Watching an old Hab-Leaf game from 1979 playoffs

Needless to say my boys won but I wonder what the internet webboard world would have said during the game.

We were ahead in the series 3-0 and looking to close out.  We hadn't lost a playoff series in four years and ultimately would win our fourth Stanley Cup in a row (aka the time when the hockey world rotated on the proper axis).   However, game 4 against the Leafs did not go as planned.

We jumped out to a 4-0 lead and looked to be cruising but for some reason, we choked away the lead only to win in ot on a Larry Robinson shot from the point on a power play.  The funniest scene after the game was Dave Tiger Williams wanting to go after the refs because he didn't agree with the call that put him in the box and led to our winning goal.  I guess old Tiger thought they would have won the game and the series (hell maybe he also believes children come from the stork).

Anyway, I could see Hab boards lighting up if we won a game like that, here is a snippet of the some of the comments one could expect

When ahead

"just give us the cup now, no one can beat us"

"I knew we could turn on the switch, regular season is so meaningless" (we had a whopping 17 losses that year, one less than the two previous years COMBINED). 

"Bruins don't have a chance"

Once we choked away the lead

"GD chokers"

"we are old and finished, no way we beat Bruins"

"Bowman sucks as a coach and sulked all year after we gave the Grundman the GM job"

"we have no depth, we had to play Cam Connor and Pat Hughes, they are useless"

"this is what happens when you draft crap like Robin Sadler and Rod Schutt"

After we won

"I knew it, we are clearly superior, no stopping us now"

"Leafs suck, let me find a Leaf board to go rub it in"

Of course, internet forums didn't exist then, yes people born after 1990, there was a time when there were no such things as internet forums. 

Anyway, always good to watch the old games, we won more than we lost and unlike other CDN based teams who have never won a cup or last won when Canada was less than 100 years old, our wins are in colour.