2013 NHL Free For All Thread

[Gentle]

Here are some headlines this morning :

The Star : "Toronto Maple Leafs season choked away in Game 7"
Toronto Sun : "The Choke's on us"
Huffington Post : "Toronto fans dismayed after game 7"
Globe and Mail : "Leafs fans forced to swallow bitter pill"
CBC : "Maple Leafs suffer historic meltdown"
National Post : "Heartbreaking collapse"
Sportsnet : "There are no words for Maple Leafs Collapse"
Ottawa Citizen : "Maple Leaf Collapse"
TSN : "Leafs stung by epic game 7 collapse"

 

[Gentle]

And... now !

To have it the way our dear Hockey experts liked so much... lets put part of a good article for everyone to read :

The GAZETTE
Toronto Maple Leafs collapse sees Boston Bruins move on
By Bruce Arthur

And with the goalie pulled, Patrice Bergeron, who was robbed by James Reimer in both Games 5 and 6, snuck a point shot through traffic and past Reimer and the TD Garden went up like the world’s biggest bonfire.

Six minutes into overtime the Bruins leaned one last time, pushing the Leafs in their own end, and the puck started bouncing around in front, and the Leafs couldn’t get it. Jake Gardiner had it on his stick briefly, but he threw it blindly right to Bergeron, who buried it for his second goal of the game, the killer, the hammer. Bruins 5, Toronto 4.

The Leafs spilled out onto the ice, dead eyed, and hugged their goaltender.

What a rolling carpet of heart attacks, of hope that faded and bloomed, of adrenalin and incredulity.

 

[Gentle]

You know what ? I feel for Reimer.
I do, I really feel for this guy.

His team mates completely deserted him.
For over a week now all we heard was how Leafs goalie kept them afloat and came to their rescue.

It's clear this team (without their goalie) wasn't gonna make it past the 1st round.
In fact they got lucky to be there since the season was too short to perform their epic fail which they always do in the last month of a regular season.

So I feel for this guy.
I think he should move out from TO.
Someone oughta give him the greatest advice for his career which is to move out of a town where hockey's dead.

If only for the sake of his own soul. :lol:

 

[joelcairo]

I think he should move out from TO.
Someone oughta give him the greatest advice for his career which is to move out of a town where hockey's dead.

Dead indeed...and for 46 LONG YEARS (with many more to come!)

 

[joelcairo]

I am really, really, REALLY happy that - against all odds - the stinkin'Leafs made it to the playoffs for the first time in almost a decade (fluking it out ONLY because of the shortened season of course).

You all know that I despise the leafs and have nothing but utter contempt for their wretched franchise, so you might ask WHY I am happy that they made the playoffs.

Answer: 1. As usual, they provided a lot of laughs.
2. They let us all be witnesses to HISTORY with probably the most amazing meltdown and epic collapse in the history of the NHL.

Keep up the "good work"" (ha ha), losers! I can hardly wait for next season to watch the new depths to which these hopeless bozos in Hogtown will sink.

 

[Special K]

I'm kind of partial to this picture though...Hahaha.

Hey Leaf's fans....

 

[man77777]

Lol Leafy Style, baby !

 

[Jman47]

ABSOLUTELY could not resist...:lol:

Enjoy boyz...!

 

[Merlot]

ABSOLUTELY could not resist...:lol:

Enjoy boyz...!

Hmmmm,

Neither could I.

BOYZZZ

Merlot

 

[joelcairo]

The words "suck" and "Toronto" DEFINITELY belong together!

 

[lgna69xxx]

Chicago puts a hurting on the "Dead Things" tonight in game one. Thee question is, will the dead wake up before it is too late? Questions will become answers....stay tuned fans!

 

[joelcairo]

Chicago puts a hurting on the "Dead Things" tonight in game one.

So I guess that in YOUR upside-down world being one of the 8 teams remaining in the hunt means that you're "dead"? What about a piece of crap that had a historic FOLD and was ELIMINATED in game 7? Is that type of shameful failure your definition of "alive"? If so, after you stop crying about your 46th consecutive year of FAILURE, maybe you should either go back to school or buy yourself a good dictionary.

The Wings are still very much alive...as they have been for 22 consecutive seasons.

The TRUE "Dead Things" are your hopeless and pathetic leafs, who have now extended their streak of FUTILITY to 46 CONSECUTIVE YEARS after staging the biggest seventh game collapse in NHL history and getting knocked out by the Bruins. The leafs showed their TOTAL LACK OF CHARACTER in that game by rolling over and playing dead like the gutless wimps they are... and no one on the stinkin' "Dead Thing leafs" was more gutless than their cowardly "captain", who was obviously TERRIFIED of Chara, Lucic, and probably everyone else on the Bruins.

