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Pregame Prophets

This will be a tough one for sure.

We cannot afford another 3rd period performance like we showed against the Nucks.

Flames are hot right now. Going to be a great test to see where we're at.

Flames are hot, need to come prepared

Canned Coach Bowl

6 game winning streak for the Flames since they fired Peters. I think we beat them tonight.

It's so refreshing to see a coach who actually tries things out and adjusts depending on how well they work. Turns out you're allowed making more than one line change a year.

I remember watching other teams move the puck around in the o zone with such confidence and control and it was frustrating we couldnt pull it off . Babcock era we could never really get in sync and were kind of a one trick pony when it came to the cycle, it never felt nearly as threatening as when a team like Tampa or Washington got passing it around. Since keefe took over it’s been night and day as far as that and I am loving it.

Are the Flames just basically the Western Leafs?

Name-Induced Appetite

Whats a Mangiapane?

Mangiapane eats bread

I think it’s French for "eat bread"

Andrew Mangiapane? I thought it was Craig for some reason.
can we just not say his name, takes up too much air time and reminds me of a sandwich with prosciutto, salami with some olive oil brush panini

everytime Cuthbert says his name I think of a panani sandwich, some cold cuts, pasta, wine maybe?

Every time they say Mangiapane I think they're saying Paul Giamatti

Mangiapane is a great hockey name.

I am a leafs fan through and through, but Mangiapane describes my diet all too well

Broad Street Bullies

Was hoping I wouldn't have to watch dickface Tkachuk tonight but unfortunately he's playing.

Rinaldo and Sam Bennett aint playin.

Tkachuk aint a thug. Dude is a fake pansy. He goes after goalies and acts tough. If some of our players actually had the balls...I'd say they can easily take on Tkachuk.

Lucic and Hamonic really their only tough guys. Calgary overall is pretty damn soft.

Vancouver iced a tougher team than Calgary is doing tonight

Ok sire. Lucic and Hamonic is playing. That's just enough against our dolls. If they wants to yell or injure, they'll do it sire. We might and will actually win the game at the same time, but while at it lucic will bite somebody's ear or nose off. And nobody of our dolls will answer. Learn bout life, dubas. Or from the playoffs y'all already lost. Many times. Do the trade, or get kicked out. From the playoffs. Again.

Cross check to the face at the end of that sequence

image ur captain takes a cross check to the face while on his knees and we know we can't do anything about it

Holiday Hubris

If Leafs can win tonight and Saturday I think Alberta needs to #wExit out of Canada

Ha, Reider is a Flame as well? Are they just collecting all the Oilers who cant score?

Hammer Time

Stupid Hamonic.

Cave man sucks

Milan Lurch

Willy.... Come on dude

Saw that one coming with all that open space

This "defensive" play is absolutely not acceptable. I have never seen **** like this. Clear entry with nobody getting that guy. Wtf is this ****?

Damn, just a little sloppy there

Why do these idiot directors put a close up on the defenders after a goal?

What is this the wrist shot channel?

Coach Queef

"Sheldon Qu-Keefe"

Ferraro dropping the "Sheldon Queef"

Absolute legend

Lmfao Ray saving himself from saying Queef.

Did he almost say queef?

Omg he almost said queef!

Haha, Ray almost said "Sheldon Queif". Held himself up for half a second.

He’ll forever be known as Sheldon Queef now

Sheldon Qu-Keefe and then a random in-game Star Wars commercial. What a wild ride. I can't be mad at TSN though, they are so much better than Sportsnet.

Opening Minute Johnny

Yeah, not a great start to this period for freddie…

Why are there so many wide open players? Giving way to many good looks in like 2 mins wtf

It’s kind of funny that he’s "Johnny hockey" because he happened to be in college at the same time "Johnny Football" was a thing, but he’s still here and the other Johnny is retired because he seemingly used Blue Mountain State as a how to manual

START ON TIME
Wait…
FINISH ON TIME

Anderson started this mess by sending it up the board. He’s a sick goalie but so ####in #### at handling the puck

Lol tosses a muffin and it finds its way in. Of course

Frolik snipes one for 2 in 2

Okay, wtf, this game and the one in VAN... how is it so easy for opposition players to get behind our D?

