Jesse is probably more correct. Every team has these games whether it’s mid season or whenever. We just see them on scoreboards and go “oh avs lost 3-1 to whoever” and move on. But for avs fans or whatever fan, they watched a lazy uninspired game. We aren’t the only ones. We seem to forget that a lot but it’s hard when you cheer for one team (I’m in the same boat)
I saw this from a mile away: Struggling, injured Canucks team during a week of tough opponents, after a string of losses, playing the atlantic leader on the second half of a b2b, AND being held overnight in Carolina. All that adds to... there was no way the Leafs win that game.
Same. When I saw the news about their travel delays yesterday I immediately thought "This will be one of those Leafiest of Leafy loses." The guarantees in life, death, taxes, and the Leafs being the Leafs.
These are the kinds of losses that remind me that when Matthews, Marner, and Nylander retire like a dozen years from now, Toronto's last Cup win will still have occurred in 1967.
@ and how many series have they won? One measly series in 9 attempts yeah a real machine, a f…ing broken machine! Worst playoff stretch the last 8 seasons in Leafs history. No group ever has been this expert at losing playoff series 🤣🤣
@@jameson1239 understand, I'm already terrified of Ovi, as he bullied my favorite team into moving more than 3000 miles away from me. I'd be more terrified if he lived in Siberia with guns.
As a Caps fan.....I'm actually surprised Steve didn't mention Carbery, Willy gets enough press, also if you say Willy's name too often the supercomputer at referee HQ will print out the next two Capitals score sheets with his PIM column already filled out....and zero is never an option
@@SteveDangle wow you went into John Torts mode there for a little of time his video love these reaction videos and all of the other videos you do keep up the good work
I was at the game last night Steve. The only consolation was that I could watch a cathartic rant from you the next morning. Thanks for representing us all.
Almost exactly a year ago (NFL Wildcard weekend), the Leafs lost to a Wings team that spent the day at the airport after weather delayed the flight. It's almost a tradition at this point... Edit: I guess Steve noticed it too lol
I seriously laughed out loud when I saw this title, because I remember hearing Steve read out that "you should title the LFR 'bumblef*ck' comment in the livestream, but I had zero expectation that he'd actually do it. The madlad
Leafs should be pissed, but Matthews, Marner and Rielly all thought that it was a close game in post game interviews. When is Matthews gonna grow a pair, slam a gate and lose it on the bench? The problem is cultural...lions without hearts.
@SteveDangle So, I'll be honest, I'm a Canucks fan, but going into the game last night, I was waiting for you guys to BEAT THE EVER-LOVING TAR out of us, I was stunned it never happened. I may love our Vancouver boys, but I really do hope your boys get that act together. It would be a dream match of mine to see the Canucks and Leafs Duke it out for a cup and end the Drought for the country. I'm wishing ya the best Leafs fans, I sincerely mean that!!!
Impressed that you can hold two distinct analogies in your head and create a tidy narrative whilst losing your mind over an 18 minute rant. That is a heavy lift. Bravo.
My girlfriends first leaf game and my Christmas present from her. Glad she could see them in person. She now understands what we have to deal with. We couldn't help but laugh at the cliche stuff like the first shot going in, the power play and the shutout. Of course we went to a shutout game . Go leafs go.
Not even joking when I say I brought my wife to her first game ever in November for the battle of Ontario. Exact same scenario. First shot of the game Ottawa scored. Final score 3-0…… we drank that night away.
Last leaf “with a screw loose” was Naz. And he won a cup as soon as we pissed him away. And then he said “anyone who thought I was a liability in the playoffs can kiss my ass”. Thanks Dubas
No, he got suspended and cost the avalanche a playoff run the first year. It wasn’t until the second year with the Avs they won. He got suspended in the first round three years in a row, that is literally a playoff liability. Just because he finally decided to smarten up and help his team win doesn’t mean the last three years disappear.
Saying Pettersson was nearly invisible is crazy, he had a selke level defensive game and was great offensively (tho only getting a point). That’s a crazy take
canucks fan here. was very down on my team doing and showing nothing. but ofc the leafs blew it to us. we REALLY needed that. lank's been an mvp all season (best off-season signing apart from sherwood imo). goes to show what happens when you give your goalie who's been amazing all season some damn support in front of him.
Steve this week on the SDPN podcast: "There's no excuse to lose this game" Me: "Shh." Steve: "They should light these guys up." Me: "Stop it" Steve: "The Canucks are at the end of 3 games in 4 days, they're beatup and injured and the Leafs are playing them in there own barn on Hockey night in Canada, they win this game" Me: *sighs sadly*..."They're gonna lose this game"
@@BluesRiffage It's not a charade. If you are a laff's fan and don't feel like that after this sewage that was put on the ice for the past almost 10 years, you are the "charade"
Even the habs going to the finals in 2021 (didnt win, i know), but gallagher had his moment where he legitimately had a blood mask. That dudes a warrior
Leafs have no warriors on this club. Why do you think Ryan O’Reilly left very fast after his brief time in Toronto. He sees the culture or lack thereof
@@Ryuzakku I love Marner. I love that he's a local boy. I love that he's somehow a fucking wizard with the puck. I know deep deep deep in my bones, that the second they trade him, he'll carry a team to the cup, but as long as he's here, we will not get past round 1.
