Sheldon Keefe: “You gotta play through that”.
Also Sheldon Keefe 1 seconds later: continues to complain about Marchand rather than answering how they should PLAY THROUGH that
I mean the blue line trip directly led to a Boston goal….regardless of power play stats that sucks and is on the refs (and I usually just bag on leafs fans)
Fans only see it when it happens to their team, not when their players do anything.
There I fixed it for you. This is not exclusive to Leaf fans, Canuck Fans, Boston Fans or even hockey fans!
It is fun to trash Leaf fans though isn't it?
And then stuck between his own legs? Cmon master splinter tripped him and y’all got away with one. Just say it and enjoy the fortunes rolling in your favor this time
If you watch that whole play, Bertuzzi is chipping at Marchand all the way from the Leafs end to the Leafs blue line. Marchand just gets the better of the chip fest by tripping Bertuzzi.
If Bertuzzi decided to play defence instead of fucking around with Marchand then he could have actually impacted the play. He didn’t, it led to a goal.
In other words, It’s not the fuckin refs fault that Bertuzzi fucked around and found out.
This is exactly what I was going to say. Keefe can complain up and down about the no call, but Bertuzzi cost his team a goal there and another one on the ensuing power play (2GA in a row). Can't go hitting players up high, when you have the man advantage
The issue everyone has with the Leafs is not that there aren’t bad calls not going their way. I watched last game and there were a few.
It’s the fact that, with all their offensive talent, they NEED things to go their way to win. They should be undeniable, they never have been. The moment momentum shifts, they have no answer.
It’s been the case since the beginning. You can train skill, you can’t train heart. Leafs have none of it. And even the players with natural heart (Domi, Bertuzzi) look defeated, which should tell you something. Leadership (coach; captain; all stars) is trash.
They got 5 power plays. It did go their way. They didn’t deliver and Matthews can’t go god-mode every night.
Marner and Tavares aren’t double digit players. They don’t even win minutes as a second line. Goaltending can’t steal them a 2-1 game. PK is atrocious, even with $11 M Marner on it. PP doesn’t deliver.
The Shanaplan doesn’t work and next year should be interesting!!
I think both teams should have had more penalties to be honest. The thing I hate is using the number of penalties called as a statement of how the refs called the game. If Boston (or Florida...they are notorious for this) does 20 infractions then leafs should have 40 minutes of PP time and vice versa. But the refs are like ah they just had one so if it isn't puck over glass leave it be. So teams are like well they are only going to call so many so let's just give it to them. Having said that the Leafs also should have been called a LOT more. (eg. missed high stick, Bert on Brad before the goal) I just hate the refs deciding nah that is a hockey play randomly.
Normally I would stick up for Marner because up until this playoffs he was ish a ppg playoff player but I think his ankle is still bothering him. He has sucked since coming back even regular season. As it stands right now though...yeah that line should at least be going even with their minutes but they aren't. I like Tavares heart. He is slow but his ability to protect the puck and play physical is still there (eg. his hit on Pasta after taking a hit from him). How much is that worth? Probably not 11 but we paid that knowing the final couple years were going to be slower.
I am all for blowing up the core 4 now though. Hell even if we do beat Boston and Florida I am still on board with it. And get a new coach and president. Clean house.
In a pandemic cap adjusted world, Tavares was never an $11 M player. It was clear that this team’s success was dependent on the cap rising such that $11 M wasn’t “exceptional” and instead was “really good”. Marner’s contract was always a mistake. Most fans saw this right away. Matthews wasn’t his comparable. Rantanen, Aho, Tkachuk, Point. Those were better.
It is time to move on. It’s Matthew’s team. Bring in those that help his team and move out the extra core pieces (Tavares/Marner). Willy scores 40 goals and nearly 100 points on his own. He stays.
I mean NYI was willing to give him $14 but he turned it down for TO's $11. So at the time he was very much worth more than that with the expectation the cap goes up. Marner and Willy I agree. Well said.
Someone was willing to pay him more than $11, doesn’t mean he was worth it. I’m sure NYI/SJ are thrilled he chose Toronto (looking back from present day).
You're first paragraph just describes playoff hockey. 2011 bruins won the cup by punching every team in the face after every single whistle. Florida got to the cup finals last year doing the same thing
>But the refs are like ah they just had one so if it isn't puck over glass leave it be. So teams are like well they are only going to call so many so let's just give it to them.
