NHL Highlights | Maple Leafs vs. Avalanche - Jan. 8, 2022

• Title: NHL Highlights | Maple Leafs vs. Avalanche - Jan. 8, 2022
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• Now that was a game!!!! Greatness was on display for both teams! Good game Leaf’s. #GoAvsGo

• Tough game to lose being up 4-1 for the third time this season again. Some of it had to do with Covid protocols and irregular inconsistent game scheduling, but they still had no excuse to lose this game. Silver lining for them is that they got the point in large part due to Campbell standing on his head for the whole game with an undoubtedly high ranking save of the year candidate dubbed unofficially as the Souperman. Also a big Congratulations to the Avs. on their franchise setting record of 11 straight home wins.

• You can’t give the Avs 50 shots and expect to win

• The Colorado Avalanche didn’t quit when things looked bleak. Bednar made the right call to pull Kuemper early. He knew this was the only way to give the team a puncher’s chance to win. Francouz came up huge tonight. He delivered when the team needed him. After the disastrous second half of the first period, the Avs fought back. From the second period to overtime, the team regrouped and played two-way hockey. They outshot the Leafs 51 to 27. The Avs refused to take their foot off the pedal as they showed urgency. They were well aware that the franchise home winning streak record was on the line (11 straight home wins). The team remained disciplined by taking only 2 penalties. This was the hardest fought win by the Avs this season. They showed a lot of grit, determination and spirit. The first line came through again. Avs fans can only hope that this production will be the new norm.

• That’s 3 out of possible 4 points against one of the best teams in the league. Tough game tonight but you get the point and get the hell out of there. Look forward to the next challenge in the rest of this tough road trip ahead.

• Absolute playmaking clinic by Rantanen in this game. Solely responsible for goals 3 and 4 and got an assist on two others for 4 total.

• Kudos to Colorado they never gave up. Leafs still need to learn how to close out games convincingly. Really frustrating and worried when it comes to playoffs time.

• What a Comeback by the avalanche!

• Great game and comeback for the Avs!

• Leafs blowing a 4-1 lead, where have we seen this before LOL!

• Av’s are my number one team (born and raised in Colorado) and I was so hype to see them win tonight!

• But leafs aren’t my number two team and I’m the same breath I was kinda pissed they lost while being up 4-1.

• Love and hate when these two team play,

• that’s awesome 👍 the Leafs were leading 4- 1 & the AVS come back to take it in OT ! nice job Leafs 👍 great comeback win AVS ✌️

• I was honestly surprised the Avs came back. I have a lot of faith in this current Avalanche team yet it was looking hopeless after 4 goals. Fun stat- Matthews has scored 22% of his goals against the Avs this year, in two games.

• What a comeback, my god! A healthy Avs team is just one of the greatest things you can ever witness

• Good game, spectacular first 40 minutes was always going to be tough closing out the Avalanche as they invoked the nuclear option and pushed their top players to their absolute limits. Would have been nice to have the shutdown line of Engvall-Kampf-Kase healthy to settle things down in the third. Anyways can’t win em all and I’ll gladly take the point.

• Great come back Avs. 50 shots you deserve the win. Happy for the fans there.

• Colorados MO for the rest of the season moving forward needs to be team defense, High IQ hockey and getting good goaltending, and to keep humming along on offense. The dump in forcheck needs to continue improving to extend and get easy forward possessions when certain teams play trap against their speed and skating through the neutral zone, give them credit tonight though it was all work to get this one done. Franky great stuff to come in cold tonight and give them the chance they needed and for the team to dig in in front of him for the most part. There’s apart of me that knows darcy still isn’t there yet and if we can get it out of him it can take colorado to another level. I wonder about Parkila coaching the goaltenders and think it’s weird that after varly has been gone why they kept him, as it was varlys guy, but then look how much better varly got in the island after a slow down to his career with colorado, and a resurgence with Berry Trotz’s goalie guy. Investing in a truly proven goaltender coach to help out Kemps and franky continued ascension could be crucial for this team. I just have not seen darcy continue to get significantly better and round into game breaker Keumper, and part of that is a goaltender coach who can’t help them reach their full potential in Parkila. Think about it, what do we actually know about Parkila besides that when varly was struggling in colorado he wanted to go back to someone that helped mentor him when he was younger. but besides that he was never considered for any team as a goaltending coach ever, and correct me if I’m wrong but he was not even doing goaltending coaching when varly had the team contact him. Would be smart to invest in your goaltenders with a proven track record guy of the likes of mitch corn, Ian Clark, or jason Muzzatti. Look at how good a guy like freddy has been this season while working with Jason Muzzatti in carolina.

