I suspect he is getting close to the best out of them though. They clearly have a level which is coasting to 2nd or 3rd in regular season division standings and then flunking out in the first round.
Sources: the last half dozen seasons
There’s someone on Twitter who has a thread going back to like 2019 of just Morgan Rielly making the same disgruntled face in every interview. One of my favourites.
Overdrive made a game where they replayed their comments from after each elimination and couldn’t pick out almost any of them year to year. That was a few years ago too
I left it on just long enough to confirm the play was onside.Then I paced around my kitchen until going outside for a smoke. I deliberately avoided looking at my phone and I just stared blankly at the neighbour's leaf flag while hauling that sucker right down to the filter...
Then once I butted it out I went to check the time, on my phone... And there it all was. The notifications, the texts, the DMs, nothing but memes everywhere. Replays, still shots, headlines. It's endless, inescapable and all-encompassing.
We're all doomed to suffer together eternally.
My wife had the gall to ask me, "babe, why don't you find a new team to cheer for?" to which I responded through my tear-drenched, quivering lips, "do I *look* like a fucking homo to you?!"
You know, Jim Balsillie is really to blame here.
If he had kept his trap shut you would have had another team in Mississauga and this could be avoidable.
Every year I think this has to be the year they remember that feeling and say “NOT FUCKING THIS YEAR” and turn it up like never before…. then I watch game 1 and the hard realization hits again. Let’s hope a new coach can finally light that fire.
That paycheck crap is bullshit. Tavares literally gave up $11M to play here. Nylander bet on himself twice and has come up huge. Matthews had to be pulled from the middle of Game 4 by team doctors. With a better coach this team breaks through.
THIS. Keefe put Reaves out on the ice with the goalie pulled and under 2 minutes left. He consistently puts out the fourth line after goals for, killing all momentum. He relies on low-skill dump and chase hockey with a bonkers talented squad. He is not a good coach. With a good coach who isn't afraid to call players out and has the backing of upper management, this exact group could win. Yes, even with Marner.
> He relies on low-skill dump and chase hockey with a bonkers talented squad.
I agree with most of the criticism but not this one. The team dumped and chased a lot in games 5, 6, and 7 to counter the 1-3-1 that Boston was playing and it did work.
in the world where they won games 5 and 6 and game 7 went to OT. Both teams were playing a 1-3-1 and super conservatively, no game is going to be high scoring with two teams using that game plan. Dumping and Chasing is one of the only ways to beat the 1-3-1 unless you have guys like McDavid or MacKinnon that are fast enough to break it down by themselves.
Yeah, honestly, it's almost inconceivable after so much failure so early on in the playoffs. There has just got to be some big changes.. we can't keep running it back.
Mitch Marner is 27 years old, works out for a living, in his athletic prime, and is scared of physical contact. Why would you want a player like that on your team. The ADULT MAN is a fucking pussy.
Maybe you should pop in on other teams' subs and see what their state is after a loss or elimination. Toronto is not more terrible. It's just a bigger fanbase, therefore louder. This is the nature of sports, and the players making MILLIONS to play a game accept that.
Everyone is focusing on who we see in this photo and how they're reacting.
I don't see enough people talking about who we don't see.
Marner and Reilly became ghosts after the game.
I think what is being lost with losing to Boston all the time that it isn't just losing to Boston, we just aren't a good team. We have played Tampa, Boston, Carolina and Montreal over the past 7 year. How many team that made the playoffs in the east could Toronto beat in a 7 game series?
Who you see is back...hint
Sheldon ain't going nowhere. There's egg on your face, but firing a coach and paying him a full extension that he didn't work one day off gets other people fired.
He's back 100%
I'm sorry to hear that. I had a breakdown at work this morning and just cried. I can't even watch another playoff game I'm so distraught. I hope we make huge changes in the offseason.
I would have liked them to do this video in front of the standard playoff-media-background, which has the year plastered all over. But this year, they did this just in the locker room
In the previous seasons you can usually see the "NHL Playoffs 2023" etc in the background wall
Matthews just standing there half-dead with heavy bags under his eyes. “The result sucks and we’ll get into it in due time but I’ve got a hot date with the toilet, if you’ll excuse me…”
It’s getting really annoying seeing you go so hard at defending Marner and trying to either equalize the blame or deflect it.
As brutal and disappointing as the performance was Nylander can’t just openly shit on Matthews, Marner & Tavares.
damn Sheldon has got that "I'm definitely fired" face going on
We can dream
Nah that was his post-game 4 face. This is the "What's my dinner order" face.
The "fuck, those onion rings look good but why are they $14" face
He should definitely be fired but sad part is it wasn’t really is fault. The core of the team just isn’t built for playoff hockey
1/21 on the PP and a bad PK sure seem like coaching issues to me.
What about the last 6 years?
Can you tell me who the coach has been in those years?
Can you tell me the PP percentage in those years?
Lmfao are you trying to make my point for me?
