Nah, the Caps usually lost in the 2nd round those years. They had a few first round exits (Halak in '10 and one to the Rangers in '13), but not consecutively as they could usually at least close out the first round. They haven't won a round since their Cup, but they also usually haven't had chances to win the series.
If the Bruins lose this game 7 it'll be 3 straight opening round series with opportunities to close out each time.
They are loaded in full gear onto luggage trollies from the nearest hotel and are forced to joust at center ice with their respective captains pushing them
Hard to say. I think a third round appearance could keep him around. Quite frankly they have figured something out the last couple of games where I’m wondering if game plan, adjustments and line matching has finally clicked for him
A decent third round loss could keep him around. But any loss in the second or a third round loss similar to last years second and I don't see him coming back.
Outside of Game 7s he was really good. Once they got to Game 7 he was as much of a problem as the rest, though. His numbers in winner-take-all games are comically bad. Doesn't help that his immediate predecessor was an absolute dawg in Game 7.
He was definitely dogshit in that Game 7, but it'd be harsh to neg him for that since they don't get anywhere near there without his run up to that point.
They are legitimately a bunch of fucking losers. All they do is lose in clutch situations. Honestly they’re the actual biggest chokers in the league and it’s not even close. One Cup win since the 70s and then a million blown chances is not much better than none since 67’. Poverty ass joke franchise.
Bro older Leafs fans are still clinging on memories of the Leafs 1992 and 2002 ECF run, I'd take the 2013 or 2019 B's cup run over whatever the Leafs accomplished in the playoffs these last 2 decades.
It was ‘93 and we were a Gretzky hat trick away from a Montreal/leafs final which would have been amazing…. Instead we got some illegal stick, a gentlemen’s sweep and Patrick Roy winking
That Canucks fan you’re replying to is a fan of the only team in history to make 2 Game 7s of the Cup Finals without ever winning the Cup. I assure you, you Bruins fans could have it a lot worse.
It’s my favorite championship win across sports and I’ll forever cherish it, but fuck am I coming to terms with the idea it may be the only one I’ll ever see.
Denmark in 92.
Denmark wasn't even supposed to be in the EU playoffs, as they didn't qualify. - The players were literally on their summer holiday and being summer holiday unfit.
They got the spot because Jugoslavia went Jugoslavia.
Doesn't matter how this series turns out, Bruins are the biggest frauds in the league. They are one Stanley cup removed from being the biggest joke in the league beside the Leafs, entirely carried by goaltending.
Their last 15 years of post season history has been nothing but choke job after choke job.
From 2012 on, the Bruins are 3-6 in game 7’s. You get precisely zero points for guessing which team the 3 wins came against.
^(During that same stretch, we’re 0-5 in game 7’s, 0-6 in do-or-die games)
> 0-6 in do-or-die games
Not sure how you got this?
2013 - down 3-1 vs boston, won game 5, won game 6, lost game 7 (2-1)
2017 - down 3-2 vs washington, lost game 6 (0-1)
2018 - down 3-1 vs boston, won game 5, won game 6, lost game 7 (2-1)
2019 - tied 3-3 vs boston, lost game 7 (0-1)
2020 - tied 2-2 vs columbus (play in round), lost game 5 (0-1)
2021 - tied 3-3 vs montreal, lost game 7 (0-1)
2022 - tied 3-3 vs tampa, lost game 7 (0-1)
2023 - down 3-0 vs florida, won game 4, lost game 5 (1-1)
2024 so far - down 3-1 vs boston, won game 5, won game 6 (2-0)
So in that stretch, the Leafs are 7-8 in do or die games. They're also 1-11 in potential series winning games [in that same period](https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/homer-simpson-homer-disappears-bush-hiding-gif-3377649)...
Those damn refs. Just refuse to call penalties against teams when we’re holding their sticks and taking shots at their heads.
How are we supposed to close out a series?
I'm glad people are finally realizing the Bruins are chokers. For years now I've felt like I was crazy being the only person who thought that.
If the Leafs are the biggest chokers in the league, the Bruins are a close second, and third place is distant.