So go ahead and amuse yourself by calling the Wings your silly little name - meanwhile anyone with a brain can see that the Wings are NOT "dead" but that your prissy little leafs ARE both DEAD and GONE...as usual!

 

[Gentle]

Well for me as of today, talking about Leafs will be like talking about the past.

Althoug I have to add that I would have like to see the Leafs move on, as long as Habs would have too.
But since Gargamel wanted to celebrate Habs lost, it was too much to see his team doing the 'Boston shake'.
Igna at least kept some restraint on it.

So I think I'm starting to like the Leafs now for giving me so much pleasure and laughter.
I mean, they really work hard I think in trying to surprise us every year and to give us a reason to enjoy hockey even if it has become so boring with unecessary violence and body checks when players should actually learn to pass the puck instead of relying on screening the net to get a lucky goal.

But hey ! it's all in the past now.

Today, it sucks to see Wings against Hawks for I like both teams very much.
Hope one of 'em wins the western. I'm not fond of LA or SJ.

As for in the eastern somehow it feels (this year) that Rangers shouldn't be there as well as the bug-eyed fat walrus who advocates for violence :eyebrows: So hopefully, I look forward for a Bruins vs Pens finale.

It would be awesome.

And for the grand finale I would love to see either Wings vs Bruins or Hawks vs Bruins.

 

[Gentle]

Chicken ? hawk ?... now where was the last time I saw that ?

Yes, I say yes... I remember !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYDG9CphkM

That's the one ! Specially at 3:25... reminds me of a nice jinxer !

 

[man77777]

I really admir your general knowledge, Gentle ! :thumb:

 

[Gentle]

Tiens toi Torres !

LA 2-0 ! yes !

 

[Gentle]

And I really enjoy your enthousiasm man7777 :thumb:

 

[lgna69xxx]

I see the dead things are getting favors from the NHL. Giving the old men an extra day in between games.... what a joke, Chicago would of killed them if they played tonight when they should have.

 

[joelcairo]

You seem to be confused: The "Dead Things" were knocked out in round one after committing the biggest collapse in NHL playoff history. That's why they are "dead". Teams that are GOOD enough to still be in the playoffs are still "alive". Get it?

By the way, I hear that several golf courses in Ontario are asking for financial assistance from the government, because the CASH windfall they get every year right at the end of the regular season took a couple of weeks longer this year because the stinkin' leafs surprised the whole world and fluked their way into the playoffs in this artificially shortened season for the first time in almost a decade. You might ask why they even bothered since it was obvious to the whole world that such a shitty team would never get out of the first round.

Next year will be back to the usual 82 games so the leafs are already reserving their spots on the links right at the end of the season, because even THEY realise that they always collapse in a REAL season.

Wings : 22 consecutive years in the playoffs including 4 Cup wins. Stinkin' leafs: FORTY-SIX YEARS of epic failure, ZERO Cups, ZERO appearances in the final, 1 lousy trip to the playoffs in almost a decade, with that one trip coming out of a radically shortened season and resulting in a humiliating exit in round one after pulling the biggest and most cowardly collapse in hockey history.

 

[lgna69xxx]

.............:lol:

You seem to be confused: The "Dead Things" were knocked out in round one after committing the biggest collapse in NHL playoff history. That's why they are "dead". Teams that are GOOD enough to still be in the playoffs are still "alive". Get it?

By the way, I hear that several golf courses in Ontario are asking for financial assistance from the government, because the CASH windfall they get every year right at the end of the regular season took a couple of weeks longer this year because the stinkin' leafs surprised the whole world and fluked their way into the playoffs in this artificially shortened season for the first time in almost a decade. You might ask why they even bothered since it was obvious to the whole world that such a shitty team would never get out of the first round.

Next year will be back to the usual 82 games so the leafs are already reserving their spots on the links right at the end of the season, because even THEY realise that they always collapse in a REAL season.

Wings : 22 consecutive years in the playoffs including 4 Cup wins. Stinkin' leafs: FORTY-SIX YEARS of epic failure, ZERO Cups, ZERO appearances in the final, 1 lousy trip to the playoffs in almost a decade, with that one trip coming out of a radically shortened season and resulting in a humiliating exit in round one after pulling the biggest and most cowardly collapse in hockey history.