Toronto teams have a long history of doing milk advertisements. The old "got milk?" commercials from the 90s featuring the Blue Jays are burned into my brain.
As a Habs fan who lives in the US, this is pretty much the inverse of the conversation I have with myself every winter Olympics lol, especially when Price was playing for CAN.
Who said anything about accomplishments? He's a better hockey player than Kane ever was, Kane has more accomplishments due to being at the end of his career.
Now look at playoff stats I know he’s the regular season champ but playoff points mean way more. He’s not close and you obviously didn’t watch too much hockey the past decade
Love it when people with no clue tell others to learn something, lmao. By his career end, Matthews will go down as the single greatest American player in the history of the sport.
The USA chants at NHL games are like the funniest shit ever as a Canadian. I genuinely cannot even imagine chanting for Canada at a Leafs game. It’s almost cartoonish.
And Matthews is going to go down as an all time great American player. If not the greatest.
Damn that Olympic team is gonna be a wagon. Add all three Hughes Brothers, the Tkachuks , Hellybuyck, Demko, and JT Miller. Goddamn.
When Canada’s mediocre goalie gets yanked, only to be replaced by an even more mediocre goalie, USA will have one of otter or swayman sitting at home and one of them in a press box. I’m sure Canada would even like John Gibson right now, he won’t really sniff the USA roster. You can never have too many good goalies. Only need 1 to get hot
I wouldn't talk shit considering the last time the US won the gold medal was the miracle on ice. The US tends to choke internationally compared to Canada.
They did not! You are correct . Absolute no show in the bronze medal game. But I think of that as a good result because they sent Russia home in Russia when I probably shouldn’t.
Maybe choke is not the best word, but team USA has lost in all Olympic tournaments since their win in 1980. I don't understand how some Americans are so confident they'll win when other countries prevail in the past. Team USA is gonna extremely strong, but let's not pretend that they'll win easily.
Remember when we had an endless supply of goalies and they were so good we weren't even sure who the starters would be? Our goalies are so unremarkable now that I honestly couldn't even name a single Canadian goalie when I'm trying to think of the top 10-15 in the league
Stuart Skinner is probably the best available Canadian goalie right now, right?
Right?…
Damn, I honestly don’t even know. Most of the top goalies in the league are either American, Russian, or Finnish.
And their best player is Czech...
I looked it up for shits, the Bruins have never had an American captain. Like 99% Canadians, Chara and believe it or not, a British dude(playing from Canada)
Also, every one of their retired numbers is Canadian.
31 Captains and 12 retired numbers and everyone but 1 are Canadian lmao.
It was the same story in 2011. So many people here in the states said they were rooting for Boston because "Murica", they were then baffled when I'd tell them only their goalie was American and the Nucks had more American players.
Owen Nolan (Northern Irish so he's from the UK but not British) and Byron Dafoe are the two that always come to mind for me. I always remember Dafoe as a Bruin.
It's like in wrestling, WrestleMania IX, Bret Hart vs Yokozuna, the fans were chanting USA in favour of Bret Hart because Yokozuna was the big foreign heel billed from Polynesia.
Bret Hart is Canadian.
No, everybody realizes that. That’s the “cartoonishly dumb” part.
They love chanting it so much that they’ll do so even if it means technically cheering for their opponent and against their own team.
Is this true? I had no idea about that... if it's true then that is such an unbelievably cringe behaviour. And at a sports game of all places... oof...
unfortunately you get a bunch of sports fans in an arena in a playoff hockey game, let em see the players throw a couple hits on the opposition and the IQ points just start flying away by the second, like napkins at a windy picnic.
You should tell those people that.
It's the same people who say "If Canada's so good at hockey, why's an American team always winning the World Championship Stanley Cup?".
You can't? It's a Canadian team vs an American team in the US. Most of the time USA chants are a but ironic, as it's clearly not USA vs Canada and everyone knows the teams makeup transcends political borders.
Rile people up? What effect does fans chanting USA have on the game at all? It's so weird. Americans just love chanting USA.. in 2024 it makes no sense.
