FTB - Did something happen yesterday?

You get a fluffier bench and softer handcuffs but still no light for your cell.

There is another #12 who must go forever unmentioned. I have already said too much.

Ok, I’ll do them :)

Everyone needs to read TSM’s post again. The quote about “blue and white” disease, and the fan adoration. It’s what paralyzes this team sometimes. If Steen and Carlo were that good, then they’d be playing top line minutes already. We got a good player, who can handle top 6 minutes, put in goals, and is still responsible defensively.

I look forward to the next trade of bottom feeders. I don’t want any guy on this team who isn’t pulling his weight, and fromthe sounds of it, Carlo and Steen were not. They expected to be part of the future because they were young and were drafted by the Leafs. Forget results, they just expected to be paid for showing up. Not what this team needs.

Wilson and Cliff have done an incredible job of transforming this team. Burke will take it a step further. No one on this team is untouchable. Let’s all get OK with that, because bigger things are going to happen…

will be the judge of a lot of things, but having the benfit of being on the outside looking in at the Center of the Universe, I have to tell you, the only thing those two had going for them, was the fact they were drafted in the first round. Steen played with Sundin, he played with Stajan (the same Stajan whose now at a pont a game pace,) and he could never finish consistently. I think time has judged him already. Stempniak never played with a Sundin, but is already outproducing Steen from a career perspective.

As far as Cox making a good point, it’s the only point he can make. Did you think he was going to write about how the Leafs got the better player? Did you think he was going to have a positive opinion on anything remotely related to this trade?

it’s great to love the Leafs, but sometimes it’s not the Blakes and Hollwegs that we need to run out of town. Complacency sucks, and those two had it in spades. Same story as Wellwood. It took him almost losing his career and heading to Europe before he figured it out. Players in Tornto get worshipped at a ridiculous level sometimes, and it’s hard for them to get over themselves. If getting your ice time cut, being benched and called out by the coach doesn’t light a fire under you, what will?

Leafs have plenty of cap room to play with.

They would have a valid point if Stempy is like 35 years old.

Carlo wouldn’t see the press after the Carolina game that Fraser called a “closing hand on puck” penalty on him, a penalty which just happened to trigger a collapse. I guess he never got the message about accountability, as Wilson said that wouldn’t happen any more before the season started.

Internets is power!

Dayum. I needs me some sources.