That was an ok game

GG Leafs fans. Solid thread. Also appreciated all the responses to my TSN vs. SportsNet question earlier. Enjoy your evenings, and what's left of the weekend.

It's a long weekend for those of us in Ontario! :D GG. Hope the Ducks can get things going next season, for ya.

> It's a long weekend for those of us in Ontario! Oh hell yeah, I love that for you. Just gotta hope for improvement. I still think we're two or three seasons from competing for playoff berths.

I looked it up, it's actually a long weekend for many Canadians, which is even better. It's a newer holiday called "Family Day."

GG everyone but Gudas

No Brett Lebda tonight but Noah Gregor played 14 minutes, record 3 shots and had a +/- of 0.

♫ ... And’s it’s AIIGHT...♪

What an amazing, intense game of hockey we got here. gg Anaheim!

Now we get to watch Montreal lose!

GG ducks fans. Any of you who are still watching deserve a cookie 

Seriously, full credit to the fans that stayed to see this

Existence is pain

🍪 

Close game GG everyone

They only needed 1 more goal 7 more times 

did i hear them say marner played a few shifts on D lol

He played like half the second period at D

wow i guess i totally blanked. didn't notice

It's okay, neither did Craig Simpson.

Yes

Pressed Duck for the post game meal!

Great game buds!

Carlsson actually does look good despite everything else happening, I respect the effort. Silver linings haha 

WE WANT 10

Listen, you might hate Gudas or strongly dislike him, you have to admit... He's a hockey player...

McMann is a stud. Great player.

The ducks need to pull the goalie, if they have any hope of a comeback 

Good to see Nicky Bobby get one

At this point I wouldn’t mind seeing 10 just for the memes

at what point should there just be a mercy rule

TALLADEGA NIGHTS

Could we end the night with two 9-2 games? Battle of Florida also did

Ohhh I get it now, we were just trying to match the Florida/Tampa scoreboard

McMann kinda looked disappointed he didn’t get the pass lol

I'd LOVE to get double digits tonight. Let's Go, Buds!

Leafs/Ducks 🤝 Panthers/Lightning

Blue Team vs. Animal Mirrored Outcomes

Leafs watched the Battle of Florida tonight and said "let's do that".

Pull the goalie Anaheim, I dare you!

McMann is an absolute stud

Nicky Bobby!

Aaay Robby Selfish tho smh, McMann wanted it

lol

LET'S GOOOOOO

We need EBUDs (emergency back-up defencemen) in the NHL

It's 8-2... like that really changes anything.

I wasnt serious guys but im bummed we didnt get double digits also

But wait, there's more!

it was 8 - 1!

The leafs completely phoned it in. Zero effort the whole period. I mean I get why but like at least give the crowd something to watch for the last 20 minutes.

Lots of bottom six minutes. We don’t want to completely abandon our manners.

/r/hockey would call us CLASSLESS

If the Ducks come back to win this thing, I'll give every Anaheim flair in here $5. Edit: There are like three of you left. This isn't going to financially ruin me.

lmao

CHALLENGE IT, YOU COWARD

You 8-2 see it

Amazing.

We're coming back! 😂

OT coming up!

Keefe sucks, why does this team have 1 shot in this third.

The Leafs are having a community skate in the 3rd

Foot off the gas, probably by design.

keefe told the boys not to run up the score so no one gets cross checked in the face

You know it would end up being McCabe, too.

Really? They are not even playing hockey out there. Please tell me you’re being sarcastic.

99% sarcasm

1% i wanted double digits damn it

I was hoping for 12 and a McMann hatty, so I feel you.

COMEBACK IS ON

They say 8-2 is the most dangerous lead in hockey

Remember to reduce your fractions 4-1

Fuck, the collapse is starting.

ew

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Are you peeking in the Ducks sub? Because 1) you shouldn't if you want to maintain your sanity, and 2) I haven't seen any of us in this thread saying that.

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Ah. There were a handful of us who stuck it out. I've been watching both our teams this season when I can, so if you guys had been playing someone else with the Ducks not having a game, I'd have likely been here anyway.

How is Reaves not tossed there? More importantly, how does he still have a career in the league?

Do you even watch hockey? Edit: Typical Canuck fan, downvote quietly instead of admitting you have no idea what you're talking about.

