Funeral | The Steve Dangle Podcast 

if you have to ask your goalie to get a shutout in order to win a game, it's not the goalie's fault you lost.

Half of the Leafs salary is tied up in 4 forwards and they’re blaming the goalie for allowing 1 goal in regulation 😂

Idk blaming Samsonov for not being perfect isn’t fair to me. You can’t expect to win game 7 1-0. The blame should fall fully on the core 4 for being unable to score goals.

Never have I so frequently refreshed RU-vid for a video until today

The Leafs and Kraken being tied for total playoff rounds won in the past 20 years is insane.

If your a goalie, "Tend the goal" If your a goal scorer, "Score a goal"

All I want is for Shanahan to finally be held accountable. He has been calling the shots and let three different GMs take all the heat.

“real estate in his head is dirt cheap” - fave quote on Marner from Steve lol

You want a mind boggling stat? McDavid has 12 points in 5 games these playoffs…..the same number TOTAL of the core four in 7 games

Steve, thank you so much for bringing up Keefe in the Amazon documentary. He does get it. The core four became untouchable and uncoachable under the Shanaplan. Once Dubas started to question the Shanaplan, he was fired. Then Treliving was hired to run the ol' Shanaplan back again. And here we are.

I think the saddest part is that this was easily their best game 7 performance

"We were right there" is such a galling thing to hear from players after 8 years of this. If they learned nothing else, you'd think they would've learned that "right there" isn't enough. Maybe the series was a coinflip in the end, but if you want to win a Cup you have to be able to ask for better odds than a coinflip.

I’d rather have Max and Tyler for 5 & 6 per year than Marner @ 12 If you disagree, we cannot be friends

Men of hockey culture... we gather once again for the leafs playoffs eulogy 😂

Just remembering your guys excitement for the Tavares signing acting like the leafs won the cup and comparing it to how can we get rid of him the fastest is hilarious.

You can't win a 7-game series when you only score 12 goals, and go 1-for-21 on the power play 🤷‍♀

Jim Benning Canucks: 1 playoff series win Brendan Shanahan Leafs: 1 playoff series win

Bruin : I’ve been looking forward to this. Leaf : My choking powers have doubled since the last time we’ve met, Bruin! Bruin : Good. Twice the fall, double the memes.

Ah the annual post mordem of the leafs.

Mitch and Rielly can both kick rocks!

This year the Leafs got even more respect in the handshake line

Pasta actually signaled for Lindholm to send it into that corner. Beautiful set play. Reminds me of when Krug did the same thing for Pastrnak against the Flames in 2019

my favorite episode of sdpn, marks the start of summer every year ............ in May

Been refreshing RU-vid all evening waiting for this, let’s go therapy time!

I don’t want to pile on, so I will just say that the Wendy’s ad read was the most effective ad I have ever seen. Never has anyone made a burger look tastier than Steve just did. I want a Baconator

I feel so much pain this morning. I really hope in the future can be look back and be thankful for this moment and all the upcoming changes…

People blaming the goalie is wild score more than 1 goal

"It's their number 1 export!" -Steven 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

48:04 - As much as I think Sammy needs to leave, you can't blame him for adjusting his positioning, given there was a Bruin advancing on the net from the side to gobble up the rebound or take a sudden pass. Sammy respected that and tried to cover that angle as well.

"LYUBUSHKIN!!!!!" 😂😂😂😂😂

RIP core 4

Wild you guys blame goaltending. Score more than 1 goal.

The famous "We can and we will" was never about winning the cup. It was about choking all along!😂

This episode feels like an intervention

The complaining about Samsonov is hilarious! It's complaining about Samsonov this year. Previously it was complaining about Jack Campbell. Before that it was Freddie Andersen, before that it was blah blah blah....It cannot always be the goalie. It seems like Steve always complains about the goalies. "Goalies...tend the goal!!!!" Sometimes it's the defence, and forwards not being defensively responsible.

45:18 Can someone explain wtf Samsonov was supposed to do to see past the screen on the tying goal? There was a scramble and a couple of guys screening the release of the shot, like what is bro supposed to do? And he backs in because he has to cover a potential pass to the Bruin in the slot.

i swear steve has been saying move on its over about the core fore for years now

I think blaming Marner on the Pasta goal shows lack of deeper understanding of the sport. First of all, Pasta is not ”his man”. Second of all, it’s Marner’s job to play the passing lane. He actually plays the situation correctly: Lindholm has no option to pass the puck to Pasta and have him attack Rielly with speed as Marner takes away the lane. In that sense Marner should be ”puck watching”. I think somewhat regular play by the Bruins would have been to dump it in softly and have Pasta be first to get it with speed, but they execute a perfect play. Not Marners fault by any chance.

you can’t blame samsonov for this. he had easily his best game of the series, but once again, the offense that is getting paid the majority of the team’s salary cap doesn’t show up. i hope he goes to a team that will actually give him support on the score sheet.