• Love how Matthews just gives up in the OT. He let that goal happen. Seen that a lot from him.

• Great game! Makes it so much more interesting when the commentary isn’t so biased. Tired of hearing “and scores….” whenever the opposing team scores. Glad they featured the Canadian broadcast.

• The Leafs were all smiles and so happy when they had that 4-1 lead…Then the AVS turned it up a notch and put Toronto in their place and DISMISSED the Leafs in overtime… The looks on the Maple Leafs players faces as they left the ice at the end of the game was PRICELESS…😂😂😂

• Everytime the Leafs lose an angel gets his wings.

• That all too familiar 3 goal lead. As a leafs fan, you never feel safe :/ Looked like a hard fought game regardless but it always stings when they do that.

• The Nordiques are looking like Cup favourites!

• The Avs have a very good team.

• Hate when my 2 fave teams play each other. You can imagine the joy and pain I experience each time any team scores. It happened 9 times today lol. What an emotional rollercoaster of confusion. I don’t know what happened to me tonight. I’m so confused.

• Wait what. It went to OT. I thought Toronto had a decent lead on the AVS

• Francouz is a freakin stud! Am I the only one who thinks he has #1 goalie potential? He looked great in his other game vs NSH (first game back in almost 1.5 years) before the covid break, & once again tonight. I remember he played great also a couple seasons ago in Grubauer’s absences. I have more faith in him than I do in Kuemper. He needs to play more

• When the Soup is a 10/10 but there’s a fly in it

• Matthews had absolutely no hustle in that OT, would have been cool to see the hat trick

• Mathew’s controller disconnected in OT.

• Toronto was celebrating like they won the Stanley cup in the first period 😄

• Wow look at all the leafs haters showing up after the leafs lose an OT game after winning 4 in a row…I get they blew a 4-1 lead but atleast they got a point lol

• Probs the best sub .900 save performance we’re gonna see in a while

• Campbell is the only reason that game was as close as it was in the first place. WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES YA BUMS

• Так умеет только Мейпл Лифс…………😆😂🤣🤷‍♂️…

• Просто красота! Молодцы! Затащили!

• What an amazing win for the Avs. Also the leafs should maybe stop getting 4-1 leads they aren’t very good with holding them 😭

• Looks like leafs will lose in the first round cause they haven’t learned have they

• 420 лайков, значит Торонто победили 😏

• IT WAS 4-1 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

• Leafs decided 2 periods of work was enough and took the rest of the night off. Same ol story.

• The leafs would be in deep trouble if it weren’t for Campbell. Nice humbling after that last game.

• remember when the leafs played defence all of november then just…stopped?

• Lmao Compher’s tying goal bounced in off Campbells butt

• Just the way Matthews was covering and trying to check his man in OT makes me feel like these games are rigged. These guys are pros…but they don’t play have the work ethic…who the heck floats at this level. Are these games scripted to be entertaining just as long as the yank team wins in the end? See this BS too often to make me think that something fishy aint going on here.

• Камбэк на глазах соей трибуны это охеренно

• I thought the avalanche was going lose

• Just about any goalie other than Campbell in there and the Avs win this thing 9-4

• That was a vintage leafs loss lol

• If there ever was a game that shows the Leafs vulnerability it is this one.

• Nice fighting back by the Avs. Look at the shot totals…!!

• lovely Kadri! What a nice feed for Toews! a great way to destroy a the leafs nation!

• Man avs had so many comebacks this year.

• It’s just comical leafs blowing a 4-1 lead.

• 4-1. Name me a more popular lead the Leafs blow.

