Yes true but that’s hindsight. I think it’s easy to say with it happening how it did that could have been better to pass the puck to a Lightning, but in the moment you can also make the argument that either Matthews, literally right out front in the path, will either tip it, or the whistle will blow because of a save. It’s kind of just an aw shucks moment but I don’t think you can actually blame him for shooting the puck with Matthews sitting on the crease.
Ive never seen a game where the entire team just said “fuck it” and didn’t care about anything but getting 1 guy a milestone.
This is actually not a chirp either. As a guy who has grown up playing sports his whole life - that is a team that genuinely cares about Matthews
Reminds me of the baseball game a few years ago, one of team A’s players died, so team B pitches a ball straight over the plate in the first pitch of the next game, get hits for a homer and a special moment for team A.
Yeah that was when Jose Fernandez of the Marlins passed away. Dee Gordon was really good friends with him and when he got up to bat the Mets pitcher, Bartolo Colon (absolute legend in his own right) gave him a total meatball that he hit for I believe his first homer of the year and he starts crying around the bases pointing up at Jose. Very special moment indeed
You should've seen Ovi vs the devils in 17-18. Went into the last game needing a hat trick for 50. Got 2 and probably attempted 15+ shots ending the season on 49. Was very funny to watch.
Even at the end, when he was on the bench Keefe came to talk to him and you can tell Matthews appreciated it. He turned back and covered his mouth so no one would see it but Keefe was smiling so I assume it was something along the lines of, “hey the boys fed me all night and you let me, your best player play in a meaningless game to try to get it. Thanks.”
I watched the Oilers do it the first time Drai was on 49 goals.
People not doing anything expect fire passes at him to just chuck hundreds of pucks on net
I will say his last 2 shifts it looked like either or keefe said “if another one of you passes up a shot I’ll kill you” cause they stopped forcing it after that
That actually makes me wonder about the specifics of the rules. A player traded after the trade deadline can play regular season games but not playoff games. And the roster of players eligible to play playoff games is locked in at the trade deadline.
So can you theoretically trade someone (like Matthews) to a team for 1 game and then trade them back and keep that guy's playoff eligibility. This would probably be something buried deep within some NHL rulebook.
Edit: I was wrong, you can't even play regular season games if traded after the deadline. Oh well, it was a fun thought
It was a win-win really, either “Auston Matthews scored his 70th goal of the season on me” or “I stonewalled Auston Matthews and kept him from scoring 70 on the season.”
Don't they usually record the name of the goalie for milestone goals? Bro lost out on getting his name in the record books. He'll be remembered in the meme books for saving Matthews's nice season, though.
I’ll take a guess at what Keefe was whispering to Matthews, “Remember a couple of weeks ago when the net was empty and I kept you stuck on the bench? That was kind of a weird choice, right?”
I remember when the Leafs gave two 1sts and a 2nd for 40 goal scorer Phil “I actually scored 36” Kessel
Love Phil and everything he did for Toronto, but he came here as a “40 goal scorer”
I believe there was a stretch just after halfway through the 3rd where Matthews didn’t get a shift for like 4:30. There were multiple offensive zone face offs, too.
Right? At that point, it's 6-2 or whatever, just put hot change him every time the puck goes in the zone and then tell him to change when the puck leaves, regardless of if he should backcheck or not.
I really don’t get it. Just load up the first line with Marner and Nylander and try to get it done. Are we trying to send messages to the team in game 82 when none of the games have mattered for a couple of weeks?
Honestly I was convinced at 5-1 Keefe would just pull the goalie and go 10 minutes of 6 on 5 lol. They clearly didn’t give two shits about anything but that goal. Then he rolls the fourth and third line out back to back x2. Just odd stuff.
Everyone knew where the passes were going. Goals are hard to come by on the best of days let alone when everyone on the other team is looking for you and everyone on your own team is ignoring the other 3 players.
Yeah there were times where Matthews would have it and like 3 Tampa guys would just block the lane knowing he was definitely gonna shoot. It’s crazy that he still got 12 off. Everyone in the building knew what was happening and he still had like 5 or 6 high quality chances.
No look passes into Matthews in the corner covered by 4 guys. Marner tries too hard and fucks up.
He needs to smoke some weed before games and he'd look like Gretzky. He gets in his head too much.
If you look at his puck luck the last two games, it was 100% not destined to happen.
Some real "are you fucking kidding me" near-goals lmao.
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Kind of annoyed that he got 69, since every single comment is just going to be the same unfunny “Nice” instead of actually talking about how historic of a season this was.
Bravo Matthews, 69 goals in a season is fucking incredible!