Canucks all season so far have been injury riddled and top players besides hughes has been snake bitten to hell and back. This season has been MISERABLE, they needed this win
Vote here if you want "I don't know what grows where lions live" in the LFR intro next season! Maybe I'll chime in as a Habs fan. I don't only check in when the Leafs lose, no, Steve has an obvious depth of knowledge and, passion for hockey. His videos are gold. In my humble opinion, Habs are at an exciting time in the rebuild where their old lions are teaching the young ones to hunt, and of recent they appear to hate being hungry more than not. Are they a ready to assert dominance over the land? No. But they're hunting for bigger and better meals to be ready when that time arrives.
This video is the reason I watch these, as a non Leaf fan. The analysis is spot on, and the Lion is such a good analogy. So right, that the Leafs don't have any of those maniacal win at all cost guys. The Canucks have one: his name is Quinn Hughes.
As a canucks fan who loves your videos Steve (you’ve kinda turned me into a part-time Leafs fan lol), I get why you said this should’ve been a game the Leafs win. Canucks are prob exhausted from back-to-backs, are sick and injured, we’ve stunk over the past few games, and we can’t score! But can’t underestimate the Canucks and I think that’s exactly what happened hehe.
You should talk about Morgan Rielly. How he's -14 this year, and has been absolute trash. 7.5 mil for a player with 5 goals , 15 assists and -14. One of the worse defencemen in the league, who for multiple times this year has been scored on in the 1st minute of a game.
@@filthydegenerate6528 ...if a defender is a -14, then yes that is a very relevant stat, because that means *he's not defending.* -1, -2? fine. -14 is insane as the top defender on a team making $7M+, especially when he has 20 points. that means he's been on the ice for at least 34 goals against lol.
I absolutely hate to see my team lose but when I watch Steve the next morning when I am on the treadmill, somehow he makes me feel better. I don’t understand it, but I love Steve’s rants. I wish I could vent my frustration like he does. ❤
The illustration of spending $1000 for a family to watch what should be at least entertaining as opposed to depressing really put this game in perspective! Great summary(not to be mean) on this game!
Steve you are the BEST! I'm sorry for your loss but it was incredible for us. But I love watching your content. Our team has been up and down this year. It was our 1st franchise shutout in Toronto ever! Crazy.
At the end of the day if the hatred for losing doesn’t drive these guys to elevate to a level we’ve yet to see come playoffs, the result will be the same. And we will look back on this time in a decade or so and just see a really good team that never really scared anyone
I was at the game and got to go on the ice 2nd intermission for a intermission game, and I was told by multiple different people that I was the best part of the night, I also got a goal in the net which one more than all leafs players today
Was there. Highlight of the game was you just ripping it wayyy too hard for the zones you were trying to score on. Straight into the net instead got a good chuckle, thanks!
first game i've gotten to go to in person since pre pandemic and this is what i got to watch live, I couldn't even change the channel like i would be able to if i just stayed home to watch. Maybe i'll get to a better one in another half decade that's a better effort.
Whether they win a cup eventually or not, I hope some day there's a documentary about this incarnation of the Leafs. I feel like there needs to be a forensic breakdown of why a team with that much talent can't seem to assemble the right combination to even come close to winning a cup.
It's not hard, the team is riddled with a myriad of problems. On the surface they look extremely talented but deep down, they lack a lot of things, a lot of very important things. They have exceptional high talent, but none of that talent is capable of dragging anybody into a fight, into a game. What do I mean? Like a fight, a big hit, shit disturbing, stuff like that. Here's how you know they don't have it: there were three moments of brute in this game that come to mind. One was a hit, another was an after scrum face punching and the last was running around in play trying to stir shit (albeit way too late in the game). Now, if you guessed the first one was Timmins, congratulations - not who you thought would throw a big hit right, and definitely not the biggest of the game. If you thought the second one was Robertson, congrats for going two for two. Again not who you expect to be punching faces either after the whistle but he did it to protect his goalie. Finally the last one is a free space because it's Domi and to be expected, it was just done way too late in the game so it didn't matter. That makes Domi's game basically irrelevant, yet still a highlight which is more than you can say about the other top 6 forwards and Rielly. The team is cozy. The star players are cozy because they don't do things that make them uncomfortable. They can't drag the rest of the players into the fight. Either they don't want to, or they don't have what it takes to do so. The closest we've seen over the years are fights from Morgan Rielly after the team getting embarrassed after some shit, whether that's a stupid empty net goal, or Matthews getting run over, or some shit like that. That's sad because its rarely much of a fight and if Morgan Rielly is the guy that drags you into this, wtf are the other 4 guys making $3 - $5 million more than him doing? Side rant: we can shit on Rielly all we want, and deservingly, but like... $3 - $5 million more is what each of JT, Willy, AM and Marner are making over him, and we want to chew Rielly out as being the issue on the PP? lol... that's a combine $12 - $20 million of money that could easily be for a competent 3C and heck possibly a decent top 6 gritty winger; which really hints at the next big issue. Ok, so they make a lot of money they don't need to be gritty right? Therein lies the next reason why this team doesn't succeed. All the money goes to high end talent and there's nothing left for secondary stuff and certainly not players who want to drag you into the fight. So if the high end talent isn't going to do it, it just doesn't happen. And when you get a team against the ropes, when they are in desperation mode because they want it more than you, because they don't have a tomorrow (think playoffs), that's when you need to have more hunger to win than them. There's really nothing else to say other than the leafs just have never been able to show they have that. "Ya but what about the series against TB they won!?"... The more we get further from that, the more I realize that TB was probably just a tired team and didn't have enough fight in them to hold up another go. This really showed with Vasy looking human in goal. It wasn't that Toronto wanted it more, it was TB running out of gas to compete: 3 finals, 2 cups, something like almost 120 playoff games (an entire season and a half of games...). If you accept that fact and then look back at these leafs, well that doesn't spell good things for this leaf team. Are the leafs different? Sort of, they certainly look it defensively behind Berube. But that has come at the cost of offense too. Now have they fundamentally changed their identity? Not sure I believe they have yet. There's still time but right now, I can't say I believe they will do anything different than they have done. At best they make it to the 2nd round because they start with a weak, tired first round opponent (from fighting so hard to get into the playoffs) IF they are able to pull head out of ass and maintain first place in the division. That's a big if right now. And those two issues are just the obvious ones. The not so obvious ones make you want to fix these two upper issues more because of how they impact them.