Spezza, you’re assisting the wrong team you dingus.

Even from the bench, Hutchison is amazing at dodging pucks

Come on Hutch. Another puck that just flies past him before he can react.

The Leafs just queefed.

The 3rd period is the new 1st period.

It must be the 3rd period... in 2017.

I feel asleep for 2 minutes. what did I miss?

I got back to the game two minutes late and what the #### happened

Loser teams find ways to lose. These guys collectively are losers more often than not this year.

So many ****ing chances we’ve given up

Barrie gets walked again... Two shifts, two goals against. Guy is not good.

Unbelievable. Not even 2 minutes passes and we give up the lead and now are having to come from behind.

Good job Leafs.

Leafs play this 3rd period the same way they play Vancouver in the 3rd...and they got burned this time...and no idea what Freddie was doing on the Flames 2nd goal.

Johnny makes it 3 in 3

They could still get 17 more goals at this rate

Can you imagine if you missed the first 3 min of the 3rd period!

Alright call a timeout what the **** is this

the flames scored the go ahead and it just sucked the energy out of the team

It’s funny how two minutes can change your outlook of an entire season.

I walked away to get a snack and now it’s 4-2? Did they put Sparks in net or something?

Jesus christ is Andersen just not gonna make a save anymore?? Three goals on three ####in shots... I don't care man, he needs to make a save on one of those shots man.

Sorry guys I got home from my kids game, turned on the tv for 3 minutes and Calgary scored 3 times. I immediately turned off the TV after the third one. I hope those goals weren’t my fault.

Just got home from beer league to catch the third... I think I brought bad luck lmao

The Tavares lines has been getting played around with by the Gaudreau line tonight, despite the good offense from them.

Played 2 strong road periods then fell asleep for 3 minutes and that was the game. Frustrating it doesn’t seem to go the other way. Does Freddie play Saturday now?

It was 2-2. Go grab a drink, its 4-2. Ummm, no.

I’m sure we’re gonna hear "gotta play a full 60" a lot the next few days.
Can’t play 57 mins and hope that’s enough.

Lol two and a half minutes and we let in 3. We are a terrible team.

Buffalo, Montreal, Tampa, keep winning and we just crumble every time it looks like we are going to get going.

"Oh #### the leafs game is on! #### yeah, just in time for the third and we're winning!" - me like 5 minutes ago

Literally every player standing around letting the flames do whatever they want.

timeout is too late Keefe. The game is done, the team shows again that they don’t give a crap.

Holy crumoly, I went to make a sandwich, and granted I dawdled, but I came back and wtf?!?!

Say My Name

Damn it big save Dave.

Back-2-back good saves.

Rittich has outplayed Andersen. That's the whole story of the game.

My god goalies play amazing against us. Lol. That was our chance to close the gap.

Wow, so other teams can give up breakaways and other goalies can save them I thought the leafs were uniquely awful and Andersen was the greatest

Special Forces

Lol what a pathetic excuse for a PP

I wouldn't be as mad if we showed any sort of anger or spark after losing the lead, instead we just go into the fetal position. It's gross.

cycle-cycle-cycle-shuffle-cycle-shoot wide-recover-cycle

Its crazy that you have matthews out there in a 5 on 3 and they just decide to pass it around lazily instead of passing it to him until he scores.
Same thing works with ovechkin and stamkos, but its too big brained for toronto.

40 million for these moments.
Better ####ing score twice

Not trying to excuse that horrible powerplay, but has the ice looked really bad tonight or is it just me?

Well that was an unfortunate attempt at a PP

This is giving me a headache... can we go back to 5v5

A... 5 on 3?

The hockey gods are extending us an olive branch!

Ohhh, a 5 on 3. Will the Leafs score? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z.

Was that our first 5-3 PP all season? I feel like it was. Someone tell me im wrong

Lmfaooo what the **** are we doing. Nobody is moving. Nobody is pressing. We are acting like it’s a 5 on 4.

