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Joffrey Lupul does not tweet very often. He has tweeted just over 1,100 times, and he hadn’t tweeted since April 23. The playoffs began on April 30. Lupul finally broke his three-week Twitter silence by sending this emotionally-charged message on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after his Toronto Maple Leafs blew a 4-1 3rd-period lead in Game 7 against the Boston Bruins:

That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die…

— Joffrey Lupul (@JLupul) May 14, 2013

The Leafs are believed to be the first team to blow a 4-1 third period lead in Game 7 of a playoff series. They lost 5-4 in overtime, and that was after coming back from down 3-2 in the series.

Lupul’s actually had some crappy luck when it comes to the playoffs. In his second NHL season with the Anaheim Ducks, the team lost to the Edmonton Oilers in the Western Conference finals. The Ducks traded him to Edmonton after the season, and the Ducks went on to win the cup while the Oilers missed the playoffs.

Lupul did not have a point in five of the seven playoff games against Boston.

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Boston Bruins winger Milan Lucic had a pretty awesome series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. He racked up nine points, 32 hits, and he assisted on the goal to make it 4-2 and scored to make it 4-3 in the third period of Game 7.

After the Bruins came back to beat the Leafs in overtime Monday night, Lucic participated in postgame handshakes like everyone else. Only Lucic got a little personal with Toronto defenseman Dion Phaneuf, giving the Leafs captain a tap to the groin. If Phaneuf’s wife Elisha Cuthbert were around, she’d have told Lucic that area is off limits.

The Toronto Maple Leafs completed the biggest choke job in the history of the third period of Game 7 Stanley Cup Playoff hockey. Yes, the Leafs blew a 4-1 lead in the third, gave up two goals in 31 seconds, and lost to the Boston Bruins 5-4 in overtime to lose Game 7 of their Eastern Conference series on Monday night.

The local paper, the Toronto Sun decided to put the joke err choke on them. It was rightfully deserved.

Hey, Leafs fans, it’s not as if we haven’t been there before; the Bruins blew a 3-0 series lead to the Flyers in 2010. Happens to the best of us.

Massive brawls breaking out during games is nothing new, but it sure is different when it’s a bunch of peewees going at it. That’s what happened in this all-out fight between a couple of youth teams at a tournament in Novokuznetsk, Russia, according to Puck Daddy. These kids are all less than 12 years old, yet they’re absolutely beating on each other like they’re on “The Ultimate Fighter” trying for a spot in the UFC. We don’t ordinarily promote violence at LBS, but when there’s a 20-on-20 fight breaking out and everyone has a man like that playground scene in “Good Will Hunting,” we can’t pass up sharing it with you.

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Two women attending the Detroit Red Wings-Anaheim Ducks playoff game on Monday night mistook a hockey game for amateur night at the gentleman’s club. For some reason, one woman decided to shake her breasts as the referees convened by the boards to fix a pane of glass that had become dislodged. At one point she was able to get her friend sitting next to her to join in on the fun.

We knew that puck bunnies were a generous group, but did anyone expect this? About the only thing more distracting would have been if they were sitting behind the players on the bench, like this girl.

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One of the most classless, insensitive gestures we have ever seen came from a Toronto Maple Leafs fan who brought a “Toronto Stronger” sign to the team’s playoff game against the Boston Bruins on Monday night.

The “Toronto Stronger” slogan was a play on the “Boston Strong” movement, which has been the rallying cry of the historic city since the marathon bombing that led to five deaths and nearly 300 people injured.

As if the “Toronto Stronger” words weren’t insensitive enough, the fan also included a ribbon on his poster.

It’s truly amazing that this fan actually thought that creating such a poster was a good idea. “Boston Strong” was not a saying created by the Bruins specifically to ignite fan support for the playoff series against the Maple Leafs; it was a response to terrorist acts that killed people and marred one of the state’s most important events.

It’s distressing and disturbing that the fan doesn’t realize “Boston Strong” isn’t about sports but about a city bonding in response to terrorism.

For what it’s worth, the Bruins beat the Maple Leafs 5-2 to take a 2-1 series lead.

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The Vancouver Canucks have already put themselves on the brink of elimination with a blowout loss to the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night. They are currently trailing 3-0 in the series, but things didn’t always look so grim.

During Game 2 on Friday night, Vancouver fans briefly had their spirits lifted when Ryan Kesler scored in the third period to tie the game. He then scored a second time to give the team a 2-1 lead. As the Vancouver Sun pointed out, one fan placed a pizza order while the team was trailing 1-0, but changed plans after Kesler’s first goal tied the game:

FUNNY: Customer changes order from pickup to delivery because #Canucks tied game, can’t leave the house. #sportsbiz twitter.com/cannonjw/statu…

— J.W. Cannon (@cannonjw) May 4, 2013

The Canucks went on to lose in overtime, so the fan probably wishes he just left to get the pizza so he didn’t have to get his hopes up. Since this person was obviously a huge Canucks fan, we hope the delivery driver didn’t say anything derogatory about the game when he got there. As we learned last year, that can be enough to get a guy fired.

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