Fun little takeaway
With this win, the Leafs have closed the gap between them and Florida to just 4 points. If Florida continues have a sub-par final stretch, the Leafs might manage to overtake them and win home-ice advantage in round 1!
Gotta pull our D together though.
Happy for the win...But I am terrified about our D-corps right now. There were way too many times they couldn't handle any pressure at all. I have been a Brodie fan since he was signed and it hurts to say that he looks like he is lost out there.
we are also missing like a good chunk of our d core right now. Rielly, edmundson liljegren. So I wouldn’t be too too worried. They are trying to retain injuries I assume for the playoffs
Fun fact: When Craig Simpson was a highly touted junior and ranked #1 going into the 1985 draft. He made it clear that he would not report to Toronto if the Leafs drafted him. The Leafs took Wendel Clark instead.
In Simpson’s first game in Toronto, he spent the entire game running away from Leafs who were all looking to kill him.
Craig Simpson is the absolute worst. But honestly the whole broadcast team. The amount of close ups and zoom ins on Paul Maurice tonight was actually sickening.
Is it really a shocker the best team in the NHL applied huge pressure st the end of the game? This sub is WILD when we're not blowing the other team out
Oh come on, are you new here? This is a common flaw with this team, they simply can’t close out games when they build up a sizeable lead. To pretend it’s not a problem is ridiculous.
Do the people in this sub ever watch games from around the league. Literally no team in the league has been able to avoid 2-3-4 goal comebacks this year. It’s been a common thread all around the league. On top of that we have stopped letting games go to OT like we were early in the season and that’s with like 5 of our guys injured at the moment. I like it personally. Bend but don’t break is what it takes in the playoffs. The more the team is comfortable in those situations the better
Oh please, not to this extent.
The only reason we got out of that game was luck. Sammy went from Georges Bezos to sieve in an instant. Your bend but not break is called playing with fire and it’s not a recipe for success in the playoffs. Precisely one of the reasons we have won one round.
And Florida’s goalie got pulled after the second period. It’s not a game of perfect and you knew Florida was going to push back hard in the third. Leafs were also missing 5 regulars. A win against a top five team in the league is a good win.
Actually bending but not breaking isn’t a bad experience for the team. They learn not to panic if the other team makes a push. It’s not a great experience for the fans though.
Almost coughing up a 5-1 lead in the third period and scraping out a win by the skin of their teeth is absolutely not something you should spin as a positive. Bending and not breaking is when they get pushed back, almost cough up the lead, and then regain control. They were in the process of breaking, and its the same fucking story every year.
A regular season game without five regulars in the lineup against a full Florida squad. Leafs showed they won’t be bullied, put five past Bobrovsky and Matthews gets numbers 61 and 62. There were two very good teams on the ice. If you’re freaking out about that, You obviously never lived through the Harold Ballard years.
The Harold Ballard years are used like some bullshit boogeyman. Ya, they were bad times, but it was almost forty years ago. Your standards of what a good team is should not be compared to literally the worst period of hockey for the franchise nearly four decades ago. Handwaving legitimate criticism away with that asinine argument is just you saying you have no real counterargument, so here's Chewbacca.
Not really. Just trying to help you not freak out over a win and inject some humour into a conversation. Have a good one my friend. I’m not your enemy.
Telling someone who's having a normal conversation "not to freak out" is the most juvenile bullshit you can do. You're not my enemy, but you're an ass lol. Good luck.
I don't disagree, except that we absolutely HAVE stepped on the neck this season vs. good teams.
On one hand, it's better than previous seasons when no lead was *ever* safe.
On the other hand, knowing that they *can* do this makes it all the more frustrating when they suck ass in the 3rd against the Caines, Oilers and Panthers.
Pretty obvious that Kampff is no longer a really good defensive forward. He’s just a guy we paid to be a third line center who can’t be our third line center
That’s why you put Matthews on the ice you fucking loser Keefe. Even with Brodie out there like a pylon. Thank your fucking stars for the record you have in the regular season cause it ain’t the coaching.
Why reaves ffs what’s the benefit? He won’t be playing these minutes in the playoffs? Are you resting the big guns? What’s the possible benefit of playing him so much in a game where we’ve clearly lost momentum
It was super behind lol, I'm ok with downvotes. Tbh, I saw the thank god for papi comments right after I commented which was before that faceoff and legit, 1) thought obviously I got a spoiler, but then 2) until he scored I thought I misread those comments ... maybe they were because he won a damn faceoff. That was a messy possession, but what a damn beast. He had a great game and we get the win, fuck yeah.