Best LFR I've ever seen. Life long leaf fan. That video sums up the team better than I've ever heard before. We just don't have it. To br even more honest we traded away the closest thing to it when Kardi got moved.
I think the key things that were described is that on that five game-winning streak they didn’t play well and I think that now it’s catching up to them, you can only play that way so many times before it catches up to you and that’s what happened. It’s caught up to them and every team that Toronto beat was either bad or mid but they can’t beat playoff teams it’s seems
Great points on this one Steve. You can go back 50 years and find at least one “unstable” player on each cup winning team. And that Samsonov comment was uncalled for 😂
It's true though, Crosby, Kucherov, McKinnon, McDavid, there's something different about those guys. You can see it in their eyes when they are blood lusted.
@@LARGO125 when any of those players are on the ice you can see that they immediately take control and the pace of the game changes. It's like Matthews is invisible when he's out there and now he isn't even taking shots on the powerplay. You can tell when Domi and Robertson are out there because they're skating like they have something to prove but that's about it, the only person on the first line who is noticable is Mitch and definitely not yesterday
First time visiting the channel, and a Canucks fan, but I love the passion here. Obviously happy with the result personally, but it's still fun to see the enthusiasm that you put into your synopsis while making some topical Lion King comparisons haha. I think with the Canucks as battered both physically and mentally as they are, the Leafs did not look great in this game, but Toronto still put Lankinen to work and Petterson actually had a quiet stat night. That said, we over on the left coast always love to put our Leaf homers into a wagon and send them over a cliff so we don't have to listen to them anymore so this was nice overall. Thanks for the video from a new subscriber. :D
Chief needs to sit the team down Sunday at 630 am. Play them this video. Then skate them until they reach bedrock. Absolute embarrassment this team is.
I hope this video creates trade-dealine predictions for sdp. I would love a whole podcast in the GM chair going through the cap and seeing the brainstorm scenarios. Would love to see a Morgan Reilly trade predictions. I know you guys kindve do it every now and then like with Marner but to dedicate a whole show to it would be awesome
Factually untrue he's talked about at length before how that's not true at all. Individual videos do best when they lose. But if they get eliminated there are no more videos to make... if they go multiple rounds he'll make more money because they're still actually playing so he has to keep making videos... he's said it himself he makes more money overall when they win not when they lose lol. And it's just logical. Lol
Steve, I absolutely feel you on this one because I’m a Steeler fan and when they started 10 and three and everybody was getting excited, I kept telling people they still got a rough stretch to go and the way things have been going over the years they haven’t proven to me that they could win in the playoffs and then look at what just happened to them yesterday. I know it’s not exactly the same as the pain you feel with the Leafs, but I can completely understand where you are coming from
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This video has almost a decade of anger behind it and I love it
58 years of shame to be exact. Cheering this heartless group, is embarrassing. Steve, buddy. The leafs are the antelope the lions are eating!
As soon as he started talking about Lions and what they eat, I was like “uh oh…Steve’s lost it”
The number after LFR tells you the exact number of years of anger. Although, it's possible Steve started the first one pre-angered.
Steve is on the early stages of pure insanity, The leafs are gonna drive him into the psychward 🤣
Like 30 years or so.
Steve’s gonna be livid when Jesse tells him it’s just a mid season game in January
That's so many games!
i swear nothing matters to Jesse until they lose game 7 for the 10th year in a row lol
Jesse is probably more correct. Every team has these games whether it’s mid season or whenever. We just see them on scoreboards and go “oh avs lost 3-1 to whoever” and move on. But for avs fans or whatever fan, they watched a lazy uninspired game. We aren’t the only ones. We seem to forget that a lot but it’s hard when you cheer for one team (I’m in the same boat)
@@ericwilliams1845bingo. It’s one game. We are still in first.