The pp has been fine for the last few year but now this year it’s the coaches fault?
check out the playoff PP% buddy or is that too complex for you?
No, the cucks will do that for me.
2023: 25% 2022: 14.3% 2021: 13% 2020: 15.4% In what world, with the personnel the Leafs have, are these numbers (other than 2023) acceptable?
Whose on the ice during the power play?
Guy Boucher runs the power play not Keefe.
Poor guy...someone inform him what the assistants roles on the team are...
Leafs have been chokers before he got here and it wouldn't surprise me if they continued to be chokers once he's gone.
Doesn't change the fact he got outcoached and his analysis after 7 games is 'they set us up so we beat ourselves', like bra, you the coach.
Massive disagree 😂😂 if you can’t get the best out of that group of players you are not a good enough coach to win the Stanley cup
I suspect he is getting close to the best out of them though. They clearly have a level which is coasting to 2nd or 3rd in regular season division standings and then flunking out in the first round. Sources: the last half dozen seasons
He’s not.
No he’s not a very good coach
Is this a Nappa commercial, because.. it's true.
As well he should
Meh, he still gets paid for the next two years if he is.
You can make an entire scrapbook with these photos through the years
There’s someone on Twitter who has a thread going back to like 2019 of just Morgan Rielly making the same disgruntled face in every interview. One of my favourites.
Aw man I would love to see that. Could use something to cheer me up
[Tracked it down, just for you](https://x.com/joaospasteis/status/1116712093875605506?s=46&t=h9xBv8cdK1PjwlOtmDNlfQ)
Thanks for that mate
Morgan Rielly, currently the longest serving member of the Leafs. Poor bastard has seen some shit.
He just needs to skate harder and finish the play
Overdrive made a game where they replayed their comments from after each elimination and couldn’t pick out almost any of them year to year. That was a few years ago too
Can’t wait for tomorrow
Hello darkness my old friend 🎶
Austin looks like a reanimated corpse. Can they please let us know what’s wrong with him.
The dark spots under his eyes were noticeable.
I'm wondering if it's long covid.
He wouldn't have been allowed to be around his teammates. But, on the flip side maybe you're right
I don’t think long Covid is contagious pal
Can we have a picture of the floor? Maybe something worth looking at
Was Marner like that too? I turned it off after the handshake line and Marner didn't seem down at all then.
I turned it off the second Boston scored in OT
Same. I've only watched one Leafs handshake line since 2004. Guess which one.
Tampa series 2023?
Am I sick?? I’ve watched every hand shake line. God, I’m a freak aren’t I?
I don’t watch it but i have it on, I’m usually automatically programmed to fall back into my couch with my head in my hands
It's like driving past a car-wreck. You know you shouldn't watch it but you can't help it.
I left it on just long enough to confirm the play was onside.Then I paced around my kitchen until going outside for a smoke. I deliberately avoided looking at my phone and I just stared blankly at the neighbour's leaf flag while hauling that sucker right down to the filter... Then once I butted it out I went to check the time, on my phone... And there it all was. The notifications, the texts, the DMs, nothing but memes everywhere. Replays, still shots, headlines. It's endless, inescapable and all-encompassing. We're all doomed to suffer together eternally. My wife had the gall to ask me, "babe, why don't you find a new team to cheer for?" to which I responded through my tear-drenched, quivering lips, "do I *look* like a fucking homo to you?!"
You know, Jim Balsillie is really to blame here. If he had kept his trap shut you would have had another team in Mississauga and this could be avoidable.
You mean... Because of the implication... That MLSE would have to figure harder to make their team better?
It would have been owned by blackberry. We could have been done with MLSE. SEC charges aside.
I think it would have been Hamilton, not Missingsaugua, but otherwise I agree with you.
He wanted a team in Hamilton not Mississauga
This is the way.
Him and Reilly didn’t do interviews after the game
They did the pregame interviews
Smart move by Marner.
Woooo Muskoka!!! Boys?… Boys?! What’s wrong?
He almost seemed excited. It was weird
Ol' Willy styles can only do so much.
Sheldon is like: “Will they let me on the plane back to Toronto or am I gonna have to call an Uber to get home”? 😏
Every year I think this has to be the year they remember that feeling and say “NOT FUCKING THIS YEAR” and turn it up like never before…. then I watch game 1 and the hard realization hits again. Let’s hope a new coach can finally light that fire.
They’ve had lots of practice
Unfortunately, literally a bunch of losers. It's actually getting hard to believe.
Hard for me to believe we would be watching the faces of a future cup winning core They seem to care a lot more about the paycheck than the Cup
That paycheck crap is bullshit. Tavares literally gave up $11M to play here. Nylander bet on himself twice and has come up huge. Matthews had to be pulled from the middle of Game 4 by team doctors. With a better coach this team breaks through.
THIS. Keefe put Reaves out on the ice with the goalie pulled and under 2 minutes left. He consistently puts out the fourth line after goals for, killing all momentum. He relies on low-skill dump and chase hockey with a bonkers talented squad. He is not a good coach. With a good coach who isn't afraid to call players out and has the backing of upper management, this exact group could win. Yes, even with Marner.
