Preview: Beantowners in Hogtown
by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 3:00 PM EST
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Pre-Game: 6:30 p.m., Leafs TV
Broadcast: 7:30 p.m., Sportsnet, AM640, Leafs TV Interactive
Post-Game: 10 p.m., Leafs TV
Post Video: mapleleafs.com
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October 23, 2008 - Leafs 4 at Bruins 2
November 6, 2008 - Leafs 2 at Bruins 5
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The Bruins are 8-1-1 in their last 10 games and sit in second in the Eastern Conference just four points back of the Rangers but with three games in hand. The big, bad Bruins are back.
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On the defensive side, the Bruins aren't too shabby according to the NHL's top defensive players posted by James Mirtle, found through the Globe blog.
Defensemen Dennis Wideman and Andrew Ference rank in the top ten of defensive defensemen. Forwards Marco Sturm and Patrice Bergeron are in the top 20 in defensive forwards.
The Leafs are not only facing that barrage of top defensive players but also one of the top goalies in the NHL, Tim Thomas. He leads the NHL is save percentage (.945!!!) and goals against average (1.76!!!) so the Leafs have their work cut out for them on the offensive front. At least the Habs did them a favour:
Defenseman Andrew Ference, who hobbled off the ice after being hit by a slapshot from Andrei Markov during the second period on Thursday, is officially out of the lineup due to a broken tibia, announced Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli this evening.
I am actually going to tonight's game with a friend. The same one that started Tim Thomas on his path to stardom by calling him a weak goaltender. I got the tickets before I realized who they were playing because we had decided never to go see the Bruins in Toronto again and with good reason:
Traveling to the Air Canada Centre typically hasn't fazed the Bruins, who've earned at least a point in 10 of their 12 games in Toronto since the NHL's season-long lockout in 2004-05. They're 7-2-3 over that span, including a 3-0-1 mark last season.
There is no word of any lineup changes for the Leafs so I'll assume that he's going with the same lineup as the one that completed the western road trip.
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we’re boned
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by Chemmy on Nov 17, 2008 3:05 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Nah, if this were the islanders or lightening we’d be boned, this is a good team who whooped us last time, they don’t have any struggling players and Wilson has probably been on a rampage since the last game.
Come back kids are back baby!
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 3:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I would have gone with "pooched"
…but it doesn’t lend itself to TWSS or BCWW the same way that “boned” does.
First game back after a road trip is usually a bad one, factor in the Leafs stink at the ACC and the opposition is the snoozin’ bruins 5 man defensive shell and the only thing left to determine is how many Bruins are going to get their first goal of the season tonight.
This is the third match-up with the Bruins since October 23. I thought the NHL was moving to a balanced schedule, is there some by-law that says the Leafs have to play the Bs every week? Good news is, the Leafs don’t play the Bruins again until December 28.
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by mf37 on Nov 17, 2008 3:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, every season we have a stretch where we play nobody but Boston.
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by Chemmy on Nov 17, 2008 3:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It has become somewhat of a tradition, like your grandfather getting drunk and racist at the family Christmas party. It is inevitable, but you don’t know if its gonna be hilarious or painful or both.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 3:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
At least when my gradfather got drunk there was a certain level of excitement to it – would he swing his cane? Yell at one of the grandkids?
With the bruins, it’s more like a Christmas party where everyone gets strung out on halcion and the next day you wake up with food poisoning.
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by mf37 on Nov 17, 2008 3:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
my grandpa was never a drunken racist...
grandma on the other hand…
i’m thinking this will be another case of the Leafs playing above their ability, and the B’s trying to run us out of our own rink. should be a good game.
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 3:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I still want to see Frogren VS Chara, it would be epic.
The only player on that team that worries me is Lucic, that kids is a monster.
MONSTER!
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 3:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Lucic
Dismantled Komisarek. I hope Schenn stays away.
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 3:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That was the best fight I’ve seen in a long time. The Leafs have no one that can stand up to a fighter like that.
But with any luck he’ll tune up Hollweg good.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 3:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
good thing van ryn’s out. hate to see him get put through our glass…
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 3:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
substitute VanRy for Carlo and put through with Shattered like and I think we’ve got a distinct possibility.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 3:44 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
no no...
one more week before i root for Carlo injuries…
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 3:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
and
he’s on a tear right now. kid owns that town by the sounds of it.
in the grander scheme of things, I think it’s great. The good health on and off the ice of original 6 teams is nothing but a positive for hockey as a whole. Seeing the Bruins play well, and occasionally beating the Habs warms my heart.