That Jesse guy is probably right
I saw this from a mile away: Struggling, injured Canucks team during a week of tough opponents, after a string of losses, playing the atlantic leader on the second half of a b2b, AND being held overnight in Carolina.
All that adds to... there was no way the Leafs win that game.
Said the exact same thing ... all the people that didnt see that train wreck coming arent real leafs fans.
Same. When I saw the news about their travel delays yesterday I immediately thought "This will be one of those Leafiest of Leafy loses." The guarantees in life, death, taxes, and the Leafs being the Leafs.
Nailed it with this comment. You could see it coming from galaxies away (dramatic like our Leafs)
Yeah man. History says the Gods are on the Canucks side lol go for a breath of fresh air
It is called taking your opponent too lightly. It is the cause of more losses than Dan Cloutier.
These are the kinds of losses that remind me that when Matthews, Marner, and Nylander retire like a dozen years from now, Toronto's last Cup win will still have occurred in 1967.
Nick … correct!!
This core ain't it
@ agreed. 1-8 in playoff series. Gutless
You can make that speculation about Matthew’s and Marner, but saying that about nylander is insane. That guy is a machine in the playoffs.
@ and how many series have they won? One measly series in 9 attempts yeah a real machine, a f…ing broken machine! Worst playoff stretch the last 8 seasons in Leafs history. No group ever has been this expert at losing playoff series 🤣🤣
11:28 “IT’S BEEN THE SAME GROUP OF 5 GUYS BUMBLEF***** THE PUCK!!” 😂😂😂
They play together since 2018 !!! Indont care who the coach is. With this much talent the PP has to be atleast good all the time.
@@holymackenaw LFR 19 intro candidate
"I dunno what grows out of the ground where lions live..."
We got an all-timer from Steve.
The answer is STANLEY CUPS!
Should be in the intro next season
So many good lines this video, "give me a reasonable reason why I'm being unreasonable" is another all timer
This man worked at a zoo!
Steve Swearing on his main channel in 2025 was not on my Bingo Card
Says fuck (albeit bleeped) 6 times, and shit twice. He must’ve been REALLY mad if he was swearing that much
Why not? It was obvious the Maple Leafs would be embarrassed, if not last night some time soon. It's just a question of time.
The swearing shows true passion. Something the Leafs don't have
“Thank GOD, whatever one you pray to, that Nikita Kucherov discovered hockey instead of, i don’t know, KNIVES?!”
😂😂😂😂 legendary stuff 7:42
Notice he does mention 3 Russian players kek
Tkachuck, Stone, and MacKinnon Pietrangelo, are all Canadian Rantanen is finish and Landeskog is Swedish, yeah he mentions Ovi and Kucheov and Malkin
@@jameson1239 understand, I'm already terrified of Ovi, as he bullied my favorite team into moving more than 3000 miles away from me. I'd be more terrified if he lived in Siberia with guns.
Kucherov did discover knives, he just put them on his feet.
@@StefanWB you just know Steve wanted to say 'Wagner', then decided he couldnt.... LOL
Tom Wilson is sad he didnt get mentioned in the "something wrong with them" conversation
Tom Wilson is a fuckin BEAUTY.
As a Caps fan.....I'm actually surprised Steve didn't mention Carbery, Willy gets enough press, also if you say Willy's name too often the supercomputer at referee HQ will print out the next two Capitals score sheets with his PIM column already filled out....and zero is never an option
Oh truuuuue
@@SteveDangle wow you went into John Torts mode there for a little of time his video love these reaction videos and all of the other videos you do keep up the good work
I was at the game last night Steve. The only consolation was that I could watch a cathartic rant from you the next morning. Thanks for representing us all.
went to a canucks game, they got shut out, never returned
I was waiting for this one as a Canucks fan
Me too
same
Me too. Steve's video is just so entertaining, I wish there is a SD for Canucks.
Ditto.
@@markymark121 i say the same thing for the jets
Almost exactly a year ago (NFL Wildcard weekend), the Leafs lost to a Wings team that spent the day at the airport after weather delayed the flight.
It's almost a tradition at this point...
Edit: I guess Steve noticed it too lol
I was at that game. In fact I was at the rink before the Wings were. I did not enjoy that game.
Didn't they also narrowly beat a Utah team earlier this year that had to walk to Scotiabank Arena due to bad traffic? It's honestly comical.
Luckily for them the Cowboys took all of the heat that day
YESSS he named the LFR "bumlefk" LOL. that whole sequence where he started "bumblefk" during the livestream was too funny
which part was this
I seriously laughed out loud when I saw this title, because I remember hearing Steve read out that "you should title the LFR 'bumblef*ck' comment in the livestream, but I had zero expectation that he'd actually do it. The madlad
@@pomegranatepastelIt starts in the 9th minute and carries on for a couple.
where can you watch the livestream?
Never ranting and raving and as a chill guy is how I always describe Steve
This reminds me of the 2 games in a row the Canucks won against the Leafs after missing a month from COVID
"The COVID Canucks" lol. Man the list is just too damn long with this team
McCabe is the lion with the red face, but of course he is hurt. 🤣
That’s his blood. Not another animals.
Angry but he trips and hurts himself . He is a tough guy, not a fighter.
