LFR17 - Round 1, Game 4 - Effort - Bruins 3, Maple Leafs 1

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WE EVEN DO?! Well here's what I'm going to do -  here's how we start. Leafs lose 3-1 in game four  

to the Boston Bruins and ironically fall down 3-1  in the series. They are now facing elimination in  

Boston. What happened in 2013? Leafs lost game  one, Leafs won game two, Leafs lost games three  

and four, but then they win four and five to  force SEVEN and lose in Boston. But all right,  

what did the Leafs do in 2018? They lost game one  they won game two. They lost games three and four  

even though in game four the Bruins didn't even  have BERGERON IN THE LINEUP! ON HOME ICE!  

But somehow the Leafs decided to win game five  and win game six and they were forced to game  

seven in Boston! That they LOST! 2019 was a bit  of a different little thing uh the Leafs were  

probably the better team for the vast majority of  that series and then it went to game six and they  

had an opportunity to close it out on home ice  and then Jake DeBrusk fed them their food and  

then in game seven in a series that was pretty  tight, the Leafs ended up losing 5-1. So hey!  

Stick around! What are you losing hope for?  You're all acting like the season's already  

over! You're acting like it's going to be over in  the next game in game five! When history suggests  

the far more likely scenario is the Leafs string  you along for another week, force game seven,  

and blow it again! In Boston! I mean what do you  want to talk about? Like what do you even want to  

talk about? Talking about the game as it went  I think would be cruel and unusual torture.  

We got to do themes because it was the same thing  over and over and over AND OVER AND OVER! Look  

we can talk about the goals? I guess you want  to talk about the goals? Ryan Reaves with the  

giveaway he is poke checked by Lohrei who looked  like far away the Bruins worst player when he came  

into the lineup. Nope not anymore strips Ryan  Reaves and JVR scores a goal. Now that was a  

bad giveaway from Ryan Reaves, he shouldn't have  gave that puck away, can I show you Ilya Samsonov?  

*guttural scream* Put it right here! Ilya Samsonov  looks like the symbol that Charizard makes when  

he does fire blast! What is that?! Who?! What  goalie school?! You got a five hole the size of  

the Pyramids of Giza! Producer Drew was in my  ear during the streams like “oh I think you're  

being too hard on Sammy like maybe he wasn't set-”  WASN’T SET? HE’S THE GOALIE! Like that goal from  

Trent Frederic “Oh he was distracted from Tyler  Bertuzzi and Brad Marchand” scream what are you  

talking about distracted?! The puck! You're a  goaltender! TEND THE GOAL! The puck! The puck!  

The puck! Follow the puck! JVR went five hole,  75% of the people watching this video right now  

could have seen that coming! That dude loves  three things! Chewing on a green mouth guard,  

Phil Kessel, and going five hole! How don't you  know that?! Honourable mention to going in between  

his legs for no reason on the power play because  it worked once. But no yeah do whatever this is!  

This is great! Next the Bruins get a power play,  not good! In my mind this comes right after a  

missed call on the Bruins but like it doesn't get  called every time whatever. And then Max Domi gets  

one like 15 seconds later and I'm swearing  and I'm cursing and I'm like “let me see a  

replay of the stupid thing!” And it is Max Domi  rearranging David Pastrnak’s spine and I'm like  

“All right fair enough!” Bruins go to the power  play. Marchand gets the pass. GET. A. MAAAAAAAP!  

Once again is this well executed from the Boston  Bruins? Yes. Is this bad penalty killing from the  

Toronto Maple Leafs? Always. *guttural scream* AH!  Not even close! Not even close to making a save!  

He doesn't know where the puck is! He's lost! He's  lost! And then less than a minute to go in the  

second period it's David Pastrnak finishing off  a two on 0 because TJ Brodie got VAPORIZED.  

I assume Brodie was in the line because Timothy  Liljegren was not at 100%, nope nope uh-uh nope!  

