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Well fuck.
Was a good series, anyways, could’ve gone either way... especially with a little restraint (and effort) in Game 1. Seriously, had they been tighter in that game and had Kadri not done stupid shit and been suspended I think this goes the other way... but we’ll never know now will we.
See y’all next year
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Go Leafs! (or something like that)
I still have to go to a game, but I’m saving that for when the weather is a bit colder.
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They’re just getting your hopes up before things go to shit later in the season...
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Pro tip: cheer for a better team if you’re going to get into hockey.
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Hey, the Leafs have got the third period meltdown to an artform. No one, and I mean no one in the NHL does it better.
Go Leafs Go!
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Well, I wasn’t thinking about becoming a fan for life, but I might as well check out the local team, right?
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Fair enough!
I wonder how Leafs game prices are these days.
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I just checked the prices, not really sure if I want to go anymore...
It is about $100 for a horrible seat... Why does it have to be so crazy expensive?
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Because it’s the Leafs, and people will pay that money to watch a team lose. It’s absolute lunacy. That’s why I liked living in Ottawa: paid $75, got a decent seat to watch the Sens.
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Because it’s the Leafs. This means a ton of season ticket holders who are deluded as to the chance of actually seeing a Stanley Cup in the ACC.
Best idea is to get tickets for a Leafs game when they are playing someone like Arizona or Florida. Those teams are desperate to get butts in seats, so the tickets are much cheaper.
As a Leafs and Blackhawks fan, I understand. Chicago tickets are also insane.
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Go Leafs Go! Don’t listen to CB :)
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Because Leafs. Huge demand. Those tickets are technically below market value, too... scalpers seem to find Toronto a very lucrative market
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This year so far they appear to have their meltdowns in the first or second. Leaving a little space if they have to come back I guess.
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But you know how it traditionally goes...
I’m just happy that they are getting the sucking out of the way and not doing it at the end of the game.
Although OT wins are nailbiters to watch, it’s not the way I’d like to get points.
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IT’S A TIME OF CHANGE
*insert leaf fan moment of doubt here*
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Ah, all the tickets are bought by corporate people because something something business something something.
Isn’t the standard line “AUSTON MATTHEWS WILL SAVE US ALL” or some such now? I forget. I just watch the games, that’s all.
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I dunno, but if they keep up this play I will actively look forward to overtime. Matthews+Nylander+Gardiner is a pretty damn formidable lineup and they seem to just run rings around everyone
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you don’t want to know what ticket prices are for Red Wings at the new arena.
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Let me guess, they need extra ticket revenue in order to pay for the new arena?
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You’re absolutely right, the Leafs aren’t the ones doing the sucking this time
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I have a favor to ask you, do you mind not posting when it’s a Habs -leafs game night. I DVR my games and watch them after the kids go to bed. I stay away from things that could give me the score.
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$55/$65 for tickets to Avenue Q in Toronto, a musical I highly recommend, even for non-musical people.
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On the one hand, I HAVE NO FAVOURS TO OFFER A DIVISIONAL RIVAL. On the other, sure, no problem.
Come the playoffs though, should that situation come up... All deals are off :)
Good luck m8
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the Habs need all the luck in the world this season. At this rate playoffs wont be a problem for your posts....
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I’m not so sure. The Habs shooting percentage has been as dismal this year as it was impressive last October. That always tends to even out over the year. Not to mention Price has not looked himself... can’t see that trend continuing. He’s too good.
I dunno... and frankly anyone who says they do is a liar. Trying to predict the final standings in October is like trying to take someone’s tonsils out through the butthole
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Well I wouldn’t plan the parade route just yet. ;)
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Leafs and Blackhawks? That’s an odd combination, Norris division be damned.
Please tell me you didn’t root for both between 1990—2009. That’s too heavy a cross for one man to bear.
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1967 huh
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yo go to sportsnet.ca and the play by play highlights for this game
those were done by ME! Fun one to watch
dat matthews goal doe
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The Leafs are the Cubs of the NHL. And I love my Cubs.
Besides, after the re-org in 1993, they ended up in separate conferences. So it makes sense. Sort of.
Hence why I have a Duncan Keith jersey and a JvR jersey (thanks to the Flyers for that one...)
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original huh
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Seriously? Cool!
Love that pic XD
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yep!
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Do you know of Steve Dangle? Guy who screams at a camera after every Leafs game? Mostly it’s just really good amusement, but he had a good point on that subject. We SHOULD be planning the parade. So should you. Why is the game played if not to try and win?