Leafs should be pissed, but Matthews, Marner and Rielly all thought that it was a close game in post game interviews. When is Matthews gonna grow a pair, slam a gate and lose it on the bench? The problem is cultural...lions without hearts.
They’re not lions
Vegan lions
Too much Soy
Lions afraid to get into a fight. Want to win without taking the W away from desperate opponents. Nothing's changed.
Rielly only thought it was close because he hit the post with one of his shots. He usually misses the net completely, so I can see his reasoning.
@SteveDangle So, I'll be honest, I'm a Canucks fan, but going into the game last night, I was waiting for you guys to BEAT THE EVER-LOVING TAR out of us, I was stunned it never happened. I may love our Vancouver boys, but I really do hope your boys get that act together. It would be a dream match of mine to see the Canucks and Leafs Duke it out for a cup and end the Drought for the country. I'm wishing ya the best Leafs fans, I sincerely mean that!!!
I was at Scotiabank, the Canucks fans were more engaged than all leaf fans
Why would they be u let a goal within 31 seconds
My girl said to go to this game, I’m like nah let’s go dinner and bowling instead 🤙🤙
Sure when you got suits & Ties watching the games at home in Toronto
because morgan reilly likes doing that multiple times this year.
Dude is -14
Leaf fans can't afford tickets, it's just wealthy business people that go and quietly eat sushi
As a Bruins fan, this is the best non-Bruins, non-David Ayers LFR ever. I lost it at the bit about Samsonov.
Perhaps a little karma for the gloating of the Bruin's down year in last weeks podcast.
“You know me, I’m a pretty chilled guy” 😂😂😂 yes Steve we know you 😂
Impressed that you can hold two distinct analogies in your head and create a tidy narrative whilst losing your mind over an 18 minute rant. That is a heavy lift. Bravo.
My girlfriends first leaf game and my Christmas present from her. Glad she could see them in person. She now understands what we have to deal with. We couldn't help but laugh at the cliche stuff like the first shot going in, the power play and the shutout. Of course we went to a shutout game . Go leafs go.
Took my wife to the Blues game earlier this season. Just their luck eh 😂
Not even joking when I say I brought my wife to her first game ever in November for the battle of Ontario. Exact same scenario. First shot of the game Ottawa scored. Final score 3-0…… we drank that night away.
NGL if the Leafs lose in the first round again, Steve should just do an LFR wearing joker makeup.
That’s hilarious
@@RM-we7pxwouldn’t be hilarious for me, but maybe for others. I’m a Leafs fan myself.
Last leaf “with a screw loose” was Naz. And he won a cup as soon as we pissed him away. And then he said “anyone who thought I was a liability in the playoffs can kiss my ass”. Thanks Dubas
No, he got suspended and cost the avalanche a playoff run the first year. It wasn’t until the second year with the Avs they won. He got suspended in the first round three years in a row, that is literally a playoff liability.
Just because he finally decided to smarten up and help his team win doesn’t mean the last three years disappear.
@@newfie1613 Yeah, its nonsense take.
I would say jake muzzin actually
Saying Pettersson was nearly invisible is crazy, he had a selke level defensive game and was great offensively (tho only getting a point). That’s a crazy take
I think he meant more offensively but yeah I get your point
@@bighoghockey021 still got a point and was all over the ice. Love steve, but horrid take
@@FLEX-WET Steve is one of those who dont care about defence, he is real Leafs fan
As a Canucks fan he played great if his salary was 6m.
@@canada1966 name 1 single player who can defend like he can and almost be a PPG that’s paid less? He’s a selke candidate, stop being a weirdo
I'm a Habs fan and usually just tune in to watch Steve lose his marbles but he's spittin' straight facts here.
Facts. Didn’t expect this rant to make so much sense.
canucks fan here. was very down on my team doing and showing nothing. but ofc the leafs blew it to us. we REALLY needed that. lank's been an mvp all season (best off-season signing apart from sherwood imo). goes to show what happens when you give your goalie who's been amazing all season some damn support in front of him.
Vancouvers highlight of the 24 25 season will be a win in Jan when they miss the playoffs by 6 points and draft 12th overall. 😂
Don't worry, they'll sink back to their usual self next game.
from a leafs fan, your welcome
0:02 "FINE" needs to be in the 2025-26 intro
Also: This was the Leafs version of the loggygagger speech from Bull Durham
PERFECT, WELL SAID, I WISH I’D THOUGHT OF THAT ONE !
As great as this LFR is, that ad read fed generations. Absolutely perfect.
You nailed it. This is my favourite video of yours. I feel the same.
Steve this week on the SDPN podcast: "There's no excuse to lose this game"
Me: "Shh."
Steve: "They should light these guys up."
Me: "Stop it"
Steve: "The Canucks are at the end of 3 games in 4 days, they're beatup and injured and the Leafs are playing them in there own barn on Hockey night in Canada, they win this game"
Me: *sighs sadly*..."They're gonna lose this game"
You are the most honest Leafs fan in the world . The pain must be unbearable.
It's theater, he makes good money on this charade.
@BluesRiffage True but it's also decades of trauma from following this team.
