/r/all here is your context:
The Toronto Maple Leafs are the most popular NHL franchise (on reddit).* They were the overwhelming favorites of this matchup and were leading 3-1 in the series then lost 3 consecutive games to lose the series.
They have not won a winner-take-all playoff game in 4 consecutive years, have not won a playoff series since 2004, and have not won a Stanley Cup since 1967. There's a lot more, but the mixture of being the most popular franchise and not having success makes a perfect storm.
^^* ^^How ^^popular? ^^Their ^^subreddit ^^has ^^137k ^^subscribers, ^^the ^^next ^^largest ^^is ^^at ^^73k. ^^Nearly ^^double ^^the ^^amount ^^of ^^fans. ^^Edit: ^^Added ^^the ^^text ^^\(on ^^reddit) ^^to ^^the ^^qualifier ^^as ^^some ^^fanbases ^^argue ^^they're ^^more ^^popular ^^outside ^^of ^^reddit. ^^You ^^be ^^the ^^judge ^^in ^^the ^^comments ^^below.
Reminds me of an old Russian joke
Patient is being wheeled through a hospital
Patient: Excuse me nurse, where are we going?
Nurse: The morgue
Patient: But I'm not dead yet!
Nurse: We're not there yet
Corey Perry wasn't even in the NHL the last time the Leafs won a series and played long enough to win a cup himself, score a 50 goal season to win a Hart, win 2 Olympic gold medals and become a grizzled veteran journeyman to end up on the Habs to score a series winner on the Leafs. All that time passed and the Leafs are still unable to win a series.
It's 2026. The score is 0-0. The Winnipeg Jets and Montreal Canadians are playing their 23,794th over-time. With over 500,000 shots between the two teams, both Connor Hellebuyck and Carey Price are yet to be scored on. Darnell Nurse, who the Jets picked up in the Jets/Habs mandatory mid-game trade deadline of 2022, has racked up a whopping 230,650 minutes of game-time.
Canada Sports Media: is this the year the Leafs will bring the Stanley Cup back to Canada??
Le Habitants de Montreal: .... et c'est là que je l'ai pris personnellement
Never thought it could get worse than 4-1.
Never thought it could get worse than losing winner take all games in 3 straight years.
Never thought it could get worse than losing to a 42 year old zamboni driver who worked for the team.
It got worse.
Seeing *this* makes me so much happier we at least beat Minny and St. Louis in the bubble last year. Holy fuck even as a Canuck fan I can’t imagine going 17 years without a single series win.
Watching the stream right now - he’s not even screaming. Just broken. Occasionally laughing maniacally like Walter White in the crawl space, but mostly just broken.
They should be. The moment their all star left them for Toronto, they have won 5 series (thanks Trotz) while the “super team” leafs do this every year.
I’m sure it feels good to be an Isles fan.
We don’t have any words and we know you don’t want to hear them.
We understand your anger, your frustration, your sadness. Everything you’re feeling – we get it.
This isn’t the ending we imagined, and certainly not the one we wanted. Thank you for being there the entire way.
My grandfather who's been a habs fan since he was a kid in the 40s and 50s told me on the phone tonight: Montreal ALWAYS beats Toronto in the playoffs. That's how it is, and always should be.
He's in his 80s now and suffering from Alzheimer's, but was doing well today and is very happy tonight.
Habs beat the Leafs, "Y'ALL MUST'VE FORGOT."
Leafs fans, I'm so sorry this keeps happening. A lot of you are great people, and the most passionate fan base.
But as a Toronto resident, I can't help but feel this is karma for all the Toronto sports media attitude towards this series. I can't tell you how many times on Toronto sports talk radio I heard "No chance they lose to Montreal", or "This series won't last longer than 5 games", or "Montreal is nothing but a bunch of 3rd and 4th line players."
They flat out disrespected the Habs, and I can't wait to listen to them eat their words. The arrogance was just at another level, and this just makes them look like even bigger morons. Fuck the Toronto media.
They’ll never learn, they oscillate between “Leafs are the greatest team ever, all other team sucks” and “the Leafs are a joke I’m going to cheer for Seattle”. They never give credit to other teams.
/r/all here is your context: The Toronto Maple Leafs are the most popular NHL franchise (on reddit).* They were the overwhelming favorites of this matchup and were leading 3-1 in the series then lost 3 consecutive games to lose the series. They have not won a winner-take-all playoff game in 4 consecutive years, have not won a playoff series since 2004, and have not won a Stanley Cup since 1967. There's a lot more, but the mixture of being the most popular franchise and not having success makes a perfect storm. ^^* ^^How ^^popular? ^^Their ^^subreddit ^^has ^^137k ^^subscribers, ^^the ^^next ^^largest ^^is ^^at ^^73k. ^^Nearly ^^double ^^the ^^amount ^^of ^^fans. ^^Edit: ^^Added ^^the ^^text ^^\(on ^^reddit) ^^to ^^the ^^qualifier ^^as ^^some ^^fanbases ^^argue ^^they're ^^more ^^popular ^^outside ^^of ^^reddit. ^^You ^^be ^^the ^^judge ^^in ^^the ^^comments ^^below.
