2 teams have failed to win a playoff series in the salary cap era. One of those teams is the Seattle Kraken, who didn’t exist before this season, and the Toronto Maple Leafs
This team was different though. Didn't you watch the games? This was not a team that floated through game 6 and 7 hoping for the best. Toronto should have won game 6, Tampa was lucky to get that 5 on 3 and was by far the worst team in overtime. Then a hard fought one goal loss in game 7.
It’s gotta be more painful for Leafs than Jets fans. Jets fans at this point expect failure season after season. Leafs fans get their hopes up when they have record breaking season and then fizzle out a week later.
GG lightning bros! It sucks to lose and feel this disappointment but it was a hard fought series and I feel like you guys have a good chance at another. I’m hoping you go for the 3-peat
I don’t know man, the Leafs were the better team in the series. Vasilevski played poorly until the final game when he was outstanding. I just don’t know how the Leafs blew that one.
Man that was hard to watch. Leafs had the puck in Tampa’s zone for what felt like 10 straight minutes at one point. This year really felt different for them, but they’re still stuck.
You need to exorcize the Ghosts of the Garden. Have someone come out and publicly disavow anything that Harold Ballard ever did; denounce him as the horrible person he was; and especially Gordon Stuckless. For as long as the Ghosts of the Garden haunt your halls, you shall not win.
Congrats Tampa. Absolute reverence I have for your team. I think the Leafs were a legit competitor to end your reign and, as a Leafs fan, it's a shame it didn't happen. Good luck on the trilogy.
This was absolutely the toughest series we’ve played in the last 3 years, I didn’t think we were going to pull it out. Leafs have a hell of a team, they just have to get over the hump.
How do you keep going to a game 7 and not win one???? What are the odds and how much bad luck is it?? They're not a bad team at all but damn it's curious.
that's the frustrating part. He wasn't even close to his usual self in this series and we still didn't pull it off. He was solid tonight but most of the leafs chances were easy stops.
So proud of my boys. Showed up big time against the best team in a decade. Hope they were paying attention and learned some lessons for their own future success. Go leafs go til the end baby!
I honestly don't think it was a bad loss? Bolts played a great game, and so did the leafs.. no one came in here expecting either team to run away with it. I think it speaks more to the structure of the playoffs rather than the make up of the teams
They need to run it back. They were really fucking good. They just happen to run into the back to back champs and the series was a coin flip. They would be stupid to change much.
Honestly Toronto fans, I think you can hold your head up high this time. Took the two time defending Stanley Cup champs to 7 games, and lost by a goal. This was not a choke, this was a great series.
Well, I can proudly say, the leafs didn't blow it, game 6 was close and leafs could have won, and they played great tonight. Vasy is a great goalie and has 2 cups for a reason. GG Bolts, good luck on getting your third!
Maple leafs fans booed every US national anthem in Toronto despite their best player being American then got beat by a team from a state with 0 natural ice
Imagine booing the national anthem from the wealthiest and most entitled prick filled city in Canada. They’re basically maple flavored Americans in that shithole metropolis. Worst city in Canada by millions of miles
I really feel for Leafs fans, players, management..... I too thought this was the year they get over the hump. They played an incredible series but just came up short. My dad is a Leafs fan and he's devastated. I think this is the most I've felt for a team that is not my own losing. Damn.
The lightning shut down so many lanes to the net all night. The Leafs had chances for sure but boy game 7 was the first game I thought they were actually frustrating to play against. Hopefully Point's injury isn't too bad but man it did not look good.
Agreed with this take. Tampa made the Leafs play their game and it frustrated them. No more nice passing breakouts and the Leafs lost their will to dig in the corners like they were doing the past 2 games.
The pain continues
Inter generational at that. Our dead grandparents wouldn’t remember the leafs winning the cup. Fuck
As the sun rises in the east
So do the Leafs fall to Earth in the spring.
Cursed
They are so cursed!
ALL OR NOTHING PRESENTS: 2 All 2 Nothing
2 Rounds, 2 much
2 PAUL 2 BUNTING
All 4 Nothing
Lol
The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band more recently than leafs have won a cup
That’s a hilarious stat actually.
Hurricane Katrina is more recent than their last series win as well.
Gorillaz published Deamon Dayz more recently than the Leafs have won a series.