I don’t have a lot of hate for other teams save the Sens. Sometimes the Habs. If it’s Habs vs Sens in the East Conf Final. I’m rooting habs every time….
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 3:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I’m in the unfortunate possition of having two very good friends who are huge Bruins fans that hate the Leafs, thus I get constant crap from them.
If it weren’t for them I might even like the Bruins.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 3:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If it’s the Habs v. Sens in the eastern conference final I’m rooting for their planes to go down.
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by mf37 on Nov 17, 2008 4:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Or a meteor strike.
It’s never happened during United-Chelsea games so maybe it’s saving itself for the Habs-sens.
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 4:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
maybe it's being so far removed...
but the hate i had for the Habs is gone. i’ve really been “meh” to them for quite some time now.
in fact all the OG6 teams are kind of “meh” to me in terms of hate. i like to see them performing well, for reasos i’ve already stated.
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 4:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I like them being competitive to a point because it’s good for the league I think but there’s a limit to my desire to see the league succeed. Of course, a Leafs win would be the best thing for the NHL.
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 4:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
maybe thats why everyone hates us so much, they know that If we win, not only will we make their lives a living hell, but the NHL will benifit in every way from it. Something their teams could never achieve.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
sorry
i thought that went without saying.
Random scary thought that went through my head as I read that…If you could guarantee the Leafs a stanley cup by losing both your hands, would you do it?
i don’t have an answer, my mind’s just kind of busted today…
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 4:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
question, both hands at once, or one now and one in a few years?
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
both at once
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 4:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No.
How would I clap to celebrate the win? How would I point at Sens fans and laugh? With my stumps?
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by Chemmy on Nov 17, 2008 4:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
easy, you get thunder sticks grafted to the stumps!
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
so you'd rather the leafs lose?
that’s pretty selfish Chemmy…I thought you were a giver…
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 4:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You still have your voice and you could have attachments on your arms so maybe super clapping hands that never started hurting and sounded like thunderclaps (without being as annoying as thundersticks).
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 4:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
these things
http://www.sprucekings.bc.ca/200607/merchandise/clapper.jpg
only in blue and white of course
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
clapping
is meh. But how would you drink beer?
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 6:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
well duh...
that’s already been covered…
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 6:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
but
how do you get the beers in?
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 6:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
friends..
or in absence of that, pity from strangers…
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 6:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
“I have no hands, please put beer in my hat”
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 6:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
no hands?
Could I just Spread my Legs for Stanley? Lez out for the Leafs? something like that?
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 6:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Lez out for the Leafs…. sounds like a calender idea
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 6:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
talk-sports.net
have you seen some of the wives/girlfriends of leafs players?
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 6:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
strangely...
i didn’t consider either of those alternatives as neccesarily a bad thing…
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 6:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i dont consider it strange at all.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 6:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
what about you (any of you guys?)
Go Gay for the Cup?
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 6:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that's ridiculous...
obviously that wouldn’t help things at all.
you’re really on to something with this Lez for the Leafs idea. You should explore it further… :P
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 6:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
nah, as long as we're talking hypotheically
would you go gay for a leafs player (or multiple players) if it meant they’d win the cup?
Actually, save it for the game thread? we can discuss it further there.
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 6:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i like your calendar idea though!
i think for best results though, it should be a daily calendar…
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 6:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
calendar?
was Jared, not me
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 6:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
doh!
reply = fail…
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 6:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I’m just happy to get the idea out there
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 6:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Correction
There is no word of any lineup changes for the Leafs so I’ll assume that he’s going with the same lineup as the one that completed the western road trip.
made Godd Till cry.
There you go.
by Godd Till on Nov 17, 2008 3:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Sorry buddy
Two years ago I went to the game with a Canucks fan and saw the 6-1 thrashing on home ice.
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 3:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Update
That SOB just e-mailed me about the game…bastard.
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 3:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
After the 5-3
there was a definite feeling of inevitability about the night, from the Wellwood goal to the Leafs complete capitulation for the next 40 minutes.
by Godd Till on Nov 17, 2008 4:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
It was the same in that 6-1. The Leafs got some early chances, couldn’t score, and then the Canucks blow it wide open.
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 4:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I was so mad
and sad…. it was not a good nice
Damn Toskala and Luongo!
by Karina on Nov 17, 2008 4:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
At least
the Blue and White were there IN FORCE and continued to dominate the crowd even down 4-0. I left disappointed with the result but proud to be a Leafs fan.
