With the Leaps, I think this is where you have to weather the storm, which brings us to the next point, which is I don't think they quit after the first goal, but by goal four against, I think that the Leaps were squarely out of the game.

Sorry, can I add one more point before? Sure. For anyone saying Petrozzeli, he has a 4, 3, and 1 record in the AHL. That's okay. 879 save %.

Preferable to bring you up Hildeby, though, right? I don't know.

I I don't know. That's a better safe percentage than Sammie in the NHL.

Listen, Jesse, you have the Drew and stew Christmas Day parlay. Yeah. Okay, what is this?

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It's weird that you get odds that are that high because it sounds like it's likely to happen.

I say it likely.

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Oh, yeah. Right? No, I'm scared. Watch all the games with your family. Maybe win 5,000 bucks because of Drew and stew. That'd be a good Christmas. No, the odds aren't likely, but you need that high payout to make your Christmas Day special.

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There were some good Sammie saves in there. I do want to say that. That's the gig. Yes, I know that's the gig, but there were. So he's capable. The skill is there. But by goal four, goal five, they're squarely out of this. And this is a team that we've seen come back from five nothing in one period. So that was the surprise for me was this team, I know this team can come back probably better than any NHL team currently. Honestly? And they didn't. Yeah, maybe. And they didn't. And like CJ, I think, put in the group chat last night. He's like, the leaves could hang six in the next two periods on these guys. You just don't know.

Fried said it yesterday on the broadcast. He's like, Do you think this game is over?

No. But it was. And the team, like Austin Matthews called it, the most embarrassing game he's played as a Toronto Maple leaf. What happened?

They quit.

Why did they quit?

Because I think whatever attitude they've developed this season, this fuck you, there's something about not having a chance. I think the Leaps, they're improved in that they feel like they're in every game. They They feel like they're in every game, and when they're in every game, they will fight tooth and nail, whether they are winning, whether they are losing, or whether it is tied. They can score. How can you not feel like you're in every game when you just erased a five-nothing deficit like a week ago? With Sammie and Net, by the way. You know what I don't like is that that game is touted as a victory for Curtis Sanford, the goalie coach. They were down five-nothing, and he's like, No, leave them in. And then the Leaps came back, and they lost, though. Sammie was in Net for that. Anyway, sorry. Yeah, he has a terrible record in overtime because overtime features a lot of wide open shots, and he cannot stop them right now. Where was I going with that? Oh, they're willing to fight in every game because they feel like they're a part of every game. They no longer feel like they're a part of a game that Ilyas Hamzinov is in.

And I think that Columbus game solidified it. And then three minutes into this one, that Greenway shot has to be stopped. It's got to be stopped.

It felt like the Leifs told Sam Sonos, We did this for you last time. We erased all of those goals against Columbus last time. We're not doing it for you again.

Well, it's happened three times in the history of the League or four or something like that. You can't rely on We pulled off a miracle, and you still let us down.

And now we're here in Buffalo in the exact same situation. No, screw you. We're taking the night off.

No. And you saw the fire. When Domi scored, I think it was 2-1.

Yeah, he put them up 2-1.

You saw it. And I mean, that's probably twofold. He's like, Hey, I can score goals now. And also, here we go. Despite the fact that we allowed this shitty, shitty goal, here we are with a lead. Connor Timmins takes out Eli Samsonov. You maybe give Samsonov a bit of a pass there, although maybe don't simply lie there like a toddler in a snow suit.

In the corner. Where are you? Where's your net?

There are so many goals where you look at the moment the putt crosses the line, and so little of him is touching the blue paint. Stay in your fucking net.

He's hanging out at center ice. It felt like the Lefs were like, We're not giving you this. We're not giving you a pass every single time in net. We're not putting up seven goals so you could win the game.

No. And as long as we're talking about guys who are probably going to get waived, Connor Timmins, pretty soon.

He'll clear.

Yeah, he will clear.

Yeah, he will.

He will clear, and that's not a compliment. He's putting up points. And Max Domi, there's another one. He scored a goal, and then he was still minus three in the first seven minutes he played.

I have to be honest, though. It's difficult to be upset about that minus three with Ilia playing the way he played. I don't put that on Max.

There's something to that.

I don't put any of that on Max. Those goals were unacceptable, and they really were.

We're talking about the team performance here, and I don't fault anybody's performance. I feel like It falls on the goal tender last night. You can blame one person for that loss.

