GDT: Leafs @ Vancouver 7:00pm EST - Fuck the Canucks

[Preston]

You can't pay me to miss leafs playoffs

 

[leafman101]

Maybe with ROR out they’ll play 8 d and Lilly can get back in.

Benn may get the call though.

 

[CH1]

Wayward day to day with upper body injury

 

[LeafGm]

Maybe I will just not watch round one of the playoffs this year. They win, great, I’m back on board for the remainder. They lose, oh well. That is where I am at right now at least.

I was absolutely determined to skip watching game 7 vs Montreal, but my friends talked me out of it.

Fucking bastards.

 

[LeafGm]

Still, that said, as down as I am on this team and as sure as I am about the outcome, I’ll be watching round one again this year.

Though if they go up 3-1 in the series and then lose two straight again, I sure as fuck will be skipping game seven this time around.

 

[Artnes]

 

[hockeylover]

I can't imagine telling Past Me, who watched waffles and jerseys being thrown on the ice and would've sold my soul to have a team that was consistently competitive, that I just wasn't gonna watch the Leafs in the playoffs. Am I prepared for them to disappoint me again? Sure.

But why the fuck watch the Leafs vs Canucks on a Saturday night in early March and not watch Game 1 vs Tampa?

 

[The Green Hornet]

why not watch, how much more can they even hurt us? we are all pretty much dead inside at this point anyways

 

[Volcanologist]

what a horrible night. why we can't ever beat Vancouver is a mystery to me.

 

[Preston]

I mostly feel betrayed and it hurts like hell and it feels like I got cheated on. I was promised a young fresh data driven gm but instead I got Brian Burke with glasses. It hurts. And I'll need time to recover. But I still think they can win and will be watching very excitedly. This is still the best leafs team I've ever seen in spite of all the absolute stupidity from management.

 

[Preston]

The other bit that no one will tell you: Tampa is potentially significantly worse than they were last year.

 

[Wayward DP]

I was absolutely determined to skip watching game 7 vs Montreal, but my friends talked me out of it.

Fucking bastards.

Fool me once...

 

[Volcanologist]

I mostly feel betrayed and it hurts like hell and it feels like I got cheated on. I was promised a young fresh data driven gm but instead I got Brian Burke with glasses. It hurts. And I'll need time to recover. But I still think they can win and will be watching very excitedly. This is still the best leafs team I've ever seen in spite of all the absolute stupidity from management.

the next guy will be more of a retread, or at least more of a known quantity in the game. you won't be getting young fresh and experimental after a decade of failure under Shanahan.

 

[Habsy]

why not watch, how much more can they even hurt us? we are all pretty much dead inside at this point anyways

 

[hockeylover]

So I guess worst case scenario for ROR on that hand injury is ~6 weeks and playoffs are right around 6 weeks away?

 

[LeafOfFaith]

The other bit that no one will tell you: Tampa is potentially significantly worse than they were last year.

Down to an easily beatable Columbus or Montreal level, or more of a challenge than that?

 

[Cojo]

I didn’t get to watch after the first period, did Matthews return after taking the puck to the knee?

 

[LeafGm]

I didn’t get to watch after the first period, did Matthews return after taking the puck to the knee?

Yep, he did.

 

[MindzEye]

Did any of us really return to that game though?

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

was a large brawl downtown between Cannot and Leaf fans after the game