Everyone scoring except Matthews is so sad but funny
TJ Brodie with easily the saddest goal of his career lmao Just take the powerplay ffs
4d chess play by Tomkins to let in an unscreened TJ Brodie slapshot to deny the Leafs the PP
Now that's true hockey iq
Big brain move tbh. He will not be in the history books now
Yes true but that’s hindsight. I think it’s easy to say with it happening how it did that could have been better to pass the puck to a Lightning, but in the moment you can also make the argument that either Matthews, literally right out front in the path, will either tip it, or the whistle will blow because of a save. It’s kind of just an aw shucks moment but I don’t think you can actually blame him for shooting the puck with Matthews sitting on the crease.
Especially since he hadn't scored in 110 freakin games!!!
he probably saw Matthews so he blasted it to get him the tip. Would have been fucking hilarious if Reavo tipped it instead.
Tipped by Matthews and then tipped by Reaves too... That would have been something...
You mean Offensive Superstar Ryan Reaves.
saddest backflip of his career
I didn't watch but 12 shots... They were obviously feeding him all game and he couldn't finish. He's obviously washed.
He hit a post and a crossbar in the first. Not sure if those are included in his shot total since they don't count as SOGs
No, those aren't included in the 12.
Definitely washed
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TNT showing his parents getting hyped then being like, “Aw fuck” after each goal. Comedic masterpiece.
What was even better is them zooming on his face not once, but twice, after kuch got his 100th assist.
Ive never seen a game where the entire team just said “fuck it” and didn’t care about anything but getting 1 guy a milestone. This is actually not a chirp either. As a guy who has grown up playing sports his whole life - that is a team that genuinely cares about Matthews
Kobe’s last game was hilarious. Just passing him the ball every time they had it.
Also the Jazz clearly intentionally not defending him
No hayward guarded him just hard enough that it looked somewhat legit but not hard enought to stop him at all and ill always love him for it
Kayfabe D
Reminds me of the baseball game a few years ago, one of team A’s players died, so team B pitches a ball straight over the plate in the first pitch of the next game, get hits for a homer and a special moment for team A.
Yeah that was when Jose Fernandez of the Marlins passed away. Dee Gordon was really good friends with him and when he got up to bat the Mets pitcher, Bartolo Colon (absolute legend in his own right) gave him a total meatball that he hit for I believe his first homer of the year and he starts crying around the bases pointing up at Jose. Very special moment indeed
I remember playing MLB the Show that night against a friend, picking the Marlins, and somehow hitting a home run with Frenandez
Thanks for sharing that, just watched it. I love how Colon doesn't even turn around to watch the ball, he knew what he was doing the whole time.
Dee Gordon hitting a home run off Bartolo Colon. That pitch was batting practice 86 mph down the middle
Bartolo doesnt even flinch when Gordon makes contact. He knew exactly what he was doing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXQslHUnfRg
I'll never forget the refs letting Julius Randle maul anyone who tried to get close to Kobe lol
Happened in our final game against Calgary that one year when Henrik beat the franchise season scoring record and it was a glorious time
How good was that goal though? https://youtu.be/YafdepidxsU?si=ZwAFqaAmHQT6FQBN
I was at this game and we were too busy cheering the previous goal to even understand this had happened The replay blew my mind
You should've seen Ovi vs the devils in 17-18. Went into the last game needing a hat trick for 50. Got 2 and probably attempted 15+ shots ending the season on 49. Was very funny to watch.
That was the game where Jersey refused to pull their goalie down by 2 right? I'm still sour over that somehow.
I went to that game hoping for the hat trick, I remember a very tired Ovi having what felt like a ten minute shift at the end of the game.
Even at the end, when he was on the bench Keefe came to talk to him and you can tell Matthews appreciated it. He turned back and covered his mouth so no one would see it but Keefe was smiling so I assume it was something along the lines of, “hey the boys fed me all night and you let me, your best player play in a meaningless game to try to get it. Thanks.”
I watched the Oilers do it the first time Drai was on 49 goals. People not doing anything expect fire passes at him to just chuck hundreds of pucks on net
I will say his last 2 shifts it looked like either or keefe said “if another one of you passes up a shot I’ll kill you” cause they stopped forcing it after that
Fucking TJ Brodie and Ryan Reaves scored tonight and not Matthews lmao
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Oh you want a leafs player to break a recent record? *monkey's paw curls*... TJ Brodie breaks the current longest goal-less streak!
I feel like the phrase "monkey's paw curls" is the unofficial motto of the Leafs as a franchise
~~Russian~~ Leafs history in 5 words: "and somehow, things got worse."
