Eastern Conference First Round: (2) Boston Bruins vs (3) Toronto Maple Leafs

[blayze]

Leafs in 6

[The Comish]

Boston in 6

[niconasr]

I voted Boston in 7 but I have no clue. Boston plays the more structured game and have a superstar gamebreaker. Matthews is otherwordly and will get his but there's still so many question marks.

[pmorrow]

If Samsonov/Woll are subpar, the Bruins probably win. If one of those goalies is in the same range or better than the Bruins goalie(s), I think the Leafs have a very good chance of winning. Both teams have gamebreakers that can undo their team's mistakes in various aspects.

If I had to pick a team, I'd say Boston just because I'm done picking the Leafs for anything in the playoffs. They have to prove themselves before they get any kind of benefit of the doubt. Bruins have home ice, which means their coach has a chance to outmanoeuvre Keefe, who has had trouble in the playoffs in the early part of his career.

[Vortex71]

Marchand will do his best at chirping Matthews at every opportunity for not hitting that 70th goal. Combined with a fact that a goalie matchup is not even close...Bruins in 6

[ericdaoust]

I've seen this movie before

This ^

[Godin]

Bruins in 6 because Keefe will be outcoached. Can't believe they extended him after last years playoffs.

[hockeyrobot]

Same old same old.

[hockeyrobot]

Same old same old.

[hockeyrobot]

Same old same old.

[hockeyrobot]

Dunno why that happens sometimes

But anyways. This must be fake... Or they feel pressured lol.

Jeff Marek: Maple Leafs in 7
David Amber: Maple Leafs in 6
Christine Simpson: Maple Leafs in 7
Caroline Cameron: Maple Leafs in 7
Justin Bourne: Maple Leafs in 6
Nick Kypreos: Maple Leafs in 7
Luke Fox: Bruins in 7
Mark Spector: Maple Leafs in 7
Iain MacIntyre: Bruins in 5
Sam Cosentino: Maple Leafs in 6
Jamal Mayers: Maple Leafs in 7
Eric Engels: Maple Leafs in 6
Jason Bukala: Bruins in 7
Ryan Dixon: Maple Leafs in 6
Wayne Scanlan: Bruins in 7
Sonny Sachdeva: Bruins in 7
Rory Boylen: Bruins in 6

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11 of 17 have Toronto.

[Daydream Nation]

Marner and Matthews definitely did not get off to the start they wanted. It is going to be fascinating to see how this plays out.

[Axeman33]

Sports desk on TSN must have spent 3/4 of their one hour broadcast talking about this game last night. I don't know why they needed 4-5 different analysts at differing times during the show to say the exact same thing over and over. It took 30 mins into their show before you even knew there was another playoff game yesterday.

[Belexus75]

yeah, TSN is much worst "homer station" than SportsNet. Probably has to do with lack of leafs games in their programing and maybe they kissing ass to MSLE...there also was not much positive to say yesterday...

[Belexus75]

Same old same old.

Last year they lost game 1 of Tampa series 7:3....

bad loss but no point of panicking yet...