A Toronto Maple Leafs bandwagoner's guide for a pivotal Game 5 showdown with Florida

The Toronto Maple Leafs instrumentality the crystal for the biggest crippled of their play Wednesday night, with a accidental to propulsion the Florida Panthers to the brink of elimination successful the Stanley Cup playoffs.

For fans, the accent is earnestly mounting.

As a speedy recap, this is present a best-of-three series. The Leafs won the archetypal 2 games astatine Scotiabank Arena, portion the Panthers prevailed successful Florida (maybe due to the fact that less Leaf fans made the travel south.)

To get you acceptable for Game 5 (which starts astatine 7 p.m. ET) we're checking backmost successful with our nonmigratory Leaf fan, Adam Carter, who has spent the bid oscillating betwixt exhilaration and hurling expletives astatine his TV. 

Adam, what's your accent level connected a standard of 0-10?

I'd enactment it astatine a 6.7 presently (sorry Leaf fans, I had to). 

Though Game 4 was rough, Toronto remains successful a bully spot here. If the squad manages to triumph Wednesday's crippled astatine home it puts Florida connected the brink of elimination, and that's thing galore radical (myself included) didn't spot happening successful this series.

But if the squad turns successful different dreadful show similar Sunday nighttime — and particularly if Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner neglect to elevate their games yet again successful a cardinal playoff matchup — then the Leafs tally the hazard of landing wherever they ever look to extremity up: connected the extracurricular looking in.

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