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The Fantastically Beautiful Joyously Superfun 22-23 Season Celebration Thread

hockeylover said:
Wha? Is that at me?
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You've been the calm one out of the gang, so no. I was mostly being hyperbolic about Zeke bringing up very valid points about some decisions that were made and getting ganged up on. He's more optimistic than most of us. It's okay to be critical. It's okay that he values the data that shows engvall is really good. And it was okay for him to correctly point out that Schenn will boot liljegren from the lineup. But he's still a die-hard fan that will enjoy every bit of watching this once in a lifetime roster work their magic.

Many who provided great analysis and have largely been proven correct were laughed at.
 
leafman101 said:
We're just old and completing the transformation from optimistic young Leafs fans to jaded old bastard Leafs fans like our dads before us.
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I certainly understand my grandpa a lot better now. He was a maniacal Leaf fan who watched every game, shouted at the TV and once put his fist through the ceiling jumping up and cheering for a Leaf goal when my non-sports-fan dad first started dating my mom.

By the time I came around though, he didn’t watch them at all anymore and always laughed and made jokes at any suggestion that this year’s version of the Leafs was ackshually really good and had a chance of winning.

And he even got to see them win seven Cups by the time he was the age I am now! We can’t even get a playoff series win.
 
Wayward DP said:
especially when we had shown such promise earlier in the year.

Sandin and Lilly getting legit top-4 minutes.

no plugs on D, with the depth shining and guys like Timmins looking very legit. hell, we fucking resigned him only to relegate him to "Engvall salary displacer".

and we'd seen glimpses from guys like Anderson, McMann, and Holmberg. Keefer even said nice things about them all, then just declined to fucking play them for the likes of ZAR.

we had moved past the Malgins, the Petans, the Hunts.

and then boom, just like a swift kick to the dick, back to grittastic goonery and trucunacity. what we thought was our lovable nerd was really Burke with glasses.

it's the apparent about face on the style of play and team building strategy that hurts the most. especially after previous iterations of the same idea had ended so fucking badly.
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Damn, DP is really going down a dark path. I think I've gone halfway down the path, but you're all the way at the other end pushing on the gate.

I do find it more difficult to get excited about the Leafs this year, even in games they're winning. Something seems off. It may just be a sense of doom that is hovering in the background because I'm terrified of what happens if we lose this year, more than the awful dejection from the loss itself.
 
I'm not that broken yet. Losing in the first round this year would be rough though because I think there's enough of a gap between them and tampa to make them fairly clear favorites.

This is the most optimistic I've been since they were in that cushion soft covid division.
 
I move to Mexico in 2.5 yrs. Its pretty much written in stone now.

It's easy to turn the game on at 7pm on a December Tuesday in Barrie. It will be much, much harder to do that with a 27 degree sunset going on and the ocean within walking distance.

The organization will need to earn my ongoing allegiance. Its been given freely to this point.
 
Preston said:
I'm not that broken yet. Losing in the first round this year would be rough though because I think there's enough of a gap between them and tampa to make them fairly clear favorites.
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I see these same comments from a few here, but man...I don't see TB as any sort of pushover.

They still have Vasy who can go supernova, and Kuch, Point, Stammer, Hedman, and the rest are still elite elite elite.

I'd be much more confident if we didn't have that last deadline day of deals, but the way things are now, I wouldn't expect anything one way or the other. And that's the story of this year's Leafs. If they win the Cup, I won't be surprised. If they lose in the first round, I won't be surprised. I don't know what the fuck they're likely to do.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I see these same comments from a few here, but man...I don't see TB as any sort of pushover.

They still have Vasy who can go supernova, and Kuch, Point, Stammer, Hedman, and the rest are still elite elite elite.

I'd be much more confident if we didn't have that last deadline day of deals, but the way things are now, I wouldn't expect anything one way or the other. And that's the story of this year's Leafs. If they win the Cup, I won't be surprised. If they lose in the first round, I won't be surprised. I don't know what the fuck they're likely to do.
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Not a pushover. I just think the Leafs are better at every position but goaltending (largely a reputation advantage for Tampa there).

Tampa and Toronto played a coin flip series last year and Tampa got worse, Leafs stayed the same or potentially even got better depending on ROR and McCabe. Simple as that really. A lot of luck is involved in a series when two teams are this close, but I think there's an enough of advantage there to feel more comfortable than we have since the Habs series. I didn't think the Leafs were clearly better than Tampa last year.


But you are right that in a game of inches, the final day of trading for the leafs could haunt them. Of course it could.
 
I wouldn’t really blame anyone for picking pretty much any Leafs opponent in the playoffs til proven otherwise. It’s fair.

I’ve somehow talked myself into remaining zen all regular season though so I haven’t noticed just how much fan emotions swing here even in just 5 game spans til this year.
 
35 years and counting watching this team go through many highs and lows. I wont try and convince myself or anyone else the success of this current roster is going to be the one to break me
 
hockeylover said:
I wouldn’t really blame anyone for picking pretty much any Leafs opponent in the playoffs til proven otherwise. It’s fair.

I’ve somehow talked myself into remaining zen all regular season though so I haven’t noticed just how much fan emotions swing here even in just 5 game spans til this year.
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In fairness, a decent amount of that is pure shit posting and inside jokes
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Damn, DP is really going down a dark path. I think I've gone halfway down the path, but you're all the way at the other end pushing on the gate.

I do find it more difficult to get excited about the Leafs this year, even in games they're winning. Something seems off. It may just be a sense of doom that is hovering in the background because I'm terrified of what happens if we lose this year, more than the awful dejection from the loss itself.
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honestly I really enjoyed cheering for skill to trump face punching ability. but it seems like management wants more of the latter and less of the former. and as a fan, that shit fucking sucks to watch. hard to cheer for a support that works to suppress its best players and talents, and actively changes its enforcement of the rulebook to disadvantage the best players in the league so instead the Fernando Pisanis and Troy Brouwers and Garry Valks of the world can have their 15 minutes of fame and undeserved UFA contract.
 
Preston said:
I'm not that broken yet. Losing in the first round this year would be rough though because I think there's enough of a gap between them and tampa to make them fairly clear favorites.

This is the most optimistic I've been since they were in that cushion soft covid division.
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and how did that go for ya?
 
zeke said:
So much drama.

Why can't we complain about shitty moves without giving up on hockey and still liking the team?
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Yeah, there's no giving up for me, but my excitement is very dampened by those last moves because they feel like they could be difference makers in what Presty correctly just said is a game of inches. Losing because Lafferchenyuk gives the other team a 2 on 0 the other way in OT would very likely kill me.
 
MindzEye said:
I move to Mexico in 2.5 yrs. Its pretty much written in stone now.

It's easy to turn the game on at 7pm on a December Tuesday in Barrie. It will be much, much harder to do that with a 27 degree sunset going on and the ocean within walking distance.

The organization will need to earn my ongoing allegiance. Its been given freely to this point.
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At this point.. they've got me while they have 34 and 16.
 
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