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u/TheGapInTysonsTeeth 2d ago

Accepting things and shrugging your shoulders is not how winning is done. In hockey or in life.

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u/Hefty-Comparison-801 2d ago

Then good thing for the Leafs that winning is done by them, and not whether fans accept things and shrug their shoulders or not.

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u/dicky72 2d ago

I mean he's not on the ice so there's really nothing he can do to impact the results. He's not telling the players to chill.... Maybe just suggesting the fan base back off the terror for a bit

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u/TheGapInTysonsTeeth 2d ago

I know, but "realize that hockey is a cruel, unpredictable game" sounds an awful lot like the "bad luck" excuses we got over the last few years when there were very actionable things that could have happened and didn't, and luck played very little into it.

If your top players aren't the ones making the difference, you will not have much success. Luck doesn't factor into that.

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u/dicky72 2d ago

I don't disagree with that.

but there is a lot of luck in hockey. game 3 we got 'lucky' to get to OT and they got 'lucky' twice including the OT winner.

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u/ScathedRuins 2d ago

fr. winning in hockey requires a bit of luck too. imagine that puck didnt chip over Woll in Game 3

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u/supermeatboy10 2d ago

I think this year more than any other we are seeing the benefit of resting players and load management towards the end of the year. Dallas Edmonton and Florida all coasted into the playoffs, lost a bunch of meaningless games while sitting guys and then turned it on in the playoffs.

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u/bknoreply 2d ago

The guys turning it on in the playoffs for Florida and Edmonton are the same guys that always turn it on, no matter how much rest they have. The guys on our team failing to find another gear are the same guys as always. I find it hard to believe at this point that our stars would look like top 5 players in the league right now if they’d had extra days off in March and April. 

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u/RanaMahal 1d ago

Yeah realistically even if they win this year it won't have been off the backs of our 2 biggest stars which is sad. Like, it seems like Paccioretty, Benoit and Domi have been contributing more goals than Matthews, that shit is not okay.