FTB - In Shock Edition

by PPP on Jan 30, 2009 9:03 AM EST

So let me get this straight: The former Leaf goaltender allows seven goals including a couple of ridiculously weak ones and the former Leaf forward gets outscored by the defenceman that the team signed from his current team?

I can't wait to find out how this Twilight Zone episode ends...

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PPP forgot my link. :(

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by Chemmy on Jan 30, 2009 9:05 AM EST reply actions

Awww. That’s okay. We still love you.

(hugs)

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by Baroque on Jan 30, 2009 9:13 AM EST up reply actions

That game was amazing. I thought for sure someone would hit 10 goals, because no one could stop anything – although Raycroft was worse. I have no earthly idea why they didn’t keep Theodore after they rehabbed him and got him playing like a real goaltender again. The difference was only about a million dollars over a two-year contract.

Too bad for them, I guess. :)

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by Baroque on Jan 30, 2009 9:15 AM EST reply actions

I loved Antropov’s goal where he stepped around Raycroft.

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by Chemmy on Jan 30, 2009 9:26 AM EST up reply actions

Beauty

I loved the patience and Raycroft stretching as far as he could but knowing that he was still too short.

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by PPP on Jan 30, 2009 9:51 AM EST up reply actions

That was

hilarious. My favourite part was Joe Bowen and Greg Millen solemnly observing that Raycroft’s 37 wins in one season as a Leaf has to mean that he’s a talented goaltender (failing to observe that he played 72 games that year – and that games were being decided by shootouts in that year).

Cue the Keystone cops music and Raycrap’s extra-special brand of failtacular prowess. If the Leafs had any kind of luck (not to mention any kind of scoring talent) they would have potted a dozen goals on that piece of crap last night.

And by the way, whatever happened to Darcy Tucker?

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by jrwendelman on Jan 30, 2009 9:37 AM EST reply actions

Can’t say I’m feeling too bad about that buyout.

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by 1967ers on Jan 30, 2009 10:58 AM EST up reply actions

Foot injuries.

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by Chemmy on Jan 30, 2009 11:44 AM EST up reply actions

Last night...

was not so much a game we won, as a game the Avs lost, if that makes any sense. The Leafs did not play incredibly well (save for Schenn, Kulemin, Moore and Blake) and our goaltending was atrocious. I wonder how many of those would have gotten by Pogge?

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by blurr1974 on Jan 30, 2009 10:12 AM EST reply actions

It’s a moot point. Most important thing was not losing to Raycroft. That would have been like the anti reformation.

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by Mattblack on Jan 30, 2009 10:22 AM EST up reply actions

absolutely...

i was ecstatic we didn’t lose to Raycroft, but it wasn’t a pretty game.

It’s not like they’re going to put up 7 goals a game every night they play, but you can bet, more often than not we’re going to let in 4…

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by blurr1974 on Jan 30, 2009 10:28 AM EST up reply actions

last night was odd

first period seemed to just drag on, second period the leafs were actually almost playing like they cared. But third period was just kinda sloppy all around

Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing

by loser domi on Jan 30, 2009 10:32 AM EST up reply actions

That would have been like the anti reformation.

A good thing?

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by PPP on Jan 30, 2009 11:00 AM EST up reply actions

A comment fail on my part – cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

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by Mattblack on Jan 30, 2009 11:14 AM EST up reply actions

It's a great day...

to be alive, my friends…

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by eyebleaf on Jan 30, 2009 10:39 AM EST reply actions

Ooooo you make my dreeeeams come true.

(ooo ooooooo)

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by Chemmy on Jan 30, 2009 10:44 AM EST up reply actions

I was worried that we would lose.

I called Antro’s goal. Raycroft is nothing if not a slump-buster.

Then I started drinking.

By the end of the night I was so happy I picked up the tab.

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by eyebleaf on Jan 30, 2009 10:46 AM EST up reply actions

More on Pratt

Thanks for the link, guys! Greatly appreciated. By the way, I find it hilarious that CoxBloc wrote about the ridiculousness that is Dave Pratt. The story of his plagiarism is a good one: for one, he plagiarized Rick Reilly a vast number of times in one piece, for another, his excuse was that “”http://sportingmadness.blogspot.com/2008/06/dave-pratt-loses-column-over-plagarism.html" >The sheer amount of volume we produce forces you to constantly be looking for different people’s ideas" and that he “wanted to get out of the office before noon”. The Toronto media has its problems, but most of the people in it aren’t down to Pratt’s level.

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by Andrew Bucholtz on Jan 30, 2009 12:01 PM EST reply actions