Next game you put in a guy who's not at 100% over  TJ Brodie! That's enough! That's over! And you  

know what else is over by the way? Ilya Samsonov  as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Done,  

over, forever. Forever. If Sheldon Keefe names  Samsonov the starter for game five you fire him,  

you fire him and do it yourself! Brendan Shanahan  and Brad living like they've been around the NHL  

for long enough that - “oh no you're actually a  crazy person, you're fired and we'll try to coach  

the game ourselves.” It couldn't go much worse  than it's been going! You try to do it yourself  

if he tries to name him the game five starter.  He's not going to unless Joseph Woll gets hurt.  

Ilya Samsonov has played his final game in a Leaf  uniform. It's done, it's over. Unless Joseph Woll  

gets hurt in I don't know next game or the Leafs  magically come back and they win this series,  

it wouldn't be the first time that the Boston  Bruins blew a 3-1 series lead. If Joseph Woll  

can carry the team later into the playoffs  deeper into the playoffs this is still Ilya  

Samsonov's final final final game as a member of  the Toronto Maple Leafs unless someone gets hurt.  

You can't go back to him. You pulled him for the  third period it's over, it's over. I was willing  

to see how it goes. He was really really solid  in well not the whole of game two but the second  

and third period of game two. You need a save,  you need a save, you need a save. He's a gem,  

he's a great guy, I think he'd be a great person  to have on Facebook, I really do! Like I think  

he's a wonderful human being! You don't know  what you're getting game in game out period in  

period out shot in shot out! You need a save! Teams make mistakes! Teams blow it. Teams do  

that all the time! You need saves! The Leafs teams  that so many many of you watching this right now  

growing up had goalies who gave them saves. Go  back and watch, I promise you go back and watch  

Curtis Joseph with the Toronto Maple Leafs. You'll  think that the Leafs were the worst defensive team  

in the entire world and they might have been,  that dude pulled off miracle after miracle  

after miracle. Ed Belfour? That guy stole games.  Freddie Andersen? Great to see him - just great  

just great seeing him doing so well in Carolina!  It just tickles me pink! That dude stole games,  

stole games for the Leafs and cost them games!  Dude you know who stole games for the Leafs,  

stole, stole games for the Leafs? Ilya Samsonov.  Last year he stole games for this team. He STOLE  

them. Go watch the highlights for game six  against Tampa that game shouldn't have made  

it to overtime let alone the Leafs took a  lead into the third period! Tampa scored one,  

the Leafs got lucky over and over and over again  and overtime and Tavares gets one that goes in off  

a skate! They won that by the skin of their teeth  but they won it go start it they won! It's not the  

same goalie. It's just not. You can't re-sign this  person. I know that's an off-season discussion  

you cannot resign this goalie. You have no idea  who or what you're getting on a nightly basis.  

You can't do it. There are so many other goalies,  you got to go after one of those guys and even if  

they can't give you Sammy's high end you gotta  keep them above the low. They have no shot to win  

these games, no shot to win these games. “Steve,  when are you going to talk about them-” NOW.  

Even though Sammy's not giving them the best  goaltending, the power play is a big part of the  

discussion. But forget the power play, the power  play was horrible in this game again, cost them  

the game again. They don't score! Ever! Forget the  power play?! Whoa now why we pick it on the power  

play they don't score at all! From Jonas Siegel,  and I'm going to read this in reverse order “goals  

for the Leafs in their last 11 playoff games two  two two two two two two one three WOOOO! two and  

one!” You know what's crazy about that? The Leafs  went seven straight games with only two goals in a  

playoff game. And over their next four games that  average DROPPED! Does toughness appear to be the  

problem for the Leafs this year? I I don't think  so they're play with snot! Unfortunately the dude  

like in charge of the snot is giving away pucks  for the first goal of the game. S’not helping  

the team win! They can't score, they can't score,  they can't score. Marner and Matthews arguing with  

each other on the bench! Then they show William  Nylander on the bench I don't know who he was  

talking to in this clip but he said “stop crying  bro” and then he either said “this isn't junior  

or just shoot it.” Marner throwing his gloves and  getting roasted on national TV by Kelly Hrudy in  