Where the hell is any of the speed we need to actually score on a 5on3?

For the love of Christ I wish they’d fire that drop back bull#### into the sun and never bring it back again

Everyone complaining about the no call needs to rein it in. Leafs were just gift wrapped a 5on3 with nothing to show for it. No one to blame but the players.

After that 5 on 3 power play, this game is over, we lost, downvote me all you want, if we cant score on a 5 on 3..we ain't scoring again

This 3rd period was just one giant brain fart... It’s tough to watch. I’m glad I didn’t overpay to go see this.

If you can't score on a 1:30+ 5v3 PP you don't deserve to win

If we can’t score 5 on 3, we’re not score 6 on 5

Flames are playing their 3rd game in 4 nights. Pathetic.

That might have been the worst 6 on 5 I've ever seen. You wouldn't have known the Leafs had an extra man on the ice, because the Flames were outworking them so much. Not to mention the 1:35 of 5-on-3. Boys played better on paper for two periods. But they once again got showed up when it mattered most.

literally watch ANY other team in a empty net situation, and the sense of urgency is there..... smart passes, lots of lateral movement, people THROWING bodies so they can get position on the puck......... why the #### are the leafs not capable of just the basic survival instinct.... seriously what the ####

The Sky is Falling

**** this joke of a franchise

Pathetic loss

Up 2-1 and get smashed

Losers

What a stupid hockey team we cheer for.
Payroll of a Cup favourite, results of an expansion team.
Same as always.
Not sure why I thought this crew was any different.

Turns out a skill first team isn't the way to go when it's made up of guys who don't know how to play with a lead or finish a game and give up at the first sign of adversity.
Wish they played like they negotiate contracts.

That feel when you're not gonna make the playoffs with 3 $10 million dollar players and one of the best goalies in the league.
Oh in an absolutely pathetic division to boot.
Game hasn't been bad, not as bad as you're all making it out to be. But we need the wins, no excuses. No way this team makes it with the lack of heart they have.

Ran into the hottest team in the league, just not our night. You guys need to chill out

It's weird, we keep running into hot teams, or hot goalies.

From the comments here, as Leaf fans... I would diagnose us as bi-polar and/or having borderline personality disorder.

Imagine what it feels like winning 7 in a row

Seems like every team that has a coaches change goes on an absolute heater, except us

Lol this looks familiar. Another collapse. Wait for the typical “we didn’t play hard. We need to wake up and understand these games mean something” interview response as usual. Followed by maybe 1 or 2 wins and then another couple of losses. Rinse and repeat lol

That was absolutely brutal. If anyone here thinks this is a legit contender you are out of your mind

I don't know why you wouldn't try Muzzin on point. Nobody afraid of Reilly's shot

I made a bet with my bro after Keefe got hired. I was saying to him even though they'll go on a bit of a run, there's no way this team is changing much with the way the roster is constructed. He said no way Babcock is the biggest problem, a team that talented has to win and they will with Keefe. So the bet that i made was that if Leafs do make the playoffs, it will be barely. He chose top 3 in our division and so i thought that was an easy bet to make.

This Leafs team is so ****ing frustrating to watch sometimes.

They look good 70-80% of the time, but, they have those 3-4 minute brainfart turnover moments that costs them most games.

The final minutes of the Philly game, the other night giving up 3 breakaways against the Canucks in the 3rd period where Freddie bailed us out, now tonight in the first 3 minutes of the 3rd period.

Elite teams don’t do this.

Off to brush my teeth to get the taste of **** out of my mouth.

Caught Up

I have to cheer for the Leafs tonight? Gross.

FFS I turn the TO game back on and CGY gets 2 goals in like a minute. Reider even looks good lol

3-2 CGY

I just turned on the Flames game and they score 3 straight goals.

I’m starting to think I should just turn off my tv for the night .

3 goals in 3 shots. Pathetic.

Lucic is out there and they're not losing, disappointing.

Flames peaking early as usual
they scored on 3 straight shots tonight? their PDO must be through the roof

I miss talbot...I mean, he can't be much worse than Smith?