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« on: May 17, 2013, 08:33:51 PM »
0 goals & 3 assists for Nash in 8 playoff games so far. 
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« on: May 17, 2013, 04:42:58 PM »
Loved the finale of the office.
Sure it slipped, but you kinda grow attached to the characters.
I teared up on more than one occasion. This line from Andy was perfect, and hits hard: "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them."
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« on: May 16, 2013, 02:39:15 PM »
I think you're looking too much into it right now.
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« on: May 16, 2013, 01:21:02 PM »
There are tons of things he could have done, but that's why I never criticize the D too hard on those plays in front. Watching other games, the stuff in front of the net happens/changes so quickly, that things look bad on replay and slo-mo that in the heat of the moment, or if a puck had bounced a different way, wouldn't look so bad. And it happens to every D. I'm sure I could think of a handful or more reasons why he might have done what he did, but I'm not a masochist who wants the full weight of DionSux nation on me.
I just think it was a perfect storm of poor circumstances - Bergeron takes a surprisingly deceptive and quick wrister from the point, it makes it through, it avoids Chara, it makes it into the top corner, blah blah. Where's that drink...
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« on: May 16, 2013, 12:20:51 PM »
Morning chaps, pip pip.
Waited a few days before asking this...is Phaneuf a potential trade or buy-out candidate this summer given performance compared to salary along with now having a new GM who didn't trade for him?
Burke said when the Phaneuf deal when down that it was Nonis who did all the legwork on it, so, in a way, he did trade for him. He's absolutely not a buyout candidate, and I imagine the Leafs would have to be overwhelmed by an offer to consider trading him. His performance vs salary wasn't anywhere close to as bad as people make it out to be.
Whole lot of confirmation bias goes on with Phaneuf.
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« on: May 16, 2013, 12:09:40 PM »
I'll chime in with more hindsight -- why was Chara left all alone in front of Reimer on the tying goal? Phaneuf should have been on him.
Phaneuf was on Chara, but he was so exhausted by that point that Chara easily pushed him out of the way right before the shot.
That's a sad excuse. Chara played well over 30 minutes...They should of been even in the energy level.
It shouldn't of mattered what Phaneuf had to do to move him...He should of done it..Hack him, stick him, cross check him..whatever..Let your goalie see the damn puck.
Chara is also 6'9", 255 lbs. Phaneuf is 6'3", 214. Almost anyone would suffer the same fate getting pushed from behind by someone that much bigger than you.
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« on: May 15, 2013, 10:38:59 PM »
Hindsight thought: Surprised Carlyle didn't call timeout at any point in the last 5:00.
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« on: May 15, 2013, 08:21:59 PM »
The bats are coming around.
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« on: May 15, 2013, 11:49:58 AM »
I think the last big Leafs meltdown that stuck with the team (and more precisely, with the trolls who enjoyed sticking it to Leaf fans) was "6 shots".
Sometimes it is how you lose, and that is why this one will stick for a while.
The team came with 2 wins of the Finals 2 seasons later. Not sure how much that stuck with them in any negative way.
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« on: May 14, 2013, 08:35:13 PM »
He now has 21 points in 22 career playoff games.
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« on: May 14, 2013, 08:30:30 PM »
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« on: May 14, 2013, 06:34:25 PM »
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« on: May 14, 2013, 04:36:42 PM »
I expect the Leafs to miss the playoffs the next 3 years.
If they play like they did during this regular season, without question.
I don't understand this. They played well enough to be 5th in the conference. How is playing the same going to guarantee three years of missing the playoffs?
Advanced stats / corsi bro, apparently Leafs were the worst advanced stats team in the history of all professional sports so that means they can't reproduce their success of making the playoffs.
I don't even know what a Corsi is.
Corsi is basically just shots for (including both shots on net and shots that miss the net) minus shots against.
It's a simple concept.
So you're saying it means everything. 
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« on: May 14, 2013, 04:26:25 PM »
Still though..The Bruins in 2010 had a 3 games to none lead against the Flyers. Philly wins three straight.. Then the Bruisn take a 3-0 lead in game 7.. Blow that and lose series go on to win Cup. I think that is much worse to deal with than what we did. Keep in mind we could have been out in 4... We forced the 7...
Blowing a 3-0 series lead is worse, but in game 7 they had an EARLY 3 goal lead, in fact Philly scored in the first to make it 3-1 and then tied the game in the 2nd at 3-3. Not like Boston blew that final game with 2 minutes left and they couldn't hold a 2 goal lead.
New Jersey blew a 1 goal lead in the last 1:20 of Game 7 in 2009 vs Carolina, allowing 2 goals and losing the game.
It sucks, it's depressing, it's bitter, and equally as dramatic/bad/crushing things have happened to numerous other teams, and recently, too.
The Leafs will bounce back, the dust will settle, etc.
I get what you're trying to say, but it honestly does not compare.
Equally crushing things? Name me one time a team had reached a 3 goal lead late into the third period of a hard fought series in game 7, only to blow the entire thing in a matter of minutes... you can't, because it hasn't ever happened in the history of the NHL.
Teams blow leads, yeah, it happens. But not like that. Well until last night anyway.
It's no worse than that New Jersey one, and if you think it is, chalk it up to personal feelings. 3 goals in a certain number of minutes is just an arbitrary number picked out to make this into a record, no more relevant to the Leafs future than anything else. At some point it will be broken as a record and the circle of hockey life will go on.
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« on: May 14, 2013, 04:15:56 PM »
Still though..The Bruins in 2010 had a 3 games to none lead against the Flyers. Philly wins three straight.. Then the Bruisn take a 3-0 lead in game 7.. Blow that and lose series go on to win Cup. I think that is much worse to deal with than what we did. Keep in mind we could have been out in 4... We forced the 7...
Blowing a 3-0 series lead is worse, but in game 7 they had an EARLY 3 goal lead, in fact Philly scored in the first to make it 3-1 and then tied the game in the 2nd at 3-3. Not like Boston blew that final game with 2 minutes left and they couldn't hold a 2 goal lead.
New Jersey blew a 1 goal lead in the last 1:20 of Game 7 in 2009 vs Carolina, allowing 2 goals and losing the game. It sucks, it's depressing, it's bitter, and equally as dramatic/bad/crushing things have happened to numerous other teams, and recently, too. The Leafs will bounce back, the dust will settle, etc.
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