Game 7 - We Win
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I don't think it was a freak bounce - from where Lindholm shot it, and where it hit in the corner, the bounce was pretty predictable. It was shot directly into the corner (i.e., not at an angle).
It was a great play. Way better than the dump in off a deflection that Toronto won game 6 on.
Most of those other go up or around. Good odds Pasta gets it, just a matter of where. Very few odds of it hitting and directly shooting out to the front. Especially when you’re moving and have a limited window. I’m not claiming to be Lindholm but I’m hard pressed to think of a time I’ve done a cross corner dump that’s ended like that.
Yep. And hat tip to Ferraro too. Just a great call but not calling anything. Wish other announcers would take note.
It’s impossible to know what Lindholm was trying to do. He had to hit it hard to keep Pasta on side. Lindholm has to get to the redline to avoid icing. I think he hit it hard so Pasta doesn’t need to stop. Just the timing to avoid icing and keep Pasta onside while a Leaf was about to check him was amazing. If he was also trying to make a billiard carom, that’s a play of the year type play. Could be.
The cadence was perfect, really. They just let the waves of crowd noise do the work and then picked up right when Dirty Water kicked in.
Play of the series, save of the series, was Swayman stopping the deflection off Wotherspoon’s skate. That goes in last year.
Beers saw the play ahead of time and I think he said that Pasta was open before Lindholm shot the puck in.
He’s amazing. He also had what may have been an abandonment of his vehicle after drunkenly crashing it into Florian Hall, and rumors about his sexual orientation in his past, the former being a real issue, while the latter merely one for assholes in an insular business.
I was watching this one my phone at a friend's house out here in Chicago. I scared the shit out of him when Pasta scored.
Watching some replays, holy shit, at the end of regulation if the puck doesn't hit Wotherspoon's skate there is a Leaf who is wide open for a one timer.
Yikes.
Yikes.
My kid had the guts to watch this. I didn’t. I listened to 98.5’s stream in one room, she watched the game in another. Late in the third, I remotely switch her channel from Sportsnet to ABC. She asked why I did that, and I said I didn’t want her watching Leafs homers Cuthbert and Simpson.
When Pasta scored, she bolted for me, jumped on me, and hugged me like she was a toddler again.
Hockey is horrible and awesome all at the same time.
When Pasta scored, she bolted for me, jumped on me, and hugged me like she was a toddler again.
Hockey is horrible and awesome all at the same time.
And Seidenburg almost missed that puck that Thomas misplayed against Montreal in game 7 right before Horton scored in game 7.
Same here, my college girl was watching the whole time and I could only bring myself to check in from time to time. After Lindy tied it she persuaded me to watch.
The challenge of that cross ice dump is that it either goes back up, too far to Pasta's right or you really cross it and it just rings around behind the goal. It is a pretty small area where you have any chance of it coming back to the right spot. But he hit it. I think hockey is a frenetic game where 97% of the shit you do doesn't really work out, but you just keep going for stuff. And this thing worked. You could see Lindholm get the read and he went for it.
Exactly
I turned it off and followed on my phone after Toronto scored to change the mojo. I guess it worked.
I'm really hoping this crew got back together for the night.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8GCH5qf9IY&ab_channel=Leaffan89
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8GCH5qf9IY&ab_channel=Leaffan89
I think Lindholm was trying to play to Pasta behind Toronto's defense, absolutely. I just don't think it was planned for it to bounce out in front of the net (it looked like a normal cross-corner dump initially), and I don't think Pasta was even playing it that way originally. He was initially driving toward the corner, and turned to the net when he saw it bounced that way.
If those same people got together for this game tonight, I’ll gladly buy a round of domestic beer, and go in pizzas or something, maybe even halfsies.
#johnniewayback
Fucking fuck ya! Absolute beauty by Pasta. To my liquor addled mind it certainly looked like a set play the whole time.
5:30 wil come way too fast, and I'll have to figure out where to watch B's games in Denver for the next week, but those are great problems to have.
Wish I was tired so I could get some sleep.
5:30 wil come way too fast, and I'll have to figure out where to watch B's games in Denver for the next week, but those are great problems to have.
Wish I was tired so I could get some sleep.