There’s a familiar feeling……
by Godd Till on Nov 17, 2008 4:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Also, I must ask, when did the Luuuuuuu chant start? I don’t remember ever hearing that before.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Fo Luongo?
That’s been going on a while, I think. At least since last year. I honestly try not to watch Canucks games unless I’m really interested in the opponent.
by Godd Till on Nov 17, 2008 4:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ignore my post below
It started in the playoffs 2 years ago. The Dallas series where he had that incredible duel with Turco.
by Karina on Nov 17, 2008 4:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I’ remember it from Luke Bourdon, and I’ve watched a few Nucks games, maybe their suck drowns it out when I’m not paying full attention.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
LUUUUUUUUUU
still sounds like “booooooooooo” to me. Then again, the Vanucks fans chanting “Leafs suck” on Saturday night sounded an awful lot like they were chanting “WE suck!”, which kinda made me chuckle
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 4:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Its that lazy stoner accent, they can’t be bothered to say the whole words so its likea Leaaaaa sucks, or Luuuuuu instead of LUOOOONGOOO
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The best is when Habs fans chant “Leafs Sucks”
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 4:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Importing a tradition:
RALLY KURVERS!
Worth a try, anyway.
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by 1967ers on Nov 17, 2008 4:09 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I love O-Pee-Chee cards, they felt like someone made em out of old pizza boxes
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ha
Yeah no kidding. We’ll see. Maybe tonight’s a prime trap game for the Bruins too but I am going with the ultimate bad luck charm so odds are on a boring L.
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 4:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
- including the pepperoni stains.
I miss the gum that shattered if you dropped it.
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by 1967ers on Nov 17, 2008 4:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i remember...
when you’d try to eat the gum, it would shatter in your moth, and it was like 7 or 8 tiny pieces of gum all gradually coalescing into one piece in your mouth.
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 4:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
moth=mouth
fail
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 4:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
sounds about right, weren’t the packages also made out of some sort of weird wax paper too?
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
In 85-86
Tom Kurvers played 62 games for the Habs, with 30 PTS. Then he didn’t play at all in the playoffs.
What happened, injury?
by Godd Till on Nov 17, 2008 4:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Missed parts of 1985-86 season with tonsillitis, contracted in January 1986, and with pulled muscle in back, an injury suffered in February 1986. … Missed remainder of 1985-86 season and entire 1986 playoffs with pulled muscle in back, an injury he re-aggravated for final time during Montreal’s March 26, 1986, game at Hartford.
from here
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by 1967ers on Nov 17, 2008 4:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Cool – you actually got to the site? I just get a huge malware-y pop-up.
That site used to be awesome, but I think the guy who was doing it got too busy with work and had to stop. Can you imagine that? Letting work come between you and hockey? The nerve…
by clark4calder on Nov 17, 2008 4:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I cut and paste the URL that google gives you. Clicking through from google gives the error.
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by 1967ers on Nov 18, 2008 10:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
According to the long-dormant and apparently now malware-infected hockeydraftcentral.com, Kurvers missed the playoffs in 86 with a back injury. I can’t actually get to the site because a big ol’ malware thing comes up, but you can see it in the Google search summary.
by clark4calder on Nov 17, 2008 4:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Dammit, Bruins again?
the emofights take so much out of me though…
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 4:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I was going to ask
If you were getting drunk and making with the emo!spam tonight…
by dare_ on Nov 17, 2008 4:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
well
there was a test today that pretty much kicked my ass that I spent almost the whole day studying for. You bet your ass I’m drinking tonight
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 6:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Wooo!
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 6:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
and I will for sure be bringing the emostorm and my Hammer of Angst tonight
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by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 6:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
every kid I knew growing up had that full set, myself included, I currently have 7 Peter Ings and Joel Ottos.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I think that might be one of two full sets that I have. Two Christmases in a row my parents’ friends gave me two full boxes of unopened packs of hockey cards. Best. Gift. Ever.
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 4:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I just got a huge urge to dig through the 4 shoe boxes of cards and 5 binders I have in my closet
wow there is some gold in here. I need a scanner
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh yeah
I have so many cards from about 1990-1997
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 4:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I was more of a baseball guy
but I had thousands of hockey cards from the mid80s to ’92. The baseball cards are still with me but 90% of the hockey cards have sadly vanished…
by Godd Till on Nov 17, 2008 4:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i never collected cards...
just comics and vinyl.
does that make me an even bigger loser…?
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 4:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
My mom’s furnace room has more baseball cards in it than I would care to think about. My dad and I were pretty into collecting them for quite a time in the 90s…
by dare_ on Nov 17, 2008 4:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I hated baseball cards because you always got guys from the 40 man roster. Plus a buddy was a massive card collector and gave me his triples of hockey cards so I got a lot by osmosis.