Leafs fans definitely fixing a hole right now
Jesus Christ
Last time they won a cup no human had touched the moon.
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Easiest $300 of my life
That ease the pain at all? I gotta imagine a little
$200 here. What are you gonna do with your blood money?
Yup, one thing experienced leafs fans know is that you always hedge your happiness with money
"We're time travelers from the future trying to see what year we jumped back to, what just happened in recent news?"
“In the first round”
"..... in first round"
2 teams have failed to win a playoff series in the salary cap era. One of those teams is the Seattle Kraken, who didn’t exist before this season, and the Toronto Maple Leafs
…..fuck
historic
Damn even the Golden Knights have accomplished more than the Leafs
You kno- nvm…
Wtf. Y'all ok Toronto fans? I didn't realize it was this bad.
The prophecy has been fulfilled
That Nick Paul trade paid for itself in a single game
Flames 🤝 Oilers 🤝 not being the first Canadian team to lose in Game 7
I'm still terrified
LETS GOOOOOOOO
At least we can always say we're not the leafs
You bastards win your game 7s so we can get a Battle of Alberta
Congrats to the Leafs playoff series win drought who just became a legal adult.
Only in Quebec can they drink, though.
Please don't show Soup crying. Please don't show Soup crying. Please don't show Soup crying.
I swear it looked like Spezza cried into the tunnel
Tbf, watching Matthews' skate around emotionless wasn't great either
He was so good in this series. I really feel for him
Soup deserved better, it's no easy feat to duel against Carey goddamn Price then Andrei Vasilevskiy in back to back playoffs
Someone please tell him Wayne Gretzky said he played a great game on the post-game show. In case it helps at all.
:(
I just want to tell him, “Thank you, Jack, you’ve been amazing.”
Not getting shut out by Vasilevskiy in an elimination game is a moral victory at least
On the 7th day, God rested … Nick Paul took over.
Lol this is gold somehow
Nick Paul ($750k AAV): 2 goals scored
But its Saturday. Is Nick Paul actually god?
Tampa D also, blocking absolutely everything
6 straight years. I’m not even mad anymore. It’s just funny now. I can’t wait to see leafs fans talk about how next years team is different too.
Can't wait to get 120 points next season just to lose again yay
We didn’t humiliate ourselves this year. Progress!
Easy for me to say, but we stole this series. Leafs played better in all but 2 games and we won 4 🤷♂️.
I hate the leafs, but oof that’s pretty brutal
Need to trade one of the "Big 4". Reilly needs help and showed.
This team was different though. Didn't you watch the games? This was not a team that floated through game 6 and 7 hoping for the best. Toronto should have won game 6, Tampa was lucky to get that 5 on 3 and was by far the worst team in overtime. Then a hard fought one goal loss in game 7.
WE STILL HAVE MEMES
Time is a flat circle
TIL leafs haven’t won a series in my lifetime (yes i’m a baby)
Isn’t it past your bed time?
😳😳😳😳
The Meme Continues: Going Strong Since 1967
It’s gotta be more painful for Leafs than Jets fans. Jets fans at this point expect failure season after season. Leafs fans get their hopes up when they have record breaking season and then fizzle out a week later.
Man hasn’t been on the Moon when the Leafs last won the Cup.
Been saying it for years, the real Jets of the NHL are not from Winnipeg
Curse of Ballard needs more tears to be exorcised.
It’s grown too powerful.
I feel so bad for them my god
I never thought I would feel bad for the Leafs. Somehow I do
This is deep coming from a Minnesota fan (and I’m talking about the state, not just the Wild).
Gotta love an interfence penalty (yes I am aware it was a penalty) being the difference
I’ve got mad respect for Jack Campbell. He was amazing this whole series.
Agreed. He kept the Leafs in the games, huge saves. Now we gotta figure out how to get him paid.
Shame that because this is the first round, leafs will get memed to death but as a neutral fan this was an impressive series by both teams
GG lightning bros! It sucks to lose and feel this disappointment but it was a hard fought series and I feel like you guys have a good chance at another. I’m hoping you go for the 3-peat
Thanks man great series, really could’ve gone either way. Toughest series we’ve had in the past 3 years
I don’t know man, the Leafs were the better team in the series. Vasilevski played poorly until the final game when he was outstanding. I just don’t know how the Leafs blew that one.
