sennysensen
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The Leafs were the better team, outplayed Boston badly at even strength the 1st 6 games, should have won the series in 5 games.
Before the series, Sheldon Keefe was interviewed, and he was talking about how the Greig incident reaction was the team's greatest moment all year, standing up for the crest, galvanized the team, etc. It was about as passionate as Sheldon ever gets, you could tell he's still obsessed with Greig.
I found it interesting that Greig owns such a space in Keefe's mind that he was talking about him instead of Boston, or his team and what they need to do. Keefe was glorifying a very undisciplined play that led to a 5 game suspension. I agree that Greig deserved a response for his masterful troll job of hotdogging an empty net goal. Rielly should have forced Greig to fight him, tuned him real good.
Imagine a coach talking about a player who isn't in the playoffs, and something that happened 2 months ago, just before the biggest series of your career? Where was his mind?
In games 1-4, the Leafs outplayed Boston 5 on 5, should have been up 3-1 in the series. What was their downfall? Lack of discipline and an obsession with showing how tough they were. The useless Reeves play directly led to 2 big Boston goals. Domi and Bertuzzi took stupid, undisciplined penalties several times that led to big Boston PP goals.
No wonder the Leafs were so undisciplined and stupid, when their coach was celebrating a very undisciplined play before the series. How can you expect the team to be disciplined when the coach talks about how great a lack of discipline was?
In games 5 and 6, the Leafs turned it around, benched Reeves, played with discipline, no more stupid penalties, and played airtight defense.
Game 7s can go any way, and it just happened to go Boston's way, but if the Leafs had played with discipline in games 1-4, they would have won the series in 5-6 games, they outplayed Boston so badly in most of the series.
Keefe is an idiot for letting Ridly Greig rule his thoughts before the series, and should be fired.
It shows what a masterful troll Greig is for letting his actions impact Sheldon Keefe's preparation for Boston 2 months later.
Morgan Rielly being asleep in game 7 OT and letting Pasternak blow by him for the winning goal was the icing on the Ridly Greig cake.
And the Sens tried to help the Leafs. Anton Forsberg's great play in game 82 to beat Boston gave the Leafs the much easier Boston matchup they should have won, instead of getting destroyed in 5 games by a far superior Florida team.
Before the series, Sheldon Keefe was interviewed, and he was talking about how the Greig incident reaction was the team's greatest moment all year, standing up for the crest, galvanized the team, etc. It was about as passionate as Sheldon ever gets, you could tell he's still obsessed with Greig.
I found it interesting that Greig owns such a space in Keefe's mind that he was talking about him instead of Boston, or his team and what they need to do. Keefe was glorifying a very undisciplined play that led to a 5 game suspension. I agree that Greig deserved a response for his masterful troll job of hotdogging an empty net goal. Rielly should have forced Greig to fight him, tuned him real good.
Imagine a coach talking about a player who isn't in the playoffs, and something that happened 2 months ago, just before the biggest series of your career? Where was his mind?
In games 1-4, the Leafs outplayed Boston 5 on 5, should have been up 3-1 in the series. What was their downfall? Lack of discipline and an obsession with showing how tough they were. The useless Reeves play directly led to 2 big Boston goals. Domi and Bertuzzi took stupid, undisciplined penalties several times that led to big Boston PP goals.
No wonder the Leafs were so undisciplined and stupid, when their coach was celebrating a very undisciplined play before the series. How can you expect the team to be disciplined when the coach talks about how great a lack of discipline was?
In games 5 and 6, the Leafs turned it around, benched Reeves, played with discipline, no more stupid penalties, and played airtight defense.
Game 7s can go any way, and it just happened to go Boston's way, but if the Leafs had played with discipline in games 1-4, they would have won the series in 5-6 games, they outplayed Boston so badly in most of the series.
Keefe is an idiot for letting Ridly Greig rule his thoughts before the series, and should be fired.
It shows what a masterful troll Greig is for letting his actions impact Sheldon Keefe's preparation for Boston 2 months later.
Morgan Rielly being asleep in game 7 OT and letting Pasternak blow by him for the winning goal was the icing on the Ridly Greig cake.
And the Sens tried to help the Leafs. Anton Forsberg's great play in game 82 to beat Boston gave the Leafs the much easier Boston matchup they should have won, instead of getting destroyed in 5 games by a far superior Florida team.
