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It just doesn’t get any better than that. Or more exciting.
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Wow.
There will certainly will be no criticism of the players on the ice or the fans in the stands or square.
They were all outstanding. They were all in do or die playoff mode. What a performance and what an atmosphere.
“I never had any doubt,” said Antoinette Grande. “I had a feeling they were going to get back in this series.”
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Yes, despite the odds, the Toronto Maple Leafs have pulled off the near impossible and have come back from a 3-1 deficit to force a Game 7 Saturday night in Boston.
Win or lose, with all the adversity this team has experienced, this game will go down in Toronto sports lore as one of the Maple Leafs best. A defensive battle with an amazing winning goal by William Nylander on a break away.
“Just fantastic,” said Jonathan Piselli. “We won’t forget this one for a long time.”
Part of the extra magic came from superfan Kurtis Stevenson who flew all the way in from his incredible man cave in Alberta to help this crowd hit a fever pitch. He achieved his goal.
“There’s nowhere I would rather be,” he said.
And that includes his museum-like basement.
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He’ll watch Game 7 right from there. Others are planning to watch it in Maple Leaf Square, which was on fire on this Thursday night.
There has never been any question about the desire of those fans. This was an epic nail-biting game that fans live for.
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But there will be no rest. The teams will be back at it Saturday to decide who wins the series.
Leaf fans are confident they will complete the comeback. But either way, it’s a much better mood than it was after Game 5.
Leafs Nation is over the moon, up with the stairs and getting ready for another game of magic.
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