Man that was hard to watch. Leafs had the puck in Tampa’s zone for what felt like 10 straight minutes at one point. This year really felt different for them, but they’re still stuck.
WHOSE DICK DO WE HAVE TO SUCK TO GET SOME GODDAMN SUCCESS
Nick Paul’s, apparently.
NICKUS BIGGUS DICKUS MAXIMUS PAULUS
You need to exorcize the Ghosts of the Garden. Have someone come out and publicly disavow anything that Harold Ballard ever did; denounce him as the horrible person he was; and especially Gordon Stuckless. For as long as the Ghosts of the Garden haunt your halls, you shall not win.
Sup
Start with the ref
As is tradition
Can someone take me out back and put me out of my misery? Becoming a Leafs fan 27+ years ago was a mistake.
I'm not even laughing at this. This is ridiculous. I don't believe in hexes or whatever, but this is just ridiculous.
It’s Harold Ballard running his pedo ring and we are still paying for it
That was the Vasy performance we 100% needed
I actually feel a bit bad for leaf fans but I’m happy for Tampa fans and of course Nick Paul. Great guy.
Toronto has got to be cursed
It's fucked up that Vasilevskiy is only 27. Gonna have to deal with him for a lot longer.
The guy is going to get Tampa 14 cups himself
The Lightning are the best team I've ever seen at killing the final 2-4 minutes of a game with a lead.
Leafs forgot that they had to actually shoot the puck and put it on net there at the end. Just a bunch of useless passes down low. lol.
Narrator: It seems that they can, in fact, keep getting away with it
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Nick Paul had one final performance for Sens fans everywhere. We appreciate it
Congrats Tampa. Absolute reverence I have for your team. I think the Leafs were a legit competitor to end your reign and, as a Leafs fan, it's a shame it didn't happen. Good luck on the trilogy.
This was absolutely the toughest series we’ve played in the last 3 years, I didn’t think we were going to pull it out. Leafs have a hell of a team, they just have to get over the hump.
Paul was the difference
How do you keep going to a game 7 and not win one???? What are the odds and how much bad luck is it?? They're not a bad team at all but damn it's curious.
Right? Like it’s one thing to continuously lose in the first round, you’d figure by this point some of the loses come in 5 games, 6 games, etc..
Memes aside, This was a very hard fought series.
Death, taxes, and the Maple Leafs losing in the first round.
Lol. Lmao.
Just as Count Dooku predicted.
The definition of insanity
Blue team wins
I genuinely feel really bad for the leafs. They were good this year.
Yeah, i’m supposed to hate them but like, damn
I mean…
They had the better team, Game 7 at home, Point gets injured and they still lose.
Vasilevskiy is the best goalie in the NHL, I don't care what regular season stats say
that's the frustrating part. He wasn't even close to his usual self in this series and we still didn't pull it off. He was solid tonight but most of the leafs chances were easy stops.
He's having a down year but this game was some classic vasy dominance
The Leafs were playing dump and chase hockey with less than 20 seconds left lmao
I think they where panicking because they couldn’t get any shots on net
Everyone get in here!
I'm here I'm here
When can I leave?
Dangle was oddly calm…. THE MEMES CONTINUE
Death, taxes, and Toronto losing in the first round.
Happy Leaf’s Elimination Day
Fun fact: Nick Paul was traded for Jason Spezza in 2014.
That is a fun fact!
If Matthews is tired of playoff disappointment, he can come home to Arizona where we don’t even make the playoffs!
This is a 3d chess move
Womp womp
Props to the Leafs fans for still saluting their team
the sad part is they played well
So proud of my boys. Showed up big time against the best team in a decade. Hope they were paying attention and learned some lessons for their own future success. Go leafs go til the end baby!
The leafs of winter must die so the leaves of summer may bloom
We fuckin did it boys!!! Blue and white team won!!
That one Habs fan at the Leaf viewing party either has the biggest balls or is the biggest idiot.
Vasy was a goddamn wall
When Nick Paul outplays Matthews you’re gonna lose
I honestly don't think it was a bad loss? Bolts played a great game, and so did the leafs.. no one came in here expecting either team to run away with it. I think it speaks more to the structure of the playoffs rather than the make up of the teams
Not at all, this could have gone either way
Lmao it's just comical at this point, there's no fucking way the Leafs actually run this shit back again next year right? What a failure
Literally the best Leafs team ever 2 years in a row.
