FTB - Housekeeping Edition

If she does we might as well have hired Jared.

They make my one computer clam up. I think on big nights we might have to start putting overflow threads in place. How many comments before your starts freaking out? Mine is around 300/400.

I’m taking another shot at it right now.

I’ve managed to avoid the Omen for about a week and then I clicked on that link in your post…I don’t know that I’ve ever encountered such a deadly combination of condecension and pharisaism.

And now my cleansing fast has to start again, got to get those sanctimonious toxins (Coxins?) out of my system.

In a place where everything is either blue or red, the fact that we are blue and they are red is an irony so delicious that ensures all the hate cells that I store in my spleen are reserved for them.

Would you want the GM’s voting on the starting line up? Personally, I think the entire team should be by vote, and then let the coaches decide starting line ups. this way, you’re getting all the popular players into the game, and showing respect to the fans. In an instance like this (centennial, all star game in MTL) let the fans go hog wild, and if the coach decides to throw the home fans a bone and ice the 5 habs on the team, then great. if he doesn’t, great.

honestly, the whole vote for Rory campaign was great for hockey. Sure he’s not an “all-star” but it’s players like that, that a lot of fans just love to watch. Responsible, two way, lunch pailers and grinders are what make hockey as a team sport, one of the greatest metaphors for life there is, but i’m off on a tangent. Really, and fan driven initiative should be taken seriously and not as a throw away. There are lots of guys in the league that people love because of their work ethic and commitment to the team, not because they can dangle and stick handle through 5 guys. There are lots of guys in hockey I love to watch and root for (when not playing against the leafs) specifically for these qualities. Madden is one that comes to mind right away, another is Mike Grier on SJ. They are just as deserving of fan recognition as the big $ big name players. So let’s recognize them.

yeah, it’s a good idea to keep it separate, Just let me know if there’s a time limit or deadline or whatever next time

kthnxbai

Oh great.

If it’s not Wendel, now my cool surprise will seem like a crappy letdown in comparison.

And if it is Wendel, he’s going to punch out all of PPP’s blood for ruining the surprise.

We lose either way.

P.S. It’s not Wendel.

I think everyone will be on board. We want to keep hanging out in your mom’s basement, so we’re willing to abide by the rules.

I think the last thing anyone wants is a hockey blog that turns into a place where people don’t talk about hockey.

You and Chemmy run a great place here, and I would never want to do anything to make it less than great.

I do, after all, come here to talk hockey first and foremost. I just tend to get sidetracked from time to time.

To the fanshots!

i don’t read cox.

Burke built one team in Vancouver, with an entirely different identity than that of the one in Anaheim. I think he’s intelligent enough to know that two things sell in TO, toughness and winning. if that means he starts trading for guys like Shane Doan, Brendan Morrow and Dustin Brown (you will love him, stop fighting me on this…) then I say “let’s do this!”

My only area of concern (still) is his goaltending record. As you pointed out, were it not for his insistance on sticking with Cloutier, they would have had a serious team in Van. Right now, Toskala is quickly showing himself to not be the goalie we need. Can Burke (and the scouts) identify the right goalie, and if so, is he already in our system (Pogge, cough…)?

He’ll cool off, anyone who thinks right now that dumping Wellwood was a bad move has completely forgotten that Wilson wants to build a team based upon solid work ethic. Whatever Wellwood’s talents, he’s lacking in the work ethic.

Although Vigneault seems to be getting through to him about back checking, I’ve been more impressed with his defensive play lately than I ever was when he was a Leaf.

It’s a good think Luongo can post these shutouts because when Kyle slows down, their offence will go back to being anemic and they’ll be in trouble once again.

Interesting, so when Burke said the guy wasn’t really worth going nuts for it wasn’t just all sour grapes perhaps? Maybe this negative (leaving Penner unprotected) is actually a positive!

That’s prime for disaster. Lowetide and company share their thoughts. I would go with the countdown to canning MacT although it’s not really his fault that Kevin Lowe made such a monumentally bad move.

I thought “brother in lard” meant his brother Eric (who may/may not be in the Leafs system somewhere, I forget) went through the same thing as Kyle. I thought, “What is this, genetic?”