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Live from the ACC: After 40 Minutes
April 08, 2009 by
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Some thoughts after 40 minutes down at the ACC...It always struck me that the best thing for the Leafs this year was to play hard, develop their kids and lose a lot of one goal games. Leafs still have a chance to go three for three tonight, although I'b most impressed if they came...
Live from the ACC: Start of period 2
April 08, 2009 by
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8:09 - biggest cheer of the game so far was a trivia contest that resulted in a big mac give-away for everyone in attendance.Further sign of the economic downturn: during the first intermission they held a race with remote control cars - a coloured car representing each section. The...
Live blog from the ACC
April 08, 2009 by
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I'm going to see if I can post some thoughts live from the game at the ACC. Not sure if the technology will work here...It's officially a recession if not a depression as I'm watching this game from comped seats in the purples, not the lower bowl of sushi and suits...the...
What if Don Cherry were an animated French Canadian?
April 06, 2009 by
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A big shout-out to Awful Announcing, who wonders if Don Cherry and Barry Melrose inspired characters on a new episode of the Simpson's. In addition to two characters who look remarkably like those infamous mouth breathers, the whole fighting debate is summarized in a six second...
The Frogren is also cursed (that's bad)
April 06, 2009 by
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One last word on Jonas Frogren (sorry).I wanted to assemble a bit of timeline of how this situation went from a dispute over the interpretation of the CBA to the loss of a 4th round draft pick some nine months later.Here are the key dates:July 7 - The Leafs sign Jonas Frogren to a...
History Lesson Part II (Our team could be your life)
April 06, 2009 by
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Funny, when the Leafs go a on a run and beat a bunch of also rans the company line in papers and across the airwaves is,
A layperson's look at Frogren and the CBA
April 02, 2009 by
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Maybe the Leafs should just avoid players named Jonas.The NHL has fined the Leafs $500,000 and a 4th round draft pick for signing Jonas Frogren to a contract that went over and above an entry level SPC.To review, last summer, the Leafs signed Frogren to a creative contract that MLSE...
Me and the boys and our 50
March 31, 2009 by
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As you likely well know, the Leafs have signed 22 year old prospect Christian Hanson out of the NCAA.Clearly, the Leafs organization has an affinity for NCAA players with upwards of nine playing in their system, most of whom were drafted by the JFJ led Leafs.The last signing of this...
In a horror movie when the car won't start you give it one last try
March 24, 2009 by
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As expected, this has been a pretty dismal season for the Leafs and, given the paucity of talent on this club and the preponderance of injuries, it's been difficult to get a handle on the impact of Ron Wilson in his first year with the team.Take the Leafs special teams (please...
There's a Place for us
March 19, 2009 by
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So Cujo is making noise about not retiring. Great. Mike Zeisberger ran with it yesterday at the Sun and Dave Perkins picked up the lukewarm leftovers today at the Star.As far as the Leafs go, this really is a non-story. One needs to look no further than Coach Wilson to realize that...
A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
March 17, 2009 by
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It's been light posting over here and that's going to continue for the short-term. I'm hopeful that I'll be putting up more dry, humourless, typo-laden content in ten days or so.In the interim, here's something that's really worth a read for anyone that shares...
September Gurls
March 11, 2009 by
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The Leafs sure turned in a stinker last night against Nashville. Just 17 shots on net and only 4 in the third. Talk about teeing it up for a "playoffs in New Jersey" punchline.Don't ask me why, but after the game I actually listened to Andy Frost's call-in show (remind...
Just one thing makes me forget
March 11, 2009 by
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The latest Red Line Report is out. This is a must read for anyone who like to track undrafted NHL prospects, something I'm guessing most Leaf fans are rather interested in these days.According to the report, the top 10 prospects (at this point) are: John Tavares CVictor Hedman...
I Got By in Time
March 11, 2009 by
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The guys at uber Leaf site PPP graciously asked me to submit a post on Darcy Tucker. Sideshow Bob is playing against the Leafs tonight for the first time since his buyout this Summer. Here's what I sent them...With the exception of Mats Sundin, has there been a Leaf as polarizing...
Darling don't you go and cut your hair
March 11, 2009 by
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ESPN.com surveyed 193 NHL players (that's about 20 percent of the league) on a number of topics. This one stopped me in my tracks:QUESTION 7: WHO IS THE BEST REFEREE IN THE NHL?TOP VOTE-GETTER: Kerry Fraser (18%).Man, those NHLers sure do have a good sense of humour...
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
March 11, 2009 by
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There are numerous reasons I no longer read the sports pages, but the biggest one has to be the pathetic signal to noise ratio. And good old Damien Cox has added yet more noise to the system.Cox writes (big hat tip to uber Leaf site PPP who save me from having to actually read through...
It's the Economy, Stupid
March 05, 2009 by
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The downward spiraling economy and the shrinking cap is the big story of trade deadline day.As the Globe and Mail noted back on February 12:At this point, it looks as if the salary cap for next season will be within a million dollars of 2008-09's $56.7-million. That is because...
Playoffs: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
March 03, 2009 by
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I made the mistake of watching TSN on Sunday night. They ran a story on a loop re. the Leafs as playoff contenders and being buyers at the trade deadline.I should mention that the on-air "talent" spoke of "playoffs" without any trace of irony. April fool's day...
In Defence of Ian White
March 02, 2009 by
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Leafs GM Brian Burke announced that the Leafs were offered a second round pick for Ian White. Burke declined the deal.Some in Leafs Nation have lamented that White wasn't shipped out for a pick, not sure why.Despite being scratched for the first eleven games of the season, White...
In the front seat, going tweet tweet tweet
February 25, 2009 by
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There was an interesting discussion at uber Leaf Blog (and new Yahoo! partner) PPP yesterday on the NHL, blogs, twitter and social media (you can read that convo here). By happy coincidence, this morning brings us an interview on that very topic with the NHL's Director of Corporate ...
He Who Laughs Last Didn't Get the Joke
February 23, 2009 by
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When the Sundin-returns circus ended we all knew the media would move on to yet another all important topic - it's not just nature that abhors a vacuum.I wasn't sure what would become the defacto big story for the sports writers out there. Perhaps it would be a chimpanzee who can almost ...
Two Minutes (to midnight)
February 19, 2009 by
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I was prepping a post on PK performance that's taking a bit longer than I expected (some stuff that should be easy to dig out sure is buried at NHL.com) when I stumbled across this, largely meaningless, factoid: the Ron Wilson coached Maple Leafs are currently the fourth least...
Someone created the boxscore, and he should be shot
February 14, 2009 by
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The virus that infected professional baseball in the 1990s, the use of statistics to find new and better ways to value players and strategies, has found its way into every major sport. Not just basketball and football, but also soccer and cricket and rugby and, for all I know, snooker and darts ...
The sun's not brighter here, it only sines on golden hair
February 13, 2009 by
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In the past week, the Leafs have exposed Kronwall, Williams, Devereaux and Battaglia to waivers.Kronwall was claimed by the Caps, Williams passed through to the Marlies (if he hadn?t, Canada might have been treated to the sight of Don Cherry suffering from a massive intraparenchymal hemorrhage ...
I Used to Play Bass for Sly
February 11, 2009 by
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Heard any good trade rumours lately? Any of those rumoured deals actually
I presumed these rumoured deals weren't happening because trades in general weren't happening. Then I crunched the numbers (ok, counted lists) and I was rather surprised to find that, on average, between October ...
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