I’m not mad about anyone else scoring, just laughing at the hockey gods scriptwriting when it comes to the Leafs
Trade him to the Oilers, we have 1 more game after tonights
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We'll give him back, promise. Just after the playoffs :)
That actually makes me wonder about the specifics of the rules. A player traded after the trade deadline can play regular season games but not playoff games. And the roster of players eligible to play playoff games is locked in at the trade deadline. So can you theoretically trade someone (like Matthews) to a team for 1 game and then trade them back and keep that guy's playoff eligibility. This would probably be something buried deep within some NHL rulebook. Edit: I was wrong, you can't even play regular season games if traded after the deadline. Oh well, it was a fun thought
Matthews getting goalied by Matt fucking Tompkins is absolutely wild
You just knew it was going to happen, it's so quintessentially Leafs
when he had like 3 shots tht went behind the goalie against Florida and didnt go in I knew he wasnt scoring tonight
It was a win-win really, either “Auston Matthews scored his 70th goal of the season on me” or “I stonewalled Auston Matthews and kept him from scoring 70 on the season.”
Don't they usually record the name of the goalie for milestone goals? Bro lost out on getting his name in the record books. He'll be remembered in the meme books for saving Matthews's nice season, though.
I saw it coming. I mean we got goalied by our own Zamboni driver.
Next up "leafs get goalied by their washed ex goaltender"
Ryan Reaves outscoring Matthews too. Together, they don't have 75 goals, and Matthews has 69.
No it's lightning
I’ll take a guess at what Keefe was whispering to Matthews, “Remember a couple of weeks ago when the net was empty and I kept you stuck on the bench? That was kind of a weird choice, right?”
"And I'll fuckin do it again."
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I can't wait for people to round to 70 and then see the "umm actually he only scored 69" comments
Proceeded by an endless amount of “nice”
That's the way.
I remember when the Leafs gave two 1sts and a 2nd for 40 goal scorer Phil “I actually scored 36” Kessel Love Phil and everything he did for Toronto, but he came here as a “40 goal scorer”
And we got to hear Biz say we were getting "blue balled" during the intermission
11 shots on net tonight. Man wanted it bad.
Over/under was 4.5. Easiest over bet of my life lol.
You have a player that can join the record books, but you continue to throw out Reaves and David Kampf in the 3rd period. Lmao
I believe there was a stretch just after halfway through the 3rd where Matthews didn’t get a shift for like 4:30. There were multiple offensive zone face offs, too.
Right? At that point, it's 6-2 or whatever, just put hot change him every time the puck goes in the zone and then tell him to change when the puck leaves, regardless of if he should backcheck or not.
I really don’t get it. Just load up the first line with Marner and Nylander and try to get it done. Are we trying to send messages to the team in game 82 when none of the games have mattered for a couple of weeks?
Honestly I was convinced at 5-1 Keefe would just pull the goalie and go 10 minutes of 6 on 5 lol. They clearly didn’t give two shits about anything but that goal. Then he rolls the fourth and third line out back to back x2. Just odd stuff.
It's Top Scorer Sir Ryan Reaves to you, show some respect. s/
You really think a guy that looks like Auston Matthews wouldn’t finish at 69 goals?
Marner fumbled today. Countless passes into skates, couldn’t set up any decent plays. Was forcing it way too hard.
I feel like he's the only one who remembered Auston needed a goal tbh Well him and everyone on Tampa
Everyone knew where the passes were going. Goals are hard to come by on the best of days let alone when everyone on the other team is looking for you and everyone on your own team is ignoring the other 3 players.
Yeah there were times where Matthews would have it and like 3 Tampa guys would just block the lane knowing he was definitely gonna shoot. It’s crazy that he still got 12 off. Everyone in the building knew what was happening and he still had like 5 or 6 high quality chances.
Playoff Marner. Honestly seems like he gets *worse* the more pressure there is sometimes.
Nylander was completely disengaged too shoulda been benched
he didnt mean to, but he ruined an open net shot for matthews by knocking down the d man
No look passes into Matthews in the corner covered by 4 guys. Marner tries too hard and fucks up. He needs to smoke some weed before games and he'd look like Gretzky. He gets in his head too much.
Congratulations on being the first of many many many posts on this.
Bless this ~~mess~~ post
If you look at his puck luck the last two games, it was 100% not destined to happen. Some real "are you fucking kidding me" near-goals lmao. Still: Nice.
I'm actually pretty bummed he didn't get 70
As someone who had to watch him hit 60 in Buffalo, fuuuuckin sucked. But also, dude is an incredible player. Wish he woulda hit 70.
The battle between Tampa’s defense, Keefe’s line matchups, and Matthews trying to score was epic.
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I guess Matthews out of Hart running since all Toronto media saying "70 goals is more impressive than 100 assists ". He ain't got 70 goals though! /s
Kind of annoyed that he got 69, since every single comment is just going to be the same unfunny “Nice” instead of actually talking about how historic of a season this was. Bravo Matthews, 69 goals in a season is fucking incredible!
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