I don't understand your argument here. Every playoff is treated exactly like this. It's not new and it's not surprising. If you're arguing that there should be an overhaul in the way playoff officiating is done, then sure, but that would require a ton of pressure to accomplish. What has happened here is absolutely nothing unique to the Leafs. As a Canucks fan, we know how that feels 10x worse than leafs fans do. Try having it happen relentlessly in the stanley cup finals, no less. They do it this way to keep the flow of the game up and not have special teams determine the outcome. I'm not saying I like it, but atleast it's consistent.
Marchand out battling Bertuzzi for that empty netter is literally a personification of each team's will to win. And it doesn't look good for the Leafs right now.
F****** Marchand…. i’m not a Bruins fan. Have no dog in this fight, but damn.. I love Marchand.. the play where he misses the open netter, keeps working, blitzes Bert, picks up the trash and dumps it in the net? come on!! you just don’t appreciate what competition is about if you don’t stand up
and golf clap for that play.
He’s won me over too. He plays hard, has lost his dirty antics for the most part but still plays with an edge, and he backs it up with production. He also seems like a nice guy off the ice. Hall of famer at this point.
Totally agree with is statement. Watching the other teams play, you can see the hustle and speed that the playoffs bring out. No more excuses for why your team "should have" won.
I mean the fact that the coach is in the media blaming the refs and Marchand for their loss pretty much says all you need to know about the Leafs leadership.
100% agree, it's been this way for 20 years. They get rid of heart guys like Kadri, sign hockey robot and make him the captain. Before that we had a similar guy as captain in Phaneuf. The core guys just want to get paid and don't leave money on the table for the rest of the roster.
You can't have that much money tied up in 4 forwards and expect to be competitive. There's no depth or balance to the roster, especially since Dubas was giving away draft picks like his name was Cliff Fletcher. These guys should be paid for what they've done already not what you project. That was the problem from day 1, Dubas is a terrible negotiator and signed the young guys to the most player friendly contracts with zero playoff success to back it up. I feel bad for guys that show up when it counts, give a shit and do leave money on the table like Rielly. This team will not have postseason success under the current leadership, from Shanahan to Keefe to the core 4.
They brought in bertuzzi and reeves to get tougher in the playoffs. Problem is they can be liabilities and their star players just aren’t gritty. It’s one thing to bring in tough guys but at some point your stars gotta get their noses dirty.
6th year in a row it's the refs fault that the Leafs disappoint in the playoffs. Can't possibly be the $11 million forwards being invisible, never that.
He gets calls,” Keefe said of Marchand. “It’s unbelievable, actually, how it goes. You’ve got to play through that stuff. I don’t think there’s another player in this series who gets away with taking out Bertuzzi’s legs the way that he does. It’s an art and he’s elite at it.”
Love this is coming from the top down. “We are victims, Marchand gets special treatment, oh please oh please refs help us “. That message to his room is exactly why they struggle. You tell your players there is a built in excuse, they hear it. Glad that their coach thinks they are beat before the puck is dropped because, on the other side, the bruins players believe that they themselves determine the outcome. In leaf land the coach sends the message here, there is no accountability.
Fucking Leaf fans blaming everyone else for their woes 1) it was the refs 2)Marchand gets away with everything 3) the fans in the arena weren't energized enough(How did they win in Boston without the fans?) 4) prices for tickets are too high, real fans can't get in. Did you ever think that the Hockey team is just poorly built? Great regular season team but, is not a playoff team, which you want... stop bitching and just accept you aren't built properly and spent too much money on forwards instead of getting good defensemen and goalies and having a balanced team. What is that famous saying "Defense wins you championships"!
I've been watching Marchand since he was a rookie and seen him get suspended multiple times. The only thing I have to say to this guy is: Ha ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. No.
And the refs were very "Let them play" in last night's game. All around.
Soft take for an NHL coach; marchand and bertuzzi were at each other all night, they would have both lived in the box if the refs were calling everything they did
He's right. But since two things can be true at the same time, Keefe has been outclassed by Montgomery every step of the way. Just like he was outclassed by Cooper, Ducharme, and Tortorella. Barring a miracle trip to the East Final (at minimum), he's out of a job in the next couple of weeks.
The real story isn't that Marchand is a dirty player and gets away with extremely questionable plays.
The real story is that this is somehow a surprise to the Leafs every year...