Jesse, to your point, you're a human being. At a certain point, you're like, We've all had... Think about a group project that you had in high school, university, or college, and you have two or three people that work really hard, and you have one asshole who's on the Sunday night before you're due to go live with this project. They're like, So is there anybody need me to do anything? And not that Ilia doesn't care. I'm not saying that, but you know that feeling of, Fuck it, we got it.

How about this?

No, you're at your job every day and you're on the site, Adam. You're working with somebody, and every night before he leaves, he forgets to do something and you cover his ass. And then one day you said, You know what? Fuck this guy. I'm not covering his ass I'm going to leave that shit that he was supposed to put away. I'm going to leave it out. And then the next morning, the boss is going to come and be like, Who left this out? He'll be like, He did it. He does it every night. You don't bring that up, but you're fed up and you're going to let him wear it. And occasionally, these people are humans because they're not just hockey players. They're actual human beings. And they're like, No, fuck that.

He's going to wear it. Speaking of the human element, so we're recording this on Friday, December 22nd. So it's the last work day before Christmas. How did you do at work today? Was Was it your best, most productive day? I bet. Or yesterday, was it? Yeah. You didn't leave early, did you? No. There wasn't some goofy party full of cookies and nothing getting fucking done? This is the time of year where people check out.

Oh, yeah.

Blowouts happen in the final couple of games before Chris. Mike Camido always does the this day in leaf history or whatever. It was a couple of days ago. It was the anniversary of, I I think it was the first next generation game the leafs played. They murdered the hurricane. It was like 8:1 or 8:2. That was such a fun game. I was there. It was awesome. Yeah.

Dude, it ruled.

That was the beginning of the legend of Mitch Marner, where he's like, It's afternoon games. And that means I average five points a game. That's how he runs around the ice.

That wasn't the Dipsy Duitle spin-around play. No, that was another-That's one of my favorite Matthews Marner goes of all time.

It was December 23rd, 2019. I remember the date, and will forever remember the date, because that was the day of our 12-week ultrasound for Leo. It was the day we started telling all our friends and family we were pregnant.We. Yeah.

We. Yeah.

You were pregnant. Yeah, it was a burden that I had to carry in my womb.

Oh, that's how I'm sorry.

For nine whole months. Just put that on the table there. No. I remember my buddy brought his Matt What's up? I know you're watching. He brought his very young son over, and I had to, while they're coming back, hold it in so I don't freak out this child. But we just looked at each other when they did the spin-arama goal, which They were still losing when they scored that goal, by the way. That goal made it 6-5. I just turned to them and I went, They're not losing this fucking game. And that game had 14 goals. These games before Christmas, at the beginning of the season, there's no defense. Before Christmas, there's no defense. When you're literally resting everybody in the final couple of games, there's no defense. There are times in the schedule where players just go, back checking, sounds lame, not doing it. And this is around that time of year. Yeah.

I think tomorrow will be interesting. I mean, just like the savers had a pretty good come back after their nine goals against with Columbus, I think the Toronto Maple East will put in some effort.

You can't lose Saturday. That is a must win game for going into the Christmas break after what happened last night. That's a must win game, and I think they got it done.

And two teams in absolutely miserable moods. I know Columbus just hung nine on Buffalo, but they just had that horrible emotional game against the Capitals, where... I mean, that's one of the... I've never seen a team in in unison scream at a goaltender after an OT winner. Radko Goudas did it, and he's one guy. I've never seen that hang it in the Louver pitch. If I was a Capitals fan, that'd be hanging above my bed right now. I'd print it out on printer paper before the poster arrived in my house, so I could have it as immediately as possible.

And social media, that next level that our world today adds for these sports superstars, where social media just dunks on you all night. They didn't have that 20 years ago. But now if you lose a game like this, there's just Twitter accounts posting memes about, Look at that, Merce Lincoln, see that loser. That sucks. Yeah, that fucking sucks for Blue Jackets.

You should see the Sammie memes today are painful. Yeah. Again, I feel for the guy. Personally, I really love Samson off.

No, but you ever have a morning where the coffee hits you and you're just like, fucking, we ride at dawn. How do you not feel that way this morning? As a Washington Capitals fan, did you go to bed last night?

Oh, man. Why? Did you see that picture?

How didn't you just vibrate before 3:00 in the morning?

Yeah, that's what we're talking about. Yeah, that's what we're talking about.

Sorry, I got confused. I was trying to pull something else up. So candidly, I was not listening. Oh, sorry. I was trying to pull up the next thing.

How do you not just vibrate? And then the Leaps, the best goal scorer in the NHL called that the most embarrassing game he's been a part of. I tell you what, Saturday better be a war.