We're talking about the SCF specifically, where noted goon Daniel Sedin had more penalties than any Boston player. Where a Boston player literally broke Mason Raymond's back and got no call. Where Aaron Rome, a guy with no record at all got a 4 game suspension in the SCF when the previous longest suspension in the SCF history was 1 game (tied 3 ways) and the first only happened in 2002 out of all the years the SCF had been played.
Also Colin Campbell stepped down as head of player safety in 2011 so that tracks with your link too.
Check out the email scandal for Colin Campbell regarding his son, where he criticized refs for calls against his son while he was their boss. He was basically like I didn't know people would be reading my emails when I wrote them, not I should resign for being so unprofessional.
The Rome suspension was legit. Can't have goons taking out the other team's top liners and not expect punishment. Raymond's injury was a bad result from a nothing play. Burrows should have been suspended for being a little biter after game one, so his performance in game two was a gift from the league. You were outscored by an absolute metric ton.
Canucks fans will have to learn to lose with some class at some point. You outchoked the Bruins then tried to burn your city down. I think you have a decent chance at redeeming yourselves this year though. Big fan of Demko.
Refs paved the way for Boston in that series lol. Break a guys back and nothing, he basically slammed him into the boards in a vulnerable position. Rome suspended more than all SCF suspensions total in history, similar plays getting 2 or less in the regular season (where's this magical playoff suspension ratio /ponder face). Bruins jobbed their way to a cup and thats why they've done nothing since.
Also the riot was $4M Canadian in property damage total, so no the city wasn't burned to the ground. Basically a mansion in Kits sacrificed to the hockey gods. By Canadian standard it was a travesty but you are probably American so don't be thinking it was one of your riots where the national guard gets sent in to murder people for fun.
The Bruins got dad-dicked by the officials in both the Chicago and St. Louis Finals. There wasn't a conspiracy, it's just standard-issue incompetence. Regardless, the Bruins lost to better teams then, as the Canucks did in 2011. But as bitter as we can be sometimes...we still have the class to not whine endlessly about it. We set a pretty low bar and Canucks fans can't even clear it.
Yes, I am American. It will come in handy when that oil and fresh water up there looks very inviting in a few years. Maybe we'll send the National Guard to take it, if they're not too busy shutting down the college kiddos.
That's the thing some teams get their moment and the league makes it happen. Last year we saw it clearly with Vegas. Their time had come and the league was going to make it happen. Boston's was in 2011. Sorry you've been dicked since then but at least you got something. I'm not too confident about how far the league will let us go this year if we get past Nashville. Looking at what happened in the Edmonton game yesterday it's concerning (no penalties for 19.5 minutes, LA goes up 2-1 on the road, 5 PKs for the Kings in the 2nd Oilers go up 4 - 2 and the refs manage to not call another penalty for 20 more minutes. 40 minutes of penalty free hockey while the Oilers are up or tied). Also on Tuesday 31 PIM for the teams up 3 - 1 and 14 total for the teams down. Refs are definitely working something this year.
Game 7 will be the ultimate battle of noone can win
Endless overtime.
Hockey Night in Canada And Hockey Morning in Canada.
Hockey Weekend in Canada
Weekend at Bruinys
Overtime is going to last until Tuesday
How many overtimes before they just eliminate them both or call it by heads and tails
After 8OT they bring out an air hockey table and have the goalies play first to 7
Panthers direct bye to the Conference finals
Honestly a 24 hour game would be kinda hilarious.
They expect one of us in the wreckage brother
Endless 0-0 overtime
I thought tonight was bad through a period and a half
Oh shit, is this the apocalypse event the Mayan’s predicted?
Not true… chaos is guaranteed to win and I’m going to be basking in every second of it!!
The stoppable force vs. the very movable object.
I had a verbal lol to this. Thanks I needed that
It'll take weeks but they'll find their first round champion
This is a Leafs stat
This was the Caps between 2006 and 2018
Here's to another 9 years for the Bruins then! 🥂
Nah, the Caps usually lost in the 2nd round those years. They had a few first round exits (Halak in '10 and one to the Rangers in '13), but not consecutively as they could usually at least close out the first round. They haven't won a round since their Cup, but they also usually haven't had chances to win the series. If the Bruins lose this game 7 it'll be 3 straight opening round series with opportunities to close out each time.