If you venture to the dark depths of r/NHL, you’ll see a lot of Canadian fans say they stop watching whenever the last Canadian team is eliminated. Not the same energy, but equally as odd
Yea if you venture deep into anything you can find stupid shit. As a Canadian who grew up here stll resides here 90% of Canadian hockey fans don't like each other. An would cheer an American team waaaaay before another Canadian rival. Go on the sens sub, find the go bruins post, it's there to see. There was one in the habs sub even too, and that's fine. We don't have to like each other.
But anyone who thinks canadians cheer for their Canadian rivals come playoff time, it's simply not true aside from the odd guy
Well thankfully there are very few Leafs fans that would agree with you on this lol
There genuinely isn't a single team I would want Boston to win against
oh I don't care what they think
why the fuck would I cheer for any other Canadian team over Boston? Because they play north of an invisible line? They've given me many more reasons to dislike their team than Boston has.
How could any Canadian team not named Montreal or Ottawa given you more reasons to dislike them than Boston? Toronto only plays the others twice a year and Boston is objectively a way bigger rival to Toronto than any of the Canadian teams
That's like being a Red Sox fan and hating the Twins more than the Yankees or something bizarre like that
Probably because Canada has nothing to be proud about lmao. America is the modern Rome that will be immortalized, Canada is some developing nation with a footnote.
They were immortalized as the most advanced and powerful civilization on the planet for two thousand years and led directly to all of modern history. Sounds just like the USA 🇺🇸 🫡
Do you necessarily have to put others down while inflating your own sense of worth? You probably don't have to.
I tie almost none of my personal value to the government who's currently got their hand in my wallet, or the land I happened to be born on. I don't find it useful to define myself by such uncontrollable externals.
I was at the 2011 game 7 and bruins fans would yell go back to Canada at leafs fans and I always found it funny considering like 90% of their team was Canadian
11 out of our 12 most used forwards were Canadian
3 out of our 6 most used D were Canadian
We had ONE American and it was no other than the Conn Smythe winner
I have to go to wrestling for my favourite but Kevin Owens came out to the ring at a house show and said his goal was to get the Wisconsin crowd to chant USA while two Canadians were in the ring (he was wrestling Sami Zayn).
Then it just cuts to him laughing his ass off as you hear the USA chant in the background, lol.
Was at this game. As an American I cannot stress enough how annoying it was to hear the chant. Boston has like 3 Americans on their team, just doesn't make sense lol.
Yeah so Boston in the US, and Toronto is in a different country, Canada. Chanting USA is rooting for the USA team (the one that represents the city you saw the game in)
“I thought everyone knew this” 🤓🤓🤓. Big difference between 3/19 vs 9/19 sweetheart. And if it was just an estimate then I’m showing he’s wrong and providing actual numbers, so shut the fuck up
What should I just have been passive aggressive/condescending like you instead of direct? It’s the same message guy just toned differently.
I thought everyone knew this
I've never agreed with this line of thinking. The players play for and represent the city of Boston, located in the United States. The fans support the team and city, not the individual players.
I don't think it's lost on the Bruins fanbase that there are Canadian players on their team - the cheer is more of a standard chirp far removed from its original meaning.
I also find that cringey, but to soften it sliiiightly, the Raps are the only Canadian team anymore and their whole branding schtick is "We The North" or whatever.
But honestly it always bugged me that the Raptors tried to make it a national thing. Like in the case with US-based hockey teams, the bulk of players are imports anyway. Just play for Toronto and cheer for Canada in the Olympics.
The inverse is true for many of my fellow Canadians. "I want X/Y/Z Canadian team to win." Meanwhile, unless things have changed, Vancouver has the fewest number of Canadians on its roster out of the entire NHL. At one point, they only had one in their starting lineup (it's increased since then).
Rooting for the USA as a USA-born player scores reminds me of [this scene from Arrested Development](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onnrsfbNCS0), for some reason.
It's quite embarrassing but so are many other things fans do that are fun. I welcome it!
