Game 7 - We Win

pinkhatfan

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My son got married today. Just got back to the hotel to see the score. Sounds like I missed a tense one! Glad they pulled it out.
 

tims4wins

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My son was in tears. He was there for game 5 last year and this year. I can’t overstate how much this means to us.
 

McDrew

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Toronto hasn't taken a loss this bad since Kendrick dropped his 3rd diss track during the 1st period.
 

LogansDad

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It was really hard to recognize with last year's trauma hanging over everything that happened in the last week, but that was a hell of a damn series.

I am sorry for my behavior.
 

Dewey's 'stache

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I decided to work my side gig tonight instead of watch. I just couldn’t watch a repeat of last year. I listened on streaming radio even after I got home when OT started and could have turned on the TV. Took less than 2 minutes for the OT winner!! Now to watch the recording :)
 

riboflav

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This might be sacrilege, but I think he's better calling hockey than baseball.
Not a pucks fan so this is the first game I've watched since last year's game 7 and I was thinking throughout that his voice and flow and the way he annunciates (his timing especially) might best suited for hockey than anything else. Which I mean as a tremendous compliment bc I think he's great at everything else.

EDIT: I don't understand how guys like Jim Nantz have better careers or are considered better at announcing than Sean McDonough.
 

kenneycb

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kenneycb

Hates Goose Island Beer; Loves Backdoor Play
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This. Marner comes off the bench late and misses his assignment on 88. Game over.

Marner just played his last game as a leaf.
That’s not Marner’s guy unless he wants to commit interference. Given it’s the playoffs that may have not been a bad move.
 

Fred not Lynn

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In Toronto, there was a great disturbance in the Force...As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
Meh, I feel like Toronto was mostly expecting it to turn out this way. Lucy, Football, and all that…

Here’s more Sad Toronto Porn…from right after the OT goal, at Real Sports right across from the arena. The video better conveys the abject sadness, but this works…
82100
 

wiffleballhero

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In the simulacrum
lucky but great play by Lindholm
I’m trying to figure out whether it was intentional. Certainly held it and eyed it as a possibility.
I think Pasta was driving in to forecheck (try to get possession) and just reacted when it took a bounce out in front of the net.
Wait, what?

It was lucky that the bounce came out exactly where it did, but Lindholm absolutely read the play correctly, could see Pasta breaking on the right side and looked for the hard dump to get the puck to come back off the dasher.

Give Lindholm some credit here, that was fucking awesome.

And if he was just looking for a safe dump in he could have easily just rimmed the puck around from the left side where probably Pasta gets it on the other side, but in a far less advantageous spot. Lindholm went for it and it worked. If it was not for Sway, he gets the game puck. I mean, sweet Jesus!
 

DennyDoyle'sBoil

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It’s fun to point out but the reality is it was a freak bounce and Reilly was a touch slow because he turned in vs out when the puck was outside him. Marner passes him off as he should. The center ice guy gets the trail and the right dman is irrelevant. They didn’t play it poorly outside of Reilly fucking one thing up that doesn’t matter 95% of the time.
Yeah, all those guys had been skating backwards so Pasta has much more momentum too.
 

kenneycb

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Wait, what?

It was lucky that the bounce came out exactly where it did, but Lindholm absolutely read the play correctly, could see Pasta breaking on the right side and looked for the hard dump to get the puck to come back off the dasher.

Give Lindholm some credit here, that was fucking awesome.

And if he was just looking for a safe dump in he could have easily just rimmed the puck around from the left side where probably Pasta gets it on the other side, but in a far less advantageous spot. Lindholm went for it and it worked. If it was not for Sway, he gets the game puck. I mean, sweet Jesus!
It was a smart play. 95%+ of the time the puck stays below the goal line. You can be lucky and smart at the same time.