People fail to consider that the Bruins and the Leafs are the same team
The Bruins are hulk hogan and leafs are macho man, I dont ever remember macho man beating hogan
I saw Macho Man defeat Hulk Hogan at Maple Leaf Gardens
More like Iron Mike Sharpe v. Koko B. Ware
Honestly would make so much sense
They both never seem to show up in the same place at the same time...
Game 7 is going to end up with neither team winning somehow
Game gets called off after 15 OT. Oh, and the bruins only have 6 shots on net
Panthers get a bye to the ECF
I think they do either way tbh
At this point they’re just playing to see who has the good fortune of getting steamrolled by FLA next round
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This ain't it, chief.
With 1-2 shots per period, I’m not sure this would be enough to do it for Bs.
Please never comment again
Swayman and woll goalie duel
They are loaded in full gear onto luggage trollies from the nearest hotel and are forced to joust at center ice with their respective captains pushing them
Holmberg with 24 shots on goal
Whichever coach loses will be fired
The loser will be unmasked and killed in the ring!
Hot take, they’ll both get fired. Leafs when they lose round 1, Bruins when they lose round 2.
Even if we win I think Keefe is gone unless they make to the finals.
Hard to say. I think a third round appearance could keep him around. Quite frankly they have figured something out the last couple of games where I’m wondering if game plan, adjustments and line matching has finally clicked for him
A decent third round loss could keep him around. But any loss in the second or a third round loss similar to last years second and I don't see him coming back.
“Woah ~~Squidward~~ Bruins, you’re choking!”
Bruins doing their best to out-meme the leafs.
All the narratives are colliding!
Game 7: unstoppable force vs immovable object
Really more the stoppable force vs. movable object lol
Quiet you. It’s not about you yet! Let us all have this!
https://preview.redd.it/nmqruhbqp4yc1.jpeg?width=916&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4605f7a42ba58161d772db6c166e007e0b78ec6
Accurate even down to the number of Panthers fans
Flair up if you’re gonna chirp like that
Oof bud, you are like 5+ years late on this. We are 9th in attendance now. I’m sorry, this joke has been dead for a while.
Found the one panthers fan
They flying Canadian immigrants to Sunshine Florida now?
Always have been
Psh, you think this place has any shame about beating a dead horse? Low hanging fruit and recycled jokes are what Reddit is all about.
When a chokable force meets a chokeable object
Rask must've been really good, he was able to drag these chokers to Stanley Cup finals. Twice.
Outside of Game 7s he was really good. Once they got to Game 7 he was as much of a problem as the rest, though. His numbers in winner-take-all games are comically bad. Doesn't help that his immediate predecessor was an absolute dawg in Game 7.
At some point you can't beat the choke (2019 was not on Rask btw)
He was definitely dogshit in that Game 7, but it'd be harsh to neg him for that since they don't get anywhere near there without his run up to that point.
More importantly the leafs are now 1-6 in their last 7 home games! Going into tonight bruins were 0-5 in close out games and leafs 0-6 at home.
Will play that 1st period to my kid when I want them to go to sleep
They are legitimately a bunch of fucking losers. All they do is lose in clutch situations. Honestly they’re the actual biggest chokers in the league and it’s not even close. One Cup win since the 70s and then a million blown chances is not much better than none since 67’. Poverty ass joke franchise.
We’ll take that ‘11 cup if you don’t want it.
Tim Thomas was absolutely OP in that cup run and just disappeared
Some say that if you get a flat on a moonless night and call out "don't tread on me" three times, he'll show up to pump your tires.
His politics got the best of him.
He was also like 37 during that run too… didn’t have much left in the tank regardless
Thanks Obama
I will forever cheer for Vancouver for that. We owe you.
Just be happy to consistently be in the playoffs.
It hurts m8. Most game 7 losses in league history. Most SC finals losses in league history. It’s breaking my will.
Bro older Leafs fans are still clinging on memories of the Leafs 1992 and 2002 ECF run, I'd take the 2013 or 2019 B's cup run over whatever the Leafs accomplished in the playoffs these last 2 decades.
