Craig Button trying to put the jinx on the Leafs.

https://www.tsn.ca/video/...against-the-leafs~2199264

Craig Button trying to put the jinx on the Leafs.

https://www.tsn.ca/video/...against-the-leafs~2199264
- Archaic

Habs might get lucky and win one.

Question: if Leafs make it past the 1st round and play the Oilers in the 2nd, do we bring back Kadri to take McDavid out?

Question: if Leafs make it past the 1st round and play the Oilers in the 2nd, do we bring back Kadri to take McDavid out?
- MaximusAurelius

i thought thats why they got Simonds and Bogo and Foligno

i thought thats why they got Simonds and Bogo and Foligno
- senstroll

these three aren't fast enough to catch him though...

Question: if Leafs make it past the 1st round and play the Oilers in the 2nd, do we bring back Kadri to take McDavid out?
- MaximusAurelius

Play Matthews head-to-head against McDavid, freeing up Nylander to win the series.

Play Matthews head-to-head against McDavid, freeing up Nylander to win the series.
- Zezel

Matthews and Marner are definitely the answer to McDavid. The more time he spends in his end the better.

Craig Button trying to put the jinx on the Leafs.

https://www.tsn.ca/video/...against-the-leafs~2199264
- Archaic

"He doesn't come out disguised. He comes out wearing number 97 every game"

Play Matthews head-to-head against McDavid, freeing up Nylander to win the series.
- Zezel

If we’re depending on this, we’ll get out goalied. 😎

If we’re depending on this, we’ll get out goalied. 😎
- Garnie

Freddy's got this.

Freddy's got this.
- Zezel

Won’t be Dead Fred, he’s been buried beside Muzzin.

Leafs getting the statsy love
never been one of the top 5 teams like this...better make it count

https://twitter.com/Money.../1392100000079962112?s=20

EvolvingWild
@EvolvingWild
Working on our playoff preview for EH, and it's kind of funny how much better COL's EV metrics are than every other team. Based just on Team RAPM EV metrics, I think the top 4 teams in the playoffs this year are:

1.) COL
2.) VGK
3.) TOR
4.) CAR

Leafs getting the statsy love
never been one of the top 5 teams like this...better make it count

https://twitter.com/Money.../1392100000079962112?s=20
- senstroll

No love for TB, they’ll be tough if Stammer and Kuch are healthy.

Question: if Leafs make it past the 1st round and play the Oilers in the 2nd, do we bring back Kadri to take McDavid out?
- MaximusAurelius

He's just been suspended for you thinking those thoughts.

No love for TB, they’ll be tough if Stammer and Kuch are healthy.
- Garnie

Even for Kucherov, going from zero to playoffs might be tough.

No love for TB, they’ll be tough if Stammer and Kuch are healthy.
- Garnie

besides the Avs, the 2-10 spread is pretty small, adding kuch should bump them up for sure

Craig Button trying to put the jinx on the Leafs.

https://www.tsn.ca/video/...against-the-leafs~2199264
- Archaic

Don't worry I got this. Ahem.

Leafs are skilled but they don't have the willpower or the tenacity to play playoff hockey. They won't win a single game floating around against a team that knows the value of hard work and can play a grey area grinding playoff style. They win exactly one game in the first round. Also goaltending.

Yost, trying so hard to convince himself that Toronto won't win. He just cant stop being a Sens fan

Yost, trying so hard to convince himself that Toronto won't win. He just cant stop being a Sens fan
- Aetherial

The leafs winning a round or two will break some brains

The leafs winning a round or two will break some brains
- senstroll

But after that: News Flash... the teams you play in the conference finals and stanley cup finals are PRETTY GOOD TEAMS

Doesn't matter who they face between Montreal or Winnipeg, Leafs will be the heavy favorite in this series.

There's not much argument about the Jets being able to turn things around in a week to overcome them imo.

Montreal has one glimmer of hope imo. They will get a much needed rest after a completely insane schedule the past month and a half and should get a rested Price and Weber ready for the playoffs?

And if Price plays like he did last playoffs, anything is possible.

Will it be enough? Odds are it won't.

But the hope remains.

But after that: News Flash... the teams you play in the conference finals and stanley cup finals are PRETTY GOOD TEAMS
- TheMussel

And the Leafs will be one of them

And the Leafs will be one of them
- Canada Cup

Yeah but they're the Leafs

Don't worry I got this. Ahem.

Leafs are skilled but they don't have the willpower or the tenacity to play playoff hockey. They won't win a single game floating around against a team that knows the value of hard work and can play a grey area grinding playoff style. They win exactly one game in the first round. Also goaltending.
- TheMussel

Agreed!

Even for Kucherov, going from zero to playoffs might be tough.
- Zezel

I tend to agree. It all depends on that first series. Can Tampa win against Florida and give the injured guys time to ramp up and get back to speed (and can they get there at the most ramped up time of the year without injuring themselves in other ways)? Florida is playing great, but it is just their second time in the playoffs in 6 years. They played great with a 5-2-1 or BETTER record against everyone they played except Carolina (who they had a losing 2-4-2 record against).

Tampa's only losing record was against Florida, but they don't look like the same explosive team this year. No one is a PPG player, which is surprising. Not Point, not Stamkos . . . even Hedman has put up good point numbers for a defenseman, but he hasn't been as good this year.

Tampa feels like a team that was always going to make the playoffs, but their league position was buoyed more by Vasilevskiy's play than anyone else on that team.

Florida, meanwhile, had Bobrobsky start the lion's share of games, and was arguably below league average in his play and still posted a 19-8-2 season.

It's hard to bet against the Cup champs and a team as deep as Tampa, but they don't look like a team that's winning against Florida.