Edited Apr. 28 at 9:47 a.m.
It’s dumb to me how blind and immature opinions from the media are.
Game 1 Toronto played slightly better but close enuff to equivalent to Boston. While down 2 goals the leafs were well above 50% chance to win game for almost entire third period because they had persistent possession/chances.
Game 2-3 Toronto vastly outplayed Boston. Vastly.
Game 4 - fairly even tilt, still leafs outplaying Boston similar to g1.
Meanwhile:
Boston scoring on what feels like every power play.
Boston scoring with seconds to go in period on broken plays.
Leafs top heavy team missing significant chunk of its top heavy skaters.
Now my social media and media feed is filled with such extremism and negativity towards the leafs.
I’m not making excuses: ultimately I don’t care which team wins, I’m rooting for stl. It’s just so many wrong opinions it hurts my brain.
Everybody knows marner is soft, but showing him lose 2 50/50s then deciding he’s trash right before he dangles to score a solo effort goal is funny. Board battles are not the thing he’s good at. We’ve known that for years. It’s not going to change. If you view him from that perspective he sucks. If you view from other perspectives, like carrying the puck, he’s one of the best in the league. It’s how it works for every player, just different perspectives.
There is this need for Toronto media to be negative. Other teams are down in their series and it isn’t 25 YouTubers, broadcasters live on air pointing out an individual players known weakness anywhere near the amplitude and frequency.
They’ve conditioned the building to boo, to be cautious. It impacts the game. It’s hurting the team, but it gets clicks I guess?
—-Leafs are one of the few playoff teams that have a home ice disadvantage and it’s the medias fault.
Leafs in 7 if you can get your expensive skaters on the ice together and they are close to 100%.