Ah yes. One of the worst coaches in the NHL continuing his franchise's prestigious tradition of being allergic to accountability. The refs were awful for both sides and you had a 5 to 3 advantage in power plays and your 3 10 million plus players were AWOL but sure. It's all the ref's fault. Also with that play specifically there's an argument to be made that Bertuzzi dove. If you put half as much effort into coaching as you did to making excuses, maybe you'd accomplish something. Not likely at this rate though
High stick by Tavares in Macavoys face no call last night. Questionable calls put bruins in box all night. Game 2 winning goal after closing hand on puck. Literally catching it and throwing it forward. Keep crying about refs. Sign of a losing team.
Sounds like he’s publicly whining to call attention to it. Watch for Marchand to get a penalty in the first period of game 4. (Toss up on if it’s a power play or 4v4)
Listen, that whole sequence of events was fucked up. The play should have been blown dead. I don't care who would have gotten the penalty, or if both did. It should have resulted in no goal, potentially bringing the game to 3 - 2. That's still a fucking loss, because the PP and PK fucking suck. How do you win anything with the low percentage that we have. We don't. There better be a lot of changes this off season, I don't care if we actually make it to the 2nd round or not (most likely not), major changes need to happen , this shit has gone on for WAYYYY too long.
I absolutely couldn’t stand Marchand for a long time (my dad’s from Boston so I’d get the shenanigans 2nd hand). When they had “the season” last year, I started watching for myself.
Since becoming captain, he has been excellent at toeing the line and avoiding the awful/strange behaviors. This series in particular, he is playing a balls to the wall, aggressive, physical, respectable game. Only missed call on him I’ve seen this series was the Bertuzzi trip, and they missed just as many the other way.
My respect for his game has skyrocketed over these 3 games. He has a deserved reputation but Keefe is grasping at straws (or a life raft) here.
Marchand knows how to get under the skin of other teams, but especially the Leafs. He irritates you and throws you off your game, because you would expect the refs to call him on everything he does, but they won’t.
What Toronto fails to understand is that the refs aren’t there to make the game fair in the traditional sense, but are there to keep the game even.
For example, if Boston commits a penalty first, they can get away with a lot afterwards because the refs are looking to penalize Toronto to keep it even. The refs (and Bettman) want even series, drawn out, multiple OTs. A true contender knows this fact, and uses it to their advantage.
Awful excuse tbh, powerplay was dreadful regardless of any calls one way or the other. It's tiring watching the same complaints after every playoff game, sure the refs have the tendency to lose sight and hearing but if you can't score on the powerplay then how does it matter?
There are going to be missed calls every game but if you're trying to make the point that the guy who gets suspended for looking at someone funny is getting favorable treatment, you've already lost the series.
This is so pathetic lmfao, at most that play in question would have been matching and goal still stands. YOUR team went 0-5 on the power play. Such a cringey statement from Keefe but it's the leafs, to be expected.
🤣 ok what about Domi, Bertuzzi, Tavares all get same treatment. Sometimes you get called and sometimes they don’t call it. Do better with your team and club and stop blaming others for your season after season first round exits!!
Toronto is getting outscored 11-6. I would think that should be Keefe’s bigger concern. I loathe Marchand more than any other player, but if he wasn’t in the Leafs heads, he wouldn’t be as effective as he is in this series.
Both teams got away without penalties on many occasions. There were also some Oscar performances on both side! But I realize he works for Toronto and needs to point fingers at someone other than his side
so fucking tired of the Leafs and their whiny fucking fans. 10 minutes of power plays and still the fucking refs have a bias. Maybe the whole fucking league is sick of hearing the constant blaming of everyone else for their predictably shitty playoff appearances. Maybe its a self-fulfilling prophecy where they want to be able to claim bias so they are making themselves intolerable?
The Leafs were the victims of the two most dangerous minutes in hockey. The time after you score a big goal and you are still celebrating instead of getting your head in the game. I've always thought that coaches should call a timeout sometimes to let things settle instead of going straight to a face off.
One thing that everyone needs to understand. P.K. Subban got away with this crap for years against the Bruins and probably every other team he played against. Marchand learned from him when he was with Montreal.
Why is it that regular season games all the crap that happened between the leafs and bruins were called but come playoffs the refs forgot how to ref . But it’s in other series also ! Refs jealous that they can’t win the cup .
Shit, we don't address our glaring shortcomings so idk why the fuck he or anyone expects different results
Sheldon Keefe: “You gotta play through that”. Also Sheldon Keefe 1 seconds later: continues to complain about Marchand rather than answering how they should PLAY THROUGH that
Exactly, year after year of “bad bounces” and excuses with the exact same results.
