guy can still shoot it so give him a better angle. Stack O'Rielly's wingers to make up for his lack of speed.

Bunting-Matthews-Tavares
Nylander-ROR-Marner (Tell Marner if he doesn't fucking simplify and start going to the net you'll tell Paul)
Kerfoot-Kampf-Acciari
4th line - who cares

Top two lines get 23 minutes each
 
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