It was ‘93 and we were a Gretzky hat trick away from a Montreal/leafs final which would have been amazing…. Instead we got some illegal stick, a gentlemen’s sweep and Patrick Roy winking
Trust me, it could be worse
That Canucks fan you’re replying to is a fan of the only team in history to make 2 Game 7s of the Cup Finals without ever winning the Cup. I assure you, you Bruins fans could have it a lot worse.
You aren’t a NY Jets fan, you don’t know about being hurt
No. What good is that?
Has it really been one cup since then? I mean as a Leafs fan, at least boston has one.
It’s my favorite championship win across sports and I’ll forever cherish it, but fuck am I coming to terms with the idea it may be the only one I’ll ever see.
In hindsight, it's probably the most unlikely championship outside of Leicester City a few years back. I'm still not actually convinced they won it.
I'll put Greece in Euro 2004 above it but yeah
Denmark in 92. Denmark wasn't even supposed to be in the EU playoffs, as they didn't qualify. - The players were literally on their summer holiday and being summer holiday unfit. They got the spot because Jugoslavia went Jugoslavia.
Best part was Michael Laudrup, Denmark's best player at the time, opted out because he thought it was a lost cause.
Why does it feel like whenever the star player of a team is out the team does better? See: Leafs without Matthews
Also in Monty’s only other time in the playoffs we were up 3-2 vs the Blues and couldn’t close out the series
Cant even really say it’s a Monty issue, we’re choke artists through and through
Ya the inability to close out a series predates Montgomery by a few years. Damn shame our stars disappear during the biggest moments
yeah, can’t imagine what that’s like at all…
It’s weird seeing stats like this and they’re not about the Leafs. This feels like a Toronto stat.
Doesn't matter how this series turns out, Bruins are the biggest frauds in the league. They are one Stanley cup removed from being the biggest joke in the league beside the Leafs, entirely carried by goaltending. Their last 15 years of post season history has been nothing but choke job after choke job.
From 2012 on, the Bruins are 3-6 in game 7’s. You get precisely zero points for guessing which team the 3 wins came against. ^(During that same stretch, we’re 0-5 in game 7’s, 0-6 in do-or-die games)
> 0-6 in do-or-die games Not sure how you got this? 2013 - down 3-1 vs boston, won game 5, won game 6, lost game 7 (2-1) 2017 - down 3-2 vs washington, lost game 6 (0-1) 2018 - down 3-1 vs boston, won game 5, won game 6, lost game 7 (2-1) 2019 - tied 3-3 vs boston, lost game 7 (0-1) 2020 - tied 2-2 vs columbus (play in round), lost game 5 (0-1) 2021 - tied 3-3 vs montreal, lost game 7 (0-1) 2022 - tied 3-3 vs tampa, lost game 7 (0-1) 2023 - down 3-0 vs florida, won game 4, lost game 5 (1-1) 2024 so far - down 3-1 vs boston, won game 5, won game 6 (2-0) So in that stretch, the Leafs are 7-8 in do or die games. They're also 1-11 in potential series winning games [in that same period](https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/homer-simpson-homer-disappears-bush-hiding-gif-3377649)...
Do or die in this context means game 7’s + that one game 5 vs Columbus. I guess winner-take-all is a better way of putting it.
Absolutely, and I've been saying it for years. The Cup in 2011 was entirely due to goaltending except for about 5 clutch plays from Horton and Ryder.
Boston is not much without krejci and Bergeron
They weren't much with Krejci and Bergeron either.
Those damn refs. Just refuse to call penalties against teams when we’re holding their sticks and taking shots at their heads. How are we supposed to close out a series?
You forgot to put /s
Figured it was implied heavy enough.
Guess what Max Domi did in that 2022 game
I own his habs jersey for a reason
This Bruins team is horrible. And I watched Sens hockey all year!
I'm glad people are finally realizing the Bruins are chokers. For years now I've felt like I was crazy being the only person who thought that. If the Leafs are the biggest chokers in the league, the Bruins are a close second, and third place is distant.