• I mean… Mikko is prolly one of the most skilled players in the league. Those passes were another level

• Classic leafs game

• Man why all the trash talk (Avs fan here)? That was a great game by two great teams. Leafs pulled a point out of CO which has been hard to do lately. Yeah they blew a lead but if you don’t score 5 in Ball arena you’ll probably lose. Don’t forget the leafs completely smoked us earlier this season. Good game tonight. 👍🏻

• Ahhhh this reminded me of a typical leafs playoff game….so satisfying to watch… lol GO AVS!

• leafs are in playoff mode

• Tough one but Leafs will bounce back.

• producer drew is gonna love this

• Uht-Oh. A 4-1 lead. Uuuuht-Oooh!

• Okay, How Did Soup Save THAT?!

• Comeback City baby! Go Avs!

• What can go wrong will go wrong thats just who they are..😊

• LEAFSSSSSS this was unacceptable. We should of won this game SMH. Bounce back on the next game!

• the av’s are an interesting puzzle to solve at home, i bet for the win not the loss; tho - at this time if you’re to bet against the av’s at home the pay-out’s huge but very-unlikely.. lol live odds swing still had the av’s as the favorite going into the 2nd and 3rd periods respectfully the maple leafs past(s) giving up 2, or 3 goal leads has even hit vegas live odds makers heads - that’s a tough pill..

• 34 is on a leisurely skate in OT 🤦‍♂️

• How do you blow a 4 - 1 lead with 23 minutes left. Total defensive collapse, that’s how. Simmonds made a great play to Richie and Soup made a save that will be one of the best highlights this season…a team should be able to rally around plays like this, but not the leafs. Coasted last 20 minutes…sad.

• Chris Cuthbert is stay in Toronto at the Air Canada Centre / Remote Broadcast Booth and Altitude SPORTS.

• Marc Moser: AVALANCHES WIN IN OVERTIME.

• Jack Campbell may have gotten the first save on Devon Toews, definitely didn’t get the last save though.

• Whose more embarrassing Maple laughs or The Coilers

• He said we’d never see the stache.

• Austin Mathews needs to get a lot better defensively if the Leafs want to go anywhere in the playoffs.

• Has anyone noticed the leafs only beat bad teams

• Matthews showed zero hustle to pick up the Avs player who scored the OT winner. He should get benched for that lazy play.

• Whoever is in charge of the goal horn in Colorado knows what they’re doing….. You gotta hold that beast down!!!! EPIC!!!!!

• Cambell superman 🤭

• Playoff quality game and it was a lot of fun to watch. The Avs are very dangerous

• I’m not sure if the leafs will ever learn…. lol

• Matthews a bystander as his man scores the OT winner.

• Now I don’t feel so bad about the Jets loss 😜

• What? Leafs blow a 4-1 lead? What a rare event….

• You can always count on the Leafs

• I can hear Steve Dangle screaming….

• Was that Brodie that tried to draw a penalty on Kadri in the 3rd ? What a knob.

• Seriously maybe if you guys didnt stop playing stop after 40 mins we’d have 2 points instead of 1…i mean you guys had the avs on the ropes…keefe shouldve called a time out after the avs tied it but what can u do that was a stinker performance…onto the next game…

• Did the leafs fans that were talking trash during the 1st period on Twitter delete their accounts yet?

• If anyone thinks being a Leafs fan is bad try being a Bills fan it’s just as bad if not worse because I just know every year the Bills have no chance to win the Super Bowl as they are always overlooked as pretenders and never contenders. It’s tough and difficult being a Bills fan. I dream of the day the Bills finally wins their first Super Bowl in franchise history

• It was 3-0

• It was 4-1

• It was just another Maple Leaf choke.

• leaf fan here. the avs are awesome. but both team better play better defense come playoff time. avs need better goaltending too.

• the leafs should lose by default when they are leading in anything by 3, whether it is a playoffs series or in a game

• wtf was brodie doing they coughed up this game. another goal mckinnon’s 15 kerfoot on leafs had 2 men behind the blue line no hussle getting back leaf need a strong defensive defencemen who can hit and protect net

• Какой позор! Метьюс, ты говорил, что в этом сезоне Торонто будет играть лучше. И где???