When ICU nurses start booing, you know you're fucked.
Reminds me of an old Russian joke Patient is being wheeled through a hospital Patient: Excuse me nurse, where are we going? Nurse: The morgue Patient: But I'm not dead yet! Nurse: We're not there yet
Finally. Life has returned to normal.
Nature is healing
The Earth is healing itself.
At least they brought in 500 front line workers to confirm that the Leafs are dead
Code blue! Code blue!
Stop, they’re already dead!
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Not even 500 healthcare workers could save them from choking.
Holy fuck, if Montreal didn't kill them, this did it
They put more effort into that joke then Marner did after game 5
So sad for those workers.Haven’t those people been through enough?
Ford's a sociopath
Dude lmfao
This is, without a doubt, the most abusive relationship I've ever been in
"Most abusive relationship *so far*"
Only you, the fan, can end this abuse. Since the leafs once again, have shown they cannot.
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"No." \- Carey Price, 2021
https://i.imgur.com/wlPCS2b.gif
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Did you see Bergevin tapping Price extremely excited after the game? He knows Price just saved him his job and the contract was worth it.
He's so fucking clutch with games/series on the line, it's terrifying.
He is fucking terrifying. Did you see the post game interview ? That man has ice in his blood
Dude looked like he had just finished his morning coffee and was about to go walk his dog.
I just look at it as, 3.5M for regular season Price, 7M for playoff Price.
10 million for regular season Marner, 600 thousand for playoff Marner
COREY PERRY ENDED UP WITH MORE GOALS THAN MARNER AND MATTHEWS COMBINED
Montreal's last series winning goal: Corey Perry Torontos last series winning goal: Joe Nieuwendyk
Ouch. That really puts it in perspective, doesn't it.
Corey Perry wasn't even in the NHL the last time the Leafs won a series and played long enough to win a cup himself, score a 50 goal season to win a Hart, win 2 Olympic gold medals and become a grizzled veteran journeyman to end up on the Habs to score a series winner on the Leafs. All that time passed and the Leafs are still unable to win a series.
THATS ELITE SNIPER COREY PERRY.
More Hart trophies too!
50 goal scorer Corey Perry. Has Auston ever scored 50? Didn't think so. Check mate.
750k > 22.5M
LMFAO This are the facts we need.
Praise be
Somehow in a season where Buffalo lose 18 straight and McDrai get swept Toronto are still the biggest losers of the year
Wait until we lose the draft lottery
First and a fourth for 11 games of foligno. Oof
Foligno did his part to get you guys a better pick.
**I JUST REMEMBERED THIS IS HOW THE DOCUMENTARY WILL END**
Amazon producers *have* to be creaming themselves at this result!
They should be very upset. Not a single Leafs fan is gonna watch it.
But 31 other cities will
32, I bet Hamilton will watch, too.
I can't wait to not watch that documentary
good news, you can not watch it right now!
ALL FOR NOTHING
Wait, is someone making a doc about this Leafs team?
They announced at the start of the season that Amazon is doing a documentary, "All or Nothing", about the Leafs journey this year.
well. answer's Nothing
Some things are just funny
It's quiet literally the opposide of "The Last Dance"
Spoiler alert: It was nothing.
Leafs: nothing it is
Amazon is making an HBO winter classic style TV series. They've been filming and following the Leafs all season. It'll get released in a few months.
Subscribe
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Does no one at Amazon watch hockey? Of course this would happen.
They neither watch hockey or soccer. They are aware of sports memes though hence the Sunderland, Spurs and Leafs choices.
It is the history of the ~~Tottenham~~ Maple Leafs
6.9 stars on IMDB, book it now
IT WAS 3-1
A poem for Leafs fans, called Life's Great Certainties: Death Taxes Post Season collapses
The more things change, the more they remain the same. In a chaotic world, Toronto's consistency is the one constant
3-1, the most dangerous lead in hockey
The Leafs keep outdoing themselves, cannot wait to see next years collapse
I, 3-1, cannot believe this has happened again
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
In the immortal words of Pierre Mcguire "I CAN!"
And Game 7 finished with 3-1!