In case the stylized one wasn’t your thing, here’s the raw feed:
View: https://twitter.com/985thesportshub/status/1786988900415615287?s=46&t=QgPlur015YjYmVsNzWFFfg
Props to the one guy in a Bruins jersey who somehow made it out of that watch party in one piece
View: https://twitter.com/kiss925/status/1786967454683447772?s=46
View: https://twitter.com/kiss925/status/1786967454683447772?s=46
Goalie hug at the 15 sec mark here: https://x.com/nesportreview/status/1786966199907053927?s=46&t=FPMnX382DP8UpFh1kbfbNw
I am currently in Rome and could not watch the game as it was being played at 2:00 Rome time. Can’t wait to watch the replay. But can anyone tell me why Samsonov was in goal instead of Woll for Toronto? Looks like he played well but still… Woll had been amazing for them.
What a win. Holy crap.
What a win. Holy crap.
Woll apparently got injured at the end of game 6. Had no bearing on this game.
Oh wow that’s a break for Boston. Again, Samsonov played well last night (so it seems) but Woll had been tremendous for them. I’ll take it!
I've been sort of rewatching the Pastrnak goal, frame to frame, and if anything the bounce they got was on the outer edge of a wide 'fan' of workable bounces.
It came out on a nearly too tight angle, on the goal side of a pretty wide, acceptable spray shot for where the puck could have gone within Pasta's reach. Anywhere from maybe 1 foot closer to Samsonov (max) all the way out to the dot, Pasta is getting it on his flight path to the net.
The way Pasta enters -- not tight against the wall but absolutely to the right of the dot when coming over the blue line, and then chasing straight to the dot -- allows for a pretty wide 'fan' of acceptable bounces that Pasta could pick-up as he charges to the net.
As a right handed stick, able to snatch bounces that might have come back high, wall side, and especially 'starting' his pick-up still above the circle after Lindholm blasted the puck in there, there were some options other than needle threading.
Had Pasta been any deeper he'd have had much less range he could cover for the bounce, but he was coming in high and at speed and was likely to be first to the puck within a pretty wide triangle off those boards.
Lindholm needed to not carrom the puck too tightly against the high side boards, not so much because Pasta wouldn't get it, but that he'd be pulled too wide to attack the net. So short of it riding the boards, anything bouncing back toward the center, but above the goal line, Pasta was getting unless Samsonov could play it.
And indeed, that is probably where Toronto will have their regrets: Samsonov could have aggressively stepped out and just chipped that puck anywhere since other than Pasta, it was four white shirts coming in. Had the bounce been just a little more goal side that is exactly what would have happened, but it could have come back a fair amount up ice and Pasta would have just picked up the pass sooner.
It came out on a nearly too tight angle, on the goal side of a pretty wide, acceptable spray shot for where the puck could have gone within Pasta's reach. Anywhere from maybe 1 foot closer to Samsonov (max) all the way out to the dot, Pasta is getting it on his flight path to the net.
The way Pasta enters -- not tight against the wall but absolutely to the right of the dot when coming over the blue line, and then chasing straight to the dot -- allows for a pretty wide 'fan' of acceptable bounces that Pasta could pick-up as he charges to the net.
As a right handed stick, able to snatch bounces that might have come back high, wall side, and especially 'starting' his pick-up still above the circle after Lindholm blasted the puck in there, there were some options other than needle threading.
Had Pasta been any deeper he'd have had much less range he could cover for the bounce, but he was coming in high and at speed and was likely to be first to the puck within a pretty wide triangle off those boards.
Lindholm needed to not carrom the puck too tightly against the high side boards, not so much because Pasta wouldn't get it, but that he'd be pulled too wide to attack the net. So short of it riding the boards, anything bouncing back toward the center, but above the goal line, Pasta was getting unless Samsonov could play it.
And indeed, that is probably where Toronto will have their regrets: Samsonov could have aggressively stepped out and just chipped that puck anywhere since other than Pasta, it was four white shirts coming in. Had the bounce been just a little more goal side that is exactly what would have happened, but it could have come back a fair amount up ice and Pasta would have just picked up the pass sooner.
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I keep watching Lindholm's goal. I said here as soon as they scored, we probably would as that's the way it always seems to go.
What a HUGE goal.
What a HUGE goal.