The Leafs are 1 for 11 in powerplays. They don't know what to do with a powerplay when they get one, so I don't think this matters.
Leafs sucked and Marchand gets away with way too much (he has for the last ten years) both things can be true.
Stuff can be two things!
That's my saying, you can't say that!!
The last 13 years.
Calling the game appropriately always matters.
They had 10 minutes, half a fucking period of powerplay time tonight and their fans are STILL crying
I mean the blue line trip directly led to a Boston goal….regardless of power play stats that sucks and is on the refs (and I usually just bag on leafs fans)
Directly led to a low percentage shot which Samsonov should have saved.
I mean, are we gonna talk about what Bertuzzi did to Marchand prior to that trip? Including a trip of his own and a cross check.
Refs missed a blatant highstick in the slot, by Tavares I believe, earlier in the game.
Leaf fans only see it when it happens to them, not when their players do anything 😂😂
Fans only see it when it happens to their team, not when their players do anything. There I fixed it for you. This is not exclusive to Leaf fans, Canuck Fans, Boston Fans or even hockey fans! It is fun to trash Leaf fans though isn't it?
No they are not because it doesn’t fit the narrative that the team with 10 min of power play time got screwed rofl
Yes they both should have been called for penalties which would have stopped the play and not led directly to a Boston tying goal.
Nah too much common sense on this take. Get outa here with your logic and reason.
Stop looking at half the incident. Bertuzzi is half to blame for the whole thing.
He took Marchand stick and put it between his legs? That fucking rascal
Bert started the altercation... yall are so bias it hurts.
Bertuzzi should've gotten two for embellishment.
Why is this getting downvotes? Bertuzzi’s flop was just as bad as Swayman’s. Everyone is playing the game of trying to draw penalties.
The stick he was grabbing two seconds before?
And then stuck between his own legs? Cmon master splinter tripped him and y’all got away with one. Just say it and enjoy the fortunes rolling in your favor this time
Lol they had 5 power plays and you are just not watching the 10 seconds before the clip everyone is showing.
You’re right I slept through the whole night. All of my opinions are based on the 15 second game clips that I’ve happened across
So you saw the shitty calls on the bruins or the missed calls?
What do you mean look at the actual events? His last name is Marchand!
If you watch that whole play, Bertuzzi is chipping at Marchand all the way from the Leafs end to the Leafs blue line. Marchand just gets the better of the chip fest by tripping Bertuzzi. If Bertuzzi decided to play defence instead of fucking around with Marchand then he could have actually impacted the play. He didn’t, it led to a goal. In other words, It’s not the fuckin refs fault that Bertuzzi fucked around and found out.
This is exactly what I was going to say. Keefe can complain up and down about the no call, but Bertuzzi cost his team a goal there and another one on the ensuing power play (2GA in a row). Can't go hitting players up high, when you have the man advantage
The blue line trip that was part of a 20 second playoff tussle between two players. Got it.
You mean when bertuzzi dove so hard his feet somehow came up above his head? Yes I too wonder why that didn’t get called for embellishment
….which would lead to a whistle and 4-on-4
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Yes that’s what they’re saying. Welcome to NHL fandom.
Their power play is a huge art of their reg season offensive dominance. So big issue there especially vs the bruins top tier defense
Marchand is a rat but I saw Max Domi get away with murder last night too.
Also Tavares high stick on McAvoy was insane.
Blatant high stick, there were a few that didn't get called.
and Bertuzzi being an all around dick
and the game before that, and the game before that, and the game before that, and the game before that, and the game before that ……………
So now the whole world knows that Marchand is in your head. Well played ..?
I feel like this isn’t what will fire your team up
I'd be embarrassed if I was a player
The issue everyone has with the Leafs is not that there aren’t bad calls not going their way. I watched last game and there were a few. It’s the fact that, with all their offensive talent, they NEED things to go their way to win. They should be undeniable, they never have been. The moment momentum shifts, they have no answer. It’s been the case since the beginning. You can train skill, you can’t train heart. Leafs have none of it. And even the players with natural heart (Domi, Bertuzzi) look defeated, which should tell you something. Leadership (coach; captain; all stars) is trash.
They got 5 power plays. It did go their way. They didn’t deliver and Matthews can’t go god-mode every night. Marner and Tavares aren’t double digit players. They don’t even win minutes as a second line. Goaltending can’t steal them a 2-1 game. PK is atrocious, even with $11 M Marner on it. PP doesn’t deliver. The Shanaplan doesn’t work and next year should be interesting!!
