The leafs best players aren't really their best players. Mathews has had his moments, but when you look at a guy like Iginla who was able to put his team on his back and carry them, and then you look at Mathews, it shows that he has a long way to go.
Nylander right now reminds me of his old man, when the going gets tough, he vanished.
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The leafs best players aren't really their best players. Mathews has had his moments, but when you look at a guy like Iginla who was able to put his team on his back and carry them, and then you look at Mathews, it shows that he has a long way to go.
Nylander right now reminds me of his old man, when the going gets tough, he vanished.
Matthews is 20, Nylander 21. Bit early to be counting them out. Playoffs are different beast than reg season. They'll learn.
Iggy wasn't even near the playoffs or carrying his team to them in his 20 and 21 year old season.
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Please enlighten me and tell me how Boston was the better team tonight.
Leafs were the aggressors. Bruins collapsed to the net all game. It was their game plan and it worked but the Leafs spent more time in their zone than they did the Leafs.
They were able to capitalize on their chances. Leafs didn't.
Boston was the better team by being better than the worse team.
Bad pinch, 2 on 1, poorly played 2 on 1 -> easy goal
Boston was surely better by attention to detail and not gifting their opponent goals
Would you prefer if people said Boston didn’t win the game so much as Toronto lost it? Fine. Win goes to Boston either way.
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The whole they were the better team tonight is pretty irrelevant, they lost.
There's no moral victories in sports, the plucky underdog that fought the better team and valiantly lost, ends with the byline, this team lost, that team won.
The winning team after the game isn't going to stand around and tap their sticks on the ice out of respect while the crowd does the slow clap from a bad 1980's teen movie.
Its the playoffs, they lose, and their "Better game" didn't translate and put their backs against the wall, and its not likely to translate into them winning the next game.
And frankly nobody by the end of the playoffs is going to care all that much about Toronto's plucky resolve, in the end they're the team in the series trailing 3-1 and being outscored 17 to 9.
You want moral victories, or the argument that yeah we lost but we were visually better, there's a team 3 hours to the north of us that bases their whole existence on that.
Hope does not float eternal, Thelma and Lousie are two rotting corpses that were picked over by buzzards, and in the end John Cena didn't marry Nikki Bella.
And no, "Dad I really tried hard" does not let you escape from a report card full of F's.
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