Toronto's Game 7 Struggles: Leafs' Ongoing Playoff Woes

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00:00I got to tell you, like, watching Game 5 in Toronto and Game 7 in Toronto, 12-2 in goals, you talk about, you know, belt to ass.

00:12I have never seen anything worse in my life for a franchise.

00:16Seven straight Game 7 losses for the Leafs.

00:20And you saw Marner lighten up his teammates after they gave up the third goal.

00:24It smells to me like he's out of there.

00:27And what a disappointment they are.

00:30There'll be a lot of changes in Toronto, and it has to be done.

00:34It's so difficult when you have a really good team, but you fall short all the time.

00:38I think we see this as, you know, anyone who follows the Buffalo Bills, right?

00:42What are you going to do?

00:43Are you going to trade Josh Allen?

00:45No, right, even though you're not winning.

00:47So it's a really tough spot that the Leafs are in.

00:50But it's almost, I don't know, Scott, like, Baruba didn't have an answer for after the game.

00:56When he was asked, they said, what's the most disappointing?

00:59What do you take away from this series and what you just said?

01:02He goes, I don't understand Game 5 and Game 7, right?

01:05Like, you could talk like people are all the Leafs are terrible.

01:07Well, they weren't terrible on Friday when they beat the state-defending Stanley Cup champions in their own rink, right?

01:13And then they go home, and then they go home, and it's the same thing all over again.

01:19You know, Scott, it's, I've never seen anything like this.

01:22We talked about Hellebuck and the Winnipeg Jets, how they were dominant at home, and they just couldn't win on the road.

01:29And now you have the Toronto Maple Leafs, Scott, where it's the opposite.

01:33Like, if that, I knew it.

01:35I knew it going in, and I can't, you know, I ended up taking a Leafs last night because I'm like, you know what?

01:40Maybe they can fall ass backwards and, like, shock the world and actually do this.

01:44But I kind of, you know, I said it all week last week.

01:47I said, no, they'll win on the road, and then they'll get lit up at home.

01:50They'll choke again at home.

01:51So you said that all week, and then you went and bet on them?

01:53I bet on the Leafs last night.

01:56You had the Leafs losing game seven for a month.

01:59Yeah, you know what, though?

02:00I got caught up, and I'm like, ah, this is it, you know?

02:03This is it.

02:04This is the first time.

02:06Yeah, it was a big fail.

02:07It was.

02:08And I had the Jets on Saturday.

02:10I went down with the ship with the Jets.

02:12I had Dallas.

02:13No, the Jets died on their sword, though, unlike the Leafs.

02:16You know what I'm saying?

02:17Like, the Jets is like, hey, you guys died on your sword.

02:20They can't win on the road.

02:21I don't care who died.

02:23They just can't win on the road.

02:24Like, they tried to sell us that, you know, it's horrible what happened.

02:28His father died.

02:29But they tried to sell us that that was, from the minute the game started,

02:33they ran with it, and they had Leah Hextall doing it.

02:36They had the announcers doing it.

02:37They had players being interviewed about it.

02:40And they had to win one for the Gipper.

02:42And it just didn't happen.

02:44No, they fell.

02:45It was a heartbreaker.

02:46I actually felt for them.

02:47I'm not even a Win-It-Pig Jet fan.

02:49But the Dallas Stars are good.

02:51But, listen, you can argue we have the best teams, right?

02:54Carolina is, like, a really, really good team.

02:56Nobody really knows who's on them.

02:58Yeah, like, and Florida.

03:00Florida are just damn good.

03:01Like, I've underestimated Florida over the years.

03:03And, like, they're on the verge of going to their third straight Stanley Cup final.

03:06That's not easy to do.

03:08Like, you know what I mean?

03:09And that's something, too, as far as the Leafs are concerned.

03:11And not to make excuses for the Leafs, but Paul Maurice brought it up after the game last night.

03:15And I think he's a little sympathetic to it because he used to coach the Toronto Maple Leafs.

03:20But he said, you know, I know what you guys are like here.

03:23And I know that they're getting crushed right now.

03:26They're the worst team in the world.

03:28And, you know, they're terrible.

03:30And Maurice said, he goes, you know, he goes, we're a pretty good team, right?

03:34And he goes, they just took us seven games.

03:36And he goes, we're pretty good.

03:37And I like what he gets.

03:40And Maurice goes, and he goes, I'll tell you what.

03:42We played well.

03:43He goes, we played very good hockey in this series.

03:46So he goes, all this stuff about the Leafs being terrible is idiotic.

03:50But we get how it works.

03:52It comes past failure, Scott, get attached to modern teams.

03:57Just point blank.

03:58Right?

03:59Like, the Buffalo Bills live Scott Norwood's missed field goal.

04:03Like, when they lose in the playoffs, it's like it happened again.

04:06It has nothing to do with a lot of players on the team, but it does.

04:10Right?

04:11There's certain franchises where it just starts, like, you're part of it.

04:15And that's the Leafs.

04:16So, you feel, and I get it.

04:19I get it.

04:20Like, you sort of blame, like, 55 years of failure on the current team all the time.

04:26You know what I mean, Scott?

04:27I've done it.

04:28I used to really not like Ryan Fitzpatrick when he was the quarterback in the Bills.

04:32I was like, this son of a bitch, another interception.

04:34Like, normally I'm raw, raw.

04:36No, no, no, I like my guy.

04:37I was like, dude, oh, oh, you know what I mean?

04:40And I realized I was just blaming him for the Bills sucking.

04:44It's not his fault.

04:45You know what I mean?

04:46He's just another long line of guys that suck with us.

04:48Right.

04:49You know what I'm saying?

04:50No.

04:51Yeah, you know, I don't want to get too psychological deep here,

04:53but the Leafs don't suck, but the pain and the constant failure, it adds up, and it boils over.

04:59I totally get it.

05:01As far as Marner is concerned, listen, I've been saying all along he's going to be a Pittsburgh Penguin,

05:05except there's going to be other teams that want him.

05:08And, you know, let's look at this, too.

05:10Tax-free state, guys.

05:12Right?

05:12Tax-free states in the NHL.

05:15They're kingpins.

05:15We've talked about it a lot.

05:17Players in other leagues.

05:18Texas, Tennessee, Florida.

05:20Yes, dude, they've won four of the last five Stanley Cups,

05:23and they're probably going to win this one.

05:24It's going to be a tax-free state again.

05:25You think it's by coincidence?

05:26Guys, look at Rantanen.

05:28Rantanen didn't want Colorado.

05:31Got set to Carolina.

05:32No, no, no.

05:33Oh, you know, tax-free Texas sounds good.

05:35Texas is pretty nice all of a sudden.

05:37So all these teams, oh, no, no, yeah, but Texas, okay.

05:41So I'm just saying this with Mitch Marner right now.

05:44I know that Kyle Dubas is going to want to sign him to Pittsburgh,

05:46but I wouldn't be surprised if Marner ended up on the Vegas Golden Knights.

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