Oh God, the Leafs lost again!
They win a first series in 19 years only to end up down by 3 games to none, 1 game away from elimination. Just one more before UrinatingTree makes another video about the Leafs, which would be about his 5th on his YouTube channel.
I haven't watched a hockey game in years but tuned in last night. They looked terrible. No cohesion, no control, no system. Even the dump and chase leafs of the 90s were better than this.
Nylander and Tavares should be made available but I can’t see anyone giving up anything for Tavares.
Of course the NHL had to give the first overall pick for the upcoming draft to the Chicago Blackhawks. After the Kyle Beach story, I swear that club should have been denied the right to rebuild for at least a decade after the organization formally apologizes for the cover-up.
Some of us watching hockey can only laugh to hide despair at the NHL.
Leafs
Devils
Stars
Oilers
Possibly the greatest failure in the history of sports!
edit: The salt in Jack Edwards' voice is just delicious.
This just shows total lack of understanding anything related to probabilities or ice hockey. Playoffs is a cup competition, even with 7 games being better than 1, that's still what it is. Especially in cap-age when all teams are close to each other. In last 5 years we have had 2 top10 all time regular season teams going out in the first round, Tampa being swept, and one of the worst teams ever to make playoffs go into final. Main reason for this is obviously luck due to small sample size.
And Florida is pretty good team, as I told @JPRouve already months ago when he thought Montreal was getting top10 pick from Florida. Barkov is shutting everything down even if he isn't scoring much. And talking about luck, Florida only made playoffs because Pittsburgh lost against Chicago. But they would have been much higher if they had less injuries.
And you know having your number 1 and 2 centers injured has an effect in literally all hockey teams ever.
With Toronto going out and Seattle winning first round, everything is still okay in the world and Leafs are still the worst franchise in last 19 years. See you Toronto fans again in November when they are a "juggernaut".
3 of the 4 last teams will have Finnish number 1 center if Dallas goes through!
So... Hurricanes, Panthers, Vegas and either Stars or Kraken.
Totally unexciting conference finals coming up, I'll probably give the rest of the playoffs a miss.
In fact, it is what that cnut Bettman has been wanting for ages. He's probably the only league commissioner/president in the entire world who likes the idea of having 4 small or non-traditional markets making that far.I can imagine there's panic tendencies in the league office. A remarkably unexciting final 4.
Logic says Québec City.
That's my thought.What about Portland?
Only if you can 1) find an uber-rich group of investors paying something near what is expected out of Ottawa and 2) if you move an existing franchise from the Eastern conference to the Western Conference (perhaps like the Detroit Red Wings of yesteryear).
Barring a Dallas win tonight, they're probably done. And looks like Florida is rolling into the Finals as well.