[Bowan] L’idée d’aller à n’importe quel événement sportif pour soutenir l’équipe locale, c’est être PRO ACTIF !!! Donner de l’énergie à l’équipe quand elle en a besoin Ne pas rester assis à attendre d’être RÉACTIF. Les joueurs ne peuvent pas le dire mais je le ferai. Le public de ce soir était TRÈS DÉCEVANT
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Totally agree. Worst home crowd in the playoffs.
it’s downright embarrassing. MLSE should drop ticket prices so the everyman can go, like in Montreal, and our barn would be shaking
Shame the most passionate fanbase in hockey can’t have a true home ice advantage because real fans are priced out.
What do they expect?
They want too much money and they don’t want to give that up so it’s all shitty fans in the arena. 🤷♂️ Won’t ever change
The crowd is disappointing because the team is disappointing.
I mostly agree that it’s rich clowns in there. But also, even if it was us blue collar fucks in the barn, I can kinda understand after years of seeing what happens just sitting there dreading the outcome.
Most of the seats are filled by corporate tickets. What do you expect. The real leaf fans are standing outside.
It means a lot more coming from Bowan but you can tell how awful that entire level 100 was.
Reposting from the PGT:
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. With the prices what they are (for regular season and for playoffs) the people that can afford to go typically go to _be_ entertained vs go to actively _be_ a part of the team. Like paying to go to the theatre or the opera, you pay your money and a show is put on for you.
I’m from England and there you’re paying the money to be an active part of the game, a 12th man. It’s not a ‘show’ but something you’re a part of. I went to a hockey game over there at Christmas and the atmosphere was literally better than any I’ve been to in Toronto (including many playoff games).
I know everyone in the arena aren’t like that, but a lot are. My fiance is a die hard leafs fan but when she goes she’s one of those fans. She sits there, she eats her popcorn, tries to get the free t-shirts and shit and just watches the game but isn’t really bothered in creating an atmosphere or making it hostile for the other team etc.
I think it’s been this way for a while now so there’s generations of fans growing up just kinda expecting it to be this way and MLSE rake in the money. There doesn’t appear to be any motivation on any side to improve things so this is just the way it is.
Sounds like Joe is saying the same thing.
I was at the game it was so incredibly loud but I think Bowan is commenting on the third period and it just seemed tense after the quick Boston goals and no-calls
Lets create some chants, get in some drum and make it count fuck the lowerbowl make it 60 minutes count for the leafs
Why blame the fans when the team doesn’t perform?
If you don’t come back from a playoff game without a voice, you have failed as a fan
That’s deflection 101. Tonight’s crowd was alright. But the real story this game was a deflating power play and a couple of soft goals given up by Samsonov.
It’s hard to be proactive when this team has given me permanent anxiety.
All the good fans are commuting from across the province to stand outside because they can’t afford tickets
Has to be one of the most dissapointing playoff crowds I remember in the Matthews Era. Couldn’t distinguish it from a regular season crowd.
I’m glad someone like Bowen* is saying it. People here don’t want to admit it. Other fans regardless of performance make it a hostile environment for the opposition. We have no excuse whatsoever for this.
Our playoff atmosphere has sucked in our new era. The suits 20 years ago would atleast get loud.
Compare us to any other team come Playoff time and we come out in last.
ITT: Everyone saying Bowan instead of Bowen.
I was at the game and it was the best atmosphere I’ve seen in 10+ years. There was a go leafs go chant for 70% of the game up until the third. The Marchand goal deflated the crowd completely and then after JTs penalty people started to leave. But it was the loudest and most excited crowd until 8min left in the third. This is a bad take and not a reflection of the reality. Passion showed up for the leafs today.
2 things can be true.
The fans have always kinda sucked at Leaf home games. We’d go to Montreal once a year to watch the Leafs Habs. Nothing like it. Last year there were some decent crowds. But usually it’s super meh.
It’s really hard to get super pumped when you are chasing the game. It’s stressful. They were good early on when the Leafs were controlling play and Reeves was running around. But when he’s stapled to the bench because we need to score a tying goal…it’s a different atmosphere.
Gee I wonder why?
Definitely isn’t because the seats are all reserved by Scalpers and people in suits looking to make a business deal, pricing out the real fans
What do you expect, something like Winnipeg or Edmonton where real fans can afford tickets?
everything within and surrounding this team is imploding. it’s fascinating
I love Joe but I dont agree with this take. Was there and that was one of the loudest, rowdiest crowd I’ve ever been apart of. I don’t know if it just doesnt translate well on TV or if that still just wasnt good enough. 😓
Bowen.
I was there tonight. It was wild up in the mid 300s when the Leafs were pushing, Reavo being a mad man, and the Leafs scoring. I can’t speak to what the rest of the place was like.
When you make cheapest ticket over 300 bucks. That’s what you’ll get..that’s about a quarter of my rent.
Our home record is just mind boggling and unacceptable.
We should be allowed to play our home games in Buffalo. The real fans show up to those games and it’s always insanely loud.