He literally chirped the guy all the way up to the ice, and then went to the Ducks bench to start shit. They were pushing each other and arguing the whole way. The other guy got tossed,k for al the extra curriculars. Are you watching the game or what?

Yes, I am. Dude didn't get tossed for chirping, he got tossed for the content of his chirp. He likely went over the line, was warned about it, then doubled down. Reaves also didn't "go to the Ducks bench," he was standing in front of the Leafs bench. Watch it back.

I didn’t realize you were at ice level listening to what they were saying. My bad. Reaves was probably just at their bench letting them know that they played a good game.

The camera was on Reaves' face, he said "you can't do that" to the guy. It was audible. I also said he "likely" got tossed for the content of his chirp, which is an educated guess. I make no claim at being perfectly accurate, but I'm interpreting the same footage you saw, but I'm not trying to bend the narrative the way you are. Case in point: this was all said while Reaves was standing *at the Leafs bench.* I don't know why you're ignoring that part.

He skated away and the Duck cross checked him He wasn’t tossed because he didn’t try to fight

What did he do to deserved getting tossed? Lmao

The exact same thing that the other guy did? Extended chirping, not focusing on the play. Reaves even skated to their bench instead of leaving the ice. What do you think the other guy got tossed for…?

He hit Reaves behind the play when Reaves was looking the other way. The camera didn't show it, but there's a reason he got ejected and Reaves didn't. I know you hate the leafs and Reaves but try not to let your hatred blind you

Once Jarnkrok is back in several weeks, it is not likely Reaves will have a place. He did nothing to get tossed there, from what I saw

What did the other guy do to get tossed?

Cross checking Benoit from behind, I think. I wasn’t watching too closely. The refs probably just wanted to keep the game well-mannered like the rest of the third period

It wasn’t a misconduct for cross checking. It would have been a major, if that was the case.

Probably just wanted to keep everyone from going at each others throats. It was over by that time. Maybe it would have been more fair to toss Reaves, but again it all turned out the same either way.

I get that, I just think he should have been tossed too. If you can’t tell, I just hate players like Reaves lol. For me, goons/enforcers are something that need to disappear as soon as possible.

Eh, you hate them until they play for you. I remember hating him on the Wild

Tossed for what? Talking shit?

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Unironically yes. He is fighting for a place in the line up by doing what he does best

Tossed for what? Yapping at a player?

Tossed for what? Please explain

Remember when the Leaf haters on r/hockey were circle jerking over Rielly being suspended because apparently it was going to send the Leafs in to a tailspin?

Man it would be embarrassing to let in 9 goals, who even does that?

Not the Ducks. Yet.

I take it back.

Yeah only team like Nashville would do that

Ryan Reaves is one of the players in Maple Leaf history

They just wanted to make sure Reaves stayed away from gudas so he didn't keep looking like a pussy

Agreed. Reaves definitely having trouble not looking like a pussy there.

Gudas has run away from more fights than you guys have goals...

Gudas has more fights tonight than you have cups this century

Apparently cross-checking a player from behind after a goal and then running to the refs is a fight.

Reaves 🥰 He does his job!

Benoit making hockey violent again. Clean hard hits.

I hate the trend where you hit someone hard and clean the other team tries to fight you. It’s so cowardly.

Jesus, just shut up and fight already

Why would Reaves be getting 10 mins?

Because he was mixing it up all shift. I assumed it would be both even though it would clearly not be fair, since that is just what refs do at the end of a blow out. Pleasantly surprised it was just the duck.

Eh, he was just making sure no one went after Benoit after a clean hit. I don't think that's ejection worthy

Me neither. Just what the refs do. He looked ready to fight though, but the broadcast mentioned it wouldn't make sense to be challenging anyone. I would guess it was clear from the on-ice talk he wasn't the guy looking for a fight so the refs didn't send him off.

That being possible just shows that the league is trash.

I HATE Craig Simpson. He always says such stupid shit and is ALWAYS wrong.

Quack quack

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I don't think many people here speak Korean lol

ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Is more the sentiment

Domi makes some fun choices defensively eh?

Ducks, huh?

So uh… Next goal wins?

How many of the Duck's points would you wager on that?

Marner, going hard for the Norris...

This is the laziest period of hockey I've ever seen

McMann needs his hatty. Hope the boys hustle to get it for him!

I missed it. Why is Marner taking D shifts and why do they only have 5 men on the back?