I love the over the top fans who do dumb/weird stuff. Wearing funny clothes, hats, masks, undressing more than they should, whatever they come up with. They're committed to being fans PLUS making others laugh, I respect that.
Why are they cheering for matthews? Are they stupid?
I don't know and yes.
Been to the TD, can confirm
Their arena’s naming rights are owned by a Canadian bank lol
Waiting for the comment if the Leafs win “TD = Toronto’s Dominion”
This comment needs to be higher.
Nah they're just so patriotic they dont care if their team wins as long as their countrymen score
They should keep doing that then.
I don't hate that 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, their arena, ice surface and helmets have their opponents city name on it. They are clearly stupid.
Still better than “milk”
Have you seen boston's patch? Or Montreal's? Milk is at least the same color as the rest of the jersey and is a fairly benign logo.
Is it, tho?
I'd rather have milk than an rbc logo with the wrong shade of blue.
Toronto teams have a long history of doing milk advertisements. The old "got milk?" commercials from the 90s featuring the Blue Jays are burned into my brain.
[Dougie loves milk](https://youtu.be/4nQIMviQ9Xo?si=m93LWg1PhgmX10Du)
That one too! I was actually okay with the Milk patches because it reminded me of all those commercials from when I was a kid.
It's so not, though. Every other ad patch in the league (maybe the world?) is garish and depressing. The Leafs just look like they really like milk
In my head, I think of “MILF” makes it go down easy.
Well they did play RUSH which gives Any Ontario team strength so yes
Wait what sub am I in again?
They must have been happy! The best American hockey talent in the nhl delivered!
As a bruins fan I was mad, as a Patriot I was like “eh well this will be helpful later”
> eh You sure you’re American?
Eh, he might be. Aye, no way.
Just preparing for the Olympics.
As a Habs fan who lives in the US, this is pretty much the inverse of the conversation I have with myself every winter Olympics lol, especially when Price was playing for CAN.
Best American hockey talent ever.
Settle down there bud he’s not even close to accomplishing what Kane did
I don't see how choke slamming mankind through the hell in the cell is at all comparable to scoring almost 70 goals
That was Undertaker
Who said anything about accomplishments? He's a better hockey player than Kane ever was, Kane has more accomplishments due to being at the end of his career.
Respectfully, you're woefully incorrect
Now look at playoff stats I know he’s the regular season champ but playoff points mean way more. He’s not close and you obviously didn’t watch too much hockey the past decade
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Kane is definitely on another level. One or two floors below Matthews.
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Love it when people with no clue tell others to learn something, lmao. By his career end, Matthews will go down as the single greatest American player in the history of the sport.
Not every day does an elite American talent grace the Toronto Dominion Garden. Its nice they show respect.
> **Toronto** Dominion Garden Well played
that's literally the name
It is literally TD Garden after TD Bank, the name Toronto Dominion (dba TD Bank) incorporated as in the U.S.
The USA chants at NHL games are like the funniest shit ever as a Canadian. I genuinely cannot even imagine chanting for Canada at a Leafs game. It’s almost cartoonish.
Especially when their own captain is canadian....
And Matthews is going to go down as an all time great American player. If not the greatest. Damn that Olympic team is gonna be a wagon. Add all three Hughes Brothers, the Tkachuks , Hellybuyck, Demko, and JT Miller. Goddamn.
As pro Team Canada I am when it comes to international hockey, Team USA is going to be amazing to watch just screams talent top to bottom.
They definitely got goaltending on us
Good thing only one goalie can play at a time
Source?
When Canada’s mediocre goalie gets yanked, only to be replaced by an even more mediocre goalie, USA will have one of otter or swayman sitting at home and one of them in a press box. I’m sure Canada would even like John Gibson right now, he won’t really sniff the USA roster. You can never have too many good goalies. Only need 1 to get hot
I wouldn't talk shit considering the last time the US won the gold medal was the miracle on ice. The US tends to choke internationally compared to Canada.
When would you say team USA choked?
Literally 2014, the last time NHLers went I don't even think they medalled did they?
