timely scoring, playing dirty and great goaltending are the three keys to winning
- PatC80

Stop with the crying about dirty playing. Have you not watched any other series?

I am happy for you like I have said

You should enjoy it, but being a sore loser will come back to you. Dish it as long as you can take it...and I mean you are already getting triggered about "luck" so we will see
- Santo_44

Age doesn't really matter all of that much... Tyler Toffoli won the Cup when he was 22 and thought it would be easy to win again.. It's not easy.. Leafs just need to make some small adjustments to get the right mix of players..
- PatC80

Well yeah that is where I was getting at.

You win when you win and for guys like Matthews its most often than not only a matter of time. I hope its on the Leafs.

By "who cant hack it"...you mean the player that leads the leafs in playoff pts since he came into the league?
He had a bad playoffs this year......so did Matthews the final 3 games.
- Fakepartofme

I mean the player who has epically regressed and hasn't scored a (frank)ing goal in 18 playoff games.

He can't hack it.

No, it's embarrassing pretending that a team that was largely poop all season long but managed to put it all together in an end of year tournament is the "best".

"Best" and "champion" are not synonymous.

I don't know why you're so triggered by this concept. If I was a Habs fan I wouldn't give a poop if my team was actually the "best" team of the year -- only that they hoisted the Cup.
- mjones242

Actually the habs came out of the gate on fire no?

Dionne didn’t win a Cup. Should he still stay the course? Give it another go? If Thornton can still play, why not Dionne?

Dude - I was making a gopher joke.
- Atomic Wedgie

Dude, I ignored it.

- Scabeh

LOL

What a great movie.

- Scabeh

Triggered again

That's a good night.
- AdamFrench

no beers, no wings to go with the pizza

how could it be a good night unless he got lucky

Dude, I ignored it.
- mjones242

But it was the best joke.

I mean, it may not have won any awards, but it was still the best joke.

Well if the goal of the game is to win the stanley cup, isn't the team winning it the best at atteigning that goal?

Hence, the best team?

That's always how I viewed things personally.
- Scabeh

You’re right. Except if it’s the Habs.

Compared to the list of winning after 23? Yeah no.

Ovi, Backstrom, Stamkos, Kucherov, Hedman, Kopitar, Lidstrom, Lemieux, Yzerman

Thats off the top of my head.

Either way moral of the story you don't need to win a cup before you are 23 because it doesn't happen often.
- Santo_44

you are 100% right in saying that you dont need to win before 23 but 100% wrong in thinking it doesnt happen often. id take example like Islanders dynasty over one offs like Lanny all day

No, it's embarrassing pretending that a team that was largely poop all season long but managed to put it all together in an end of year tournament is the "best".

"Best" and "champion" are not synonymous.

I don't know why you're so triggered by this concept. If I was a Habs fan I wouldn't give a poop if my team was actually the "best" team of the year -- only that they hoisted the Cup.
- mjones242

Leafs are best after all?

Well if the goal of the game is to win the stanley cup, isn't the team winning it the best at atteigning that goal?

Hence, the best team?

That's always how I viewed things personally.
- Scabeh

Well, that's certainly shifting the goalposts. If that's how you want to define "best team" in the league, knock yourself out.

Then we laugh at Scabbies and troll the Habs thread. Like Gentlegulls.
- Steven_Seagull

Over under 100 cop cars burned in MTL?

What happens if TB sweeps them and makes Price look like regular season Price?
- Santo_44

Then the habs have had a great run for their fans.

But I doubt that happens.

Leafs are best after all?
- Canada Cup

No?

Actually the habs came out of the gate on fire no?
- Fakepartofme

Chris Johnson juggernaut tweet

Dionne didn’t win a Cup. Should he still stay the course? Give it another go? If Thornton can still play, why not Dionne?
- Steven_Seagull

I just discovered last year that he has a breakfast restaurant in Niagara Falls.

https://www.bluelinediner.com/home

I'm definitely going to try to hit it as some point this summer.

Over under 100 cop cars burned in MTL?
- Santo_44

They’ll get tired after 2, give up, then smoke a pack of cigarettes while watching a silent French film.

What happens if TB sweeps them and makes Price look like regular season Price?
- Santo_44

Pointless question. It's not happening.

Price has the best save percentage EVER for a goaltender making it past the first 3 rounds.

But keep dreaming about him self imploding for some unknown reason.

Well, that's certainly shifting the goalposts. If that's how you want to define "best team" in the league, knock yourself out.
- mjones242

That's how the league defines best team in the league.

Well, that's certainly shifting the goalposts. If that's how you want to define "best team" in the league, knock yourself out.
- mjones242

You are 100% right.

Being the best team doesn't matter at the end of the year because you want a cup...but the best team doesn't win the cup every year.

The closest we get to that is basketball. Which is a tad boring.

I just discovered last year that he has a breakfast restaurant in Niagara Falls.

https://www.bluelinediner.com/home

I'm definitely going to try to hit it as some point this summer.
- Atomic Wedgie

Are restaurants open yet?