They didn't look bad, though.
So many Leafs fans' pets must be so confused and/or frightened by what's happening in their living room right now.
What do they do?
Why wouldn't they? Best team in their team history and just lost a close series to the B2B Champs.
They need to run it back. They were really fucking good. They just happen to run into the back to back champs and the series was a coin flip. They would be stupid to change much.
You say this like there’s a reasonable next step. They played well this year, atleast it wasn’t a choke.
Fucking typical man
Honestly Toronto fans, I think you can hold your head up high this time. Took the two time defending Stanley Cup champs to 7 games, and lost by a goal. This was not a choke, this was a great series.
Idontknowwhatiexpected.gif
They did it again
I can’t even gloat. The Leafs have broken me, a Leafs hater.
Sorry leaf fans :(
GG Tampa, played a hell of a defensive game. Tough loss, but what can you do.
Well, I can proudly say, the leafs didn't blow it, game 6 was close and leafs could have won, and they played great tonight. Vasy is a great goalie and has 2 cups for a reason. GG Bolts, good luck on getting your third!
And in the end, as the beginning, there is only pain
The worst part about the leafs choking again is the 100s of redundant leafs threads that end up on
Bruins lose, Leafs lose, what a fucking night!
Those 2 losing and a first overall pick has gotta make this week feel pretty good
This sparks joy
Ah yes the annual Leafs get eliminated in the first round thread. Beautiful, heartwarming stuff. See you next year!
That's what you get for having Tik Tok on your helmets.
Thank you Ottawa for Nick Paul! He’s filling in for Coleman very nicely.
This team is just so predictable. Awful.
The fact that Tampa won this with Kucherov, Stamkos and Point having bad series is impressive. Even Vasilevskiy wasn’t great until the last 2 games.
It wasn't some big collapse, they got edged by a good team. No need to kill yourself over this one.
Maple leafs fans booed every US national anthem in Toronto despite their best player being American then got beat by a team from a state with 0 natural ice
Imagine booing the national anthem from the wealthiest and most entitled prick filled city in Canada. They’re basically maple flavored Americans in that shithole metropolis. Worst city in Canada by millions of miles
Yet, I just watched many Oilers fans singing along with the American anthem. Go figure.
lmao get sens'd
Nick Paul delivered one last gift for his old fanbase
YES HAHAHA YES
disband the team and make 2 teams out in the GTA
Matthews looks like his dog just died. Feel terrible for him.
I hate this team.
I really feel for Leafs fans, players, management..... I too thought this was the year they get over the hump. They played an incredible series but just came up short. My dad is a Leafs fan and he's devastated. I think this is the most I've felt for a team that is not my own losing. Damn.
very historic team we have in toronto
Great series leafs fans. Tough to lose another game 7 I'm sure. You guysbgave the lightning hell though. Very stressful series
Sorry Leafs fans. I remember when the Ducks broke their game 7 curse it felt like winning the cup. your time will come too.
At least there won’t be much travel between the Lightning and Pussy cats
The lightning shut down so many lanes to the net all night. The Leafs had chances for sure but boy game 7 was the first game I thought they were actually frustrating to play against. Hopefully Point's injury isn't too bad but man it did not look good.
Agreed with this take. Tampa made the Leafs play their game and it frustrated them. No more nice passing breakouts and the Leafs lost their will to dig in the corners like they were doing the past 2 games.
Here for the salt.
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They aren't. I don't know if people realized that Tampa are back to back champions. Shocking I know, who knew?
We honestly don't give a flying fuck about the round draw luck or moral wins.
It’s not even funny at this point, it’s honestly kinda sad….
HOLY LORD THE LEAFS ARE WORTHLESS IN THE PLAYOFFS! LET THE MEMES COMMENCE!!
They played well this series. I get memeing on their losing streak but this series wasn't an embarrassing choke like last year.
Holy. Fuck. It's just a self fulfilling prophecy at this point
Andrei Vasilevskiy was on another level tonight. MVP caliber
This really hurts Steve Dangle's vision of the Maple Leafs winning this year's Stanley Cup
It is an absolute shame John Tavares is toiling away on Toronto for so many years.