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Leafs are cool and good. They swept the Bruins in their season series. They might finish a higher seed than them. This is bizarro world.
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DuhSal posted:Media shouldn't affect how a team is liked because it's not the players' fault. If they're a cool and fun team then that should overtake whatever bullshit media thing there is. Why are you a Montreal fan when their media is dogshit too? He's a Pens fan not a Leafs fan. If someone wants to be a leafs fan because they're a fairly fast, fairly fun team then that's their choice. If a Pens fan wants to enjoy hearing about the Leafs during the Pens parade, then enjoy.
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Mar 21, 2017 06:46
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Schlesische posted:Then you remember the "Toronto" part of it. Try living in the Toronto area while not being a Leafs fan. You quickly realize Leafs fans are Kings fans of the north.
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Mar 21, 2017 07:23
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Furnaceface posted:Try living in the Toronto area while not being a Leafs fan. No dont, I don't want anyone to disturb my (e:former) bubble E: being a Leafs fan in Vancouver is the WORST, because not only is everyone here a Canucks fan, they despise Toronto (not just in hockey) and have a city wide inferiority complex about it.
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Kalenn Istarion posted:No dont, I don't want anyone to disturb my (e:former) bubble How dare the self proclaimed greatest city in the world not love the self proclaimed center of the universe.
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For the record, this isn't a "I HATE THE LEAFS BECAUSE THEY ARE TORONTO AND I HATE TORONTO", and - as noted the last time this came up - I don't read the Montreal Gazette and it's brethren, passing it over in favour of TSN, SN and the NHL website (the latter of which likes large market teams and superstars, fancy that). Every sport has that team who eventually does well enough to the point where you're going to see a bandwagon the size of the moon ("They've been my second team this whole time, I swear" and reporters who usually seem pretty non-biased come out of the woodwork to fellate their team (and reporters who are biased to other teams will usually hop in on the love-in). And when it falls apart the media is going to hellfire and brimstone it down to try and reclaim their "unbiased values". Either way, this massive love-fest and bad poetry recital ends up generating a ridiculous and insulting amount of noise for the team that does it. It's rarely the most successful teams because they tend to generate their own horrible, incestuous, shitfest of a media culture (see: Canadiens, Montreal; Yankees, New York; et al) Hell, the Oilers are having a breakout year, but by comparison to all the "MATTHEWS FOR CALDER" and "LEAFS CAN MAKE THE PLAYOFFS IF..." talk, they're a loving submarine. Same for the storylines on the Flames and Islanders (who recovered from impressively bad starts), Wild and Blue Jackets (who seem to finally be overachieving/delivering on all that promise after years of underachievement and disappointment). Schlesische fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Mar 21, 2017 09:10
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:Gotta admit the leafs are pretty likable rn Please kindly take the time to, in the words of sensational and appropriately-titled hockey movie Goon, use your big boy words.
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Schlesische posted:For the record, this isn't a "I HATE THE LEAFS BECAUSE THEY ARE TORONTO AND I HATE TORONTO", and - as noted the last time this came up - I don't read the Montreal Gazette and it's brethren, passing it over in favour of TSN, SN and the NHL website (the latter of which likes large market teams and superstars, fancy that). But have considered that you can learn how to stop worrying and love the Leaf?
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Mar 21, 2017 10:56
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RC Cola posted:Fyi go hawks sharks cats jackets caps preds oilers and leafs Sorry people I forgot one. Go Avs (  )
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Mar 21, 2017 13:08
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it's seriously funny to see leafs fans say that was "the best game all season" since that was like...a regular rear end hockey game. i'm glad you guys have a not-lovely team now.
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Mar 21, 2017 13:15
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Leafs fans being extremely excited about winning regular season games makes their inevitable playoff collapse all the more entertaining
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heeheex2 posted:Leafs fans being extremely excited about winning regular season games makes their inevitable playoff collapse all the more entertaining Game 7 3rd period 3 goal lead...
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Mar 21, 2017 13:39
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Even though I'm biased I'm pretty sure that 8-7 Caps vs Penguins game was a billion times better.
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heeheex2 posted:Leafs fans being extremely excited about winning regular season games makes their inevitable playoff collapse all the more entertaining "It felt just like a playoff game" said the fans of a team with one playoff appearance in a decade. ...though to be honest if the Leafs make it in I'd be rooting for them because they're still better than the other Atlantic teams.
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I'm not going to say anything nice about the Leafs because I want to be ahead of the game when everyone decides they hate them for being good in the next 2 or 3 years.
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Mar 21, 2017 14:21
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RC Cola posted:Game 7 3rd period 3 goal lead...  good times.. good times...We just don't need to talk about the next round.
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Mar 21, 2017 14:24
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RC Cola posted:Game 7 3rd period 3 goal lead... Stop posting about the Caps please.
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Cartoon Man posted:Stop posting about the Caps please. He said 3 goal lead, not 3 game lead.