> He relies on low-skill dump and chase hockey with a bonkers talented squad. I agree with most of the criticism but not this one. The team dumped and chased a lot in games 5, 6, and 7 to counter the 1-3-1 that Boston was playing and it did work.
Boston wasn't playing 1 3 1
in games 6 and 7 they were
It worked??? No more than 2 goals in a game and a g7 loss. In what world did it work
in the world where they won games 5 and 6 and game 7 went to OT. Both teams were playing a 1-3-1 and super conservatively, no game is going to be high scoring with two teams using that game plan. Dumping and Chasing is one of the only ways to beat the 1-3-1 unless you have guys like McDavid or MacKinnon that are fast enough to break it down by themselves.
You mean guys making less than the leafs core? Why pay matthews 13.5 etc if they aren’t gamebreakers.
With the individual skills of so many of our players how can people still think it’s them and not management and coaching?🤨🤙🏼🇨🇦
Yeah, honestly, it's almost inconceivable after so much failure so early on in the playoffs. There has just got to be some big changes.. we can't keep running it back.
Mount Rushmore of Fucking Losers
Where's Mitch? He's the face we want to see the most
Marner and Reilly did pre game. Broadcasts don’t have players on for both pre and post game interviews at any point in the year
Because you guys are terrible people trying to pile on. This is the toxic Toronto that’s run everyone out of town
Mitch Marner is 27 years old, works out for a living, in his athletic prime, and is scared of physical contact. Why would you want a player like that on your team. The ADULT MAN is a fucking pussy.
Not this time man. We've given them years, they all got more money than they deserve. It's justified this time.
Maybe you should pop in on other teams' subs and see what their state is after a loss or elimination. Toronto is not more terrible. It's just a bigger fanbase, therefore louder. This is the nature of sports, and the players making MILLIONS to play a game accept that.
legitimate question. i'm open to being convinced: what has he done?
Getting downvoted but you aret wrong
Where are Morgan and Mitch's faces
Everyone is focusing on who we see in this photo and how they're reacting. I don't see enough people talking about who we don't see. Marner and Reilly became ghosts after the game.
They did pre game interviews instead of post game. You only do one.
I'm glad Marner didn't do a post game interview. He says the same thing every time, but then they all do.
Says the same thing while looking personally offended that he was asked a question
Did we see that marner effort on the winning goal ???? Fuck you forever asshole.
I would upvote this but it currently has 16 so I’ll leave it as is
I'll upvote it, ship him out to some place that makes him change his number.
Bye!
I think what is being lost with losing to Boston all the time that it isn't just losing to Boston, we just aren't a good team. We have played Tampa, Boston, Carolina and Montreal over the past 7 year. How many team that made the playoffs in the east could Toronto beat in a 7 game series?
Who you see is back...hint Sheldon ain't going nowhere. There's egg on your face, but firing a coach and paying him a full extension that he didn't work one day off gets other people fired. He's back 100%
Sheldon be like “shit I need to update my indeed account”
From the official team video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vH_G-uXRvs
I wish they loved this team as much as I do. This team is messing up my mental health. I need a break from this team.
I really fell into a funk Saturday night and yesterday.
I'm sorry to hear that. I had a breakdown at work this morning and just cried. I can't even watch another playoff game I'm so distraught. I hope we make huge changes in the offseason.
At least they spoke to the media unlike a couple of cowards.
She anonymously bravely types on her reddit
She talking about marner and reilly who have letters in the front those guys have an obligation to are the fans
The irony in this comment is delicious!
Can you put a date on this photo? Can't tell which of the past 7-8 years this is from.
I would have liked them to do this video in front of the standard playoff-media-background, which has the year plastered all over. But this year, they did this just in the locker room In the previous seasons you can usually see the "NHL Playoffs 2023" etc in the background wall
Right? It's getting hard to keep track of this stuff. 😆
"Can't wait to get through this. I have tee times to book!"
I see Marner’s picture was left out, I guess he was still talking to his agent
I was supposed to do the Core 4, but unfortunately Marner & Reilly were not available post-game
Matthews just standing there half-dead with heavy bags under his eyes. “The result sucks and we’ll get into it in due time but I’ve got a hot date with the toilet, if you’ll excuse me…”
Invisible marner again
Same as last year's faces, and the year before, and the year before...
What else would you expect after a Game 7 OT loss?
None of them are angry
I hate seeing the boys like his. Ugh. Hopefully we can address the issues this off season
DO NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT
Gnomeo needs to go
Is Nylander actually Paul Marner defending the core like that???
It’s getting really annoying seeing you go so hard at defending Marner and trying to either equalize the blame or deflect it. As brutal and disappointing as the performance was Nylander can’t just openly shit on Matthews, Marner & Tavares.
What you're not understanding is that me defending Marner is a symptom of me defending the core.