John Tavares is a Maple Leaf

[disco]

https://twitter.com/hockeynight/status/1097945689139617794
JT is the Cerebral Assassin.

 

[Zee]

We're just over a week away from the JT game back in NY.  That is going to be a hostile, crazy environment.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/KMaherNews12/status/1100397698149167104

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Goddamnit, this was going to be my entire GDT on Thursday.

edit: NOBODY POST OR LOOK AT THE ENTIRE VIDEO UNTIL THURSDAY

 

[herman]

Goddamnit, this was going to be my entire GDT on Thursday.

edit: NOBODY POST OR LOOK AT THE ENTIRE VIDEO UNTIL THURSDAY

There are no rules. Just make that thread now and delete my post

 

[Zee]

I sincerely hope Tavares is wearing kevlar protection under his uniform on Thursday

 

[louisstamos]

Goddamnit, this was going to be my entire GDT on Thursday.

edit: NOBODY POST OR LOOK AT THE ENTIRE VIDEO UNTIL THURSDAY

I'm looking at the comments, and the full version is THREE MINUTES LONG!?!?

I haven't watched it yet, so I'll try and hold off until Thursday, but no promises.

 

[Guilt Trip]

I sincerely hope Tavares is wearing kevlar protection under his uniform on Thursday

I hope the Leafs win 6-0 and JT scores 6 goals and the NY crowd litters the ice with JT jerseys!!

 

[Zee]

I sincerely hope Tavares is wearing kevlar protection under his uniform on Thursday

I hope the Leafs win 6-0 and JT scores 6 goals and the NY crowd litters the ice with JT jerseys!!

The game could get ugly from a Leafs perspective:

1. Back to back game
2. Third game in four nights
3. Isles rested and extra pumped due to crowd hostility

I pretty much think the Islanders will be extra motivated, energized by the crowd and the Leafs will be swarmed and lose badly.  On the flip side, the Islanders play the Caps the following night and will lose badly because of the emotional let down after the Leafs game.

 

[Fanatic]

The game could get ugly from a Leafs perspective:

1. Back to back game
2. Third game in four nights
3. Isles rested and extra pumped due to crowd hostility

I pretty much think the Islanders will be extra motivated, energized by the crowd and the Leafs will be swarmed and lose badly.  On the flip side, the Islanders play the Caps the following night and will lose badly because of the emotional let down after the Leafs game.

4. Sparks in net.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I wonder if the Leafs reverse their goalie schedule for this back to back so Andersen gets the Islanders.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/AlbaneseLaura/status/1100459328413319170

The replies to this tweet are incredible.

 

[Kin]

Eh, I'd be more critical if we hadn't just seen basically our own versions of it with Nylander and Matthews.

 

[herman]

As if the Leafs fans don't know how this feels.
https://twitter.com/_marlanderthews/status/1100474190271053825

 

[ZBBM]

So why give them the bait?  Just scratch him at the last minute.  The fans would be so incensed that they would literally set off a cosmic black-hole reaction and disappear beyond the Event Horizon.  Poof.

 

[L K]

As if the Leafs fans don't know how this feels.
https://twitter.com/_marlanderthews/status/1100474190271053825

Sundin was also treated like crap down the stretch  because Fletcher had a hissy fit when people refused to waive their no-trade clauses.

 

[cabber24]

As if the Leafs fans don't know how this feels.
https://twitter.com/_marlanderthews/status/1100474190271053825

Sundin was also treated like crap down the stretch  because Fletcher had a hissy fit when people refused to waive their no-trade clauses.

Screw the Muskoka 5! The whole lot of them!

 

[herman]

Obviously, how the situation is branded in the media really colours the perception of the crowd that prefers to be told how to feel.

So players making the life choices that are best for themselves and their families is that is well within their right is worthy of ad hominem vilification.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Goddamnit, this was going to be my entire GDT on Thursday.

edit: NOBODY POST OR LOOK AT THE ENTIRE VIDEO UNTIL THURSDAY

Ok, sorry, it doesn't look like they're going to post the full 3:22 video on twitter, so there won't be a way to embed it into a post. So feel free to give their site the clicks they obviously desperately need and view it in its glorious entirety here: http://longisland.news12.com/story/40011194/dear-john

edit: omg they also have even longer, unedited versions of what all the fans said lower down.

 

[Highlander]

I think the Leafs should be loaded with extra specialized security for this visit. There are just too many crackpots with guns and worse out there. Gotta protect our boys.