Panthers with 5 goals on 11 shots.

First 2-0 lead for the Leafs in 21 years.

Temporarily rooting for the Wild, because **** Vegas...

Disgraceful performance last night. But I'm not surprised because all through the Bruce Cassidy tenure we've had the propensity to look all world one day, then totally lay an egg AT HOME the next day. In our championship run we lost 5-1 to the Jets game one, 5-1 to the Oilers game two. 4-2 to Dallas game five all at home. So this is nothing new and silly mistakes by our defensive vets cost us. Still very confident the boys will get it done but it's a frustrating loss. Especially after we controlled the game after the first period but just couldn't finish.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“There’s a good chance Landeskog plays tonight.”<br><br>-Bednar on <a href="https://twitter.com/AltitudeSR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AltitudeSR</a></p>&mdash; Conor McGahey (@ConorMcGahey) <a href="https://twitter.com/ConorMcGahey/status/1915043801460314327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Get outta my crease...

<blockquote class="reddit-embed-bq" style="height:500px" data-embed-theme="dark" data-embed-height="566"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/sports/comments/1k60tj4/toronto_goalie_anthony_stolarz_puts_ottawas_ridly/">Toronto goalie Anthony Stolarz puts Ottawa's Ridly Greig to the ice with a shoulder check</a><br> by<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Oldtimer_2/">u/Oldtimer_2</a> in<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/sports/">sports</a></blockquote><script async="" src="https://embed.reddit.com/widgets.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>

Getting planted skating back into the crease at the end... ROFL


The first part is some Belfour/Mike Smith shit. LMAO


Stolarz played at UNO as a backup for a year and wasn't all that great, but was only a freshman before going to juniors in Canada... kind of crazy seeing him in the NHL all grown up.

I love that shoulder check.

Because that's a CLEAR douche move by Stolarz. It's like the baserunners that get out and make it a point to run over the mound on their way back to the dugout.

That's his crease. That's his turf. And when you're trying to skate between him and the goal instead of just go around, it's nothing more than you being a dick; the equivalent of stomping on a team logo.

FAFO, kiddo.

One of those crosschecks was pretty damn questionable and the little slash was as well. But the first crossh-check and the shoulder check at the end -- those were just glorious.

Every goalie is just a little bit crazy.

The player probably loved every second of that knowing he’s pissing off the goalie , most hockey players fall into the spectrum of crazy goalie drift off into the crazy/weirdo end of that spectrum.

In addition to cross checking Tavares in the face, Greig ran Stolarz in game 1 and tried to injure him. Happened right in front of me. Don't blame Stolarz at all for getting a few shots in.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;He recognizes that&#39;s the same guy who ran into me last game.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/KellyHrudey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KellyHrudey</a> weighs in on the ongoing battles between Stolarz and Greig. <a href="https://t.co/ugCycSNecp">pic.twitter.com/ugCycSNecp</a></p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1914856355506348467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Here it is.

Given that 3 second clip, it's pretty difficult to say losing an edge was done on purpose in order to hurt Stolarz, but of course people love to make up stuff and create villains (much less tweet that quote like it's a statement of fact).

Is that what they call running goalies these days?

Sampsonite, I was way off.

How bout them Wild. Did not see that coming