John Tavares turned and fired the puck on net, which took a fortunate bounce past Andrei Vasilevskiy to send the Toronto Maple Leafs to the second round for the first time since 2004, as they defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in overtime.
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48 Comments
I may be a Habs fan but I'm not a Leafs hater. This team did not deserve to go 19 years without a playoff win and I'm glad the "curse" has been broken. Now, if the team can play the rest of the series without that monkey on their back, maybe we can hope for a Leafs-Oilers finale.
They earned this
John TAVARES!!! i bought portuguese chicken and started to produce. wow!
За Тампу досадно, но с другой стороны у костяка этой команды только что было три финала подряд, пора бы отдохнуть.
Теперь надеюсь, что в следующем раунде Торонто встретится с Бостоном
Рад за Самсонова, провел хороший матч, выручал, не много российских вратарей остается в борьбе за Кубок
I’m an Oilers fan but want the Leafs to do well since they’re a Canadian team I’m genuinely over the moon that they were able to win their first playoff series in like 20 years! Hope to meet you guys in the cup finals
Well done
Tough series from start to finish. I don't want to be the Bruins or Panthers facing a Leafs team that finally got into the 2nd Round.
I've never seen the haters this salty EVER before 😂😂😂
I almost cried at that moment
Samsonov-Matthews-McCabe-Brodie were the factors
As a self certified internet psychic 🔮 I can guarantee Tavares's goal ends up on Steve's Hat Picks! 💯👌
Now the sky is open!
throughout the last 8 years either the bruins were in toronto's way or the lightning were in toeonto's way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 major comebacks in this series DESPITE ALL OF THE MAPLE LEAFS' FLAWS show that the maple leafs ARE GOING TO WIN THE STANLEY CUP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! samsonov is willing to pay the price of success !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh by the way i am a pittsburgh penguins fan and i wish the maple leafs tons of good luck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the leafs FLAWS will improve gradually with more team chemistry and better focus !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bye bye bolts!!!! CONGRATS LEAFS!!!! SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!Steve Dangle is smiling 😊
Everything is going according to Reilly's plan
Oh leafs i was waiting for this moments years 😢 GOO 🍃gooo Toronto
Go leafs go!!! We finally broke the curse lol. Great series bolts
LEAF'S DIDN'T DESERVE 2 WIN: First off refs completely ignore the high stick on Hagel and than TB literally scores 4 the Leafs.
Craig Simpson quoting Kevin Bieksa makes me cream my knickers
It was jt's first series winner since 2016
CUP BOUND
I hated not signing Campbell, and I thought Murray would be #1 but Who would have thought Sammy would lead them past the 1st round, Still wondering how Washington gave him up for nothing and didn't want to sign him.
Congrats Leafs! Happy for the team and happy for the fans. All the best in round 2! ✌️
Letsssss GOO!!! Finally the buds did it! 💙🍁💙 Rd 2 weooo!! 🙏 Great game boys!
Leafs did it!!! I'm so happy! I got emotional. Go leafs go!!
NO MORE MEMES OF THE FIRST ROUND!!!!!🎉
We have exercised the demons!!!
Go Leafs Go. Beleaf, the passion is real in some of us.
when steve dangle screamed LETS GO before overtime the leafs had already won
Was O'Reilly and Samsonov what the Leafs needed to get to Round 2? Or was it that Campbell and Holl what cursed them to not reaching to second round?
Congrats to leafs for overcoming their 1st round demons. Unfortunately for them there's 3 more rounds to go 😁.
Ну что, кто там вякал против Торонто?
Tampa losing all 3 home games. Might never see that again.
Go Leafs Go! 🙂
From a Habs fan and from I hope many many in Hab nation, big congratulations to Toronto. Winning on the road like that was huge. John T coming through with a brilliant shift in OT to win it. What a leader. And many of my fellow Hab friends scoffed when I said our captain Suzuki would be a third liner on Toronto. You would replace Matthews with him? John T with him? Maybe 4th line, because I wouldn’t replace O’Reilly with N.Suz either. Oh well, we will be there in 3-4 years. In the meantime, enjoy Toronto. Don’t want to jinx it but I think they really can win the cup this year. Go Leafs!…..go Habs!(next year)
This is something different
Maturity is calling
THERE WILL BE A NEW KING IN THE EAST.
Is almost time leafs suffering fan base 🌷🍂🌳
Finally! Time to take it all.
How do you not show that Sammy save in ot?? Besides that such an amazing game by the leafs and I think we got a goalie people. Sammy just out play vasilevskiy in his own barn 3 times 🚨🚨🚨
Finally! Finally! Finally!
I’m a die hard lightning fan and I want to congratulate the Leafs on advancing for the first time in ages! It was a hard fought series but it was well earned! Stay healthy and make Toronto proud. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Looks like Sheldon is keeping his job for another year😂
Im happy my son finaly gets to see what i saw with sundin, im happy for the long time radio broadcasters and tv broadcasters im happy for the guys who followed this team for a living for the last 30 years go leafs go
Holy makara 😮
😁🇨🇦Thankyou Leafs 😂love you 😂😁✔🇨🇦
what we have here…………….. is a very special team GLGGLGGLGGLG
I did not believe in Samsonov to start this series. He stole that game. Aside from game 1, he was a lot of the reason the leafs were even in the series. Also Leafs need to extend Matthews. 5 goals this round and every goal he scored was critical. 3 goals in game 3 and 4 combined that started both comebacks and game 5 brought them to within a goal to give them fighting chance to tie it up and then the opening goal tonight. He is playing with a sense of urgency I have never seen in him before and it’s been a pleasure to watch him this year. I also want to see schenn, McCabe and O’Reilly in leafs jerseys next year