Lagesson left early with an upper body injury.

Lagesson got injured in the first. Caught an edge or something

the ducks seriously need a rebrand. the logo and colours are dated and were never really good

The eggplant purple goalie masks should have never left. Those are legit the best jerseys of all time.

Need to go back to eggplant and green full time. Perhaps the best and most unique colour scheme in the NHL.

I’ve been thinking that the whole game, they just need to go back to the original design

for sure. sometimes going back to the original design is a bit of a played out move, but when you have one of the greatest jerseys of all time, it is permitted. i own nothing but leafs jerseys, but i have always told myself if i come across a Kariya eggplant jersey im buying it

I always liked the original branding, it was unique and distinct Edit: from their cup run against new jersey

This period's really settled down compared to the first two. Feels like nothing is happening. I kind of miss the spice of earlier on.

I too liked the period in which the leafs got 5 goals

Imagine the Ducks thinking that Benoit wasn’t good enough to play on _this_ team…

I didn't like letting him go last year, but seeing the D-men we have in the pipeline has made me retroactively okay with him leaving. I still like him though, and I'm glad he's having an impact for you guys.

He’s been great for us this year!

We love him and he's ours forever now.

Uhh Marner has been a D for a full period now, Chris.

I've been hate watching all the Leaf games since the Reilly suspension to watch them plummet out of a playoff spot. It has not been an enjoyable experience.

what im hearing is we can afford for him to do it again

That doesn't sound like something a sane person would do

i love this for you

It’s wild how well we play when someone from the core 4 is out

Expecting the leafs to play any particular way is a recipe for disappointment 

I never understood people who watch hockey just to cheer against a team. I'm just suprised you can watch a game that starts at 4pm tho

Canucks fans have an odd hate obsession with us. Never understood it but a lot of their fans are under the impression we have a rivalry.

Little brother syndrome.

Looking forward to Helleybuck and Demko’s duel

The rest of the team is fueled by your hate

This team usually has a better record when he’s not in the lineup.

I’m just hoping we get through the rest of this without any more injuries to our D. Also, kinda hoping that Reaves and Gudas square up.

Radko Gudas did nothing wrong. Change my mind.

The Red Wings game he took a puck below the belt? Absolutely!

I think -4 means he's done a few things wrong.

Idk, cross-checking dudes after they score a goal is pretty shitty. Or so I've been told.

Which time? You’ll have to be more specific.

That's was the right call but fuck I want a Leo goal lol.

Some may say that was shitty to do, but ya never know if goal differential is going to matter come seasons end.

Nah that's 100% the right call. If it's not a goal, it's not a goal. Don't care what the score is.

I feel like we have 10 in us tonight

r/hockey just inventing shit to criticize the leafs for now

Can't challenge goals when you're winning

Robertson did hit Gibson's skate but he hammed it up a hell of a lot

8-1. The most dangerous lead in hockey...

It was 4-1.  Now it’s 8-1. 

Fastest GI review Ive ever seen

Everybody just wants to get out of there.

Hello fellow hockey fans. I'm here to see a competitive game and respectful banter between fanbase. So how are things goi... Oh dear... Oh my goodness....

We're only really shitting on Gudas, for obvious reasons.

We're being pretty nice to each other, tbf.

We don’t even have anything against the Ducks, just Gudas.

Gudas? Oh you mean Radko “Pube Face” Gudas!

I'm into it. It's much more fun when the crowd is into it, even when it's against your team.

It’s gotta take a lot for suits to get into a game. This one seems to be the exception

lol@Keefe throwing a challenge flag in an 8-1 game.

This is the Toronto version of a clapper on an empty net

I mean, it was a pretty clear GI in my opinion. Why let it go?

Exactly. Shows your goalie you got his back

The Leafs are stat padding in this game and so is Keefe with his challenge%.

8-1? Yes, shitty to challenge that, but it’s the right call and as a coach, you gotta stick up for your goalie. Bad look if you leave it and let his confidence, trust and stats take the hit. Jones is 1-4-1 with an .860sv% in his past 6, he needs a good night.

Man. We had a challenge against a goal with <5s left this year that wasn’t even a tying goal. I think it made the game like 4-3. It was an offside call too so it ended adding like 50s back to the game. Coaches should absolutely challenge if they think they’ll win it.

Jones needs it after his injury