The TO media is just ridiculous

Équipe: 2020-21 Maple Leafs de Toronto

Date de création initiale: 16 févr. 2021

Publié: 16 févr. 2021

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

The Leafs have definitely had their fair share of collapses over the last several years but comparing any of those to last night's game is just silly. What actually happened? Period 1, TO dominated and one bad sequence from Bogosian resulted in a goal against and we are at 2-1. Ottawa literally had 1 chance and Andersen had no chance. Period 2, a bit more even but TO scored 3 times to take a commanding lead. Then a careless give away by JT and it's 5-2 while on the PP. Again TO was the better team. Period 3, an unlucky bounce and Zub gets a breakaway out of the box it's 5-3. Ottawa does nothing until they get a PP in which Vesey breaks his stick and when he's going to get a new one Bogosian blows his coverage and it's 5-4. To this point, every good chance they had ends in a goal. Then with the net empty a puck bounces into the air and the Ottawa player bats it in. A rather fluke play there but it's tied. Marner just misses out on ending it in regulation and then again in OT and a breakaway seals it for Ottawa.

The media will say it's en epic collapse and a heroic effort by Ottawa. The reality is it was just one of those games. You deserved to win but lost. Oh well carry on and do better next time.

Now we have a bunch of Leaf fans wanting to trade the usual whipping boys because they don't understand hockey and want blood because someone on twitter said so. Just relax. These games happen. I wonder how many headlines there are today talking about Tampa's huge collapse after allowing 6 goals last night? Or what about the team TO should model the Blue Jackets? Do you think the papers in Columbus are calling to trade all their defenceman because they allowed 7? Nope everyone is calm there, because these games happen. Take a breath and let it go.