@@BluesRiffage It's not a charade. If you are a laff's fan and don't feel like that after this sewage that was put on the ice for the past almost 10 years, you are the "charade"
@@zrnewf Nah. loaf fans just think they're more 'special' 😂😂☠☠
@@BluesRiffagebasically turned lemons into lemonade.
Steve was in rare form tonight. This one was one of the best ever. Thanks Steve!
Even the habs going to the finals in 2021 (didnt win, i know), but gallagher had his moment where he legitimately had a blood mask. That dudes a warrior
Leafs have no warriors on this club. Why do you think Ryan O’Reilly left very fast after his brief time in Toronto. He sees the culture or lack thereof
@@PopShoppekidyou really shouldn't have traded Hyman. Dude is an animal.
Jeff petry had bloodshot eyes during the series against Vegas.
That team also had Philip Danault. He is a defensive dragon and it showed in the Leafs lack of whatever it took to push/fight through.
That was the most boring, gutless game I’ve seen all season.
That’s saying a lot after the game in Columbus
Yeah but Marner liked their compete level so that's all that matters
Especially after what Marner said
Yeah that's a Tocchet special for ya.
@@Ryuzakku I love Marner. I love that he's a local boy. I love that he's somehow a fucking wizard with the puck. I know deep deep deep in my bones, that the second they trade him, he'll carry a team to the cup, but as long as he's here, we will not get past round 1.
Mathews Marner Knies minus 20 in 2 games. They have absolutely given up playing defence
Canucks all season so far have been injury riddled and top players besides hughes has been snake bitten to hell and back.
This season has been MISERABLE, they needed this win
As soon as I saw the score after hearing the pod… we knew this was coming
Dude Steve I haven't laughed this hard at a vid for a long time, love it bud. 😂
Vote here if you want "I don't know what grows where lions live" in the LFR intro next season!
Maybe I'll chime in as a Habs fan. I don't only check in when the Leafs lose, no, Steve has an obvious depth of knowledge and, passion for hockey. His videos are gold. In my humble opinion, Habs are at an exciting time in the rebuild where their old lions are teaching the young ones to hunt, and of recent they appear to hate being hungry more than not. Are they a ready to assert dominance over the land? No. But they're hunting for bigger and better meals to be ready when that time arrives.
This video is the reason I watch these, as a non Leaf fan. The analysis is spot on, and the Lion is such a good analogy. So right, that the Leafs don't have any of those maniacal win at all cost guys. The Canucks have one: his name is Quinn Hughes.
I was there. It was as bad as it looked. They were outplayed, outworked, and out goalied. It was just sad.
My first game in a very long time, most entertaining part was booing them off the ice. Playoffs are coming quickly and this team is as VANILLA as ever
Hey Leafs fans relax even the Canucks can't lose every game. By the way from Canucks fans everywhere thanks for the two points .😂
It wasn't all bad..... Sammy could have been the goalie on record for either side.
12:52 is so funny with or without context ☠️
Bumblef*** needs to be in next seasons intro
As a canucks fan who loves your videos Steve (you’ve kinda turned me into a part-time Leafs fan lol), I get why you said this should’ve been a game the Leafs win. Canucks are prob exhausted from back-to-backs, are sick and injured, we’ve stunk over the past few games, and we can’t score! But can’t underestimate the Canucks and I think that’s exactly what happened hehe.
Haha same. I also know the Leafs bec. of Steve.
I'm honoured we got such a good LFR from our first game against the leafs this season. Hope for another good one in Feb
We play the leafs again in like a month at home
@@joshmacmullin6103 oh shoot you're right! Thanks for the correction
Well said Steve. Honestly! As a Leafs fan, your honesty helps
You should talk about Morgan Rielly. How he's -14 this year, and has been absolute trash. 7.5 mil for a player with 5 goals , 15 assists and -14. One of the worse defencemen in the league, who for multiple times this year has been scored on in the 1st minute of a game.
Quite simply not one of the worst dmen in the league but thanks for coming out. +/- is am irrelevant stat buddy lol. Always has been always will be
@@filthydegenerate6528 ...if a defender is a -14, then yes that is a very relevant stat, because that means *he's not defending.* -1, -2? fine. -14 is insane as the top defender on a team making $7M+, especially when he has 20 points. that means he's been on the ice for at least 34 goals against lol.
Steve, I love all your videos, but this one was the best! You're the best!
Loved the rant!
I absolutely hate to see my team lose but when I watch Steve the next morning when I am on the treadmill, somehow he makes me feel better. I don’t understand it, but I love Steve’s rants. I wish I could vent my frustration like he does. ❤
This was the best saturday to miss a game! Glad i was celebrating someone else tonight 🎉
The illustration of spending $1000 for a family to watch what should be at least entertaining as opposed to depressing really put this game in perspective! Great summary(not to be mean) on this game!
"Family or 4 people"
samsonov catching strays 😂😂😂
This was a GOOD one
I picked up all Canucks players in my fantasy just for this game 😂
Steve you are the BEST! I'm sorry for your loss but it was incredible for us. But I love watching your content. Our team has been up and down this year. It was our 1st franchise shutout in Toronto ever! Crazy.