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by PPP on Nov 17, 2008 4:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Baseball cards where bike spoke fodder unless they were Blue Jays.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
As A Tigers fan
Trading baseball cards was easy for me cause I’d use Jays cards to get whatever I wanted. I have less Jays cards then any other team, even though I am sure O-Pee-Chee printed extra Jays and Expos.
by Godd Till on Nov 17, 2008 4:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The only reason I kept Jays cars was because of familiarity like “oh I know who you are” and of course in the mind of a 10 year old that means the card MUST be worth money.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 4:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
When I was a kid...
…I collected hockey and baseball cards throughout the 80s, but the best thing i had was a big box full of hockey cards(and CFL cards too – Joe Theismann as an Argo!) that my dad gave me from the late 60s, early 70s. Someone he worked with had given them to him for some reason.
There were some awesome ones in there, like Sittler and Lafleur rookie cards, as well as some ones that I loved for more obscure reasons, like Orland Kurtenbach, Darryl Edestrand, and the one guy who would give me nightmares because he looked like such a freak, Tom Polonic:
by clark4calder on Nov 17, 2008 5:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
RRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
“Hey sonny, get the puck low”
That’s awesome. I used to by WHA singles at my local card store all the time.
by Godd Till on Nov 17, 2008 5:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And worse than his gummy appearance
I can’t believe he was playing NHL D. He looks a buck-thirty soaking wet.
by Godd Till on Nov 17, 2008 5:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That may have been his problem...
…as it appears that he did not actually play an NHL regular season game.
by clark4calder on Nov 17, 2008 6:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
1969-70 OPC
Just about have that set finished. 22 to go, plus a number that could be upgraded.
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by 1967ers on Nov 18, 2008 11:00 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
interesting
I just randomly tuned to Sportsnet and they were playing a Sens Hyping video set to Riannah…my only question is why?
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 5:01 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
They’ll need an umbrella for all their tears this season?
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by Mattblack on Nov 17, 2008 5:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
my favourite part is the “we had this same record that time we went to the finals!” because that means soooo much
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 5:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Alfie! They're playing our tune!
Alfie! Speak to me, Alfie!
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by Mattblack on Nov 17, 2008 6:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that never fails to make me burst into laughter
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 6:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Frankly, you just can’t buy some memories.
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by Mattblack on Nov 17, 2008 6:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Brown and co placing their hopes on Brendan Bell of all people. Things are bad here in Otts
by Polecon on Nov 17, 2008 7:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Bruins...
I think are going to challenge for the cup this year. They have a lot of everything. I don’t think anybody this season has beat us quite like they did a few weeks back. And I don’t mean score-wise, just them taking our game away from us and showing us how soft a team we really are.
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this is true, they are a “west” team but faster, if Thomas can continue to be rediculous they are gonna go far
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 17, 2008 5:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
agreed...
except i’m still not sold on Thomas. of course, he could be Osgood-esque…?
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by blurr1974 on Nov 17, 2008 6:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Manny Fernandez looks like he might have his game back. Thomas and Fernandez competing for time is going to be ferocious to have to play against.
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by Chemmy on Nov 17, 2008 6:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I like the bruins
but it’s mostly because they have some really great young players that I’ve developed soft spots for.
Lucic is just awesome, clearly the next Neely.
Kessel – the dude has one testicle and seems to be getting better and better… ya gotta like that.
Wheeler – stuck it to the man and while he doesn’t look awesome every game, that hattrick game was awesome.
by Karina on Nov 17, 2008 7:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Nice
On the CBS sportsline power rankings, Toronto has gone to 21 from 24, and ottawa is at 22 from 18..
Climb the ladder, monty!
by LeafFanInVan on Nov 17, 2008 6:59 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
thanks!
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 7:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i spoke too soon
not really working…is it not streaming yet?
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 7:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
usually starts streaming about a minute before gametime
by Polecon on Nov 17, 2008 7:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
my clock has the time at 7:10…
(checks above)
oooooohhh, 7:30, never mind…
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
by loser domi on Nov 17, 2008 7:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
just watching the otts game
and its stunning how much their defence look like last year’s Leafs. I think Hartsburg might even be playing man-on-man like Maurice
by Polecon on Nov 17, 2008 7:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I really want
Ottawa to trade Spezza to Columbus. For a bag of pucks or something.
by Karina on Nov 17, 2008 7:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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