When you think hockey you may think of canada. when you think of canada you may think of hockey.
but did you know it is now 28 years since a canadian team won the stanley cup? thats right the last time they won their own cup was 1993. post RAKED in this thread to respect this miracle. how can you invent a sport and be so bad at winning your own league?
>haven't won a playoff series in 15 (FIFTEEN) years
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I don’t watch hockey, but isn’t the Stanley Cup the sport’s most prestigious award? You’re telling me it’s been nearly 30 years since Canada (the inventor of the sport) has won it? Now that just seems ridiculous.
Ian King
RAKED
Angel Ramirez
Toronto is the more laffable one. I'll go with that.
Joshua Ramirez
based antifa
Jose Jenkins
>all leaf teams were eliminated before even the fucking hurricanes
>28 years >I was 1 years old in 93 >I'm 26 now Anywho >1aff5 >SSm8
Jordan Davis
>hurricanes literally haven't played playoffs hockey in a decade >still outlasted every top seed (aside from the one they're currently playing against), including the presidents trophy winner that got swept, and the entirety of Canada
Liam Foster
It's not an international tournament, Canadian teams only make up 25% of the league
Elijah Diaz
>the shanty of leaftown
Joseph Green
Anybody who understands the game could see from the very beginning of the year (yes, when we we’re winning) that nothing had changed, that the systems (or lack thereof) were the same. This has by far been the most frustrating year of Leafs hockey that I have watched because it was a carbon copy repeat of last year. Same mistakes, same outcome, no adjustments or anything to address our shortcomings from last year (from the coaching staff and despite many roster improvements).
This team has the skill and goaltending to have won a cup this year if they weren’t being constantly handicapped. They consistently look less than the sum of their parts and for the second season in a row they have been bounced early as a result. What a waste of a season. I don’t care how good they are at times. They have the raw talent and goaltending to succeed despite the handicaps imposed on them by the coaching staff. Again, this was obvious throughout the year and is the reason that they have exactly zero consistency.
It would be nice next year if these conversations can be had even if the team is winning (assuming they have the same issues). There are more nuances in the game beyond ‘Win = Unequivocally Good’ and ‘Lose = Unequivocally Bad’. Over the past two years the Leafs have won a lot of games, but if you watch them they pretty much never dominate the play and are usually giving up a lot of chances but are bailed out by stellar goaltending. The raw talent provides the scoring a lot of times in ways that appear out of nowhere because they are simply that good. Success is relative, and these past two seasons this team has been forced to play at around 80% of their potential because of their coaches.
This was such a winnable series and a legit cup contending year, and especially one with a manageable salary cap situation and it was wasted.
By the way, even if we managed to win this game I would feel the same way.
Mason Cox
RAKED
Jaxon Fisher
If I saw that coin as change I'd refuse it.
If I ended up with one it would be the first time I ever donated to the homeless heroin addicts that roam the streets of Toronto under the very shadow of our stock trading towers.
Austin Gray
RAKED
Juan Jackson
Kek
Christian Powell
Every (You) this post gets a leaf gets raked
Luke Stewart
Imagine fucking relying on the Laffs to win a series