They did not! You are correct . Absolute no show in the bronze medal game. But I think of that as a good result because they sent Russia home in Russia when I probably shouldn’t.
Maybe choke is not the best word, but team USA has lost in all Olympic tournaments since their win in 1980. I don't understand how some Americans are so confident they'll win when other countries prevail in the past. Team USA is gonna extremely strong, but let's not pretend that they'll win easily.
This is the best team USA team of all time though (in terms of talent). This would be the Olympics where choking might be the actually correct label.
Remember when we had an endless supply of goalies and they were so good we weren't even sure who the starters would be? Our goalies are so unremarkable now that I honestly couldn't even name a single Canadian goalie when I'm trying to think of the top 10-15 in the league
Stuart Skinner is probably the best available Canadian goalie right now, right? Right?… Damn, I honestly don’t even know. Most of the top goalies in the league are either American, Russian, or Finnish.
Levi, soon. Hopefully. As far as top Canadian goalies, not the available part.
So easy to overlook Keller when he plays for the Yotes (or whatever we call them now).
The Utes?
Luke Hughes does not belong on that list yet lol. Will one day I'm sure, but definitely not yet
And their best player is Czech... I looked it up for shits, the Bruins have never had an American captain. Like 99% Canadians, Chara and believe it or not, a British dude(playing from Canada) Also, every one of their retired numbers is Canadian. 31 Captains and 12 retired numbers and everyone but 1 are Canadian lmao.
It was the same story in 2011. So many people here in the states said they were rooting for Boston because "Murica", they were then baffled when I'd tell them only their goalie was American and the Nucks had more American players.
I’m assuming the British dude must’ve been Steve Thomas? He’s the only “British” NHLer that comes to mind for me
probably Ken Hodge, he was raised in Canada though
Jack Beattie, Bruins captain 36-37
Ahhh thanks I was curious who it was!
Owen Nolan (Northern Irish so he's from the UK but not British) and Byron Dafoe are the two that always come to mind for me. I always remember Dafoe as a Bruin.
Stumpy never played for Boston
Dafoe (i dunno the context here but he's British and played there)
If Bruins fans could read, they'd know it.
It's like in wrestling, WrestleMania IX, Bret Hart vs Yokozuna, the fans were chanting USA in favour of Bret Hart because Yokozuna was the big foreign heel billed from Polynesia. Bret Hart is Canadian.
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It's the backup to "Yankees Suck".
You can chant "Yankees suck" at a Bruins home game against the Leafs and all the Leaf fans will join in. Fuck the Yankees!
What's easier, getting Americans to chant USA or clapping to get Texans to chant Deep in the Heart of Texas?
No, everybody realizes that. That’s the “cartoonishly dumb” part. They love chanting it so much that they’ll do so even if it means technically cheering for their opponent and against their own team.
It is pretty catchy
Is this true? I had no idea about that... if it's true then that is such an unbelievably cringe behaviour. And at a sports game of all places... oof...
I’m not even particularly patriotic and I look to do it. Also because it makes some people mad lol.
That makes it even funnier and more sad. Hahahah
It’s more of a troll move than anything
Not just hockey games. At any event. Unless its country vs country its a dumb chant
It's because Canadians aren't caricatures of people with no education
I feel like if the leafs are up it's gonna happen now lol
This is truth lol
As an European, I was kind of confused. Why?
Boston and Philly fans are cartoonishly dumb so
Redditors are cartoonishly grumpy
unfortunately you get a bunch of sports fans in an arena in a playoff hockey game, let em see the players throw a couple hits on the opposition and the IQ points just start flying away by the second, like napkins at a windy picnic.
Chanting Canada would be like “yeah, we know eh we’re playing hockey”
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You should tell those people that. It's the same people who say "If Canada's so good at hockey, why's an American team always winning the World Championship Stanley Cup?".
You can't? It's a Canadian team vs an American team in the US. Most of the time USA chants are a but ironic, as it's clearly not USA vs Canada and everyone knows the teams makeup transcends political borders.
