Steve Dangle previews the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs series between the Tampa bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs. How do these two teams matchup this time around? Who should be the favourite and why?
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Leaf’s out in 4
I think I know how seven of the eight seasons is going to go…this series on the other hand could go either way.
The reaction video to Tampa winning in 4 would be so entertaining.
My bracket has Leafs in 7. But it'd be funny as hell to watch them lose in 5.
Clearly you're not promoting previous historical achievements vs how f-ing amazing the team is playing now.. we can all agree.. Leafs are finally built to go beyond 2 rounds.. pending who's next..
Leafs in Six….or five. No hype needed. Just a Goddamn BETTER team
Hoping to see Steve with a gross beard in June for a change. It’s time to put Tampa, and the demons down. From a Pens fan. Shit, if we can miss the playoffs then the Leafs can win a single fking round and go from there.
I cant wait for tomorrow MILK ME DADDDYYY
Simple: Leafs sweep Bolts and then Bruins sweep Leafs. High before the low makes the tragedy greater
Best goalie wins this series and its not Samsonov🏒🎯🥅🤔
I know this is a cliche,but I really think they will do it this year. The boys have had their heartbreaks and will be really hungry. Having the pickups this year will be the factor. GO LEAFS GO !!!
Steve…
I hope you have seen Shawshank Redemption and listened to the lesson about hope.
I would love nothing more then to be proven wrong.
I don't care if they win a cup…
I don't care about Boston… and them being the best team in regular season, ever.
There is only one thing I care about…and that is getting out of the first round in what? 20 years?
Baby steps.
I have had my hopes up since before you started a show, since before the internet….and even before your parents met.
What have The Leafs taught me…. Losing round after round after round since Fraiser robbed the team of making it to the finals in 93
They have taught me not to have hope.
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things…."
I believed that. Not anymore.
Losing to Boston in 7 crushed that hope.
Losing to Columbus in the play in… kicked it in the balls.
Losing to Montreal… destroyed it.
I boxed up everything Leaf memorabilia I own, jerseys, autographed items, t-shirts, baseball hats, pucks… Even a stick Grant Fuhr gave me when I did my first "pro photo assignment" at a Leaf Practice…. you name it… it is boxed up and put away. The only thing left out is my Leaf garbage can….bet you can guess why. That is where my hope ended up.
It is great to watch them do well in the regular season.
I fully expect to get cancer and die before The Leafs make the finals…. or maybe alzheimer's or dementia or al lthree according to my family medical history….
Tampa in 6.
Cause that is what The Leafs have proven to me they are worth.
Leaf’s out in four
This team is the not the golden boys of leaf’s hockey with Doug Gilmore Wendel clark
Dave anderchuck
Tie domi
Todd hill
And best goalie in leaf’s history still rank 3 best leaf’s in history behind bower and broda
That right Felix the cat Potvin
So leaf’s will be polishing the golf clubs in this season because it will be another first round good bye
Let's pray for a Panthers upset
I was born in 2003. I watched the leafs when they were BAD, I watched the 2013 series agaisnt Boston, I was there for the Boston, Washington, Boston, Columbus, Montreal and Tampa. Out of all of these years, I’ve never been more confident in this group. That’s why, pulling a page out of 2$ Steve’s book, as a 20 year old now, I placed 2$ on the leafs to win a series. Go Leafs Go!
Tampa takes the threepeat, easy if the refs didn’t will the avs past the blues and lightning
Did I tell you about the dream I had the other night, In this dream a voice told me that this year 2023. The Toronto Maple Leafs are going to beat the Tampa Bay lightning in game 5 of the series, then it said that the money I win from the bets that I do to put it on Toronto Maple leafs over the Boston Bruins in game 6 overtime, I will finish the story after I go make some bets.
Tampa fans are fine being the underdogs, as they are. TOR has everything going for them. TOR is the clear favorites. Still calling it TBL in 6.
if the Leafs finally break down the door and slay the dragon, i think they have the momentum to go all the way. It's that stupid elusive first round that's stopping them.
Leafs were 4th in the entire league and the lighting were 13th so there’s that. Leafs are beating Tampa this year. Boys are more mature and tired of getting eliminated. I feel bad for Vesi’s groin.
not in it until i see it
Even with the addition of ROR I was still on the fence on if I was going to beleaf that this year would be different. Then we added Luke Schenn and once again I HAVE THE PASSION. I. AM. IN.
can't wait for the bolts to knock out the leafs again
There's a million things I want to say and a million worries I want to shout about…
But instead…
Good luck boys, go Leafs go
Beard game is starting strong. Respect ✊🏼
Gonna be a hell of a tilt fellas
IMO Leaf's need to get this series done in 5. If not the deflated Leaf's return, lost in their own heads, and I think they fumble like history has proven.
Leafs in 5 because of Matty, Sammy and The Factor
Is that your playoff beard?
Leafs win this year 100%
I still laugh at what Matthew Knies said about the Amalie arena, he said it stinks and he doesn't like it, lol
Not taking anything away from Vasy, he's one of if not the best goalie of a generation. However, he has had the luxury of playing on those Tampa teams the last 3 years that iced some incredible D-cores.
Everybody talks about Vasy's numbers, but when you watch the games Tampas D always did such a good job insulating him. And when you did get something past them, Vasy was just so good he'd make the save anyways.
Mcdonagh was an absolutely massive piece of those 3 playoff runs. Probably the most underrated players in the league the last 3 years and I almost never see anyone mention his name. It is an absolutely massive loss for them, and I think this year we will see a little bit more 'human' Vasy. A little bit more beatable. Not because he's regressed, because the D-core isn't what it was.
Leafs in 6.
I don’t think the Leafs can win in playoffs because they are better regular season team and because they haven’t figured it out yet how to win in playoffs
I love watching you
Sooooooooo basically what you're saying is that if you don't look at the fact that the Lightning have made 3 straight cups, winning two of them, and remove the fact that the Leafs are the Leafs, then the Leafs are gonna win. Fuck, we're screwed. Lightning in six 🙁
nobody talking the coaching matchup. Cooper > Keefe. This can make a BIG difference.
JT on LW is the leafs upgrade and that line will be amazing. JT on the boards, ROR out front and Willie flying all over the place.
I am going to do something i never do and take it game by game … BUT IM ALL IN !!!!!!!
Both teams can defend? Hedman kinda sucked at defense this season, Perbix is more offensive, Sergachev is just gonna get fined 5 000 000 times, Raddysh is a rookie, Cernak is most likely gonna get hurt, and then there's Ian Cole with nothing bad
I DONT CARE WHAT HAPPENS IM A LEAF FAN FOR LIFE
There's just no way the Leafs lose this series. This is the year to AT LEAST win one round.
There's just gotta be someone else that can do this. It's like watching a yappy dog lose its mind after being fed a twizzler.
@stevedangle you do cameo's? I think this is something I may need in my life, Just saying.
Dangle you homer.
If the leafs watch your videos, with all that energy Steve, they will destroy the Lighting with motivation alone. Go Leafs Go!!!!