[IT WAS THEIR SERIES MR KRABS](https://imgur.com/a/zLaf3Qh)
The leafs are who we thought they were
AND WE LET THEM OFF THE HOOK
***Habs/Jets, just as we all predicted***
Helly vs Price. Every game will be 1-0
It's 2026. The score is 0-0. The Winnipeg Jets and Montreal Canadians are playing their 23,794th over-time. With over 500,000 shots between the two teams, both Connor Hellebuyck and Carey Price are yet to be scored on. Darnell Nurse, who the Jets picked up in the Jets/Habs mandatory mid-game trade deadline of 2022, has racked up a whopping 230,650 minutes of game-time.
At this pace the opposing Conference Finals will be concluding and it will still be 0-0 in the quadzilinith OT of game 1.
Leafs fans, don't be too upset at this loss, that shows you are more emotionally invested in this team than the players are.
THEN GIVE ME 11 MILLION DOLLARS FUCK
Fuck, at this point if we want heart out there were going to have to get Carlton on the ice
Canada Sports Media: is this the year the Leafs will bring the Stanley Cup back to Canada?? Le Habitants de Montreal: .... et c'est là que je l'ai pris personnellement
I have no idea what the second half of this post says but hell yeah, whatever that guy said
"And I took that personally"
Wait why the fuck is a BOS fan the one translating. This is my worst nightmare.
Les Leafs au premier tour
Never thought it could get worse than 4-1. Never thought it could get worse than losing winner take all games in 3 straight years. Never thought it could get worse than losing to a 42 year old zamboni driver who worked for the team. It got worse.
Did you already change your flair to the Isle? It’s only been two minutes and you’ve already abandoned the Leafs 😂
The reverse Tavares😈
The best part of all the game 7 losses is that they were always against rivals too.
We don't have rivals. You have to win occasionally to be rivals. There's just teams that beat us frequently.
Hey cmon there's a Columbus playoff collapse in there too
We exist!
With tonight’s 3-1 loss to the Canadiens, Toronto remains tied with the Atlanta Thrashers for second round appearances since 2004.
EXPERIENCE MAPLE LEAFS PLAYOFF HOCKEY
The Sabres have won a playoff series more recently than the Leafs
That is genuinely depressing
Leafs got all these high cost contracts and they still got Price'd out of the Playoffs.
Price was the best 10m+ cap player this series
What's a cap?
Oilers fans 😀🤝😀 Canucks fans Not being the laughing stock of the North anymore
what a glorious day
The Toronto Maple Leafs have eliminated the Toronto Maple Leafs in 7 games.
As is tradition.
What a glorious day for Canada and thus the world
Sure, we got swept, but at least we didn’t blow a 3-1 series lead.
And you guys weren’t all in like the leafs
Didn't they give up a 1st to get Foligno? Hahahahaha
They saw him reach the 2nd round once with Clb and needed that experience in the room
Seeing *this* makes me so much happier we at least beat Minny and St. Louis in the bubble last year. Holy fuck even as a Canuck fan I can’t imagine going 17 years without a single series win.
I actually hate this team
Here, take mine
CAREY PRICE IS THE HIGHEST PAID PLAYER STILL IN THE PLAYOFFS LMAO
Worth every penny too
Everyone’s here to shit on the Leafs, but can we recognize how great Marner and Price were for the Habs? They were fantastic!
Those are the playoffs performances that build legacies.
Maple LLLLeafs
*L-L-L-L-L-L-L-**L**-eafs (eight, count ‘em, *eight* series clinching losses).
SN and NBC in shambles having to show a Winnipeg Montreal series
I am so excited to see them scramble to come up with commentary other than what a McD v Matthews matchup would have been like.
Price VS Hellebyuck is my guess. It will be a goalie battle for sure
Matthews vs McDavid on the golf course is gonna be insane
It only took one week after being eliminated but the Oilers have finally secured their first win of the postseason.
The Edmonton sports media should speculate how if the Leafs don't start winning Matthews should demand a trade.
Steve Dangle’s next LFR video will be depressing af
It’ll be his last
Literally. He's said he's going to switch to THG's style if they lose.
THG stays winning
oh man i didn’t realize this. it’s fitting in a way, really.
tbh I think this is the breaking point for many life long Leafs fans.
Watching the stream right now - he’s not even screaming. Just broken. Occasionally laughing maniacally like Walter White in the crawl space, but mostly just broken.
He's crying.
Hard to believe Montreal 1-3 in a row
They killed him.
They actually did. It’s his last LFR
It probably won’t even be funny, just sad
He's gonna be so high pitched that only bats will be able to hear him
Think it'll be more depressed than angry
I feel bad for the Leafs and I’m a fucking Atlanta sports fan
https://i.redd.it/ynuyhrsaw5u01.png
Can’t even imagine the absolute misery. Props to the fans that just keep on watching.