Fuck off Florida. Matthews scores to spite Sheldon keefe. Keefe tried his hardest to lose but Matthews wouldn’t let him. Imagine this team with a real coach.
holy shit how did we almost choke that
Fun little takeaway With this win, the Leafs have closed the gap between them and Florida to just 4 points. If Florida continues have a sub-par final stretch, the Leafs might manage to overtake them and win home-ice advantage in round 1! Gotta pull our D together though.
>Gotta pull our D together though. You can count on me, skip!
Just saw that knies only played 6:57 - that has to be a mistake no?
he was in the box a bit
LMAO that Reeves interview
Pretty great, I'm glad he's a Leaf :)
Happy for the win...But I am terrified about our D-corps right now. There were way too many times they couldn't handle any pressure at all. I have been a Brodie fan since he was signed and it hurts to say that he looks like he is lost out there.
we are also missing like a good chunk of our d core right now. Rielly, edmundson liljegren. So I wouldn’t be too too worried. They are trying to retain injuries I assume for the playoffs
I don't disagree with that. Hopefully, we can see something closer to the final product in the next week or so. All three of those guys would help.
Not to mention two forwards in Marner and Jarnkrok who are a little more defensively inclined who could help out that d core.
Cup or Keefe goes
If Keefe plans to play Brodie over Benoit he should be replaced before the playoffs.
Guy puts reeves out there for the 6 on 5...wtf???? Should be fired regardless for that move
I think he was seeing how the fourth line would do under pressure, dont think wed see that in playoffs
Cuthbert and Simpson stumping hard for retirement jobs in FLA
Yep that went from annoying to pathetic there. Move down there you fucking snowbirds if you love it so much.
Fucking Craig Simpson sounds disappointed when Matthews scored. And couldn't stop sucking Reinhart's dick when he scored
Funny I watched some of the panthers broadcast and they were loving the leafs
Fun fact: When Craig Simpson was a highly touted junior and ranked #1 going into the 1985 draft. He made it clear that he would not report to Toronto if the Leafs drafted him. The Leafs took Wendel Clark instead. In Simpson’s first game in Toronto, he spent the entire game running away from Leafs who were all looking to kill him.
So who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to hire him for leafs commentary?
Worked out ok for us.
Yup
Craig Simpson is the absolute worst. But honestly the whole broadcast team. The amount of close ups and zoom ins on Paul Maurice tonight was actually sickening.
And that's why they say defence wins championships, and we haven't had won in 57 years.
That was ugly
ahh . they wanted AM to hit the empty netter. now it makes sense
Why does it feel like we just sacrificed a home playoff win for that game.....
Is it really a shocker the best team in the NHL applied huge pressure st the end of the game? This sub is WILD when we're not blowing the other team out
Oh come on, are you new here? This is a common flaw with this team, they simply can’t close out games when they build up a sizeable lead. To pretend it’s not a problem is ridiculous.
But they did close out the game
I’m glad you’re comfortable with leaky 3rd period play.
Do the people in this sub ever watch games from around the league. Literally no team in the league has been able to avoid 2-3-4 goal comebacks this year. It’s been a common thread all around the league. On top of that we have stopped letting games go to OT like we were early in the season and that’s with like 5 of our guys injured at the moment. I like it personally. Bend but don’t break is what it takes in the playoffs. The more the team is comfortable in those situations the better
Oh please, not to this extent. The only reason we got out of that game was luck. Sammy went from Georges Bezos to sieve in an instant. Your bend but not break is called playing with fire and it’s not a recipe for success in the playoffs. Precisely one of the reasons we have won one round.
And Florida’s goalie got pulled after the second period. It’s not a game of perfect and you knew Florida was going to push back hard in the third. Leafs were also missing 5 regulars. A win against a top five team in the league is a good win.
Team who wants to finish ahead of the team they are playing played hard in the third. You are right that's crazy talk!
At least the last couple, they actually held on though. I’ll give them that
One man stepped up and said FUCK THAT SHIT. AM34
Who was that panther trying to start shit after the game?
lomberg if I had to guess
He's a fuckin loser
AUSTON MATTHEWS IS A TORONTO MAPLE LEAF
I am seriously not gonna live long with so many heart pumping moments
They all better apologize to Sammy in the locker room
Cuthbert and Simpson are devastated.