Canada and on national TV in the United States  by Paul Bissonette! And then he pulls off the  

most ridiculous carnival act of a goal ever. It's  incredible, it's his first to the playoffs and the  

Leafs have life, and that lasted for WHAT? Listen  I've spoken to Sheldon Keefe I've actually spoken  

to Guy Boucher, I've spoken to a bunch of members  of the Leaf's coaching staff. I've had nothing but  

good interactions with them, they're they're  lovely people but I have a responsibility to  

everyone watching this right now to not BS them -  fire them, fire them immediately! Like you can't  

go forward with anyone on the staff! Like I mean  maybe like this assistant or that assistant - head  

coach and whoever's running the power play?  Absolutely not! Chip it in, no one's attacking,  

Bruins collect it, out! Chip it in, no one's  attacking, Bruins collect it, out! Dump it in,  

Bruins collect it, because no one's attacking,  out! The amount of times - what you know you know  

dump and chase? They just dump and weirdly that's  what it looks like! Dump! There's no dump and  

chase in this lineup, just the old dump and wipe! With regard to the Leaf's effort here's what I'm  

getting at from Sheldon after the game this is  just a miserable quote! “Sheldon Keefe on the  

level of frustration within the Maple Leafs: I  don't sense any frustration. Guys are pushing  

each other. Guys want to win. Keee adds there  was nothing wrong with our effort level tonight”  

Great! Great! That's great! That means that  they're trying really hard and they really want  

to win and it's all there. If those things are  true, then they are a profoundly poorly coached  

hockey team! Like talking about the Bruins “Hey  that's a really good team at the other-” SHUT UP!  

WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?! One series win! It's always a  good team! IT’S THE PLAYOFFS! It's a good team,  

what do you got! What do you got?! If they're  winning because they have a good team and you have  

a team who's trying, and they care, and they're  getting their lunch fed to them anyway, what do  

you got?! What do you have?! Other than a deeply  bitterly hateable product. Are you serious? This  

from Morgan Rielly like no one wants to hear this  right now, “Morgan Rielly on whether the Leafs  

game plan needs to change: No it's always come  down to execution and work ethic.” So wait though,  

wait though, it comes down to execution and work  ethic? I thought you were trying? I thought you  

were working? I don't give a crap! No one gives  a crap if you're working hard but every night,  

every year, every series, you are the second  hardest working team! No one cares! I know that  

you're like “oh I got the passion for this” I know  you take the ice wanting to win and I know that  

you're you're grinding - the other team is better!  They're better! Every time they're better! Another  

Banger from Sheldon Keefe “you can question a lot  of things you can't question the effort.” Yes I  

super can because this is a free country, and also  Morgan Rielly just said it comes down to execution  

and effort and you lost 3-1 on home ice in a  game that put you down 3-1 in the series!  

And by the way, by the way, Austpn Matthews  didn't play the third period. Don't know what's  

wrong with him, they got two days off between game  four and game five. We'll see if he plays. And I'm  

seeing “Well this guy's not at 100%” And well  “this guy is-” DUDE! Every year with this! How  

are you willing to believe that this is just the  unluckiest team on the face of the planet, and not  

a team that deeply bitterly at their core, at the  tiniest ring of the tree that gives birth to the  

branches that house these Leafs that we love so  much - how do you not believe at the tiniest ring  

of that tree that they just can't do it? They just  can't hang! So here's the thing - the series isn't  

over. Game five, going back to Boston, hopefully  you win it then it's game six, you go back to  

Toronto, hopefully you win it, and then it's game  seven in Boston you want a chance to exercise your  

demons there you go right there. I'm not willing  to talk about the offseason right now and Sheldon  

and Brad and Brendan and all of that! I'm not  willing to talk about any of that because there is  

still a series that they can win. The problem that  I'm having is envisioning them winning it! How on  

