“We had (the 2012 Stanley Cup) in our pockets,” Sutter told The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun. So perhaps for the Leafs to come back against the Panthers, the public messaging has to reflect their own inner confidence. The things he was saying, I wouldn’t want to hear them if I was playing against his team. “I think some of the Sharks heard that message,” Stoll said. If you ask Stoll, hearing then-Kings coach Darryl Sutter utter that line to the media after going down 3-0 to the San Jose Sharks inspired some newfound belief.
“It’s a tough hill, and we won’t go quietly away, that’s for sure.” That’s just one of the keys that those on the 2010 Flyers and 2014 Kings shared with The Athletic on how the Leafs can pull off a comeback for the ages. “It was a big task, yes,” former Kings forward Jarret Stoll said, “but we just looked at it in little increments.” Yet for the Leafs to believe in their chances, no matter how tiny, players who have been on teams that have come back from down 3-0 in a series argue the Leafs have to start small. When I spoke to Greg Harden, the Tom Brady whisperer and “peak performance” coach, it looked like his Leafs had finally conquered their playoff demons.įew would like their chances being down 3-0 against a feisty Florida Panthers team that already came back from being down 3-1 in their first-round series against a Bruins team that was the best regular-season squad in NHL history.Įspecially considering so many of the Leafs’ most important players had some of their poorest, and most bewildering, performances of the season in Game 3. They are the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs (In the Stanley Cup Final, no less), the 1975 New York Islanders, Hartnell’s 2010 Flyers and the 2014 Los Angeles Kings.
There have been just four teams in NHL history to come back from being down 3-0 in a best-of-seven playoff series. To call the Leafs’ task daunting would be an understatement.
Instead, it took seven days for the Flyers to win those four games, and write themselves into the history books.ĭown 3-0 to the Florida Panthers in their second-round series, the Maple Leafs are now looking to do the same. “You can’t win four games in a day, right?” the former Flyers forward said.
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