FTB - Vacation's Over
by Chemmy on Sep 2, 2008 8:52 AM EDT
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It's Tuesday, and the long weekend is over, time to go back to our crummy jobs. I was in the bathroom this morning and suddenly it hit me: it was dark in there, despite being sunny outside. I was momentarily saddened, but while switching on the light so I could read Guns N Ammo, I realized that the bathroom being dark in the morning meant hockey must be right around the corner. Hold on tight cowgirls, we're getting close.
Some links to read while you fondly reminisce about getting drunk and jumping off the roof this weekend:
- Steve at Hockeyanalysis takes a look at Mike Van Ryn's wrists.
- OMGWTF?TML uncovers a shocking secret: Matt Stajan is actually, uh, some guy I've never heard of.
- Norte puts a post up over at HS/HS. I think Norte may have killed Greener and Moose. Oh, the post is about Doug Gilmour.
- Damien Cox has something important to say!
- Lowetide likes Fletcher's moves so far. (I do too.)
- eyebleaf <3's Kaberle.
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Lowetide
Good post on the Leafs.
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And Ode To Tomas Kaberle
http://nvsportsandthecity.blogspot.com/2008/09/ode-to-tomas-kaberle.html
Chemmy, don’t forget me for your FTB posts!
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For some reason your site disappeared from my RSS reader. Sorry!
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Too much Blue Jays. Your RSS feeder knows that they suck :P
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They would appear to be better than the Yankees.
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Too bad the Yankees suck now.
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no worries bro! with hockey on its way back, so will the majority of the leafs posts. i’m very excite!
leafs are going to surprise a lot of folks this year!
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leafs surprise
“How the hell is it physically possible to suck and blow at the same time?”
/ducks
//had to be done
///please don’t punch out all my blood
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
“Wow I didn’t know a team of professionals could be this bad at sports!”
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“Wow, I didn’t know you could be a professional hockey player without skating capabilities”
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
“You get paid fifty times what a brain surgeon makes, and you don’t understand that you shouldn’t swing your stick at someone’s head with five minutes left in the third?”
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“see, I told you that the Leafs could tie their own skates.”
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“See? All of them can skate better than Gilmour, just like I said. I meant Happy though, not Doug.”
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“See? Not one Maple Leaf was booed tonight. Probably because the crowd was too busy laughing but still…”
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You just gave poor Ryan Hollweg the mother of all flashbacks, to wit:
I now accept that Andrew Raycroft was not the answer to our problems.
You are beautiful, in every single way.
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tie their own skates
“Make sure the little marks on the soles line up, and you’re good to go! They’re on the right feet!”
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
McCabe..
Don’t let the door hit you yadda yadda..
I hope the next couple of hurricanes do precisely $2mil worth of damage to whatever ersatz palace he buys down there.
Florida – Where jerkass hockey players go to have their careers die..
Bure
Bertuzzi
McCabe..?
Is the trade official yet? As of now it’s nothing more than a really huge rumor.
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Ya I hope I didn’t jinx it there.. Noooo
by LeafFanInVan on Sep 2, 2008 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Apparently McCabe is already in Florida, has bought a house and has registered his kids at school.
Is it wrong that a tiny part of me would like to see Fletcher pull the deal off the table, then call up McCabe and say “See, it’s not so fun when some dickhead ruins your plans, is it?”
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by Down Goes Brown on Sep 2, 2008 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Gold
I’d almost want McCabe to stay to see that play out.
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Oh that would be rich indeed.. Enjoy the press box, Bryan!
by LeafFanInVan on Sep 2, 2008 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions
hahaha
‘psych! don’t even bother showing up to the rink for the next three years’
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Also, Cox
Nice to see him come back from watching Tennis all summer swingin’. Seems odd he is still going on about poor decisions from the past and how it has left the cupboard bare etc, without any mention of perhaps signs that the ship is being pointed in the right direction for the future.
I imagine in 3-4 years times when the Leafs are winning the division handily he’ll be going on about how terrible the team was in 2007l..
No kidding. The guy spends 6 weeks away from things and is still so full of bile and BS? It’s a sad life he must lead.
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I guess Nadal doesn’t respond to his fan mail, and he has to take it out on someone..
by LeafFanInVan on Sep 2, 2008 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Naw, he’s got to be a Federer fan. Nadal shows too much emotion and has too many flaws in his game to be his favourite.
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True, also Cox is jealous of his long flowing hair. He was an aggasiz fan before he retired I’m guessing
by LeafFanInVan on Sep 2, 2008 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions
“As the only person who went to even a single Leafs game between 2005 and 2008, I can’t help but feel that you’re all bandwagon jumpers.” – Damien Cox, 2011
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I hate to say it...
…but I think there’s more than a kernel of truth in Cox’s latest entry.
The Leafs have done a horrible job of managing assets since the lockout (if not longer) and I think that’s continued somewhat with Fletcher’s middling job this summer.
I’m down with the UFA signings (it’s only money) but the other acquisitions all have a downside:
Schenn is great, but he cost an additional 2nd and 3rd round pick.
Mayers is fine, but another 3rd round pick gone.
Hollwegg is a baffilng move and another 5th round pick out the window.
Raycroft should have been sent to the ECHL so there was no lingering cap hit.
The Leafs waived Wellwood and then spent a 2nd round pick to get a small, soft centre to take his place…and now there are rumours that trading McCabe is going to cost the Leafs another draft pick.
I may be alone on this, but I don’t think this is a good pattern or an optimal return on assets. I also don’t think it’s how championships or division titles are won.
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The buyouts don’t make sense. Buyouts are for teams that have money trouble more than cap trouble, or players with no movement clauses. If a player can be sent down to the AHL or ECHL, a team with lots of money could send anyone down there and free up their full cap amount right away.
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I disagree on the draft though. 6 and 7 went Filatov and Wilson, no one knows if Filatov is even coming to the NHL now, and Wilson isn’t as good of a prospect as Schenn. Trading a 2nd and 3rd to bump from 7-5 in this draft was a wise move.
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Uggh
When you write it out all rationally and with evidence then it sure looks terrible. JFJ definitely did a terrible job of cashing in on assets before they declined (McCabe, Tucker) and there are definitely some bad moves in your list:
Mayers is fine, but another 3rd round pick gone.
Hollwegg is a baffilng move and another 5th round pick out the window.
Raycroft should have been sent to the ECHL so there was no lingering cap hit.
But…the extra picks for Schenn I can live with for now but maybe not when him, Filatov, and the other picks develop. For now, it was a necessary move to signal the team’s changing vision (not the end to trading draft picks but the end of letting first rounders go…baby steps).
Grabovski’s YouTube videos make me think he’ll either be another Sergei Berezin (in the new NHL that is great) or another Aleksandr Suglobov (that would be terrible).
As for McCabe, the pick isn’t revealed yet and would I rather a pick not have gone? Absolutely. Unfortunately, getting rid of the useless veteran leadership (per Ron Wilson) comes at a cost. Better to lose one draft pick than risk having McCabe poison a large crop of youngsters (Stralman, Schenn, Kulemin, Grabovski, Tlusty, etc).
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by PPP on Sep 2, 2008 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
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