• Leafs moment

• Leafs blew another 3 goal lead.. and of course golden boy matthews lost his man that scored the winning goal. Lmao

• Nathan Mckinnon the greatest player in the NHL. And can actually play 5 on 5. Unlike McNugget

• Haters gonna hate. Idc anymore screw this embarrassment of a team. 1967 and the clock will only keep ticking.

• When they made it 4-1..all us leafs fans knew.. They would find a way to ultimately loose the game.. Fml

• Milan Lucic said it best

• This Avs team is blessed with talent.

• Laffs planning the parade after being up 4-1 on a real contender. When will Matthews get tired of the choke jobs?

• Leafs, gonna Leaf. They def have a kink for choking

• I wonder what will happen first, the Leafs finally winning a playoff round for the first time since 2004 or the Bills winning their first Super Bowl with Josh Allen as their QB? I ask because I’m a Buffalo Bills fan and as a lifelong Bills fan I know how difficult and painful being a Leafs fan is. Bills are the Leafs version in the NFL.

• That’s a dangit

• I even got kicked out of the leafs discord because I said them choking a 4-1 lead is sad and was labeled a troll like what? Leafs fans the most childish, and sensitive fan base the nhl knows

• Campbell looked extremely shakey tonight

• The misery continues……..Pro sports “WORST” franchise ever. 1967

• This is exactly why the Leafs will not win the cup. in the playoffs most of the time you can’t just outscore your opponent without playing defense. they let a big lead slip away. sorry leafs fans. same old same old team. hey at least enjoy watching matthews and marner contribute in the regular season!

• Rantanen is beast

• If the Leafs don’t trade for a better goalie they’re fuct!

• Kuemper has been fantastic for the Avs over the last two months. It was far past time the team picked him up after an off night for him (not even really his fault the Avs had no defense in the 1st period). That was an incredible game.

• wow can you say collapse ??

• What does Toronto and Hamilton have in common? Both cities wish they could have a team in the NHL!

• We were doing so well with that 3 goal until you ruined it! You should be ashamed of yourselves!

• “Bergeron shoots SCOOOOORES, WITH THE POINT OF THE DAGGER AT THEIR THROAT THEY TAKE IT OUT OF TORONTO’S HANDS AND KILL THE BEAST!”

• Kadri is just a superstar, the unsung best player in the NHL right now. Only facts here, check his stats against actual time on ice.

• IT WAS 4-1!!

• It took the Avs 50 shots to beat a rusty leaf team that played 1 game in a month 😳. Avs better shape up.

• Here come the haters. Top 4 in the league. In the group of death with Florida, Tampa and Boston. Lost to a great team that we spanked last time. 3 games in 3 weeks. Guess we’re the laughing stock of sports again lol:

• The leafs are Complete horse crap and that’s the truth. If not for Jack Campbell the Avs could have won 20-4

• Maple Leafs choking…never seen that before!!!

• Typical Toronto maple leafs moment folks

• Ahhhh😫 flashbacks

• Nice.

• 1:07

• Somewhere Steve Dangle is having a meltdown..

• 1:16

• Still ahead of them in the standings and didn’t Tampa lose 4 nothing to Ottawa

• where is Nichushkin ?

• Typical Toronto Make Me Laughs

• Can’t win em all Boyz… Still got a point and we will take her.

• Welp gg…

• This whole 3 goal lead thing isn’t even funny anymore …. seriously

• AWWGH

• Kadri beats his wife I mean the leafs

• The leafs are garbage, it should have been about 8-1

• Leafs what was that

• Leafs gonna leaf. Most overrated team in the league. This isn’t the first time this season they’ve blown a 4-1 lead either. Got saved by a lucky bounce against Minnesota the first time.

• Empty effing stadiums in Canada…. what’s going on??? Something isn’t right

• #WayneSimmonds24

• What else is new. A maple leafs collapse. Their record is better than how good the team is. What does that mean? They’re overrated.

• Refs won this game.