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Mar 21, 2017 14:41
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It's nice having internet back. I don't have an opinion on Matthew Tkachuk. I just thought it was funny when, after scrapping with Alexander Wennberg earlier, he briefly considered getting physical at the end of the Jackets/Flames game in Calgary with slightly tougher potential opponents Scott Hartnell and Brandon Dubinsky. Mind_Taker posted:Even though I'm biased I'm pretty sure that 8-7 Caps vs Penguins game was a billion times better. Can I put my vote in for Penguins/Jackets Game 4, 2014 ECQF? CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Mar 21, 2017 15:04
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Duke Chin posted:
au contrae, let's.  Honestly, on Leafs fans being all "YESSSSSS" is analogous to the Cowboys fans doing the same thing this past season. I'll give them this one. Next one they don't get a pass.
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Mar 21, 2017 15:18
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Jamwad Hilder posted:it's seriously funny to see leafs fans say that was "the best game all season" since that was like...a regular rear end hockey game. i'm glad you guys have a not-lovely team now. Actually that was a kick rear end intense regular season game between two teams fighting for playoff positioning. They haven't had any regular season games like that since the "can the offence be better than Raycroft/Toskala is bad" era.
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Mar 21, 2017 15:26
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The Leafs are cool and good right now but it's still hard to disabuse me of past distaste for Tie Domi and Darcy Tucker that gives me a lingering resentment for the Leafs e: I guess in hockey terms that makes me like that grandpa that still hates Japanese people because of WW2 even though they're nice now
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Mar 21, 2017 15:26
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Duke Chin posted:
How about a couple years earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zmb0ey-4tM  Any excuse to post videos from that series.
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Mar 21, 2017 15:31
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Powershift posted:Considering he could have gone home to the flames and made the playoffs with his old number 12 on his back, it's funny. Also because nurse threw him like a snot rag and skated away
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Mar 21, 2017 15:38
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Hand Knit posted:Actually that was a kick rear end intense regular season game between two teams fighting for playoff positioning. They haven't had any regular season games like that since the "can the offence be better than Raycroft/Toskala is bad" era. I honestly didn't think it was anything special. It was a bit chippier than usual and the goaltending was above average. It was a good game, but "best game of the year" is laughable.
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Mar 21, 2017 15:50
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The best game of the season was every one where the Oilers kicked the poo poo outta the Flames.
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I loving love hockey.
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The best game so far was Caps-Penguins that ended like 8-7 or something, in OT, with fuckin 9 goals in the second period. The second best is when the Caps took a big dump on Columbus' winning streak.
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Mar 21, 2017 16:07
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Claude Giroux says his hip has been a problem this season, which would explain a few things.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:The best game so far was Caps-Penguins that ended like 8-7 or something, in OT, with fuckin 9 goals in the second period. The second best is when the Caps took a big dump on Columbus' winning streak. I ran the numbers and this is factually incorrect. Please see my post above for the actual best games of the year.
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Mar 21, 2017 16:09
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Looks like Corrado might play tonight for the Pens. Interested to see how he pans out. He did alright possession wise the last time he got a chance, albeit with pretty high o zone starts. Can't suck worse than Pouliot anyways.
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Mar 21, 2017 16:38
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I love Bettmans NHL where a team with 33 wins and 38 losses is now considered 'good'
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Mar 21, 2017 16:39
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A Typical Goon posted:I love Bettmans NHL where a team with 33 wins and 38 losses is now considered 'good' I get irritated when I see a team that is like 30-30-10 say they're a 500 team. No, you lost 40 times motha fucka. OT may be a gimmick but it's part of the game now. Deal with it.
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Mar 21, 2017 16:41
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Record should be based on regulation and OT wins, with shootout wins being the first tie breaker. The points system is dumb
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Mar 21, 2017 16:47
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Did they ever decide on giving 3 points for a regulation win? I think that'd be a good idea.
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Mar 21, 2017 16:48
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A Typical Goon posted:I love Bettmans NHL where a team with 33 wins and 38 losses is now considered 'good' Doesn't he also want more teams in he playoffs?
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Mar 21, 2017 16:51
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I think you should either win or lose and it doesn't matter how you won or lost. No loser points.
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Wife and I cut the cord.. is there a legal option for streaming playoffs this year in the US? As far as I know, the nbcsports website requires one to log in with a cable company account to be able to stream through there.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:I think you should either win or lose and it doesn't matter how you won or lost. No loser points. I will never understand how people can look at old hockey, and how if the game ended tied, both teams got a point. And then look at new hockey, which works literally the exact same way except now there's a tiebreaker for an extra point. And based on that say the extra point goes to the team that loses the tiebreaker. Oh wait yes I can, it's entirely fans of teams who have generally been good to great since it was introduced. Edit: recognizing of course that my opinion is probably shaped for the same reason but in reverse.
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