Capitals @ Leafs - Apr. 17th, 7:00pm - CBC, TSN 1050

[disco]

https://twitter.com/GifJifApp/status/854156911985426432

 

[Kin]

This is a great shot:

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

[tweet]854119004302127104[/tweet]

Mike Modano's steaming hot take in the first period:

https://twitter.com/9modano/status/854114968836362240

It's via a locked account so I have to manually share it, but this was the comeback of the century:

Leafer1984‏  @Leafer1984
I'm glad Babcock kept you at 1499

Oh, nice!

 

[disco]

https://twitter.com/MapleLeafs/status/854160255776903168
hehe look at Naz's jig

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Oh Lord, Hughson thinks a "Holtby" taunt as an "Ovi" chant...  :

Wait, was it "Ovi"...?  It totally sounded like a goalie taunt, but maybe I'm wrong here.

 

[sickbeast]

This drop pass crap on the PP is starting to drive me nuts. Wasting more time on the PP just dropping the puck back. Wow dump it in and go get it. PP was so good during the year getting it in and quick short passes and were capitalizing. Been different story last month.

That is 100% categorically false. On the PP this year they always tried to gain the zone by skating it in.

I know I agree but lately it has been more of a chore to get it in not sure why. Having trouble they keep throwing it back and try to organize it like 20 seconds or more off the clock each time. The last PP was better. Marner I agree shouldn't dump it in but most times he dumps it off but I think with his speed he could carry it in at times. If they get it in they have been moving it pretty good it's getting it in that seems to be the problem.

Can I just ask why on earth you're complaining about the Leafs' power play when it's the best in the league and it also scored the game winning goal tonight in OT?

 

[L K]

Oh Lord, Hughson thinks a "Holtby" taunt as an "Ovi" chant...  :

Wait, was it "Ovi"...?  It totally sounded like a goalie taunt, but maybe I'm wrong here.

I thought they were chanting Holtby

 

[disco]

https://twitter.com/timandsid/status/854090711863631873

 

[disco]

https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/854159518288228352
#TSNturningpoint
Next shift AM goes down the middle hard, getting us on the board.

 

[Captain Canuck]

Oh Lord, Hughson thinks a "Holtby" taunt as an "Ovi" chant...  :

Wait, was it "Ovi"...?  It totally sounded like a goalie taunt, but maybe I'm wrong here.

I thought they were chanting Holtby

Found this on a Washington Post blog:
Worst close call: Kuznetsov ripped a shot off the post with 4:08 remaining. The ping was the second-worst sound of the third period, behind only the ?Holt-by, Holt-by? chants from the Toronto crowd.

 

[princedpw]

This is a great shot:

It's really very homoerotic ... in all the good ways.

 

[disco]

This is a great shot:

It's really very homoerotic ... in all the good ways.

Superb photo.

 

[Kin]

It's really very homoerotic ... in all the good ways.

I assume you're referring to Carlton's barely contained look of desire.

 

[princedpw]

John Shannon: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT
Eric Engels: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT
Christine Simpson: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT
Luke Fox: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT
Chris Johnston: Washington in 6
Mark Spector: Washington in 4 - SUCK IT
Gord Stellick: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT
Jeff Marek: Washington in 4 - SUCK IT
David Amber: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT
Sean McIndoe: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT
Daren Millard: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT
Ryan Dixon: Washington in 6
Eric Francis: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT
Rory Boylen: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT
Doug MacLean: Washington in 5 - SUCK IT

Approved!

 

[disco]

https://twitter.com/Goal_Leafs_Goal/status/854162470667210753
Gentlemen and ladies, your O/T winner brought to you by Joe Bowen.

 

[disco]

In the words of 1993 Leafs coach Pat Burns: "I think after that goal went in a lot of feeling went into this like, this is fun. We wanna continue..."

 

[PrestigeWorldwide]

https://twitter.com/Goal_Leafs_Goal/status/854162470667210753
Gentlemen, your O/T winner brought to you by Joe Bowen.

Holy crap dudes, this is amazing!  This team is so damn fun to watch.  Watched Oilers / Sharks last night and it was a snooze by comparison.  I haven't been this excited about the Leafs since I was a kid in the 90's.

It's also crazy how much I hate Kuznetsov after that cocky BS he pulled after he scored the other day.  It feels so good that they pulled this one out and won it.

 

[hockeyfan1]

Un-beleafable!  Thank you Tyler Bozak.  (And thank you crossbar!)

So 'hot dog' Kuznetsov couldn't connect when it mattered most for his Caps -- the crossbar had other ideas.  In fact, all the tricks in the book the Caps threw at the Leafs, so to speak, just wern't enough.

What's so surprising (or should it be?) is the resiliency and patience the LeafS show.  No sense of true panic or mental breakdowns in a pressure- filled situation, such as these playoffs are.  Once again the kids shone through and the team coming back to tie it all up.

The defence (good job there Marincin) & the special teams were superb at killing the successive penalties (the five-on-three disadvantage, etc,).

All in all, a great game as it wore on, particularly from the point of the Leafs comeback - - all the way to the OT!   

 

[ZBBM]

https://twitter.com/JeffVeillette/status/854153652860223488
www.twitter.com/JeffVeillette/status/854153652860223488

For about 2 seconds, Shanny was a fan. Then right back to business.

I gotta hand it to Lou.  That man is a not a man.  He is a cucumber.

 

[ZBBM]

This is a great shot:

It's really very homoerotic ... in all the good ways.

Note that CtB got his voyeuristic big white snoot into the shot. 

EDIT: Whoops, just saw Nik's (better!) joke.  ;D 8)