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Well con fricken’ grats!
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congrats on 1st place
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I guess the past 50 years have just flown by, I wonder it will take another :)
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Ha, I was just repeating the old joke. But yeah, the Leafs are finally doing it right. If the Cubs can do it, the Leafs will follow.
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The parallels between the Cubs and Leafs are scary. Between that, knowing a few Toronto natives who moved here to Chicago, and discovering Sean McIndoe a few years ago, the Leafs are my 2nd favorite team.
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Who knows? You could have one of the best teams ever iced and lose every time through sheer bad luck if it came to that. I will say this much, the optimism feels more than justified this time around. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not expecting them to end up going 81-1-0 this year and take the cup in four straight shutout sweeps or anything, but this team feels... REAL for a change.
At the bare minimum they’ll end up going full Capitals and entertaining regular season fans year in and year out and disappointing in the playoffs... As a Leafs fan in recent years that’s still a huge upgrade
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As long as they don’t trudge the path of the Jays... or the Raptors (thus far) for that matter... should be just fine.
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Good luck! I suppose nobody deserves to suffer for so long. Well maybe the Flyers.
Reminds me of the Canucks, come alive right before the playoffs, get everyone going enough to fill up the bandwagon, then, well, oh snap.
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Also, 50 Mission Cap... Singer just died... 51st year without a cup... IT’S ALL COMING TOGETHER
Actually, if they did pull it off this year it would be super creepy.
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Well, Back to the Future predicted the Cubs would win in 2015, Ernie Banks died that year, too - so we were only off a year. There were other coincidences that happened last year, too, but I’m forgetting them right now. It WILL happen - just a matter of when.
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And, I forgot - RIP Gord Downie.
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Also good.
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wow
such rake
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Mmm Bacon
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At the risk of bringing up the GM Who Shall Not Be Named (Nonis, and his comrade Burke) and The Carlyle...
Didn’t they pull the same thing with the David Clarkson trade?
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we do not speak of those times
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As far as Leaf fans are concerned, 2008-2015 didn’t even happen. The years just went 2005, 2006, 2006, 2007, 2016.
Transition happened much like it does on SpongeBob SquarePants with the appropriate time card...
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Good luck! I suppose nobody deserves to suffer for so long. Well maybe the Flyers.
Hey, screw you budday!
Well, actually, it’s pretty appropriate. Flyers homers are BRUTAL. I can only take them in small doses.
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You don’t like batteries thrown at you?
I also loathe Clarke.
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Last Season: Take the C from Giroux! He’s a lifeless bum! Push him in front of a truck and give the C to The Wayne Train!
This Season: It was his hip, he totally rules now!
Last Season: Everybody figured out Ghost, he was a one year wonder.
This Season: It was his hip, he totally rules now!
Last Season: Fuck Coots, he’s terrible. I don’t know why we pay this guy.
This Season: COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTS BABY!!!
Last Season: MacDonald SUCKS. He’s a fucking cancer on the team. Worst skater, period.
This Season: Huh, we seem to have played better with him off of the DL.
Last Season: Mason is the worst goalie in the history of net minders in any sport on any continent in any planet in any galaxy. He is as effective as using a rubber band in place of a condom.
This Season: Huh, Elliot is not that great either.
And so on, and so on. If you disagree or are pragmatic you don’t know hockey.
It actually got me thinking about when referring back to the glory dayz gets pathetic. Broad Street Bullies? That shit was over 40 years ago and the league is not the same anymore. Stop acting like that’s the way the Flyers need to be to win.
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It sucked in the ugly 70s too. Terrible hockey, in terms of the game. Ankle breaking hack Clarke should have been banned from the game for his antics.
I still have fond memories of the 1997 choking sound.
I believe he has compromising files on someone to keep his job, that, or Philly people are just stuck in the old days, the same people who think Rocky was a documentary :)
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I haven’t been following the NHL. What the hell happened to the Blackhawks?
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I haven’t been keeping an eye on them, but judging by their record the same thing that’s been happening to the Leafs. Hot start and a hard fall back to earth. They’ll pull out of it.
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Cool. I was worried they were suffering some injuries.
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Are they that bad? I assumed theyd be cheap by now based off how many empty seats there are in the lower bowl. I want to go to one but I’ll probably just get standing room at the top because the sight lines are still good.