Morgan Rielly not being blamed nearly enough for that OT goal. As much as Marner should've been paying attention and skating hard, Rielly is facing the play and has to know where Pasta is and what is about to happen when the puck hits the corner boards. Rielly was abysmal there and it needs to be addressed.

Oh well, fishing season again.

Sorry but when are one of you three ever going to hold Matthews accountable? He disappears in every deciding game of the playoffs since he got on the team. And just look at him after losing, and he does not look upset at all. You can be happy to have a regular season star, but he is a liability in the playoffs.

The way Toronto fans treat these athletes is so weird… especially Adam

So happy we’ll never have to hear keefe heavy mouth breathe into the mic again. Christ.

I'm glad that you've noticed the sheer unhingedness of Tyler Bertuzzi, we miss him from Detroit

So here’s an interesting stat. Between Willy, AM, and Mitch in order: 1st round Playoffs since this era Games 1-3: 6, 14, 10 Games 4-7: 16, 10, 6 When people ask why we call Willy the playoff performer. (forgot to include last year’s run I think but you get the point)

As both a Bruins and SDPN fan, I’m happy this series is over.

2 full periods at 5×4 this series for the leafs. 1-23 on the powerplay is absolutely unnacceptable, for any team, let alone a team as top heavy as Toronto. absolutely insane. unbelievable.

Also Better Help should not be sponsoring your show. Their "therapists" are about as qualified as the people who worked at the Psychic Friend's Network. In fact, I think MANY of them are former employees of the psychic friend's network. Do you think you should be using them as a sponsor? I am asking as an attorney who thinks you are putting yourself in FIRING RANGE for LAWSUITS!

Yo guys should to 10-15min breakdowns of every team that missed the playoffs and then the ones eliminated

I love how the "they're already dead, we're playing with house money this is great - this is so much worse for the Bruins" is gone and forgotten xD Never change Leafs-fans (especially Steve), love you guys!

''Why am I not high right now'' 😆

Oh man poor Sammy! I think he’s great and needed waaay more help. I’m a Bs fan but I love you guys! Thank you for your honesty and seemingly impartialness.

An easy shot goes in that clearly he did not even see the shot. People that have never played the position at all should try it and since it is so easy to stop everything. lol

Ppl are missing pasta communicated the play with Lindholm. As pasta gets behind Marner, he points his stick 1:02:03

Adam taking AM34 quote out of context LOL. AM literally said that to reinforce his point of "This group was tighter than before"

Marner was puck watching because he was expecting the pass to go to Pasta, and not a shoot in bank play. Easy to look back in hindsight and call things, but he was watching to intercept the pass I think.

Sammy needs to go but that segment was tough to watch. They know nothing about goaltending

I wish Adam would just let the conversation flow naturally as opposed to constantly stopping Steve and Jesse from making their points because they’re going “off topic”. This isn’t TV where you have scheduled segments. A podcast should feel like a free flowing conversation and sometimes it feels too forced by Adam.

On the Tampa series, having that level of puck luck and likely also facing an injured goalie isn’t something one can rely on as a predictor of future success.

Markstrom would be a good Leaf addition in the off season. His contract length is perfect for him to mentor Woll into the role.

Marner is not going to be traded for value. He's going to give one or two teams, and the Leafs are going to retain salary.

Im not even a fan but the hate for Marner is at all time delusional levels. Another scapegoat about toe be sacrificed.

Blaming Sammy is actually so funny. Scored 1 goal in game 7 nitpicking this is so funny🤣

We've been waiting for this episode.

My excitement at seeing "Breaking News" on SN's website today... but then it's something about golf.

I've been waiting all day for this

Feel for you guys, esp. Steve. I'm one of those Canadians who will cheer for the winner of Vancouver-Edmonton.

RE: The referee pointing for a penalty shot, I don't think he did. I think he was indicating that it's a face-off outside the zone, because of the Leafs player going under Swayman and taking the net off in the process. He'd judged it not to be a penalty shot and simply indicating where the next face-off needed to be.

If I was the Leafs coach, with the knowledge that I’d have to choose someone to replace JT in the role of captain of the team, I don’t want to choose a guy who doesn’t show up in the playoffs

Last 16 playoff games: Tavares 2 goals Marner 2 goals Last 10 playoff games: Matthews 1 goal

That "elimination" line definitely made Steve's eyes twitch at 2:52

Panarin hit on Oshie is proof the lighter skill guys can still get physical in the playoffs, smallest dude on the rangers & he put his whole body through that

Apparently Dallas head coach Pete DeBoer is 8-0 in game 7s. We need to get him soonest.

When a goalie plays the puck Steve goes - TEND THE GOAL!!!!!!!!!! Goalie stays in net - oh he should have went and played the puck... Consistency 😑

Thank you Steve, Adam, and Jessie. Loved these podcasts. Being a leafs fan is the worst and the best but the best part is this podcast. Until next season when we get truly back into this 🫡.