Earth do they win this series with ANYTHING that  we have seen them do? The defense can't move the  

puck! They can't get out of their own zone! They  can't move the puck! The forwards can't enter and  

when they dump it they don't go after it! They're  on a line change or something. The Bruins are  

better at everything. Dude, we have talked about  in the past the last few years certain coaches  

stuffing Sheldon Keefe into a locker. Jon Cooper  did it a few times, Sheldon ended up getting the  

better of him. Paul Maurice did it in five games.  Jim Montgomery, like this is the worst one. This  

is the worst one! Dude, three minutes to go in  a game - you got your fourth line on the ice  

and you've evaporated like a quarter of the time  remaining in the game! You got your third pair and  

your fourth line out there, screw your head on!  Pay attention to friggin’ hockey! What?! What? Pay  

attention to what's going on out there! Pardon?  This is easily the worst one. Cooper, Maurice,  

Torts, Dominique Ducharme. Dominique Ducharme  beat Sheldon Keefe he Leafs in a playoff series!  

No one has dominated, gotten Sheldon Keefe in  the full Mount and started just slapping him  

around like Jim Montgomery. This is tough to  watch. Tough to watch! Now let me collect my  

thoughts here for a second, because we have a  Marlie Minute. The Leafs farm team very nearly  

blew it in the playoffs against the Belleville  Senators, they didn't, they won in overtime and  

they continue their series here's Nick Barden  to talk about it all with Marlie Minute.  

NICK BARDENl It was a Do or Die game on Friday  night inside Coca-Cola Coliseum for the Toronto  

Marlies, who are down one nothing in their  three-game series to the Belleville Senators  

in the first round of the Calder Cup playoffs.  But in Toronto fashion, they decided to make it  

interesting. Joseph Blandisi, Kyle Clifford and  Marshall Rifai each had a goal for Toronto and  

going into the third period it was 3-2, and what  was a close game for both teams. With less than 2  

minutes remaining in the third period the Marlies  were tasked with having to kill another penalty,  

this time it was Logan Shaw who went  to the box for slashing. At that point  

the Belleville Senators pulled their goalie  and had a six on four and they were pushing,  

and they were pushing really hard. The Marlies had  a few chances to clear the puck but there was no  

better chance than Blandisi who had the puck and  the game on his stick with just over 20 seconds  

remaining in the period. He was almost all alone  entering the Belleville zone and what did he do?  

He missed the empty net. And what happened after  that? Well in the leafiest fashion possible the  

Belleville Senators came the other way, scored and  tied the game in what could have been the Marlies  

final game of the season. One thing that stood  out about Blandisi over the course of this season  

is his ability to be there in big moments for the  Marlies and what happened in that overtime period  

was just another moment of brilliance featuring  Blandisi himself. 50 seconds into overtime  

Blandisi blew past one Defender, took the puck,  put it through another Belleville Defender skate,  

threw it on net the rebound from Mads Sogard went  right to Dylan Gambrell who hit it and it went  

into the net with Gambrell not even knowing that  it went into the net until Blandisi was coming  

over and yelling and giving him a hug. It was a  moment where the Marlies showed that they could  

rally around each other and there will be another  moment for that on Sunday when they take on the  

Belleville Senators in Belleville for game three  which is a Do or Die game for both teams.  

STEVE: Thank you Nick, thank you! I needed a  a break very badly! I don't know what to say.  

Like how they win games five and six to force to  seven. It starts I guess with saves from Joseph  

Woll. The defenders have to move the puck, they  have to. Like how close are we from going “I don't  

know try Conor Timmins?” Like dude - I don't I  don't even know I don't even know Gio? I don't  

even know! I don't even know! How close are we  to that? How close are we to forwards firing  

shots against Jeremy Swayman that even tickle the  guy? How close are we to that? I have a headache,  

I have no voice. I have two full days Sunday and  Monday before game five in Boston on Tuesday. And  

they better come up with some answers or this is  the last time you're going to see this team. It's  

the last time you're going to see this team.  Dubas so so very nearly blew it up last year.  

They ended up canning him and doing virtually  nothing other than making the team a little bit  

tougher. This is it. I know we always say, this  is it. They're firing the president. There's no  

justification to bring anything back. Anything.  This is it. It's do or die and for once I would  

just love for the Leafs to do. That is it for this  one, thank you very much for watching, click like  

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