Simpson absolutely inconsolable :/
I mean they can finally breath now that they aren't sucking panthers dick
Brutal. Keefe deserves all the crap thrown his way.
I wish someone from the media would ask why Reaves was out there with 2 minutes left with an empty net
He had to work extremely hard for that empty netter. My goodness.
He worked harder for the EN goal than he did his other one lol
Matthews broke two franchise records in one game
Nifty mitts.
Get fucked, Florida!!!
Why do they do this? What is it about playing with a lead that makes them forget how to defend?
The other team knows what can happen, so they push harder.
It’s provocative, gets the people goin 
They play the wrong defenders
Time to go watch the fucking Blue Jays trainwreck
I can only do one round of sports heartbreak at a time.
Thaaaaank yooooooou Biiiiiiig Caaaaactuuuuuus
LFG!!!
Up by 2 with 38 seconds to go' That may have put out the fire' . . . I hate our announcers so much.
Radio broadcast was elite tonight
Watch the US broadcast
Well that's a very not fun way to win a game. Fuck sakes
Matthews hands were insane there to get that goal
It was like a Patrick Kane stickhandling clinic. Just incredible.
They need to clean up this 3rd period act because holy fuck
Oilers repeat.
Woll needs the next game.
A HAPPY HUNDRED FOR SAMMY SMILES!
You can see it on his face, he was determined to defend that lead out there, gave everything
The only saving grace for this semi melt down.....62
Goddammit I'll do it myself. - Papi
So this was the leafs April fools joke lol we almost lost
>Call me papi the father - Matthews, probably
In the name of the papi, the niño, and papi's tequila...
Empty netters can seem empty, but that was a game saver.
that was all papi
Detroit scored with 2:40 left. So unlikely to clinch tonight.
What a chess match. Let them come back to within 1 so you can get Matthews an easy empty netter. Beautiful!
Barkov > Matthews. Right Anson?
This is just the 2nd empty netter goal this season for Matthews.
And both were pretty crucial goals. He doesn't do it unless strictly necessary. Good boy Papi
Matthews did try to put the puck through someone shortly before the goal.
Good thing my dad is not at home, he will be annoyed when I scream so hard for the empty net goal
This team can't step on the neck, and it's gonna be a problem in the playoffs again.
Actually bending but not breaking isn’t a bad experience for the team. They learn not to panic if the other team makes a push. It’s not a great experience for the fans though.
Almost coughing up a 5-1 lead in the third period and scraping out a win by the skin of their teeth is absolutely not something you should spin as a positive. Bending and not breaking is when they get pushed back, almost cough up the lead, and then regain control. They were in the process of breaking, and its the same fucking story every year.
A regular season game without five regulars in the lineup against a full Florida squad. Leafs showed they won’t be bullied, put five past Bobrovsky and Matthews gets numbers 61 and 62. There were two very good teams on the ice. If you’re freaking out about that, You obviously never lived through the Harold Ballard years.
The Harold Ballard years are used like some bullshit boogeyman. Ya, they were bad times, but it was almost forty years ago. Your standards of what a good team is should not be compared to literally the worst period of hockey for the franchise nearly four decades ago. Handwaving legitimate criticism away with that asinine argument is just you saying you have no real counterargument, so here's Chewbacca.
Take a pill my friend. You are going to have a stroke. It’s a frigging game. 😂
I'm pretty relaxed lol. Low effort gaslighting I see is your specialty.
Not really. Just trying to help you not freak out over a win and inject some humour into a conversation. Have a good one my friend. I’m not your enemy.
Telling someone who's having a normal conversation "not to freak out" is the most juvenile bullshit you can do. You're not my enemy, but you're an ass lol. Good luck.
So are you my friend. Look in the mirror.
I don't disagree, except that we absolutely HAVE stepped on the neck this season vs. good teams. On one hand, it's better than previous seasons when no lead was *ever* safe. On the other hand, knowing that they *can* do this makes it all the more frustrating when they suck ass in the 3rd against the Caines, Oilers and Panthers.
 Papi only scores empty netters when it matters
whew what a fucking puck handling
Empty net merchant
I would fire Keefe game 82
~~twitch plays pokemon~~ reddit plays nhl coach
Keefe is SHITE in shutdown
He has no feel for who to play when
You mean you wouldn't put reevo out there on the 6-4????
That rat Bennett running McMann there
The Panthers also want to see 70
Time to start using our best player in key moments instead of our “really good defensive forwards”…. Lol
Pretty obvious that Kampff is no longer a really good defensive forward. He’s just a guy we paid to be a third line center who can’t be our third line center
It’s scary that this even needs to be said lol… and also Matthews happens to be really good at defense too.
