It’s not really about hate. It’s more that leafs fans and media gets insufferable when winning. To answer to your question, yes. Panthers are a dirty team.

@ryan213
As a #mnwild fan, I would have been thrilled if the Wild had won the first round and taken the second round to 7 games. It is all perspective.

Nope, and as an Isles fan I hope JT is forever dashed in his dreams for a championship.

I always feel sorry for the fans no matter what because I know the feeling when your team loses or crashes out. I don’t feel sorry for the team itself though. Referees could’ve done better and Florida is a dirty team, but this is how things go the deeper and deeper into the playoffs you get. Leafs do this to themselves as far as I can see. They’ve run the same core team back almost ten times now and have barely made a dent because Nylander is the only one that doesn’t turn into a pumpkin every year when the going gets tough

Honestly yeah. I grew up a habs fan in a leafs town and at some point the teasing about the leafs playoff-imploding started to feel like punching down.

Also, with the Leafs fanbase and media circus, it has started to feel like those scenes in movies where a kid does something bad and the teacher is about to reprimand them, but then sees how abusive their parents are and feels compelled to jump to their defense instead. Toronto fans started being meaner to Toronto than we ever could be.