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Maple Leafs Lose Crucial Game, Playoff Pressures Mount
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5/13/2025
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I've been talking about this Leafs team today on the show that, you know, I bet on them on
00:07
whatever, Saturday night, whatever it was. And I took them at, or whatever it was yesterday,
00:15
right? At plus 158. And I did it because I thought Friday night they were in that game
00:24
and they should have, you know, in my view, they had them right where they wanted them.
00:27
They were down, you know, twice in the game, 4-3, 4-4, they tie it. And then they lose in
00:33
overtime on a deflection. They could have easily won that game and been up 3-1 in the series.
00:39
Instead, they play Sunday, they lose again, but it was a 1-0 game the whole game. And I just think
00:45
they're so scary when they have the puck. I was stunned that they didn't score. I still like
00:52
their chances going home. The way they played, I didn't think they played bad in Florida.
00:57
At all. I mean, they got burned 2-0, but to me, it was a 1-0 game.
01:01
Yeah, it was 1-0 all the way, Scotty, but they're trending in the wrong direction. You want that
01:07
team to get off the deck, the champions? You don't want that to happen. You want to split
01:10
in Florida, go home 3-1. Because I think the stat is 96% of the teams that are up 3-1 win the series.
01:16
You just let them get back in the series. And now all the pressure's on the Leafs.
01:20
They got to go home and win in a place they don't really play great in.
01:22
You're right. They are a better team than the last three or four years.
01:26
They have better defense. The goaltending, which still ours, would have been better than
01:29
Wolfe. You can't blame Wolfe for those games, right? It's very dangerous to let the Panthers
01:35
team get off the deck. And now they're playing the game they want to play because of all the
01:38
hits after the whistle at the end of the game. It's not trending in the right direction.
01:43
I'm not saying the Leafs can't win this series, Scotty, but I picked the Panthers in six.
01:47
The last two games, you start to see why. They figure out ways to win, and they've done that
01:50
in the last two. Well, I won't deny they're the champs, and I don't think that many people
01:57
would argue with Panthers in six at the outset. But when you saw them lose those first two
02:04
games in Toronto, no surprise at all there the way they outplayed Florida, I thought,
02:10
in both games.
02:12
Well, I think they took their foot off the gas a little bit because, remember, they crushed
02:16
the Tampa Bay Lightning, and I picked the Tampa Bay Lightning to go to the Cup Final.
02:19
So I think coming off that, maybe they read their head on a little bit, maybe it took
02:22
a little bit easy. Maybe they thought that the Leafs would be a soft touch, and they're
02:26
not, because they are a tougher team. They're a tougher team because of the coach, because
02:29
of the lineup. But again, I wasn't shocked they were up 2-0, but until the Panthers lose
02:35
a home game, it's going to still be a series, and now it's going to probably go six or seven
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at this point in time. Again, Scotty, it's so dangerous to let that team off the hook.
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And you saw it in the LA Edmonton series. The Kings let the Edmonton Oilers off the hook.
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What happened? They won four straight. They're on to the next round. That could happen here
02:52
again with the Florida Panthers and the Maples.
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