For 40 years Leafs fans have waited for their own parade and only have come close, maybe once, in all that time. It is impossible to remember Gilmour without remembering 1993. He scored 127 points in the regular season, another 35 through three playoff rounds, and came up a game short of advancing to the Stanley Cup final. He had already won a Cup in Calgary in 1989, but this was Toronto. "My team," he calls it.
"If someone were to tell you, you could play Game 7 at home and all you had to do was win it to get to the Stanley Cup final, wouldn't you take that?" Gilmour said. "I would. We had it and then Wayne Gretzky played one of the greatest games of his life and took it away from us."
But there still is that part of Gilmour, ever the competitor, who holds on to the notion the Leafs were ever so slightly robbed. In Game 6, the bane of every Leafs fans' existence, Gilmour face to face with Gretzky atop the faceoff circle, was cut as Gretzky's follow through of his stick went into Gilmour's forehead. Gilmour clearly was cut and bleeding: The expression on Gretzky's face was that of fear. "Should have been five and a game misconduct," Gilmour said. "But Kerry Fraser didn't see it. I've always understood that. What I didn't understand was the linesmen. They had the ability to make the call. They had to have seen it, even if Fraser didn't? That's the only regret I have of that call. Somebody else should have said something -- and if that happens, who knows what's next?"
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It makes me more sad...
than angry.
His last line really pains the heart: “and if that happens, who knows what’s next?”
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by eyebleaf on Jan 30, 2009 3:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What happens next, of course
is Wendel scoring his fourth of the game on the power play after the 4-on-4 expires. Leafs then win the Cup in 6.
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by 1967ers on Jan 30, 2009 3:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
siiiiiiiiiigh
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by Chemmy on Jan 30, 2009 3:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
a wee bit too painful to think about on a Friday…
"We’re looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 30, 2009 3:13 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
this is totally meant as a diversion from all the Sundin hating.
Today we were supposed to bask in the sunshine known as Raycroft’s sluttiness
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by eyebleaf on Jan 30, 2009 3:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
all this does....
is make me enjoy hating Mats that much more.
A necessary diversion from this pain.
Your evil plan has backfired!
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by blurr1974 on Jan 30, 2009 3:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
blast you
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by eyebleaf on Jan 30, 2009 3:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
think about yesterday, when we beat the shit out of rayzer, get over look the fact we had to win to do it
by Kriv on Jan 30, 2009 3:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
please
let my old wounds lie as they are, self stitched while drunk with hockey laces
by Kriv on Jan 30, 2009 3:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
can’t honour Dougie this weekend without bringing up that most epic of seasons.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 30, 2009 3:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
but then why bring up the 40yr drought, and that refs name. You Ic ould never watch Kelsey Grammer’s show without thing of him
by Kriv on Jan 30, 2009 3:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
on a non related note, I need to know how to edit my posts
by Kriv on Jan 30, 2009 3:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
well it’s not me who’s bringing it up, it’s Simmons.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 30, 2009 3:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You can’t. You can preview it before you post it though.
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by PPP on Jan 30, 2009 4:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I forgot to link to the actual story...
here it is:
http://www.torontosun.com/sports/columnists/steve_simmons/2009/01/29/8184561-sun.html
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by eyebleaf on Jan 30, 2009 3:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Jesus, I still get so angry when I think about the high stick.
I need my meds. WHERE ARE MY MEDS?
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by Down Goes Brown on Jan 30, 2009 3:36 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I searched for a Dougie tribute video but ended up just watching ALL HEART again.
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by Chemmy on Jan 30, 2009 3:42 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
everything Leafs begins and ends with that video
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Jan 30, 2009 3:44 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No joke whenever I’m having a bad day I watch that video and want to find Bob Probert and kick his cokehead ass.
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by Chemmy on Jan 30, 2009 3:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
not exclusively Leafs footage…
"We’re looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 30, 2009 3:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
there is also this one
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Jan 30, 2009 3:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I found one
But didn’t really like it because it showed that bloody Lowry hit.
Two vids in the LotD.
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by 1967ers on Jan 30, 2009 3:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
going to the game tomorrow
pretty pumped. they gave out clark moustaches on his jersey night, what are they going to give out for dougie’s night? fake cut and blood to stick on our foreheads?
by daoust on Jan 30, 2009 4:03 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Cow legs.
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by Down Goes Brown on Jan 30, 2009 4:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
hey Dougie, whats your secret?
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by JaredFromLondon on Jan 30, 2009 4:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What I didn’t understand was the linesmen. They had the ability to make the call. They had to have seen it, even if Fraser didn’t?
This has always bothered me the most…even if Fraser was too much of a spineless idiot to call a penalty against Gretzky (and he saw it, no way he missed it), the linesmen still had an opportunity to rectify the situation. And just like Pat Lalime in an important playoff game, the linesmen totally choked.
by Kim Jorn on Jan 30, 2009 4:42 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
And the three of them did get together to discuss it. Which is why to this day I still think Fraser didn’t have the guts to make the call.
I can see it having gone something like this:
Fraser: Anyone see anything.
Linesman: Yeah. Gretzky got him with the stick.
Fraser: Are you sure? We need to be absolutely sure.
Other Linesman: Well, yeah, kind of hard to miss.
Fraser: It wasn’t the puck? Are we completely sure?
Linesmen: …
Fraser: I can’t call it unless we’re sure. Game on.
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by Down Goes Brown on Jan 31, 2009 11:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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