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FTB - Happy Thanksgiving Americans

by PPP on Nov 27, 2008 10:01 AM EST Comment 51 comments

Hey Americans, enjoy your day off and the turkey and being thankful. We'll be up here trying to look busy and avoid getting dinged by the financial meltdown that you guys caused. We're just thankful that 53% of you smartened up. Not that your Thanksgiving date makes sense. The harvest came in weeks ago!

Junior wrote an opus on Burke and other candidates that could have been hired.
11 people voted wrong in this poll so far.
Hey look, Greg Brady replied to one of TSM's commenters again. Not that he replied to my e-mails after the first time. Jerk.
There's a Battle of Ontario liveblog going on and I'll be there and here in the intermissions until I have to go play soccer.
And apparently there's a problem with the most important team in the league getting some media attention when making the most important hire in club history.

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Anybody know what George McPhee’s contract status is with the Caps? I tried to figure that out for my post on the Burke decision, but either my Google skillz weren’t sufficiently well-developed to produce an answer, or the answer to this question is a closely guarded national secret (and, because I am not a 14-year old in a Hollywood movie, I cannot access with six keystrokes from the family Commodore 64).

I emailed JP at Japers Rink, but I’m assuming he’s a little busy with the transition to the new blog and all.

jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at http://www.heroesinrehab.ca/blog

"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)

by jrwendelman on Nov 27, 2008 10:48 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

According to the Washington Post archives, McPhee signed a deal in 2005, unfortunately the article doesn’t list the term. I would guess, at minimum, it would be a three year deal with a club held option for a fourth.

Bitter Leaf Fan: a life-long Toronto Maple Leafs fan comments on the team, the media and the exasperation...

by mf37 on Nov 27, 2008 2:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks for the info...

jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog

"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)

by jrwendelman on Nov 27, 2008 4:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

This other teams fans bitching about how Toronto getting all the media has returned to being funny in my eyes.
Do they really not know why? Does it really not make sense to them?

Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option

by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 10:51 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Not that your Thanksgiving date makes sense. The harvest came in weeks ago!

Stupid Purtains

Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing

by loser domi on Nov 27, 2008 11:29 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

As an American

who loves the leafs and checks this Pension Plan Puppets thing daily, can I be the first to say: “America still has a harvest?”

Happy U.S. Thanksgivng, sorry about the financial meltdown, and Go Leafs Go!

I'm too country for Terrelle Pryor.

by NewJackCity on Nov 27, 2008 11:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

GO LEAFS

American in Canada for colleging

Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing

by loser domi on Nov 27, 2008 11:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Welcome?

I could use another stat holiday between Oct and Christmas

"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)

by Winkle on Nov 27, 2008 11:50 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

As a Leafs fan who has never lived in Toronto, or Canada, I rely on the internet pretty heavily to follow the team. This site has been great.

I'm too country for Terrelle Pryor.

by NewJackCity on Nov 27, 2008 11:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Welcome

Thanks for joining.

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Nov 27, 2008 12:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Where is

the Chatty Cathy? It’s gotta be noon EST, and I can’t find it!

by Karina on Nov 27, 2008 12:07 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Fanshots.

It’s there. And it is tasty…

by Mabel on Nov 27, 2008 12:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

delicious even

Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option

by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 12:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I did it

and this may be more suited for Chatty Cathy, but it does have to o with Thanksgiving:

Macy’s Parade RICKROLLED

Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing

by loser domi on Nov 27, 2008 1:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

As one of the 53%

I would like to thank PPP, Chemmy and everyone who makes this site so much fun, interesting and educational. I like our date better because it means I get my birthday off every couple of years. I am not a mortgage broker, stock broker or republican congressman so I feel no responsibility for the economic meltdown, but I will be spending freely this holiday to do what I can to help. Today’s schedule: football, turkey, football, turkey, football, pumpkin pie, LEAFS….what a day!

Proving at least one peson in the South CARES about hockey!

by floridaLEAF on Nov 27, 2008 12:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Great Schedule

Time of trouble = Spend!

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Nov 27, 2008 12:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Um… do people outside of Toronto not realize that they’re all hicks? Maybe I’m insulated having not ventured north of Bloor in like a decade but the reason TSN and CBC and everyone else pays so much attention to Toronto and the Leafs is because Toronto is the only important part of the country and the rest of Canada just exists to provide us with oil for our cars, hops for our beer, french strippers for our gentlemen’s clubs, and farmboys for our blueline. They should be kissing our asses for letting them call themselves citizens of the country that contains the awesomeness that is Toronto. Wake up everyone who is not a Leafs fan and has an area code other than 416 and a postal code that doesn’t start with M – you suck, we rule, and TSN exists to provide us with news about our teams. If we ever get an NFL team they’ll finally be able to stop using highlights from out of town games as filler… we can only dream!

THE3TARDS

by Wendel's Moustache on Nov 27, 2008 12:19 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

What about

the 647’ers?

by Karina on Nov 27, 2008 12:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah!

Stupid new area code…

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Nov 27, 2008 12:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

519

REPRESENT!

Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option

by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 12:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Um

No. Bad Jared.

by Mabel on Nov 27, 2008 12:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yes Mable, Yes

Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option

by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 12:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

No, Jared, No.

Get a cell phone with a 647 number, and we can talk. Till, then? No.

by Mabel on Nov 27, 2008 12:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

NEVER! I shall not renounce my bushman status. The wilds of London are my home, now I’m off to trap some beavers and fight off some Injuns!

Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option

by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 12:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

for the record

I did say anyone who is NOT a Leafs fan and doesn’t have a 416 (and I suppose 647) area code is lame and/or of weak character and questionable parentage. So yeah, still okay…

THE3TARDS

by Wendel's Moustache on Nov 27, 2008 12:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm 905

But my cellphone is 647.

"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)

by Winkle on Nov 27, 2008 1:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's like we're TWINS!

Won’t you be my, won’t you be my, won’t you be my neighbour?

Leaf, the universe and everything.

by 1967ers on Nov 27, 2008 1:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

519 like whoa

Big Smoke Sports - We Burn The Buds, Roll The Raps, and Smoke The Jays

by Archimedies on Nov 27, 2008 12:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yo, Yo

/flashes secret 519 gang-style sign to Jared

jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at http://www.heroesinrehab.ca/blog

"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)

by jrwendelman on Nov 27, 2008 1:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Thug life playa!

Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option

by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 1:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

519

4-life.

Ya digg?

Big Smoke Sports - We Burn The Buds, Roll The Raps, and Smoke The Jays

by Archimedies on Nov 27, 2008 1:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

word

Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option

by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 1:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

yes, yes, by all means

“word”

jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at http://www.heroesinrehab.ca/blog

"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)

by jrwendelman on Nov 27, 2008 1:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs