GO LEAFS GO

[Iceni warrior]

1 minute ago, Dougie93 said:

it's past my bedtime

but I'll stand by and sit watch with you

3 am here.

I'm going nowhere.

[Dougie93]

8 minutes ago, Iceni warrior said:

3 am here.

I'm going nowhere.

well the weather is finally beautiful here, so I'm chillin' on the patio

but if it goes on for more than one OT, I'm going to bed

 

[Iceni warrior]

Delay of game penalty against the Leafs.

[Iceni warrior]

Cats time out with 49 secs left on the PP.

[Iceni warrior]

Leafs kill.

[Iceni warrior]

5 mins to go.

[Iceni warrior]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The dream is over for another year.

[Iceni warrior]

53 shots to 44

 

Hell of a game.

[Dougie93]

8 hours ago, Iceni warrior said:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The dream is over for another year.

sorry I cursed you with this team, old bean

[Iceni warrior]

47 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

sorry I cursed you with this team, old bean

It has brought me countless hours of pleasure in exchange for mere minutes of misery.

Even last night's game was thoroughly enjoyable for 75 minutes and only the last few seconds were heartbreaking.

 

 

[Dougie93]

25 minutes ago, Iceni warrior said:

It has brought me countless hours of pleasure in exchange for mere minutes of misery.

Even last night's game was thoroughly enjoyable for 75 minutes and only the last few seconds were heartbreaking.

I would just be ruminating about it for the rest of the summer

it's a pleasure not to have that weight upon my shoulders, for the first time in fifty years

Edited May 13, 2023 by Dougie93

[Iceni warrior]

1 hour ago, Dougie93 said:

I would just be ruminating about it for the rest of the summer

it's a pleasure not to have that weight upon my shoulders, for the first time in fifty years

I'm over it.

Leafs did their best but just couldn't come up with an answer to Bobrowsky.

Now I've just got Leeds Utd's relegation struggle to worry about... 

[Dougie93]

1 minute ago, Iceni warrior said:

I'm over it.

well that's not how it is when you've been raised on it like mothers milk to be your identity

the decades of futility, the annual heartbreak, year after year, it starts to twist in your guts

[Iceni warrior]

50 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

well that's not how it is when you've been raised on it like mothers milk to be your identity

the decades of futility, the annual heartbreak, year after year, it starts to twist in your guts

It's lucky I came to it late then. 

By the time the Leafs have had another 50 years of failure I'll be long dead

[Dougie93]

1 minute ago, Iceni warrior said:

It's lucky I came to it late then. 

By the time the Leafs have had another 50 years of failure I'll be long dead

indeed

you are now about where I was in 1978

and I was thinking the Leafs were going to win the Cup that year

I never thought the drought would go on for another 45 years

[Dougie93]

20 minutes ago, Iceni warrior said:

It's lucky I came to it late then.

the other brutal slog of being a Leafs fan is that you have to watch your favourite players leave

they become desperate to get out, so they can try to win the Cup, usually in America

Matthews & Nylander are UFA at the end of next season

Edited May 13, 2023 by Dougie93

[Iceni warrior]

10 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

the other brutal slog of being a Leafs fan is that you have to watch your favourite players leave

they become desperate to get out, so they can try to win the Cup, usually in America

Matthews & Nylander are UFA at the end of next season

That's even worse in football as players who are in contract can still be sold to the highest bidder. Lowly teams like Leeds can't hope to hold onto any player who proves to be exceptional. 

[Dougie93]

1 minute ago, Iceni warrior said:

That's even worse in football as players who are in contract can still be sold to the highest bidder. Lowly teams like Leeds can't hope to hold onto any player who proves to be exceptional. 

I've honestly lost my interest in pro sports in general

started with get rid of cable

out of sight, out of mind

[Iceni warrior]

40 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

I've honestly lost my interest in pro sports in general

started with get rid of cable

out of sight, out of mind

I haven't been taking much interest in FI this year.

I keep up with the results but I haven't been watching the highlights.

[Dougie93]

Just now, Iceni warrior said:

I haven't been taking much interest in FI this year.

I keep up with the results but I haven't been watching the highlights.

without cable, I've gone back to how life was in the 1970's

only two channels, not much to watch on tv most of the time

so I mostly listen to music and read

when I was a boy, Hockey Night In Canada was only one game on Saturday night on the CBC

and other than the sports section of the newspaper, there wasn't any other coverage

we spent most of our time playing hockey, not watching it

 

[Dougie93]

On 5/13/2023 at 10:58 AM, Iceni warrior said:

That's even worse in football as players who are in contract can still be sold to the highest bidder. Lowly teams like Leeds can't hope to hold onto any player who proves to be exceptional. 

the front page of the Toronto Sun today

here we go again, lol

[Iceni warrior]

2 hours ago, Dougie93 said:

the front page of the Toronto Sun today

here we go again, lol

I never bother reading all the press. 

Unless I want to know if a player is still injured.

I'll just ask on the nhl66 chatbox if I want to know something.

I just watch the games.

I do watch the occasional documentary about a old player etc to help learn the history.

Edited May 14, 2023 by Iceni warrior

[SpankyMcFarland]

The GTA should have another team to keep the Leafs honest. As things are they can be terrible and still rake in millions. I gave up following ice hockey when Canadian teams gave up - in the Nineties. 

Edited May 18, 2023 by SpankyMcFarland

[Dougie93]

Kyle Dubas will of course be quickly snapped up by another team

then watch that team win the Cup too before MLSE ever does

Stan Rogers knows

[OftenWrong]

1 hour ago, Dougie93 said:

Kyle Dubas will of course be quickly snapped up by another team

then watch that team win the Cup too before MLSE ever does

Stan Rogers knows

That would be sweet. I like seeing Froederik Andersen still in it. The teams are boring to watch now to me, but I'd like to see Carolina go all the way because of Andersen and Brent Burns.