To you, to your coach, to your media I say "You got owned. Get over it."
I'm sick to death of hearing how you didn't play your best game. How you haven't executed your game plan. How you're being persecuted by the officials.
You want to know why you're facing triple match point in this series? Can you handle the truth? You've been outworked, outhustled, and outthought -- in short outplayed -- by a team you came in with too little respect for. You breezed through a series with a Canadiens team that had been trying as hard as they knew how to implode for most of the year and you expected it to be easy. Trouble is, now you're up against a team with some teeth and it's not easy anymore.
It's the playoffs, stupid. If you're not gonna bring your A-game, you don't belong here. Go home. We'll help you pack.
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