Well, the road teams continue to be the story of the 2023 playoffs.
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Kudos to Toronto for naming Panthers all 3 stars. So far this has been a great playoffs, although Boston and Colorado fans will disagree! The best might be yet to come.
Chuky is the real american hero
Honestly IMO it's a tragedy Boston Played florida in the first round. I think Florida just plays the kinda hockey that matches the bruins. But also, Florida is a great team. I die. Think the bruins were bad . But Florida might just be the best team of the post season.
Hopefully hockey guy will pick panthers as winner of the next series after they send leafs to golf for the summer
Was very impressed with panthers coming out of the gate w great chances! Panthers definitely need to work on penalty kill. They looked a bit chaotic in their zone when killing penalties. Bob made some amazing saves!! That go ahead goal by panthers, what a shot!!
I have Florida winning over Seattle in 6….bet 14,000 at 5000-1….so who knows.
Florida goalie was very good, Leafs will make adjustments and be way better for game 2 now they have seen what Florida is all about. Good game for Florida they played well, hard and fast/physical Leafs will ramp it up as series goes on. Gonna be a fun one looking forward to next game already Go Leafs Go.
I’m trying not to get to concerned. It was much better than game 1 last round and we won that series. I thought we looked good, Bobrovsky was better. We have to win next game tho.
Would Leaf fans be more upset if Toronto gets swept in the 2nd round or it they had lost again in the first round?
I needed a nap after that crap. I'm not about to rip apart my team.1…2…3.*breathe* but this only showing up in the last 4 minutes of the 3rd has got to stop. It was cute and lucky VS Tampa. It's pathetic. If you can't flip a puck into the offensive zone, how are you in the NHL? Never mind dump and chase, just dump it in there. I've seen the Leafs play much worse, they had jump, they had energy, but it was brutal watching turn over after turn over, flipping it in the zone barely passing the blue line, against a forcefield that just kept spitting it back out. Credit to the Panthers but my god, leafs were brutal on the breakouts tonight. Yeah they made it close tying it up. I knew they were losing all night. I am all for playoff hockey, no penalties but the officiating was terrible. How does that goal count? Not only does Sammy get bumped and blocked out of attempting a save but Sammy was literally kicked in the face, no mask and we have a scary moment, then buddy falls on top of the goalie. That was BS. i almost smashed my fist through my T.V. And no challenge? 100% refs are too stupid to make the right call anyways but as a coach stop standing there making meme faces, and call the refs out, stand up for your team Coach. I was so mad, my kitties are still hiding. And then the high stick at the end was laughable. It almost wasn't called, the ref litterally had a front row seat for the highstick and still a 5 minute DOUBLE take review needs to happen before doing their job. Disgraceful. Refs win game 1 of this series. Listen leafs lose this with or without the refs but that was horrible officiating. Horrible coaching by Keefe. If you are out coached by Paul Maurice, YOU SUCK and fail, Keefe needs to be benched. Love the human being, great guy but Leafs might as well be home schooled FFS! That game was hard to watch. I still have faith it's one game. I just needed to get that all out. Rant done on to game 2 GOLEAFSGO. Best channel on youtube. THG
GO CATS GO!!!
Toronto finally wins a round only to found out that Bobrovsky is back on the case
Leafs begin 2nd round curse? See you in 2042
The Leafs can easily win the Stanley Cup with just 3 simple steps:
1) Trade everyone on the Leafs roster for everyone on Edmonton's roster.
2) Relocate to Edmonton
3) Rename the Team the "Oilers".
Is it just me or there’s way more overtime this year?
Is it just me or there’s way more overtime this year?
Is it just me or there’s way more overtime this year?
Tkachuk is a beast
Way too many turnovers by the leafs this game. Panthers relentless forecheck forcing so many errors. Just like the Boston series
THG is so absolutely dead on correct about the ratings effect. The big US market cities was well represented in LA & NY, the northeast region with the best team this year in Boston, the defending Cup champions in Colorado, all meant max interest & viewership for ESPN/ABC/TNT. My guess is that ESPN could promote the McDavid vs Eichel as like hockey's answer to Magic vs Bird. Turner Sports could shill for the Leafs the way FOX Sports did during the Cubs 2016 magical ride. But how about two Canadian teams deciding the first Canadian team to win the Cup in 30yrs? Canada's team vs Canada's last dynasty, Leafs v. Oilers.
Let’s go cats 😼
As much as the recaps are interesting Shannon, I think you have an interesting perspective in hockey, and a review format would be a better use of your time, knowledge and perspective.
You can include stat lines, but I’m personally more interested in your opinion than the video mostly being the plot of the game. Just my opinion maybe some agree
Is it road games, or underdogs?
The leafs lost their 7th game… no shocker there! Lol
After I realized Detroit wasn’t making it this year I became a Panthers fan this year watching every game towards the end of the regular season hoping they’d squeak in. It’s time for Mcdavid to hoist the cup but if not, I hope Florida somehow gets there.
As a sabres fan, I miss Montour. Im glad its working for him in Florida. Glad for Rienhart too. Tho I wasn’t big on him in Buffalo.
Panthers to the finals… bank on it
Still believe Leafs overcome Florida in 6 or 7.
I'm still stunned our cats beat Boston. I can't begin to digest beating Toronto in game one yet.