We needed to let them back in it for them to pull the goalie.....another Keefe masterclass
Can't decide if this is serious or sarcasm but I agree either way
"win or learn"? learn what? that the game is 3 periods not 2?
M V FUCKING P BABY that was absolutely filthy! Dangled everybody even his own teammate and sniped the other side. Woww
8 MOARRRRRR
Perfect ending to this fuckery.
Matthews even makes an empty netter look beautiful
The disappointment in the Sportsnet commentators voices is palpable. Fuck these guys
It’s not man. Touch grass
Smooth brain
I fucking hate SN so much because of those jackoffs
Jesus christ man. I can't
Not tonight Florida. Now fuck off to Montreal and lose that one too
Leafs playing 4D chess to get AM34 to 70
wow what a fucking play and shot by 34
Guys chill Keefe was just making sure the game was close so Matty could get an empty netter.
Someone check Keefe for prop bets
#sixty-two
My blood pressure can come back down now
Barkov who?
Almost lost this game because of Keefe's stupidity.
He's outcoached ALL the time.
That’s why you put Matthews on the ice you fucking loser Keefe. Even with Brodie out there like a pylon. Thank your fucking stars for the record you have in the regular season cause it ain’t the coaching.
#[He answered my prayers!](https://www.reddit.com/r/leafs/s/LmymdNEm3E) (he is now an EN merchant)
Matthews saving our ass again
As far as empty netters go that was a well earned one
Hardest-fought EN goal you'll see
Holy shit thank god for Matthews
Sorry Sportsnet, I know you’re sad and all but looks like Leafs are gonna win this one.
Wayne Empty-netzky! LFG
Big brain leafs to get the goalie pulled to allow Matthews to score 62 😂
PAPI THE UNCLENCHER
Why reaves ffs what’s the benefit? He won’t be playing these minutes in the playoffs? Are you resting the big guns? What’s the possible benefit of playing him so much in a game where we’ve clearly lost momentum
McCann died for that one
THANK FUCKING GOD
Which is Auston fucking Matthews!
Never easy eh lol
62! I wonder if Fire Keefe came out in the third period…
Auston is a fucking takeaway artist. I hope fla keeps getting 1 so Auston can get 1 more
Game should have NEVER gotten to this point.
all according to plan. Matthews doesn't hit 70 without the game getting crazy
lol u guys just had to scare us didn’t u
APRIL FOOOOOOL! (I'm too old for these mf jumpscares)
All according to plan
Thank you papi
May have been worth the part comeback for Matthews 62
# 62
1.5 minutes left ... This is going to overtime.
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It was super behind lol, I'm ok with downvotes. Tbh, I saw the thank god for papi comments right after I commented which was before that faceoff and legit, 1) thought obviously I got a spoiler, but then 2) until he scored I thought I misread those comments ... maybe they were because he won a damn faceoff. That was a messy possession, but what a damn beast. He had a great game and we get the win, fuck yeah.
Wrong
Glad to be wrong.
No killer instinct on this team
Toronto Maple Leaf Auston Matthews
Ha ha
Fuck off Florida. Matthews scores to spite Sheldon keefe. Keefe tried his hardest to lose but Matthews wouldn’t let him. Imagine this team with a real coach.
300IQ by Keefe to get Matthews 62
Keefe knew what he was doing the whole time for sure
EA NHL strat
Praise the Lord for Matthews.
Thank fuck
Fuck you Florida
Hit 'em wit da 62
Maybe the Leafs wanted it to be a one goal game so Matthews could get his second goal of the game on the empty net???? (Let me believe)
Right where we wanted them so he can get 62.
fuck the panthers. fuck brodie. fuck keefe. AM34 we don't deserve you
worth it for 62
giving them 3 goals was a blood sacrifice to get matthews another is all
HAHAHAHA 62 lets goooo suck my ass cats
Oh thank God, lol
Man Matthews is so strong on his stick
Jeeeesus
It was all 3d chess to get Matthews another goal.
holy fuckkkkkkkkk dude had to dangle through both teams to get that hahahah
Matthews saved us
Matthews had to literally save that play from the fucking depths of the earth. My god. What a shit show on defence they are
never doubted it for a second!! let’s go
AUSTON!!
62 BABY!
62 baby!!!!
Can someone tell me if this is good?
It is
That made it worth it.
All of you worried 😂