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[Recap] Leafs 3 at Islanders 1: Oh Dear God

Sometimes you have to see things to believe them (LeafFanInVan via Mirtle):


I spent the rest of the game praying that it wouldn't end 1-0 while two squads shorn of most of their offensive talent tried their best to make a throwaway end of season game one of the more traumatic in recent memory. The prayers were answered (why always the useless ones?) as Kyle Wellwood, yes Poppin' Fresh himself, deflected an Alex Steen shot home. Pavel Kubina then hammered home another GWG past a perfect screen set by Alex Ponikarovsky. Poni then sealed the game after a pass from Steen left him all alone with an empty net and this time no one stripped him and scored on the Leafs. PSC should write angry screeds about each of the Leafs before every period.
In the end Vesa Toskala was able to join the ranks of the unbelievably unlucky. He's in some decent company:

Tommy Salo versus Belarus - 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics


Martin Brodeur - 2003 Stanley Cup Finals


Ty Conklin - 2006 Stanley Cup Finals


Rock 'em Sock 'em 17 Bad Goals Compilation

On the bright side, Toskala shook it off and the Leafs kept pace with the Flyers. The dream lives on!...for one more game at least.

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the salo one...

is just so incredibly brutal...even so many years later it's still amazing to watch

by eyebleaf on Mar 19, 2008 12:59 AM EDT reply actions  

Salo

A friend had come over that day and we were just watching the game in passing and the deeper it got into the third the more closely we watched it. When that goal went in we were stunned silent.

by PPP on Mar 19, 2008 9:07 AM EDT up reply actions  

We will never forget

this goal; it will be in blooper reels for a century.  I'm glad the Leafs won this one.  Now I don't mind if they lose another, as long as they didn't lose this one after that.  In any case, these things obviously happens to the best.

by leosc on Mar 19, 2008 6:29 AM EDT reply actions  

The beauty of video!

As long as they beat the sens I'll be happy.

by PPP on Mar 19, 2008 9:07 AM EDT up reply actions  

Phew!

Thankfully Toskala could shake it off and the leafs won anyway. That one won't be back to haunt him I think, unlike salo.

The leafs could have lost the game 8-1 and "that goal" would still be blamed for the loss, so it's great that scenario didn't happen!

by LeafFanInVan on Mar 19, 2008 12:29 PM EDT reply actions  

Also cloutier

I couldn't find a vid on youtube with a quick search, but Cloutier also let in a soft one, from the red line in this case.. That hurt!

by LeafFanInVan on Mar 19, 2008 12:31 PM EDT reply actions  

Video

Yeah, I couldn't find it on YouTube! I know it used to be there because I would e-mail it to my Canucks fan friend every week.

by PPP on Mar 19, 2008 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

sup

NHL network showed Lidstrom blowing one through Cloutier from the red line last night. Hysterical.

I still like Tugnutt against the Sabres.

by Chemmy on Mar 19, 2008 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

Vancouver = Goalie graveyard

I dunno what it is, but goalies come here to die. Poor Luongo, he's next!

by LeafFanInVan on Mar 19, 2008 1:08 PM EDT reply actions  

I Hope!

It's nice to know that Toronto seems to be a place where good goalies come now (Raycroft excluded) because after the 80s it was looking bleak.

by PPP on Mar 19, 2008 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

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