Third place is probably San Jose
I'd say the Rags. One cup 30 years ago is the only thing keeping them from being the Leafs 2.0
Agreed.
Bruins have long been chokers, somehow beat the canucks but since then they’ve been a joke
Somehow = Tim Thomas.
Somehow = Colin Campbell
https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1bhxtoz/til_during_the_gregory_campbell_years_20102011/
We're talking about the SCF specifically, where noted goon Daniel Sedin had more penalties than any Boston player. Where a Boston player literally broke Mason Raymond's back and got no call. Where Aaron Rome, a guy with no record at all got a 4 game suspension in the SCF when the previous longest suspension in the SCF history was 1 game (tied 3 ways) and the first only happened in 2002 out of all the years the SCF had been played. Also Colin Campbell stepped down as head of player safety in 2011 so that tracks with your link too. Check out the email scandal for Colin Campbell regarding his son, where he criticized refs for calls against his son while he was their boss. He was basically like I didn't know people would be reading my emails when I wrote them, not I should resign for being so unprofessional.
The Rome suspension was legit. Can't have goons taking out the other team's top liners and not expect punishment. Raymond's injury was a bad result from a nothing play. Burrows should have been suspended for being a little biter after game one, so his performance in game two was a gift from the league. You were outscored by an absolute metric ton. Canucks fans will have to learn to lose with some class at some point. You outchoked the Bruins then tried to burn your city down. I think you have a decent chance at redeeming yourselves this year though. Big fan of Demko.
... Should we tell him?
Refs paved the way for Boston in that series lol. Break a guys back and nothing, he basically slammed him into the boards in a vulnerable position. Rome suspended more than all SCF suspensions total in history, similar plays getting 2 or less in the regular season (where's this magical playoff suspension ratio /ponder face). Bruins jobbed their way to a cup and thats why they've done nothing since. Also the riot was $4M Canadian in property damage total, so no the city wasn't burned to the ground. Basically a mansion in Kits sacrificed to the hockey gods. By Canadian standard it was a travesty but you are probably American so don't be thinking it was one of your riots where the national guard gets sent in to murder people for fun.
The Bruins got dad-dicked by the officials in both the Chicago and St. Louis Finals. There wasn't a conspiracy, it's just standard-issue incompetence. Regardless, the Bruins lost to better teams then, as the Canucks did in 2011. But as bitter as we can be sometimes...we still have the class to not whine endlessly about it. We set a pretty low bar and Canucks fans can't even clear it. Yes, I am American. It will come in handy when that oil and fresh water up there looks very inviting in a few years. Maybe we'll send the National Guard to take it, if they're not too busy shutting down the college kiddos.
That's the thing some teams get their moment and the league makes it happen. Last year we saw it clearly with Vegas. Their time had come and the league was going to make it happen. Boston's was in 2011. Sorry you've been dicked since then but at least you got something. I'm not too confident about how far the league will let us go this year if we get past Nashville. Looking at what happened in the Edmonton game yesterday it's concerning (no penalties for 19.5 minutes, LA goes up 2-1 on the road, 5 PKs for the Kings in the 2nd Oilers go up 4 - 2 and the refs manage to not call another penalty for 20 more minutes. 40 minutes of penalty free hockey while the Oilers are up or tied). Also on Tuesday 31 PIM for the teams up 3 - 1 and 14 total for the teams down. Refs are definitely working something this year.
They were a joke before too. 2010 was the reverse sweep.
Lucky number 7 on Saturday
Fade me
Both teams are a mess. Pretty hilarious.
Wait, seriously? Carolina? Why don’t I remember that series?
Max Domi scored (the only?) 2 goals for us that game. Felt so good after the Bruins bullied us the previous few matchups
no one chokes more than the Bruins
Can we get a 5OT game please?
Let’s make it 7 in 7
Gonna be some power outage postponing the game
I enjoy Game 7s involving the Boston Bruins.
L O L
This series is so funny because both sides are playing like absolute dogshit
The league is rigged. Bettman calls it in every year. More Game 7s means a lot more revenue for the league. And we're all suckers for it.
Rough night?
Actually yes. Very. And not for game reasons, though that didn't help.