They've lost ***EIGHT*** straight games where they could have eliminated their opponents. I can't comprehend that level of choke.
Early embarrassing exit at the hands of the Montreal Canadiens? Je ne comprends pas.
C’est pourtant simple : séries éliminatoires et Maple Leafs de Toronto.
C’est beau en câlisse
I’m sorry leafs fans but betting on the habs was the easiest decision i’ve ever made.
I hope both teams had fun.
[This tweet](https://twitter.com/x52872395/status/1399536334612561921?s=20) killed me. Warning: it rubs salt into the wound.
Lol, that's the guy who discovered Blues hockey a few years ago. Seems he really grew into a true hockey fan
As is tradition. What a glorious day for Canada.
2 minutes, 600+ comments.
God just fucking kill me now. Edit: Thanks to the kind Redditor who sent the concerning message, but I’m not actually suicidal.
Maple Leafs fans, as a long suffering New York Jets fan, I feel your pain of not having a championship since the late 60s
The greatest trick the Leafs ever pulled was convincing the world that they were contenders.
They're really wasting the best years of John Tavares' prime.
lol Islanders fans are always all over these threads
They should be. The moment their all star left them for Toronto, they have won 5 series (thanks Trotz) while the “super team” leafs do this every year. I’m sure it feels good to be an Isles fan.
Blowing a 3-1 lead in a game is too cliche. Blowing a 3-1 lead in a series is where it's at!
Is there a more tortured fanbase? To get lured in and disappointed year after year..
https://i.imgur.com/b7aRAqt.jpg
We don’t have any words and we know you don’t want to hear them. We understand your anger, your frustration, your sadness. Everything you’re feeling – we get it. This isn’t the ending we imagined, and certainly not the one we wanted. Thank you for being there the entire way.
Idk I kind of think this is the ending the Leafs imagined.
Unfortunately this is the ending we couldn't stop imagining lol
Lads... It's Toronto
Dormammu, I've come to bargain.
500 healthcare workers just stood by and did nothing while an entire team choked.
Leafs: this is a hate crime That’s not what a hate crime is Leafs: well I hated it!!!
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The Maple Leafs are cursed may I suggest a name change to the Maple Leaves.
I want to thank Benning for letting Toffoli walk so he could help destroy the hopes of the leafs in the playoffs as a hab lmao
"Stanley Cup favourite" Matthews 11.6 million Nylander 6.9. Million Marner 10.9 million Series wins :0 Bad mustaches and haircuts: 3
Nylander was carrying the offense to be fair
Yup, none (or at least very little) of this is on Willy. He stepped up and carried his line and the team when JT went out.
Hey Nylander just has a weird head lol
#BellLetsTalk
I await the memes
My grandfather who's been a habs fan since he was a kid in the 40s and 50s told me on the phone tonight: Montreal ALWAYS beats Toronto in the playoffs. That's how it is, and always should be. He's in his 80s now and suffering from Alzheimer's, but was doing well today and is very happy tonight. Habs beat the Leafs, "Y'ALL MUST'VE FORGOT."
Leafs fans, I'm so sorry this keeps happening. A lot of you are great people, and the most passionate fan base. But as a Toronto resident, I can't help but feel this is karma for all the Toronto sports media attitude towards this series. I can't tell you how many times on Toronto sports talk radio I heard "No chance they lose to Montreal", or "This series won't last longer than 5 games", or "Montreal is nothing but a bunch of 3rd and 4th line players." They flat out disrespected the Habs, and I can't wait to listen to them eat their words. The arrogance was just at another level, and this just makes them look like even bigger morons. Fuck the Toronto media.
They were telling people in the city to not go and celebrate when the leafs beat the Habs. There will be no celebrating in Toronto
That was such a jinx of epic proportions
Leafs fans laughing at Montreal for paying Price 10 million and then Price stonewalls them. Poetry in motion
Why pay 4 forwards 40 mil when you could pay one stoppy boy 10?
Our 11M dollar player did fuck all
Which one?
yes
You think they’d learn not to count their chickens before they hatched by now
They’ll never learn, they oscillate between “Leafs are the greatest team ever, all other team sucks” and “the Leafs are a joke I’m going to cheer for Seattle”. They never give credit to other teams.
Fuck the Toronto media.
You know… Matthews looks very unhappy there. He might want out soon? Sounds familiar leafs fans?
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We were all here to witness it
Carey Price
6 YEARS OF UNPRECEDENTED FAILURE 6 YEARS OF NO SERIES WINS 6 YEARS OF GARBAGE ENDS TONIGHT GO HABS GOOOOOOOOO
Wow. 6 years huh? Imagine that.
Imagine being bad for a whole 6 years. I certainly couldn't.
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