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Watch Toronto Maple Leafs Fans React To Game 7 Loss To Bruins

For any sports fan who has had to watch their team suffer a devastating loss, you know exactly what is going on in this video.  A group of Toronto Maple Leafs fans filmed their Game 7 party, which went from joy to sadness in about 15 minutes of ice time, against the Boston Bruins in the opening round of the 2013 NHL Playoffs. The video was uploaded to LeafFan89′s YouTube channel...
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Maple Leafs Fan Mounts GoPro Camera to TV, Captures Agony of Defeat as Friends React to Game 7 Loss (Video)

This was an experiment that clearly did not work out as planned. According to the uploader of the below YouTube video, he’s just a Maple Leafs fan who owns a GoPro camera and wanted to capture some memorable playoff moments. However, what he ended up getting was visual evidence of a memory that will probably stick in his sports-fan brain for the rest of his life. In any case, this...
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Top Ten Memes From The Toronto Maple Leafs Choke

As it’s been well-documented the Boston Bruins scored three goals in a nine-minute span of the third period to turn a 4-1 deficit to the Toronto Maple Leafs into a remarkable 4-4 tie in the memorable Game 7. That incredible flurry set the stage for the Bruins to end Toronto’s season with a Patrice Bergeron game-winning goal in overtime. Since then Maple Leaf fans have had to...
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Dion Phaneuf when protecting a lead vs when playing catch up

After last weeks untimely pinch by Dion Phaneuf in game 4 that led to an overtime goal and the Bruins taking a 3-1 lead in the first round series there was a lot of evaluation of Phaneuf as a defenseman both good and bad. I was intending to write an article to discuss the relative [...]The post Dion Phaneuf when protecting a lead vs when playing catch up appeared first on HockeyAnalysis.com.
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Sportsnet Gives Hockey Fans Behind-the-Scenes Look at Game 7 of Bruins-Maple Leafs (Video)

Game 7 was a wild affair for everyone involved, and that includes the media as well. That especially includes media that had to make the quick trip from Toronto back to Boston for Game 7 which was just one night after Game 6. Canadian sports network Sportsnet was one of the outlets that had to send its people back to Boston for Game 7, which is no small task. And once you arrive...
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Toronto, Go F yourself. Love Cleveland

So the Toronto Maple Leafs choked harder than Bob from Bill Swerski’s Superfans, blowing an insurmountable 4-1 lead with 10 minutes to go to the Boston Bruins in game 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs. You have to feel for Toronto right? A city and nation starving to get back to the playoffs for the first time in 9 years, on the verge of a huge come from behind series victory upset...
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2 days ago  |  1 Comment
FOR PARTS ONLY

Man breaks TV watching Maple Leafs, selling it

This was posted online at Kijiji, which is basically the ebay classifieds, shortly after the Toronto Maple Leafs blew a 4-1 lead and lost in overtime in game seven to the Boston Bruins.  The description is hysterical and I wish there was video of the TV being broken which looks like it was beaten repeatedly with either fists or a bat. [@JimmyTraina]
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Joffrey Lupul: Game 7 loss ‘will haunt me until the day I die’

Joffrey Lupul does not tweet very often. He has tweeted just over 1,100 times, and he hadn’t tweeted since April 23. The playoffs began on April 30. Lupul finally broke his three-week Twitter silence by sending this emotionally-charged message on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after his Toronto Maple Leafs blew a 4-1 3rd-period lead in Game 7 against the Boston Bruins: That hockey...
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Kick the Toronto Maple Leafs when they're down

That is what a lot of folks did in the Twitterverse. Here is a sampling of the conversation: Howard Bryant, ESPN.com: “ ‘The Toronto Maple Leafs, unless they suffer a colossal collapse, are going to eliminate the Bruins.’ -- Jack Edwards, 14:10 left 3rd period.”Gerry Callahan, WEEI radio: “How do you line & shake hands if you're Leafs? You just completed one of...
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Dejected Faces of Toronto Maple Leafs Fans

The Toronto Maple Leafs haven’t made it to the NFL Playoffs in nine years, so when they went into the third period of game 7 against the Boston Bruins, with a two goal lead and 90 seconds lwft, the fans partying on the streets of Toronto had a lot to cheer about. Then one of the most epic collapses in hockey history occurred and the Bruins pulled off a come from behind victory...
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Toronto Maple Leafs called out by Toronto Sun for choking

The Toronto Maple Leafs completed the biggest choke job in the history of third period of Stanley Cup Playoff hockey. Yes, the Leafs blew a 4-1 lead in the third, gave up two goals in 31 seconds, and lost to the Boston Bruins 5-4 in overtime to lose Game 7 of their Eastern Conference series on Monday night. The local paper, the Toronto Sun decided to put the joke err choke on them...
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Leaked CT scan of puck injury a fake?

Mark Fraser suffered one of the worst hockey injuries to date during Toronto's Game 4 loss to the Bruins. The Maple Leafs defenseman took a Milan Lucic shot to the forehead and required surgery to repair a broken bone in "his cranial area." Days after the surgery rook place, a Reddit user uploaded a photo of what he or she claims to be Fraser's CT scan from St...
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THE AWFUL TRUTH

Toronto Sun rips Maple Leafs for Game 7 loss

The thrill of victory is great, but the agony of defeat always makes for better and juicier headlines.  Take the Toronto Sun for instance and their reaction to the hometown Maple Leafs blowing a 4-1 3rd Period lead in Game 7 against the Boston Bruins, losing 5-4 in overtime.  "The Choke's On Us" might be a little harsh considering Toronto did fight back from a 3-1...
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Toronto Sun Cover Proclaims ‘The Choke’s on Us’ After Maple Leafs Blow Three-Goal Lead Against Bruins (Photo)

The Toronto Maple Leafs looked assured of advancing to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs after taking a three-goal lead against the Bruins in the third period of Monday’s Game 7. Somehow, they didn’t. The city’s first playoff team in nine years is instead heading home after losing 5-4 to the Bruins in overtime, thanks to four unanswered Boston goals. Maple Leafs...
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WAG STAREDOWN

Cuthbert, Reimer's wife exchange looks?

In Season 2 of the action series 24, Elisha Cuthbert's character, Kim Bauer, inexplicably won a staredown with a mountain lion. And so a fellow hockey WAG was no issue on Wednesday night in Toronto. In Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals between the Maple Leafs and Bruins, Cuthbert's fiancé, Dion Phaneuf, committed a silly pinch leading to a game-winning goal...
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8 days ago  |  Discuss
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