You say Samsonov is too deep and you want him against the post. Not how that works. If you want to pick apart Samsonov's play its simple. He doesn't know how to read a play, that goal he is looking to his left, the bruins player is left handed (so he is looking across the play, pushing him to lean off balance). He should be covering short side more because of that, instead he continues to lean to his left pulling him away from the short side (allowing the goal) and he doesn't make himself big up top. They showed a stat where Bruins had 8 goals or something in that corner. He is square to the player and not the puck, he should be a step to his right. Similar to game 4, he looks to his left, bruins player is right handed at the point. Samsonov moves to his right, leaning away from the shooting lane and into the Leafs player screening him. Goalies need to battle through screens either by standing up and looking over (Samsonov isn't quick enough for this) or down low to look between legs, Samsonov can't move laterally very well, especially when low already. So he stands in set position looking at the players back or leaning too far. He goes down for no reason because he can't see the puck and is trying to cover as much net as possible, except he rarely makes his upper body big and cannot react laterally quick enough on plays. Why he is on his stomach, he just throws a leg out, no structure.

Thanks you 3 for always making me feel better this time of the year

The pasta goal isn’t on Mitch in any way just stop bro it’s embarrassing

Been waiting for this one

what's worse for Steves heart...screaming at the Leafs or inhaling Wendys burgers?

They’ve built a dynasty in losing

The good news is that if you booked your spot for the Stanley Cup parade, rather than using Force Majeure, MLSE agreed to honour the tickets towards next year’s parade which will be planned about 2 weeks into next season.

Love how adam gets everything wrong

Imagine if the Leafs kept the gift from Kyle Davidson that was McCabe at 50% and Sam Lafferty at 1.15m

So you think getting rid of just marner will solve the scoring problem from the top 4?

Players who do pregame media availability don't do postgame, its not up to the players themselves, the media deals with the team and has some choice in who is selected for pregame and postgame.

The offensive juggernauts biggest problem was their offense. Ya time for some change.

Adam defends Bertuzzi having shitty stats in the playoffs saying people are “out of their minds” for only looking at his stats line. Isn’t that exactly what he did with marner? 😂😂😂

JVR - Frederic - Brazeau is Boston's 3rd line. Maroon - Beecher - Boquist is the 4th line.

Can't wait for the 2 week playoff run next year!

Congrats guys. You convinced me to get CBC gem. But I ain't switching my choice of electric razor, or drink any supplements.

Why would AM34 be tired/exhausted? Well, how about: 1)The NHL season is long, spanning many months. 2)He was added to the PK team this year = more TOI and PK time is tough time. 3) The Leafs had an in-season Europe trip. We all know how draining travelling can be. 4) Toronto hosted the ASG this year, which meant Auston was very busy during that whole event. 5) The hunt for 70 meant that at the end of the season when star players can/should take a few games off, he had to play full minutes of every game. 6) He fell short of 70, which must've been mentally draining to be so close. 7)Willy was not available the first few games of playoffs, which meant more scoring pressure on 34. 8) The Leafs as a team seemed to deal with the flu bug all season long. We all aren't pro hockey players, but we can all relate to how taxing stomach issues can be! So, yeah, I'm not surprised AM looks a bit run down these days. My initial thoughts on the season? Never fire/change just the GM. Players will always want to play, good coaches/organizations will do what's best for the team even if that means forcing a player to rest. Leafs never replaced Klingberg's role -- he was supposed to lead the PP -- which I'm sure didn't make 44 too happy! Keefe stayed with Brodie way too long, when it was obvious he was not able to play -- probably because of all the off-ice issues. TJ's TOI should've gone to the new additions, allowing more time to gel. Woll, while a gifted goalie, just can't seem to stay healthy so you can't count on him as your #1. Sammy needs a smaller market team. So, main targets this off-season are an offensive blueliner(Chychrun?) who can anchor the PP and a goalie(Ullmark? I know he wouldn't sign off on a trade at the deadline, but he was still in a 1-1A tandem at that time and now it looks like Sway is the man in BOS).

Thank goodness, I’ve been depressed all day and kept refreshing because you guys always make me feel better 😂

I cannot even tell you how many times I have rewinded just to hear the "LYUBUSHKIN"

47:45 - "How does Lindholm have this much space?" Buddy, that's been there throughout the WHOLE series.

Siri, play Funeral March by Chopin.

Sammy is deep in the net on the goal because he has to play for a shot, a deflection and a pass to the slot. It was a weak goal but he has been bad with short side saves all series.

You guys create art. This pod was so good. Like, so damn good. Listening to Adam speak about "I've heard..." will occasionally give me goosebumps. Love you guys so much.

Feel bad for you Steve. That was a tough loss for Leafs nation. You make the Leafs more sympathetic. Hopefully, better days are ahead.