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Which playoff series gave you PTSD?



Which playoff series gave you PTSD?

by info-warz

36 Comments

  1. Hufflepuff_Baseball

    2019 Stanley Cup Finals. That goddamn non-tripping call

  2. Jolly_Job_9852

    2013 against the Bruins, the 4 game sweep in the ECF.

  3. Mountain_Anywhere645

    I’m a Lightning fan. We all know the answer to this for us.

  4. There’s just so many recent ones to choose from

  5. LoCh0_xX

    2013 vs Blackhawks. Blew a 3-1 lead then saw them win the cup.

  6. HelpMe285

    1994 Red Wings vs. Sharks

    As a 5 year old, I was crushed.

    And then again the next year, even getting swept in the finals was tough…

    But then…then it all came together…so, it was worth it.

  7. Bobsagit-jesus

    Watching your team go on a historic run in the regular season only to get swept by the bluejackets wasn’t fun 😐

  8. hifioctopi

    The entirety of the goddamn 2014 Kings run. Sure we won the fucking thing, but I could’ve used a few less 7 game series. My liver was shot at the end of that one.

  9. Charmander_Chazz

    2017 SCF Game 6. I don’t need to explain

  10. Blackhawks Kings WCF 2014 I think. Martinez shoots from the point and goes off Nick Leddy’s ass and past Crawford, Game 7 in OT. Kings go on to easily beat Rangers in Cup Final. Still processing it.

  11. Electrical_Resource6

    2002-03 opening round… Detroit Red Wings vs Anaheim Mighty Ducks.

    Giguere played what I still think is the greatest goaltending performance I’ve ever seen in the playoffs, defending champs out in a first round sweep…

    Still hurts as a Wings fan to think about.

  12. Jemmy_Bean

    2014 SCF. That Alec Martinez OT goal, and Hank laying on the ice after it haunt my dreams

  13. BrockLobster29

    2021 ECF. Game 7 Isles lost 0-1. only goal scored was a short handed goal by the lightning which was the only short handed goal the isles let in that season. Still keeps me up at night

  14. fatch0deBoi34

    Watching the Avs lose to Minnesota I think In 2014? Never been so pissed

  15. didyoueverseewardogs

    I’m a flyers fan, it all hurts

  16. sixfingerwilly

    2017 ECF, double OT. To hell with Chris Kunitz.

  17. Rangers – Penguins, second round, 1992.

    Remember, this was still the “1940” era. The Rangers had acquired Messier, they’d won the President’s Trophy, this was it. 1992 was going to be the year they broke the curse.

    Game 4, Rangers had a 2-1 series lead. They had a 4-2 lead in the third period, when the Pens took a 5-minute major. Rangers were all set up to take a stranglehold 3-1 series lead.

    Instead, Pens killed off the major, and with the crowd going crazy from the PK, [Ron Francis scored on a freak slapshot from center ice](https://youtu.be/RkBetCrJTZw?t=140) to cut the lead to 4-3. Pens tied the game a few minutes later, then Francis completed his hat trick early in OT to tie the series 2-2.

    Pens won game 5, 3-2, on a Jagr goal with a few minutes left. The rest felt like a formality. Game 6 was a blowout. Penguins would sweep the ECF and SCF and ultimately win 11 straight games to hoist the Cup.

    This was a brutal loss for the Rangers franchise. 1992 was going to be the year and it came crashing down in a span of minutes. To make matters worse, Rangers didn’t even make the playoffs in 1993. They fired Roger Neilson halfway through the season, brought in Ron Smith and finished dead last in the Patrick division.

    Given what happened in 1994, we all feel a little better about it. But that Ron Francis goal will always haunt me.

  18. Squat1998

    Definitely rangers series last year. Get up 2-0, for the most part outplay the rangers in game 3 and 4 but Igor does non human Igor things and then get demoralized game 6 and 7

  19. Marty McSorely stick incident.

    At that moment I knew we had lost.

  20. Strypes4686

    Red Wings and Mighty Ducks on 2003.

    Hall of fame loaded team the won the cup the year before…. swept by a 7th seed.

  21. arashinoko

    The 2019 Avs just barely made the playoffs, and proceeded to dispatch the Flames — who finished 1st in the Western Conference — in four straight (after losing game 1).

  22. moeguy1979

    As a leafs fan! All of the recent playoffs!

  23. yameswillis

    2019 Stars vs Blues.
    Fuck Patrick Maroon.

  24. ULSTERPROVINCE

    2012 WCF vs. the Kings. I was elated after they swept the Blues because I thought they’d be the easiest stepping stone in the world to our first Cup final. Then I watched the first 2 games of the series and cried. Then I watched them win the series and I cried some more. Then they won the Stanley Cup, and I cursed them with the fury of a thousand suns.

  25. Comrade2020

    As a Sharks fan, I don’t think I’ve fully recovered from seeing the Kings win the cup after we blew a 3-0 series lead against them.

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