Lee Finishen 🇨🇦

@ItsDeanBlundell Mats will collect a lot of big checks for a couple years and go back to Sweden.

Happy for Mats. John Chayka will be a DISASTER. My God.

@JesseBlake @sdpnsports And he starts off with the Raptors.

We are awaiting Chayka, Sundin, & Pelley @sdpnsports

@ByMHarrington @wyshynski Kucherov: 1.11 ppg career playoffs .61 ppg in elimination games 0 ppg in seven game 7s Needs to be talked about more.

Nikita Kucherov had one goal for #TBlightning in 7 games. That’s his only goal in his last 22 playoff games. And he has just three in his last 31 games starting with ‘22 Cup final faceplant. Averaged 39 goals/127 points last four years. Stark bottom line: Playoff choker.

@JeffMG68 Amen. Such a cool car.

The 'poor' man's GTO

@L78528Ld21 @MapleLeafs @mndamico If you don’t show your name, you don’t matter. At all.

@5150Inprogress @MapleLeafs @mndamico That was a Toronto Maple Leafs post and nothing else BUT you made it about you, for some odd reason. Just weird.

We have named John Chayka the General Manager and Mats Sundin as Senior Executive Advisor, Hockey Operations Details » shorturl.at/WYQiF

@Ronandhide @MapleLeafs @mndamico Maybe it’s cause you’re stupid Ron.

@5150Inprogress @MapleLeafs @mndamico Oh yea I can’t watch the Habs game after hearing this

@dodgesroadkill @MapleLeafs @mndamico Story was out Friday and Saturday. They didn’t say a thing. They could’ve waited till tomorrow morning.

@5150Inprogress @MapleLeafs @mndamico Buddy they are upstanding the team they share a building with... hardly think IT'S thoughts matter. Story was out so they had to jump

@L78528Ld21 @MapleLeafs @mndamico Great job confirming with the rest of Canada already thinks. It’s all about Toronto and nothing else.

@5150Inprogress @MapleLeafs @mndamico Leafs don’t have a game 7, what the hell you talking about? Marlies are only in game 3…

@BizNasty2point0 @mattmurley19 Nope. Just nope.

@SlimThrowing @Lunchforbr38926 @ryanwhitney6 @spittinchiclets Seriously, do you have a learning disability?

@5150Inprogress @Lunchforbr38926 @ryanwhitney6 @spittinchiclets Fed slop gay Canada haha

The Habs. Dobes with a performance for the ages. Will we ever see a team win a game 7 with 9 shots on goal ever again? Buffalo Montreal gonna be a movie

@realmrbill2 @StuCowan1 👏

@5150Inprogress @StuCowan1 I guess his nickname is not Klutcherov

What a shot block by #Habs captain Nick Suzuki in dying seconds. Somehow Canadiens win Game 7 and are off to meet Buffalo in second round. Jakub Dobes the first, second and third star for #Habs.

@SlimThrowing @Lunchforbr38926 @ryanwhitney6 @spittinchiclets I’m sorry to hear that

@5150Inprogress @Lunchforbr38926 @ryanwhitney6 @spittinchiclets I’m from Buffalo

That puck hitting the broken stick to avoid the icing… You can’t make it up.

@MitchyGallo I’m waiting for a stamp or Heritage Minute for that broken stick.

Here are my three takeaways from Montreal’s 2-1 Game 7 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning, brought to you by Snap Bar Sportif in Rigaud. 1- Captain clutch Nick Suzuki delivered when it mattered most, Game 7. The Canadiens captain had been held off the scoresheet at 5-on-5, and it was one of the biggest talking points heading into the final game of the series. But as mentioned before, if you give star players enough time, they eventually deliver and Suzuki did just that. The first goal of any game is massive, and even more so in a tight Game 7. After the way Andrei Vasilevskiy played in Game 6, it looked like it might be nearly impossible to beat him clean. Kaiden Guhle got a shot through that Suzuki expertly deflected, and it caught a bounce off J.J. Moser’s shin pad on the way in. It doesn’t matter how it goes in. We saw plenty of examples over the last two games of pucks that somehow stayed out. Nobody is going to remember Suzuki’s quiet stretch earlier in the series after scoring a goal like that in an elimination game. 2- Simply Dobes There’s no way to sugarcoat it, the Canadiens stole Game 7. A big reason why was Jakub Dobes. He was Montreal’s best player, and they needed him to be. The only goal he allowed was a perfect deflection on the power play by Dominic James. Outside of that, he was outstanding. The ice was tilted in the second period, with Tampa controlling play while Montreal failed to register a single shot on goal. During that stretch, it felt like Dobes made save after save just to keep them alive. One of the biggest questions coming into the series was whether Dobes could match a future Hall of Famer like Vasilevskiy. In this game, he absolutely did. Montreal also got a few breaks. Alex Newhook banked in the game-winner off Vasilevskiy’s pants, and there were a couple of icings that didn’t go the full length of the ice one hitting a broken stick, another stopping inexplicably. Sometimes, that’s what it takes. 3- Montreal beat a great team and neutralized great players Maybe they were a little fortunate to win Game 7 on the road, but Montreal earned their spot in Round 2. With this playoff format, a very good team was going home, and it ended up being Tampa Bay. While Montreal’s top players took some criticism for their production, they did an equally strong job shutting down Tampa’s stars. Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point were held to one goal each, and Anthony Cirelli didn't score and had only two points. More importantly, they were quiet in Game 7. Meanwhile, Suzuki was on the ice for both Montreal goals, both at even strength. That’s the difference. Hockey fans got a terrific series between two evenly matched teams. Every game was decided by one goal, with constant swings in momentum and emotion. Now we’ll see what Montreal has in store for Round 2 against the Buffalo Sabres… but that was awesome. @tsn690

@Lunchforbr38926 @SlimThrowing @ryanwhitney6 @spittinchiclets Somebody is drinking

@SlimThrowing @5150Inprogress @ryanwhitney6 @spittinchiclets Was that english

@taj1944 So, pretty much like Keith Pelley.

Simmons not holding back: "Many people in hockey think of Chayka as being something of a fraud. A fast-talker, a hand-shaker and a salesman of sorts who doesn’t deliver much in the end."

@CarloColaiacovo Dobes making believers everywhere

Habs are the real deal!

@RavBuffalo @JLew1050 @TheShotgunStart Correct.

@5150Inprogress @JLew1050 @TheShotgunStart Not a golfer, huh? Pretty popular podcast?

What is MLSE thinking announcing this 3 hours before a Raptors Game 7?

@lukefoxjukebox Kucherov: 1.11 ppg career playoffs .61 ppg in elimination games 0 ppg in seven game 7s Needs to be talked about more.

Tampa Bay Lightning have lost 5 consecutive playoff series.