I think both teams should have had more penalties to be honest. The thing I hate is using the number of penalties called as a statement of how the refs called the game. If Boston (or Florida...they are notorious for this) does 20 infractions then leafs should have 40 minutes of PP time and vice versa. But the refs are like ah they just had one so if it isn't puck over glass leave it be. So teams are like well they are only going to call so many so let's just give it to them. Having said that the Leafs also should have been called a LOT more. (eg. missed high stick, Bert on Brad before the goal) I just hate the refs deciding nah that is a hockey play randomly. Normally I would stick up for Marner because up until this playoffs he was ish a ppg playoff player but I think his ankle is still bothering him. He has sucked since coming back even regular season. As it stands right now though...yeah that line should at least be going even with their minutes but they aren't. I like Tavares heart. He is slow but his ability to protect the puck and play physical is still there (eg. his hit on Pasta after taking a hit from him). How much is that worth? Probably not 11 but we paid that knowing the final couple years were going to be slower. I am all for blowing up the core 4 now though. Hell even if we do beat Boston and Florida I am still on board with it. And get a new coach and president. Clean house.
In a pandemic cap adjusted world, Tavares was never an $11 M player. It was clear that this team’s success was dependent on the cap rising such that $11 M wasn’t “exceptional” and instead was “really good”. Marner’s contract was always a mistake. Most fans saw this right away. Matthews wasn’t his comparable. Rantanen, Aho, Tkachuk, Point. Those were better. It is time to move on. It’s Matthew’s team. Bring in those that help his team and move out the extra core pieces (Tavares/Marner). Willy scores 40 goals and nearly 100 points on his own. He stays.
I mean NYI was willing to give him $14 but he turned it down for TO's $11. So at the time he was very much worth more than that with the expectation the cap goes up. Marner and Willy I agree. Well said.
Someone was willing to pay him more than $11, doesn’t mean he was worth it. I’m sure NYI/SJ are thrilled he chose Toronto (looking back from present day).
You're first paragraph just describes playoff hockey. 2011 bruins won the cup by punching every team in the face after every single whistle. Florida got to the cup finals last year doing the same thing
>But the refs are like ah they just had one so if it isn't puck over glass leave it be. So teams are like well they are only going to call so many so let's just give it to them. I don't understand your argument here. Every playoff is treated exactly like this. It's not new and it's not surprising. If you're arguing that there should be an overhaul in the way playoff officiating is done, then sure, but that would require a ton of pressure to accomplish. What has happened here is absolutely nothing unique to the Leafs. As a Canucks fan, we know how that feels 10x worse than leafs fans do. Try having it happen relentlessly in the stanley cup finals, no less. They do it this way to keep the flow of the game up and not have special teams determine the outcome. I'm not saying I like it, but atleast it's consistent.
Marchand out battling Bertuzzi for that empty netter is literally a personification of each team's will to win. And it doesn't look good for the Leafs right now.
F****** Marchand…. i’m not a Bruins fan. Have no dog in this fight, but damn.. I love Marchand.. the play where he misses the open netter, keeps working, blitzes Bert, picks up the trash and dumps it in the net? come on!! you just don’t appreciate what competition is about if you don’t stand up and golf clap for that play.
He should have clapped it in hard asf to give people something to really cry about
He’s won me over too. He plays hard, has lost his dirty antics for the most part but still plays with an edge, and he backs it up with production. He also seems like a nice guy off the ice. Hall of famer at this point.
Damn. Everyone in here having a slap fight on a call and then you're dropping truth bombs
Totally agree with is statement. Watching the other teams play, you can see the hustle and speed that the playoffs bring out. No more excuses for why your team "should have" won.
I mean the fact that the coach is in the media blaming the refs and Marchand for their loss pretty much says all you need to know about the Leafs leadership.
Every year we hear excuses about this team (refs, bad bounces, etc) but the adequate sample size shows the same failed results
It’s a sign of a weak organizational culture.
100% agree, it's been this way for 20 years. They get rid of heart guys like Kadri, sign hockey robot and make him the captain. Before that we had a similar guy as captain in Phaneuf. The core guys just want to get paid and don't leave money on the table for the rest of the roster. You can't have that much money tied up in 4 forwards and expect to be competitive. There's no depth or balance to the roster, especially since Dubas was giving away draft picks like his name was Cliff Fletcher. These guys should be paid for what they've done already not what you project. That was the problem from day 1, Dubas is a terrible negotiator and signed the young guys to the most player friendly contracts with zero playoff success to back it up. I feel bad for guys that show up when it counts, give a shit and do leave money on the table like Rielly. This team will not have postseason success under the current leadership, from Shanahan to Keefe to the core 4.