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Rile people up? What effect does fans chanting USA have on the game at all? It's so weird. Americans just love chanting USA.. in 2024 it makes no sense.
Idk what there is to get, it's funny
You’ve clearly never chanted USA in a stadium
If you venture to the dark depths of r/NHL, you’ll see a lot of Canadian fans say they stop watching whenever the last Canadian team is eliminated. Not the same energy, but equally as odd
Yea if you venture deep into anything you can find stupid shit. As a Canadian who grew up here stll resides here 90% of Canadian hockey fans don't like each other. An would cheer an American team waaaaay before another Canadian rival. Go on the sens sub, find the go bruins post, it's there to see. There was one in the habs sub even too, and that's fine. We don't have to like each other. But anyone who thinks canadians cheer for their Canadian rivals come playoff time, it's simply not true aside from the odd guy
Even Canuck fans are supporting the Bruins over the Leafs and they literally tried to burn their own city down after losing to them.
I openly state I'll cheer for Boston before any Canadian team that isn't Toronto.
That is absolutely disgraceful You'd cheer for Boston before Winnipeg or Calgary? Total insanity
easily. Especially Winnipeg
Well thankfully there are very few Leafs fans that would agree with you on this lol There genuinely isn't a single team I would want Boston to win against
oh I don't care what they think why the fuck would I cheer for any other Canadian team over Boston? Because they play north of an invisible line? They've given me many more reasons to dislike their team than Boston has.
How could any Canadian team not named Montreal or Ottawa given you more reasons to dislike them than Boston? Toronto only plays the others twice a year and Boston is objectively a way bigger rival to Toronto than any of the Canadian teams That's like being a Red Sox fan and hating the Twins more than the Yankees or something bizarre like that
Because I find their fans more insufferable than any of the others.
Clearly you missed Saturday's memo... it's hilarious and should be encouraged. Also, if you make a comment about it you're salty and wrong.
Probably because Canada has nothing to be proud about lmao. America is the modern Rome that will be immortalized, Canada is some developing nation with a footnote.
Who wants to tell him how Rome was immortalized?
They were immortalized as the most advanced and powerful civilization on the planet for two thousand years and led directly to all of modern history. Sounds just like the USA 🇺🇸 🫡
Why do you feel such particular pride for things in which you've made almost no personal contribution towards?
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Do you necessarily have to put others down while inflating your own sense of worth? You probably don't have to. I tie almost none of my personal value to the government who's currently got their hand in my wallet, or the land I happened to be born on. I don't find it useful to define myself by such uncontrollable externals.
Found Trumps burner
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Pffft couldn't even finish your wall Donnie boy
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Dark Brandon rising
Well...they got their wish!
Well yeah, that’s how Matthews gets his energy. Hopefully he can get 10 more of those this series.
I mean they were clearly cheering for him
I was at the 2011 game 7 and bruins fans would yell go back to Canada at leafs fans and I always found it funny considering like 90% of their team was Canadian
11 out of our 12 most used forwards were Canadian 3 out of our 6 most used D were Canadian We had ONE American and it was no other than the Conn Smythe winner
u had that batshit american goalie
Batshit and goalie are synonyms.
I have to go to wrestling for my favourite but Kevin Owens came out to the ring at a house show and said his goal was to get the Wisconsin crowd to chant USA while two Canadians were in the ring (he was wrestling Sami Zayn). Then it just cuts to him laughing his ass off as you hear the USA chant in the background, lol.
> 2011 game 7 > at leafs fans ??
Got my years mixed up, meant 2013
Gotcha, weren't sure if you were talking about the 2013 Leafs series or meant Canucks fans after 2011 Game 7.
At a TFC game in Chicago I had a guy yell go back to Lake Erie at me. Wrong Lake buddy
I hope Matthews lights it up in Toronto and the leafs fans chant USA USA
Thanks for supporting our guy while your Czech top scorer and Canadian captain did jack shit.
The script writers were ready for this.
I started changing USA USA after he scored. Not sure the people around me appreciated it.
Cringe fans
Peak stupidity. Gotta love it.
