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TML? More like FML, amirite? Yet Another Off Season Thread

Not even kidding. Constantly with the mustache shit. I'm like, dude, do I want to date him or do I want him to score 60 goals. What the fuck is wrong with you. "Ohhhhh, but gay mustache, Bieber, blah blah blah".
 
Frenemy update. After defriending him on FB/Messenger after several warnings that he had to give it a rest after 10000 messages all day, he sends me a message on IG with a paragraph full of extra taunts, to which I said he's mentally deranged and needs help fast. Then he waits a week and sends me another asking if "I'm done being a baby yet" the other day. And yesterday another one saying "No congratulations on St. Louis? He's like Keefe, only a winner." I mean....

Guy can't just be like, okay, took it too far, I'll dial it back. He's doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down!

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Frenemy update. After defriending him on FB/Messenger after several warnings that he had to give it a rest after 10000 messages all day, he sends me a message on IG with a paragraph full of extra taunts, to which I said he's mentally deranged and needs help fast. Then he waits a week and sends me another asking if "I'm done being a baby yet" the other day. And yesterday another one saying "No congratulations on St. Louis? He's like Keefe, only a winner." I mean....

Guy can't just be like, okay, took it too far, I'll dial it back. He's doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down!
Set him up with Wehave. The best payback.
 
Funny thing is, I've directed him to FI before. I've sent him links to these threads and tell him, LOOK, you have fellow Habs fans saying this or that, or look at these stats that Zeke spent seven fucking hours over a hot stove to cook up, or check out this debate going back and forth. Then you'll see why your dumb fuck pedestrian views are so fucking stupid and wrongheaded, or that there's another side that even Habs fans acknowledge.

His response? Yeah, I need to read what a bunch of losers on a message board have to say. He loves that there's a guy named JFresh who gets cited here - "oh is that what jfresh said?" He sends me SN articles by Bourne and whoever and I tell them they're fucking idiots, and he says they're "experts" writing for a sports magazine, who the fuck am I? But then when I send him links from the same guys on the Habs, he says they don't know shit and are just catering to Leafs fans. There is nooooo winning with this guy.

And to be honest? Life has been far less annoying with this dumbass pinging me every time he gets bored and wants to antagonize someone with fucking nonsense. It's like 2 + 2 = 5. No Frenemy it's 4, and here's why, so will you admit now to being wrong? Oh but 5+5 = 12. No, don't skip to the next wrong opinion, admit you were wrong on the last one. It's 12 and you can't handle it!

Exhausts me, this motherfucker.
 
Getting goalied in elimination games has become a pattern. Jack can't help with that.

He can goalie harder. That's all we can ask.

If we're talking about our pattern:

Jack has played in 5 elimination games as a Leaf and has a .895 in those 5 games combined
Freddy played in 5 elimination games as a Leaf and has a .901 in those 5 games combined

Same games:

Korpisalo: 1.000 on 33 shots
Holtby: .974
Vasilevsky: 968
Price: .968
Rask: .914 (Rask was smart enough to suck hard in 1 of the 3 elimination games at the same time Freddy baked a historic muffin for us all)
 
There is no way that these goalies become fucking legendary in elimination games against us. It's ridiculous already.

What's more likely, that the forwards are not stepping up and thereby gifting these goalies these lofty SV%s, or that every one of these goalies all got possessed by the spirit of Vezina?
 
There is no way that these goalies become fucking legendary in elimination games against us. It's ridiculous already.

What's more likely, that the forwards are not stepping up and thereby gifting these goalies these lofty SV%s, or that every one of these goalies all got possessed by the spirit of Vezina?
cheer up bud...be brave

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I still don't understand what "stepping up" means....

The difference seems to be whether the puck beats the goalie or not, not how good the chance worked for was, or the quality of the shot they got off.



We had the vast majority of great chances, but Korpisalo played out of his mind. At the other end Freddy gave in a weirdo tip and then a Freddy special.

The difference between "stepping up" and not can't be simply that the puck went in. The defender who fired that point shot or the scrub who banked one in off of Freddy here didn't "step up", they got cosmically lucky.
 
Every team that goes at least a few rounds has at least one game in the run where their goalie is out of his mind unbeatable… maybe even in a losing effort. We saw it all those years with cujo and belfour where the leafs won or stayed in games they had no business being in. A few games vs Ottawa, 99 vs Philly and Belfourd 80 shot game vs Philly come to mind.

and in the past seven playoffs for the leafs they haven’t gotten a single game like that from a goalie.
 
How does every goalie - good, decent, or bad - turn into prime Hasek in these elimination games against us?

Goalies do this shit in the playoffs all the time, unless they're wearing a Leaf jersey, where not shitting yourself is the bar.

Oettinger played as insane as I've seen a losing goalie play in the Dallas elimination game a week ago or so, it was fucking epic. I haven't seen that in Toronto for decades.
 
Holtby, Price, Vasy and Rask are all good, Vezina winning goalies.

That's the thing....most pundits here want to cheap out on the voodoo position. Not arguing that strategy but none of these goalies above are cheap.
 
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