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Oh, you mean like the leafs fans did after they won the first round and moved onto the second round and they acted like they won the Stanley Cup and everybody was screaming at the top of their lungs. Yeah, that was pretty funny.đ
Sergachev…. who cares
If you don't celebrate a little every step you take, and end up not winning at the end, then it's just bitterness. Take a couple of days to be proud of the accomplishment and to imagine what could happen if they make it through the next round.
I think some of the baseball celebration being so stupid is it's a team full of young guys who didn't play THAT hard for the last 3 hours. They have the energy. Hockey/Basketball and to a lesser extent football have some tired athletes after a game.
I think it's silly to rag on the Leafs for so long about getting eliminated in the first round and then when they actually accomplish it then ppl complain about them celebrating. They had every right to celebrate it especially when everyone else kept making it such a big deal.
Its so hard right now, i just had to put my best friend and cat of 19 years and watching this is taking my mind off of it, from the bottom of my heart, thank you shannon
I don't get what Sergachev was being pissy about. The players barely celebrated. They cheered when they won, shook hands and then prepared for the next round. It was the fans that celebrated hard. And if the entire hockey world busts the Leafsnation about getting out of the first round for all those years then it's perfectly fair for those Leafs fans to celebrate when they actually do it.
the Canucks after winning a FIRST ROUND game 7 in OT back in 2011 may as well have been a Stanley Cup Celebration w/ how elated they were… it was the first freaking round, against a Hawks team that was ravaged by injury & decimated by salary cap trades/issues… but your boy Dave Bolland nearly brought the Hawks all the way back đ
I said as soon as Babcock wanted to work again he'd have a job waiting for him and Leafs fans laughed at me. Now I'm predicting that since he's coaching in Columbus you wont hear a single controversy about his coaching method. This is why nobody wants to play in Toronto the media is cancerous. Leafs blamed the wrong guy when they fired Babcock, they should have fired Dubas for refusing to give the coach the kind of team he knew they needed to win. Babcock asked for a big defensively solid physical dman and Dubas gave him Tyson Barrie. Instead they brought in Keefe to play the team the Dubas way and now that Dubas is gone and everyone can admit Dubas was an idiot and his method will never work because it's counterintuitive… the team is finally figuring out some of what needs to be done but now they have a coach who couldn't outcoach scarecrow. Had they fired Dubas instead of Babcock we'd be talking about more than just a decisive 2nd round exit.
What if he had forgotten SC top Canada? It is so long that Canadian team won it last time that no one would have even recognised it,.
IMHO, the trick to winning the cup is…to win the president trophy so that you can win the cup the next year đ
Johan Franzen being my favorite player ever, I gotta wait to hear what the players think of Babcock
Babcock Masterson and Laine Art Ross trophies coming in 2024!
I think there's a huge difference between fans and players when it comes to celebrating early. If youre a player, you should be playing to win the stanley cup, nd anything short of that isnt really a success. But as a fan we watch hockey to be entertained and you should celebrate and enjoy any moments that make you happy. In this case anyways i think he was talking more about the players than the fans, at least thats what i took from his explanation of the interview.
I think it depends on the team's situation how you celebrate winning a round. When the Sens beat the Habs in 2013 I was ecstatic and the whole fanbase was in a great mood because they upset a higher seed. But we as the fanbase knew that they would likely lose the next round against the Pens, and they did. The Leafs won a round for the first time in ages, but the expectation for them was the Cup. I think Matthews, Marner, and Rielly, who have been failing since 2017, kind of let up in the 2nd round after feeling like the weight was lifted by winning a series.
I feel that the Leafs thing is a reaction to sucking for years.
Finally the burden is lifted.
I do agree though, it is too soon to celebrate, but I also understand that the smallest victory is something you hold on to when you haven't seen much of it for a long time.
Looks like the Leafs fans repeating the "McDavid will leave Edmonton and go to Toronto." stuff won't work anymore!
Celebrating the first round is like cheering for the posibility… Every round should be celebrated harder.
Baseball is an absolute joke. By time a team ACTUALLY makes the playoffs they could have had TWO champagne celebrations. One for clinching the playoffs and one for clinching your division. Oh and they consider a wild card play IN game âthe playoffsâ for some reason? Wtf?!
Celebrating too soon-I played on 3 amateur championship teams. When making our way through the playoffs, we embraced the moment and enjoyed the win. But knew that the job was unfinished and we would be facing a tougher opponent next. We did not celebrate until after the season was over and we were champs. Celebrated really hard.
I felt that way as a Leafs fan this past year. That there was much more work to be done still after they won game 6. I had to watch while i was at work but still. I was really excited in the game 4 comeback but idk if i would have been more excited watching game 6 at home.
Glad we didnât lose the Stanley cup in the lake, easy to lose things in a lake for instance I lost all my guns in a boating accident
2:55 As A diehard Avs fan I certainly understood that reference. đ We still love you, NAK! And hey it gave us a hilarious and unforgettable picture (I still laugh looking at everybodyâs expressions the moment the Cup hit the ice).
Hockey is the only sport I follow, so I had no idea that they did that crazy celebrating in baseball like you said, but that seems way overboard to me. I was just watching a video tribute/recap of the Avs 2022 Cup run today, so itâs really in the forefront of my mind – after each game they would cheer in the locker room, and would even give a game puck to the player they thought did the best job that night (the guy who got it the previous time would have the honor of passing it to the next guy). They even did that in the regular season. But then they got back to business. When they knocked the Blues out and finally broke the second round âcurseâ, they walked into the locker room cheering and grinning. Even straight-faced Nathan MacKinnon had an open mouth grin. But before you knew it the room was quite and Captain Landeskog was speaking seriously about the next one. The attitude was always âenjoy this one, but tomorrow itâs back to workâ. They always knew they werenât finished. Even when they won the conference, everyone looked quite serious when getting their picture taken with the trophy. No one was celebrating. They were happy for what they had accomplished, but knew the job wasnât done yet. As a fan, Iâm similar. With every win I was very excited and cheering, and I was riding a high after each advancement in playoff rounds, but I knew the job wasnât done, and I would still be focusing on what was to come.
Nothing wrong with celebrating a round win⊠but it means nothing. Sergachev has two rings and looking for more with a team still within the window. He knows what it takes mentally to be a champ. Not saying Leafs shouldnt be happy to win a round, but itâs only uphill from there. And with the lack of cap space with so many big money contracts it seems like another playoff round win drought is aheadâŠ. I truly do feel for leafs fans. It feels great to be good during reg season but no playoff success is painful.
I think Sergachev might also be hinting at the point of what it takes for a team to win a Cup. It takes sacrifice, and Iâm not saying guys like matthews and manner donât deserve their money, they definitely do, but a few high profile guys doesnât breed success in the playoffs. Many teams can win playoff rounds if they get in, thereâs so much luck that goes into it, not just skill. But a well balanced team sometimes might help tilt luck in your favor. Leafs need a new formula if they want to capitalize on the âmomentumâ (if any) they got from winning a round, as 1 round win is nothing, even a blind squirrel gets a nut sometimes. Unfortunately I feel as if the leafs may keep making the same mistakes which burdened them in their 19yr win drought.
Am I losing it or is this oilers hire textbook conflict of interest?
I would go with celebrate achieving above expectations. If, as a society we would only celebrate being number 1, 99.99% of the population would be depressed as all heck.