To Win And This Is Forever - Official 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs Thread

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You can always count on Robertson scoring after he gets benched. If he was more consistent and eliminated the stupid mistakes he’d be a solid Top 6 guy.
 

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Move this team to Saskatoon
Tired of hearing about these fools
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The city of Toronto rightfully belongs to the raptors and blue jays anyway
Dont move the maple leafs to Saskatoon, Relocate them to Halifax instead

Raps and jays at least won chips in the modern era (1990-2025) and made the city proud and Toronto sports fans happy.
Leafs won all their chips in the racist era, no titles since 1967. No Stanley cup appearance since 1967 either. They only know how to torture and depress us and they always give a bad name to the city all across the hockey world
 

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The city of Toronto rightfully belongs to the raptors and blue jays anyway
Dont move the maple leafs to Saskatoon, Relocate them to Halifax instead

Raps and jays at least won chips in the modern era (1990-2025) and made the city proud and Toronto sports fans happy.
Leafs won all their chips in the racist era, no titles since 1967. No Stanley cup appearance since 1967 either. They only know how to torture and depress us and they always give a bad name to the city all across the hockey world
I'm tired of hearing about "The Buds"
Every year is their year
Every year, same shyt
Only good thing is retailers offering discounts/promos to customers based on leafs scoring, or wearing merch :heh:

Send them to Quebec City :camby:
 

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I'm tired of hearing about "The Buds"
Every year is their year
Every year, same shyt
Only good thing is retailers offering discounts/promos to customers based on leafs scoring, or wearing merch :heh:

Send them to Quebec City :camby:
as long as older boomer/gen x leaf fans and their kids are still alive in the province of Ontario the buds will never go away and become irrevelant. The blue and white disease is passed down from generations to generations . It’s socially/culturally inherited lol.

Honestly I will never let the buds/raps/jays go myself because of hometown pride but I’m just sick of this core right now

The buds have had All these successful regular seasons in the last decade, but they only won two playoff series in the first round

It wears on you

Matthews/marner got to go by any means necessary. They have proven time and time again that they can’t raise their game in the playoffs. They have youth, talent and skill on their side but not attitude , grit, will and desire to win. They just can’t take over playoff games and lead their team to victory. They can’t take charge and dominate offensively on the ice. They can’t take a team on their backs and get them to glory. They’re robins not Batman.

Marner is an unrestricted free agent this summer. His massive contract will expire in July. But Matthews signed a five year-contract worth 53 millions 2 summers ago. He makes 13.5 millions a year.( huge cap hit when you consider that all nhl teams have to operate within a hard salary cap)

Let unrestricted free agent Tavares walk this summer. Nothing against him but he’s getting older and we need to move on and turn the page from him

And we have too much deadweight in the bottom two lines on offense. We get next to no offensive production from most of these players domi and pacioretty( who’s old, injury-prone, and past his prime anyway)
Jarnkrok, Laughton, Kampf, Mcmann are bums lol. Our offensive depth is overrated

All our players on defense except Morgan rielly (we have to move his expensive long term contract elsewhere ) can stay with the team

Our goaltending Duo ( woll/stolarz) can stay here

On offense, knies and nylander can stay. William Nylander is probably the best playoff performer among the big three amigos( auston Matthews, Mitch marner, Willy nylander)

And GM Brad TreIiving must sign restricted free agent Matthew Knies asap before July 1. He’s a keeper because Knies is the only skilled forward on this team with a physical power forward game. He’s mentally and physically built for the playoffs too. Just love his competitive attitude and big game mentality @CJ

Connor McDavid will be a unrestricted free agent In the summer of 2026. My hopes rest on the leafs signing him and bringing him back home to the blue and white. 2026-27 might be a special season in Maple Leaf history. Maybe he will be the chosen one who will finally lead Toronto to championship glory for the first time since 1967? One calendar year and one full nhl season away from the dream.
 
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Connor McDavid will be a unrestricted free agent In the summer of 2026. My hopes rest on the leafs signing him and bringing him back home to the blue and white. 2026-27 might be a special season in Maple Leaf history. Maybe the chosen one who will finally lead Toronto to championship glory for the first time since 1967? One calendar year and one full nhl season away from the dream.
i dont follow hockey that closely, but this scenario would set the city on fire:wow:
 
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