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Toronto Maple Leafs Fan has the Audacity to Lecture Americans on How to Celebrate a Big Win
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This is so funny. This guy got one of the worst ratios in the history of social media ratios, 7.1 million impressions on this tweet with 13,000 replies and almost 500 bookmarks:
Yeah! He’s totally right! We should NOT be celebrating the win because we almost lost. Americans who REALLY know puck understand that Canada was the better team for three periods, plus overtime. Canada deserved to win, even though Nathan MacKinnon missed a wide-open net, the best power play unit of all time couldn’t score on a 5v3, and Cale Makar goofed up in overtime before coasting back defensively.
Bunkis is basically saying we should do the Eagles thing. “Yeah, we won the game but I’m mad because we should have lost.” Except in this case it’s a gold medal hockey game and not Week 10 in the NFL, so Negadelphia doesn’t apply. Or Negamerica in this case. Nobody cares how team USA got it done. They scored two quality goals and Connor Hellebuyck stood on his head. Same as Super Bowl 52, when Jim Schwartz’s defense gave up 613 yards and 33 points. Nick Foles was on fire and Brandon Graham made the key play at the end and we were all elated for the first Lombardi Trophy in franchise history. People didn’t start talking about luck or fortune or anything like that until weeks later.
The best part is that “JD Bunkis” is a Leafs fan. What would this guy know about winning? The Leafs last claimed the Stanley Cup in 1967! The Flyers have won the Stanley Cup more recently than the Leafs. Flyers fans know puck more than JD Bunkis knows puck.
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Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com