Omg I fuckin love this tweet
All the energy is kept to the nose bleeds, I’ve been up there in the playoffs last year, it’s wild! if the rest of the arena was like them the roof would fly off!
respectfully shut up joe. The crowd was good tonight when the team was doing good things. they were silent when the team was embarrassing
Had a friend who worked for the leafs for years in marketing and his job was basically take the company credit card and buy anything the client asks for.Then you see the client and it’s a multi millionaire half your age. His entire job was paying for their alcohol half the time expensing restaurant costs. MLSE Loves their clients I’m not joking. Seen and got to experience some crazy stuff back in the day
I was there. We were as loud as the real fans could be. It the anxiety, the fear, the waiting for the inevitable??? It was real and, as always, this team did not disappoint.
You can absolutely hear the difference through the TV between say a Rogers Arena (or ven Place) and Scotiabank lol
Maybe because the real fans are priced out and all we got is a bunch of bald assholes in business suits sitting in the seats were the true fans should be sitting
I was at the game and he’s 100% right.
I posted in a thread the other day basically saying the exact same thing when I was at game 5 vs Tampa last year. Crowd goes nuts when a goal is scored or a big hit is thrown. Other then that it’s very pedestrian in there.
The people in my section showed more emotion screaming negativity at Marner then they did anything else all game.
Nah this is bullshit. The place was rocking after the Benoit and Reeves hit but if you miss a DDT on Matthews and a roughing/trip on Bertuzzi where Boston scores within 3 seconds of that play, it sucks the absolute life out of the building.
I literally turned off the TV. Can’t fkn take shit like this anymore.
Agreed. I’m watching Dallas Vegas right now and with Dallas trailing by one, every fan has been standing almost this entire third period.
During the 3rd tonight with the Leafs down by 1, I turned to my Mom and said “I hate these fans. Get up and cheer ffs.”
So so so disappointing 🙁
It hurts when the other team scores even before the PA guy announces the first goal. Fans didn’t get a chance to bask in the glory. The late 3rd period penalty killed what could have been a great finish. Sent people packing feeling ripped off. Some of those out of town folks are probably just stepping off a Go train now to get home. It’s a long afternoon and evening when all is said and done. Plus, you’re out some coin.
He called it out on the radio too at the start of the third period which I found interesting
Joe needs to get his hearing checked. They sounded plenty loud until the team stunk the place up. I don’t owe this team anything. None of us do. We go to game’s to be entertained by athletic millionaires. Maybe Joe should start paying for his seat and we’ll see how proactive he is.
The bar at Canlan scarbs was more into it than Scotiabank tonight. I literally saw two teams call their game early at 4-1 with 3 min left so they could watch the last 90 seconds of the leaf game. One team stayed on the bench to watch the game from someone’s phone with the ref joining in.
I was at the game tonight and I gotta say it’s super frustrating to come home to see all these posts partially blaming the crowd for the loss when I currently don’t have a voice because I was cheering my lungs out for 3 hours.
Not going to speak for the whole building, but I was up in the Fan Deck and our section was buzzing all night.
Overall, I thought the atmosphere was good and there were lots of big pops, the biggest ones coming after the 4th line shift and the Bertuzzi tying goal. I did think it faded at the end, but the Leafs need to help themselves by 1) not immediately letting Boston re-take the lead or 2) not going 0/5 on the PP. Everyone is amped and on their feet at 2-2 and the Marchand goal just sucked the life out of the place.
Here’s a wild idea. Make a section of the arena, all 3 levels (like behind the opponents goal) a FANZONE. Only sell tickets for those seats on the day of and in person. Make people line up and wait for them like the good old days. Sell them for CHEAP so that the die hard fans can have a chance to go. They could probably offset the cost by raising the prices on all the corporate tickets. Encourage them to be loud, have signs, be dressed up.
Guarantee that section would be the wildest in the nhl.
Look, most of the time I would totally agree with Joe because the building sucks and it’s maybe the worst place in the league to watch a game outside of something like Arizona.
In this case, I think Joe is just wrong. He’s expecting people to put their emotions on the line for a team that has repeatedly shown people they do not deserve it and a management that refused to make changes to recognize that fact.
This generation of Leaf fans isn’t less passionate but we are jaded from a lack of success. Your level of excitement is different when you’ve seen your team go on super deep and exciting runs once or twice and you know something special is possible and a lot of people felt like those 90s and 2000s teams could have won the cup and they had several big runs with magical moments to show people how exciting that is.
Literally the biggest Leaf fans I know went into this series expecting that we’d probably lose. That’s what losing every year for 6-7 years (and 10 years before that) and making no significant changes to your team does to you. Tough to get excited when losing is an expectation.
The atmosphere in the building will go up when the Leaf’s actually prove they can have success and give the people something to cheer for. Saw a glimpse of it last year before reverting to more of the same.
Will it ever be like Philly or even Winnipeg? Probably not, people who are at the game with work don’t generally go and make fools of themselves cheering but it will get better when the team starts giving them something to cheer for.