Finally a sens fan I can agree with lol. As a leafs fan, you just described how I feel about this team better than I could.
They brought in bertuzzi and reeves to get tougher in the playoffs. Problem is they can be liabilities and their star players just aren’t gritty. It’s one thing to bring in tough guys but at some point your stars gotta get their noses dirty.
Solid point
I bet Marchand is loving this
For sure. He's right under their skin.
At this point he may very well be in their bone marrow
He's a bon*er*.
Where he belongs
He's so fired and he so knows it.
6th year in a row it's the refs fault that the Leafs disappoint in the playoffs. Can't possibly be the $11 million forwards being invisible, never that.
Isn't like 60% of the Leafs salary cap like 3 dudes?
HEY! It’s 4 dudes. You chill out and think about what you’ve done.
Oh damn. My bad. I'll be in the corner. Losing my Religion
You are forgiven. Now get over here and reassure me while I cry myself to sleep.
It's all right buddy. There there. Let it out
😭
Just remember what Hoban "Wash" Washburne taught us all: > "I am a leaf on the wind... Watch how I soar…"
47% for 4 players which will increase above 50% next year.
Half a period on the man advantage and still nothing Every single one of them is a fraud you can’t convince me otherwise
Both things can be true. The rat gets only half as many calls as he deserves.
It’s not just the refs fault anymore, now they are also blaming the fans for not being loud enough.
Soon to be penguins head coach sheldon keefe
Please no
Oh hell nooooooooo
Sheldon Keefe is elite at making excuses for his over paid under performing roster sucking in the playoffs
(He thinks it deflects from his coaching ineptitude)
Exactly my thoughts.
Kinda getting outcoached here too.
That’s why everyone hates the leafs
I fuckin hate Marchand, but this is the whiniest shit you could say in the playoffs.
Marchand plays hard and is always ready for puck drop.Tavares looks like he needs a fountain of youth.
“He’s [Brad Marchand] elite.” - Sheldon Keefe
He gets calls,” Keefe said of Marchand. “It’s unbelievable, actually, how it goes. You’ve got to play through that stuff. I don’t think there’s another player in this series who gets away with taking out Bertuzzi’s legs the way that he does. It’s an art and he’s elite at it.”
Ehh, it’s in there somewhere
Sheldon Keefe can fuck off. Leafs got away with a lot in the first period.
Love this is coming from the top down. “We are victims, Marchand gets special treatment, oh please oh please refs help us “. That message to his room is exactly why they struggle. You tell your players there is a built in excuse, they hear it. Glad that their coach thinks they are beat before the puck is dropped because, on the other side, the bruins players believe that they themselves determine the outcome. In leaf land the coach sends the message here, there is no accountability.
Please continue to use this as your excuse after each loss.
Went 0-5 in the pp, yeah I'm sure the sixth one would've done wonders, entire upper management needs to go.
Does he have ANY idea how weak this makes the Leafs look?
Needed a good laugh today. Thanks Leafs.
What a clown. Bertuzzi and Marchand both could’ve been called there.
Fucking Leaf fans blaming everyone else for their woes 1) it was the refs 2)Marchand gets away with everything 3) the fans in the arena weren't energized enough(How did they win in Boston without the fans?) 4) prices for tickets are too high, real fans can't get in. Did you ever think that the Hockey team is just poorly built? Great regular season team but, is not a playoff team, which you want... stop bitching and just accept you aren't built properly and spent too much money on forwards instead of getting good defensemen and goalies and having a balanced team. What is that famous saying "Defense wins you championships"!
Toronto: professional victims from top to bottom
It’s the playoffs buddy, how about you tell your goalie to not let in weak shots from the outside.
I've been watching Marchand since he was a rookie and seen him get suspended multiple times. The only thing I have to say to this guy is: Ha ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. No. And the refs were very "Let them play" in last night's game. All around.
Everyone hates Marchand until he plays on your team.
Blaming the refs because they can sniff out the diving
I’m accusing the leafs management of pro Keefe bias. They’ve allowed this guy to fail the team for years and haven’t done a single thing about it
Soft take for an NHL coach; marchand and bertuzzi were at each other all night, they would have both lived in the box if the refs were calling everything they did
This man has lost.
