Toronto maple leafs vs minnesota wild was a fun game today, but it made me think of a larger topic that we definitely need to re-live. Nhl highlights 2023 today featured auston matthews goal and another william nylander overtime winner / ot goal, and it made me think about leafs fans in general and that sparked this video. Subscribe for obviously more coverage of leafs highlights , trade rumors and nhl news today , funny moments like mic’d up / hot mic during the games, specific player and team features, nhl picks today and more based on requests. Nhl hockey 2023
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Joffrey lupul scoring against Ottawa to secure the playoff birth was unreal
This is the best team the Leafs have had in over 20 (maybe 30?) years…that's something special, for real,….cups though….😬
No. You're absolutely wrong with this take. I'm 26 and have been a leafs fan all my life, and the mentality that nothing matters until playoffs is a mentality that I have been forced to take. I don't think anybody needs to be reminded that before last season's 2nd round exit, the leafs didn't win a series since 2006. Thats 16 seasons of disappointment, 16 seasons of irrelevance. I don't care how many assists Marner gets, goals Matthews gets or if Willie wins the Hart trophy, nothing matters until playoffs. I haven't felt sadness like the Boston game 7 collapse and I haven't felt happiness like the JT series winner last year. Nothing matters until playoffs. I loved Kessel Lupul Bozak just as much as I love Matthews Marner Reilly. But if I learned anything from the glorious 2019 Raptors season, it's that I'd trade them all for a championship.
Idk why my favourite goal from that era is Kessel coming in alone about to snipe it and his stick breaks and goes through lundquvist’s 5 hole.
I remember when Nikolai Kulemin truck-sticked Adam McQuaid that one time in playoffs. Now THAT was wild.
That's true, you might not see a comparable talent level for Toronto's forwards for decades.
🙄I am tired of hearing that Goaltending is the issue, it's really not, Woll has been solid and Sammy seems to be getting his game back, what is the issue however is the defensive coverage, especially in their own zone!!!
I subscribed because of this video. Well done.
2nd? lol, it's 4th!!
No matter what we gotta remember the times when 40 year old Rob Blake was our star player X_x
Leafs pain brings me joy.
Excellent video and I totally agree. I'm in one of my happiest times in over 40 years of being a fan.
"Is Cujo gonna bowl over a ref?"
It’s these 10 million+ contracts that are handcuffing teams. Those players aren’t allowing their gm’s enough money to build depth around them. If your making 10+ mil you better be carrying your team or at least held accountable for.
Being shitty and overachieving is much more gratifying that being great and underachieving. Thats why for me those 2 runs with Gilmour in 1993 and 1994 were special. Those teams on paper pale in comparison to todays leafs. The teams they were facing were favorites to crush them. Yet the refused to die. Down 3-1 to the star studded wings. Nope fuckem. St Louis? eat a dick. They were like that super cockroach you couldnt kill.
This current team has a ton of skill, but there are instances you see that show their true weakness .team toughness When Lilegren got hurt no one gave 2 shits to go even check on him. The moment I see that, I know that team is dead in the playoffs when the hitting starts
Grabo’s shootout spin goals were awesome, he even tried the Zegras flip before it was cool, his skill was super underrated, him and Antropov have a soft spot in my heart as a Leaf fan
so true. I think the Tkachuk and Gaudreau trade really made you wise.
Don't bring me hockey because I don't relate to Canada and or Israel and or what you believe and or what you Stands for. I don't give a shit about hockey and or the Canadian Citizenship. So nevermind bringing me this shit shows .
You can't stamd the leafs, why are you reporting?
this is the year.. 😎😎
we gave up dougie hamilton?
Just wait till they be men.
Are they gonna win a cup
Lol Matthews scored 60g 2 yrs ago. That was a nice reg season year for the Leafs. How did that go? Of course the Leafs fans don't care about the regular season anymore. Dunno how u can say otherwise
The NHL did everything they could for the Leafs on the Sweden trip. They made sure that both of there games were away games so they didn’t lose any home revenue and then they made sure both teams they played were playing the second game of a back to back against the Leafs.
So what, we are supposed to be happy we don’t suck like back then? We have a great team that wins but not when it counts. I’ll take one cup and 7 years of loosing over 7 years of great regular season and no playoffs success! I guess we will be back to loosing in regular season and playoffs soon enough. I understand the point you are making but it doesn’t make me feel better 🤷🏻
Mike Brown
Imagine someone like me who’s been a fan since the 70’s. 50 years watching this madness. The Harold Ballard years in the 80’s was real low.
Time is a head spinner as you get older. In 1997 some of my friends who are Montreal fans were razzing me about Toronto being pathetic. 30 years without a cup. Now they’re sitting at 30 years without a cup and I get to remind them that by their metric that their is team pathetic right? Then they come back at me with the 56 years. And I’m like yeah that’s way worse….. but your team is pathetic right?
That’s the game we’re playing with decades invested. I’ve seen 20 year old players drafted. Play their entire carrer, retire and then pass away. And in all that time we haven’t even made it to the finals let alone win it.