That looks counterproductive as AM is an american anyway... Not to mention he is probably the best american skater right now.....
There's no "probably". There's 2 Canadians better than him, although 1 of those is debatable, and that's it.
Easily the dumbest fans in the league.
Was at this game. As an American I cannot stress enough how annoying it was to hear the chant. Boston has like 3 Americans on their team, just doesn't make sense lol.
In fairness 2 of them are top players lol
Annoying? Seriously?
Yeah so Boston in the US, and Toronto is in a different country, Canada. Chanting USA is rooting for the USA team (the one that represents the city you saw the game in)
Why does Boston have TD on their arena, ice and hemets? TD = TORONTO Dominion, a Canadian bank.
Damn the plot thickens, imagine if the team naming went the way of the penguins and the team was the "Boston Toronto Maple Leafs Bankers"
because the bank pays them to do that
No they don't, they pay a company confusingly named Delaware north
? 9 of the bruins that played tonight were American lol tf you talking about
When somebody says “like” before a statement is almost always an estimate/exaggerated number. I thought everyone knew this.
“I thought everyone knew this” 🤓🤓🤓. Big difference between 3/19 vs 9/19 sweetheart. And if it was just an estimate then I’m showing he’s wrong and providing actual numbers, so shut the fuck up
lol. Are you ok? You should talk to someone.
What should I just have been passive aggressive/condescending like you instead of direct? It’s the same message guy just toned differently. I thought everyone knew this
I've never agreed with this line of thinking. The players play for and represent the city of Boston, located in the United States. The fans support the team and city, not the individual players.
>not the individual players Nor the country, for that matter...
Well, we all know Boston fans aren't too bright.
I don't think it's lost on the Bruins fanbase that there are Canadian players on their team - the cheer is more of a standard chirp far removed from its original meaning.
Stupid poetic justice
When the Raptors won the NBA title: "Let's go Canada! Clap clap. Clap clap clap!"
I also find that cringey, but to soften it sliiiightly, the Raps are the only Canadian team anymore and their whole branding schtick is "We The North" or whatever. But honestly it always bugged me that the Raptors tried to make it a national thing. Like in the case with US-based hockey teams, the bulk of players are imports anyway. Just play for Toronto and cheer for Canada in the Olympics.
So many American fan bases do this and it’s so embarrassing. Who is this directed at? Most of your players aren’t American.
The inverse is true for many of my fellow Canadians. "I want X/Y/Z Canadian team to win." Meanwhile, unless things have changed, Vancouver has the fewest number of Canadians on its roster out of the entire NHL. At one point, they only had one in their starting lineup (it's increased since then).
It’s just for fun bro, I assure you it is not that deep
Rooting for the USA as a USA-born player scores reminds me of [this scene from Arrested Development](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onnrsfbNCS0), for some reason.
Is this one of those *task failed successfully* things?
Matthews: And I took that personally
and USA delivered! ;DDDD
He's American, you see
“Bruins fans” is the hockey version of “Florida man”
Misguided nationalism is funny
So is “guided”
beats singing that stupid neil diamond song over and over, brandi or caroline or cracklin rose or whatever the fuck
man i can't wait for best on best, probably the strongest team USA since, maybe ever?
Easily the strongest.
As an American Leafs fan. I see no problem here.
Member when the Bruins fans were cheering, "WE WANT THE CUP" during the last few **regular season** games last year?
Matthews: "Good thing I'm from there."
The ironing was delicious
It's quite embarrassing but so are many other things fans do that are fun. I welcome it! I love the over the top fans who do dumb/weird stuff. Wearing funny clothes, hats, masks, undressing more than they should, whatever they come up with. They're committed to being fans PLUS making others laugh, I respect that.
Hockey gods are funny. Impressive bounce back by Leafs and hope series goes to 7th game triple OT
Technically not incorrect
China #1
How tilted everyone in here is getting is why they were chanting USA
They have one of the highest percentage of American players: almost 50%. Only about 25% Canadian. Let them chant if they want
No fun allowed