At the end of the day if the hatred for losing doesn’t drive these guys to elevate to a level we’ve yet to see come playoffs, the result will be the same. And we will look back on this time in a decade or so and just see a really good team that never really scared anyone
I’m a leafs fan on Vancouver island and I won’t hear the end of this for a long time.
This must be the funniest lfr I've watched so far 😂 I love the lion and gazelle analogy
Try watching the Zamboni one, still the best for me. But agree with the analogy.
man i love you ur LFR'S Steve.. I feel like u give us true fans who watch every game/ lfr a voice.. but u jinxed us last lfr...
I was at the game and got to go on the ice 2nd intermission for a intermission game, and I was told by multiple different people that I was the best part of the night, I also got a goal in the net which one more than all leafs players today
Yeah, I am sure your mommy and daddy said you were the best ^_^
@@ThexSleepingDragonyour account was made 13 years ago, there is a good likelihood you are a grown adult. Is this what you waste your time doing?
@@Thebradleybushell I was not kidding, I am sure you're the next mconner.
Was there. Highlight of the game was you just ripping it wayyy too hard for the zones you were trying to score on.
Straight into the net instead got a good chuckle, thanks!
Love your video Steve. Don’t blame you for swearing. It’s so frustrating how this team plays.
Tachuck (sp) would pop the other 3 tires. I did n't see that one coming. Terrific.
Ill admit it, I fucking laughed at that cause its very likely true.
first game i've gotten to go to in person since pre pandemic and this is what i got to watch live, I couldn't even change the channel like i would be able to if i just stayed home to watch. Maybe i'll get to a better one in another half decade that's a better effort.
Stop supporting them by buying tickets.
Steve, Pettersson had a good game, he was so good defensively that he played a huge role in shutting down the Leafs offense.
Exactly! One of the reason Leafs lost. They Couldn’t get going.
Petey was an absolute defensive beast
The gut with Zero takeaways? Lol yeah alright.
As a jets fan, when I saw what the leafs were doing tonight, I was really looking forward to this one. Keep up the great work!!
Whether they win a cup eventually or not, I hope some day there's a documentary about this incarnation of the Leafs. I feel like there needs to be a forensic breakdown of why a team with that much talent can't seem to assemble the right combination to even come close to winning a cup.
They’re the maple leafs. Turn on tsn. You’ll get it every day
It's not hard, the team is riddled with a myriad of problems. On the surface they look extremely talented but deep down, they lack a lot of things, a lot of very important things. They have exceptional high talent, but none of that talent is capable of dragging anybody into a fight, into a game. What do I mean? Like a fight, a big hit, shit disturbing, stuff like that. Here's how you know they don't have it: there were three moments of brute in this game that come to mind. One was a hit, another was an after scrum face punching and the last was running around in play trying to stir shit (albeit way too late in the game).
Now, if you guessed the first one was Timmins, congratulations - not who you thought would throw a big hit right, and definitely not the biggest of the game. If you thought the second one was Robertson, congrats for going two for two. Again not who you expect to be punching faces either after the whistle but he did it to protect his goalie. Finally the last one is a free space because it's Domi and to be expected, it was just done way too late in the game so it didn't matter. That makes Domi's game basically irrelevant, yet still a highlight which is more than you can say about the other top 6 forwards and Rielly.
The team is cozy. The star players are cozy because they don't do things that make them uncomfortable. They can't drag the rest of the players into the fight. Either they don't want to, or they don't have what it takes to do so. The closest we've seen over the years are fights from Morgan Rielly after the team getting embarrassed after some shit, whether that's a stupid empty net goal, or Matthews getting run over, or some shit like that. That's sad because its rarely much of a fight and if Morgan Rielly is the guy that drags you into this, wtf are the other 4 guys making $3 - $5 million more than him doing?
Side rant: we can shit on Rielly all we want, and deservingly, but like... $3 - $5 million more is what each of JT, Willy, AM and Marner are making over him, and we want to chew Rielly out as being the issue on the PP? lol... that's a combine $12 - $20 million of money that could easily be for a competent 3C and heck possibly a decent top 6 gritty winger; which really hints at the next big issue.
Ok, so they make a lot of money they don't need to be gritty right? Therein lies the next reason why this team doesn't succeed. All the money goes to high end talent and there's nothing left for secondary stuff and certainly not players who want to drag you into the fight. So if the high end talent isn't going to do it, it just doesn't happen. And when you get a team against the ropes, when they are in desperation mode because they want it more than you, because they don't have a tomorrow (think playoffs), that's when you need to have more hunger to win than them. There's really nothing else to say other than the leafs just have never been able to show they have that.
"Ya but what about the series against TB they won!?"...
The more we get further from that, the more I realize that TB was probably just a tired team and didn't have enough fight in them to hold up another go. This really showed with Vasy looking human in goal. It wasn't that Toronto wanted it more, it was TB running out of gas to compete: 3 finals, 2 cups, something like almost 120 playoff games (an entire season and a half of games...). If you accept that fact and then look back at these leafs, well that doesn't spell good things for this leaf team.