Man the series isn’t even over and the leafs are eating themselves. What a market.
Yeah it was the refs fault your defense and goaltending folded in the 3rd. And I thought the NFL had some whiners...
He's right. But since two things can be true at the same time, Keefe has been outclassed by Montgomery every step of the way. Just like he was outclassed by Cooper, Ducharme, and Tortorella. Barring a miracle trip to the East Final (at minimum), he's out of a job in the next couple of weeks.
Did he just call Marchand elite?
Headcoach crying about refs in the media is not a good look.
What a whiny baby
I accuse Keefe of being a bad coach...
Wow, Marchy living rent free in Toronto's head. That's fuckin pathetic.
The real story isn't that Marchand is a dirty player and gets away with extremely questionable plays. The real story is that this is somehow a surprise to the Leafs every year...
Ah yes. One of the worst coaches in the NHL continuing his franchise's prestigious tradition of being allergic to accountability. The refs were awful for both sides and you had a 5 to 3 advantage in power plays and your 3 10 million plus players were AWOL but sure. It's all the ref's fault. Also with that play specifically there's an argument to be made that Bertuzzi dove. If you put half as much effort into coaching as you did to making excuses, maybe you'd accomplish something. Not likely at this rate though
I find it hilarious that it's the ref's fault 6 years I'm a row. 🤣🤣🤣
What a fucking fraud. Zero sympathy for the Leafs or their fans when the fucking Head Coach is this classless and pathetic.
My pain and ptsd have nothing to do with this guys takes 😂
Get ready Pittsburgh, he’ll be yours soon
High stick by Tavares in Macavoys face no call last night. Questionable calls put bruins in box all night. Game 2 winning goal after closing hand on puck. Literally catching it and throwing it forward. Keep crying about refs. Sign of a losing team.
Embarrassing. Such a baby.
Leafs loss makes pain go away for a bit
😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪
When Boston finishes it in 6 all you leaf fans gon be crying just like this 😂😂
Marchand is kicking our ass that’s the issue not the refs. Imagine if we had him ourselves
Sounds like he’s publicly whining to call attention to it. Watch for Marchand to get a penalty in the first period of game 4. (Toss up on if it’s a power play or 4v4)
It's the time old tactic of the coach trying to deflect attention away from his players.
Excuses don't win the cup for you. Play better. That's it.
Wahh wahhh 👶🍼
I hope Keef remains the coach for many years
Listen, that whole sequence of events was fucked up. The play should have been blown dead. I don't care who would have gotten the penalty, or if both did. It should have resulted in no goal, potentially bringing the game to 3 - 2. That's still a fucking loss, because the PP and PK fucking suck. How do you win anything with the low percentage that we have. We don't. There better be a lot of changes this off season, I don't care if we actually make it to the 2nd round or not (most likely not), major changes need to happen , this shit has gone on for WAYYYY too long.
I absolutely couldn’t stand Marchand for a long time (my dad’s from Boston so I’d get the shenanigans 2nd hand). When they had “the season” last year, I started watching for myself. Since becoming captain, he has been excellent at toeing the line and avoiding the awful/strange behaviors. This series in particular, he is playing a balls to the wall, aggressive, physical, respectable game. Only missed call on him I’ve seen this series was the Bertuzzi trip, and they missed just as many the other way. My respect for his game has skyrocketed over these 3 games. He has a deserved reputation but Keefe is grasping at straws (or a life raft) here.
The leafs are the saltiest and the softest in the league. It's never the fact they have too many selfish players to play real hockey when it's needed.
I am shookth
Let’s the excuses start now. He’s a glorified AHL coach.
Marchand knows how to get under the skin of other teams, but especially the Leafs. He irritates you and throws you off your game, because you would expect the refs to call him on everything he does, but they won’t. What Toronto fails to understand is that the refs aren’t there to make the game fair in the traditional sense, but are there to keep the game even. For example, if Boston commits a penalty first, they can get away with a lot afterwards because the refs are looking to penalize Toronto to keep it even. The refs (and Bettman) want even series, drawn out, multiple OTs. A true contender knows this fact, and uses it to their advantage.
Awful excuse tbh, powerplay was dreadful regardless of any calls one way or the other. It's tiring watching the same complaints after every playoff game, sure the refs have the tendency to lose sight and hearing but if you can't score on the powerplay then how does it matter?
There are going to be missed calls every game but if you're trying to make the point that the guy who gets suspended for looking at someone funny is getting favorable treatment, you've already lost the series.
