When you win a cup and you plan some of the games that this team played in last year,

like these are not high pressure games.

You know, when you're playing for an actual cup and you give up a three-game lead

and then you're in game seven, like that's a high-pressure game, right?

So, you know, in game seven second round, yeah, it's a high-pressure game,

but it's not compared to some other games that guys have played. So when you actually look at that, and then when you see the pressure that Toronto faces and,

you know, everyone's talking about whatever the 20, 30 year buildup, I don't even know what it is,

but you see the fans and the way they're talked, like, they just beat the pressure into this team. And it's got to be tough on those guys to walk to the rink every day and not feel that

because, I mean, you see the way the fans treat them at the end.

Like, how do you not feel that every single day?

You know, and when you go through big games, like, you realize which are actually big games

and which are just, you know, big moments.

Welcome to 32 Thoughts, the podcast presented by the GMC Sierra AT4X.

Tom Shemati, our producer in Vancouver.

Elliot, you and I are in the depths of Scotia Bank Arena.

Moments removed from watching the Panthers eliminate the Maple Leafs to advance to a third consecutive conference final.

And on Sunday night, Elliot, I was thinking back to that old Glenn Sather line.

If you don't think it can't get any worse, you are dead wrong.

Leaving the building after game five of this series, it would have been normal to think,

surely it can't get any worse than that 6-1 defeat if you're a supporter of the Toronto

Maple Leafs or a member of the organization.

I present to you, game 7, another 6-1 storyline,

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