Are the leafs different? Sort of, they certainly look it defensively behind Berube. But that has come at the cost of offense too. Now have they fundamentally changed their identity? Not sure I believe they have yet. There's still time but right now, I can't say I believe they will do anything different than they have done. At best they make it to the 2nd round because they start with a weak, tired first round opponent (from fighting so hard to get into the playoffs) IF they are able to pull head out of ass and maintain first place in the division. That's a big if right now.
And those two issues are just the obvious ones. The not so obvious ones make you want to fix these two upper issues more because of how they impact them.
@@davidma22 bro it’s the leafs. Not a thesis.
@@whoopass2rbnailed it
It's easy buddy @davidma22. NO HEART. No hunger, no passion. Just paychecks. Like Shoresy said, they love to win, but don't HATE TO LOSE.
I think this might be my favourite Dangle video of the season. Thank you for so eloquently saying what most of us---if not all of us---are thinking.
I’m so excited for this one 😂😂
Best LFR I've ever seen. Life long leaf fan. That video sums up the team better than I've ever heard before. We just don't have it. To br even more honest we traded away the closest thing to it when Kardi got moved.
"I am right until further notice" early quote of the year
I've watched this LFR 4 times. Can we redo the Christmas episode? This is the best Steve rant ever.
"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardner in a war." It seems we have a number of gardeners in the war within the Leaf line up.
Wow that's a perfect analogy. I've been trying to find it but you got it first! Bravo!!!
Quinn Hughes. Wow. He's not just a Norris candidate, he needs to be in the Hart convo
I think the key things that were described is that on that five game-winning streak they didn’t play well and I think that now it’s catching up to them, you can only play that way so many times before it catches up to you and that’s what happened. It’s caught up to them and every team that Toronto beat was either bad or mid but they can’t beat playoff teams it’s seems
A more passionate and poetic one taker NO ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD could film!!!! This is CINEMA
Not here for an ad read...I'm here for the One Timer. (That's what these should be called.)
Great points on this one Steve. You can go back 50 years and find at least one “unstable” player on each cup winning team. And that Samsonov comment was uncalled for 😂
When you watch a stream of a game like this with steve going off during the stream, you just wait for the lfr notification😂
As a Canucks fan I enjoyed this thoroughly.
THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH NATHAN MACKINNON!!!!!!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's true though, Crosby, Kucherov, McKinnon, McDavid, there's something different about those guys. You can see it in their eyes when they are blood lusted.
@ oh I know lol. They’re different for sure lol.
@@LARGO125 when any of those players are on the ice you can see that they immediately take control and the pace of the game changes. It's like Matthews is invisible when he's out there and now he isn't even taking shots on the powerplay. You can tell when Domi and Robertson are out there because they're skating like they have something to prove but that's about it, the only person on the first line who is noticable is Mitch and definitely not yesterday
Games like this make the wait for a podcast on Monday seem eternal!
As a lifelong diehard Canucks fan HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
First time visiting the channel, and a Canucks fan, but I love the passion here. Obviously happy with the result personally, but it's still fun to see the enthusiasm that you put into your synopsis while making some topical Lion King comparisons haha. I think with the Canucks as battered both physically and mentally as they are, the Leafs did not look great in this game, but Toronto still put Lankinen to work and Petterson actually had a quiet stat night. That said, we over on the left coast always love to put our Leaf homers into a wagon and send them over a cliff so we don't have to listen to them anymore so this was nice overall. Thanks for the video from a new subscriber. :D
Would love an uncensored version of these
As a canucks fan, i watch newrly all your videos because youre entertaining AF. THESE ONES ARE MY FAVE THO!
I'm so glad you actually titled it this lol
Chief needs to sit the team down Sunday at 630 am. Play them this video. Then skate them until they reach bedrock. Absolute embarrassment this team is.
I hope this video creates trade-dealine predictions for sdp. I would love a whole podcast in the GM chair going through the cap and seeing the brainstorm scenarios. Would love to see a Morgan Reilly trade predictions. I know you guys kindve do it every now and then like with Marner but to dedicate a whole show to it would be awesome
Darcy Tucker, Tiger Williams, Wendel Clark and Doug Gilmour to name a few, wore the Crimson Mask.
This is fucking truth right here
Dan Maloney
maybe you should get them back on the roster.....
I’m not gonna lie. I just tuned in just to see how angry he would be after loss.😊
Canucks got 0 powerplays, killed off 3 leafs PPs. Still many many players coming back from injuries and slumps, and still manage to win
One of the best LFR this season
Look at it this way, any embarrassing losses or the inevitable first round exit are helping pay off your house.
Actually though
Factually untrue he's talked about at length before how that's not true at all. Individual videos do best when they lose. But if they get eliminated there are no more videos to make... if they go multiple rounds he'll make more money because they're still actually playing so he has to keep making videos... he's said it himself he makes more money overall when they win not when they lose lol. And it's just logical. Lol
Steve, I absolutely feel you on this one because I’m a Steeler fan and when they started 10 and three and everybody was getting excited, I kept telling people they still got a rough stretch to go and the way things have been going over the years they haven’t proven to me that they could win in the playoffs and then look at what just happened to them yesterday.
I know it’s not exactly the same as the pain you feel with the Leafs, but I can completely understand where you are coming from
Maybe it's the time that the Canucks finally starts turning things around
Gotta love Steve happy or not he's always great to watch