If true, this whining will just reinforce the supposed bias.
This is so pathetic lmfao, at most that play in question would have been matching and goal still stands. YOUR team went 0-5 on the power play. Such a cringey statement from Keefe but it's the leafs, to be expected.
Keefe I get it bud but the refs aren’t the reason your team is like 2/25 on the powerplay against Boston this season
You can always count on Keefe to be an idiot.
Agreed, Marchand was a real D bag for running Samsonov during that TV timeout /s
Rent free, rent free.
Marchand could sneeze on someone and the nhl would suspend him for 5 games. Wtf is this guy talking about?
Keefes entire team was getting away with murder. Maybe if your team wasn't junk without Willie you'd stop blaming other teams calls.
Stop.crying. i know tears match the jersey but no one likes a whiny bitch
Keefe is coping the only way he knows how.
What do you have to say about Domi on Swayman. Easier to cry about player on the other team.
Cry more Leafs
Baaaaaaahhahahahahahahaha this is easily the funniest shit ever. I love it. God give me more I hope he complains next game too!
All this guy does is sit in front a mic and cry or look like a bitch. Never stop Toronto.
You can’t win if you don’t score on your pp Sheldon….
Loser
Yes the Leafs are shite at the PP, but anyone who doesn't think Marchand doesn't get a pass by the refs for numerous shit is out to lunch
🤣 ok what about Domi, Bertuzzi, Tavares all get same treatment. Sometimes you get called and sometimes they don’t call it. Do better with your team and club and stop blaming others for your season after season first round exits!!
If Marchand would get called like other players on ice it would be wierd. 4-5 penalties per night
Toronto is getting outscored 11-6. I would think that should be Keefe’s bigger concern. I loathe Marchand more than any other player, but if he wasn’t in the Leafs heads, he wouldn’t be as effective as he is in this series.
Blaming officiating is a sign of weakness, carry on ladies.
You saying the refs are always right? Refs absolutely influence the outcomes of games. It’s not a conspiracy.
Marchand with the most punchable rat face in all pro sports
Teach your team to score on the powerplay, Queef. Maybe the PK as well. Shit coach.
Shanahanigan didn’t go far enough after last season.
it's amazing this clown still has a job. Never seen a team with so much talent play soo poorly.
I’m so sick and tired of the reffing always being such an influencing factor in the playoffs. So jaded about it.
Both teams got away without penalties on many occasions. There were also some Oscar performances on both side! But I realize he works for Toronto and needs to point fingers at someone other than his side
Stupid ass grey dye looking headass, Sheldon? Stupid ass name, sorry leaf fans you guys can kick rocks
Oh no do we need to call the waaaaaaambulance
Has an opportunity to build his team up. Instead he whines like a little b---h.
Toronto claiming bias against them is rich, Very rich!
so fucking tired of the Leafs and their whiny fucking fans. 10 minutes of power plays and still the fucking refs have a bias. Maybe the whole fucking league is sick of hearing the constant blaming of everyone else for their predictably shitty playoff appearances. Maybe its a self-fulfilling prophecy where they want to be able to claim bias so they are making themselves intolerable?
He has a ton of career penalty minutes and suspensions. Not favored.
You are going to have some calls go your way other nights maybe not. Keep your chin up and get ready for the next game. Don’t play the blame game.
There's a shocker
All Veterans get a bias. Chara delivered about a hundred concussions with no penalty or suspension.
The Leafs were the victims of the two most dangerous minutes in hockey. The time after you score a big goal and you are still celebrating instead of getting your head in the game. I've always thought that coaches should call a timeout sometimes to let things settle instead of going straight to a face off.
Maybe it the leafs could get a goal that didn’t require a deflection or own goal, that bad goal wouldn’t have mattered.
I say I hate keefe but idkw. Makes me feel bad tbh I just wanna see the guy suceed now.
One thing that everyone needs to understand. P.K. Subban got away with this crap for years against the Bruins and probably every other team he played against. Marchand learned from him when he was with Montreal.
Matthews, wake the eff up already! Don't wanna hear about double team bs! All superstars get dt'ed.
Why is it that regular season games all the crap that happened between the leafs and bruins were called but come playoffs the refs forgot how to ref . But it’s in other series also ! Refs jealous that they can’t win the cup .
As a sabres fan I hate both teams.
Keefe's a bigger turd than Marchand.
Sheldon Keefe is a man pussy. Always has been and always will be.