They were right there, and Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews did everything but score in Game 7, and some misguided fools argued that this team should run it back despite all the failures, one more time, again. The Montreal team that beat Toronto in 2021 soldiered on to the Cup final, and that really was the unforgivable one, because it should have been the Leafs.Īnd last season Tampa Bay was the two-time defending champs, and went to their third straight Cup final, and frankly the Leafs probably deserved to win that series. The Bruins team that beat Toronto in 2019 - and 2018, for that matter - went to the Cup final, and lost to Ryan O’Reilly’s Blues in seven. The Capitals team Toronto lost to in 2017 won the Cup the next year, and a Leafs fan could feel good about that. Yes, Florida appears to be a team of swamp-adjacent destiny.īut the Leafs are currently flailing into their future, in a way that didn’t happen when this franchise lost to a big-time team before. Yes, this was the most successful Leafs season since 2004. They lost to a buzzsaw.Įxcept the buzzsaw may have torn the Leafs apart by not breaking them up at all. So maybe Leafs fans should feel relieved.
Carolina was so frustrated that Brent Burns took a stick to Matthew Tkachuk’s cojones, only to find those cojones are becoming legendary. 971 save percentage in a four-game sweep. Their overpaid goalie is suddenly Tretiakian, and just threw up a.
So do you feel any better, if you are a Leafs fan? The Panthers win one-goal games like the 1993 Montreal Canadiens, eight in a row now, three in overtime and one in the fourth OT. The one loss was to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Man, they loved those plastic rats.Īnyway, these Panthers nearly died in the regular season, needed a tanking Chicago team to beat Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin on the road, and have won 11 of 12 since falling behind 3-1 to one of the best regular season teams ever built. This is a rare enough sentence that you could sell it in an antique store the last time it was written was during the last great decade, in 1996, in a Panthers run that is historically defined by plastic rats. So the Florida Panthers are going to play for the Stanley Cup.
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