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I’m more worried they end up okay again. At least we’d be able to sweep them in the 2nd round again.
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My new hat made all the difference. Just saying.
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I had a friend who got a new Leafs hat last year. Leafs ended up on a 5-game win streak.
Go buy another one.
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I also got a long sleeve Tee. Hat picture is elsewhere on Oppo.
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/paging-smallbear-1820260050
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I missed that... I wasn’t around yesterday afternoon.
Thanks for sharing!
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Wait for last minute deals on game day and you can usually get a good seat for that much as they’re trying to fill the last few seats. I get email notifications for those sales and go to a game or 2 per year. I’d definitely recommend going to a game while you’re here.
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I’m claiming the shirt also had something to do with the Boston walloping.
Also something about hats, Brandon Saad, and the Blackhawks actually winning.
Conclusion: buy more stuff.
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Bettman approves of your conclusion.
In other news, LEAFS ARE 3-0-0 WITHOUT MATTHEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! About time they put their work boots on.
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Of course the little Gary in the tree house wants more stuff sold.
Bring back the Centennial Classic Leafs sweater, Gary... I know you have the pattern there somewhere...
Although this means Patrick Marleau can still embarrass young players on other teams, JvR still getting garbage goals (because that is what JvR *does*), and the rest of the kids deciding to play hockey rather than being a younger incarnation of the current Chicago Blackhawks (God they are embarrassing right now).
ImOKWithThis.jpg
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Oh man you reminded me of Marleau... HOW IS HE THIS FAST?!?!?!?!!!!! It’s like they forgot to tell him he’s 38 years old.
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!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
Sneaky fast.
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That’s right, you’re gonna have to step up your equipment
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nah bro
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Still lost to the Blues earlier this month.
Yet another team that hasn’t won the cup since the GT500 came out as a brand-new model.
Hmm...
Let’s Go Blues!
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Are... you calling them yellow and saying they do lines when they’re not on the ice, or just that they suck? I may be reading too much into this.
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leaf disposal
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I don’t feel bad about that in the least. Yeah, the points would be nice and all, but they’re GOING to lose sometimes and there are far worse teams to lose to—Arizona springs to mind *cough* habs *cough*
But the Blues were red hot, the Leafs had been struggling, Andersen had been fighting it a bit and they still damn near tied it up in the 3rd? I’ll take that. AS long as it doesn’t happen every time.
GLG!
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What is it with Cory Schneider anyway?
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He has way too much confidence against the Leafs. When you think you can do something often it’s easier.
That’s my logic and I’m sticking to it.
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I found a parking sign for you the other day:
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I approve.
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I’d think after the CGY game, every comment should be about how the Flames are soooooo tied up with this whole “Get a replacement for the Saddledome with Other People’s Money” thing that they forgot to play hockey during matches.
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You reminded me of this
In all fairness, the Flames don’t have the easiest situation at the moment. IIRC they’re already on life support from the league (do I hear a “thank you Toronto”?) so they DO need outside help for the arena. Plus the city would be getting revenue out of it for events so meh.
But a) would a new arena really help their financial situation, and b) the city MADE a reasonable offer imo. SO...
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The reasonable offer was “You want to use it? Great! We just ask that you pay to use it, like everyone else.”
But this cuts into precious precious money for the Flames to have to invest in their team.
I give kudos to Calgary’s mayor who basically was asking “If you want us to pay for part of the arena, fine, but what’s our payback (Theoretical economic development doesn’t count. Must be cash)?”
EDIT: also, Calgary’s in the upper half of teams in terms of their revenue (I think all .ca teams are in the upper third, but don’t quote me on that). This isn’t like the league paying Florida or Arizona, or them shaking down their cities for a new arena like all the other cool kids got for Christmas.
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They offered to pay for half of it. Regardless of anything else that’s good money and lots of it.
In any case it’s a stupid situation.
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Because every other social ill in Calgary is completely and totally solved amirite.
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I think the Oilers are called the Titans now. Or the Texans. Who knows.
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Yeeesh though. Fought their way back into the game, tied it, and their own guy RIFLES it into their net with a minute and a half to go...
I’m happy about the win, pissed off at my Leafs for sitting back and pissing away that lead, and also feeling deeply sorry for the Oilers. Weird.
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I can’t feel sorry for a team that in the past 7-8 years had 4 first overall picks, plus a 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 10th overall picks. With all that, they still suck.
Let’s Go Blues!!!