Kabby Won't Block a Trade This Year...
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Big day for Kaberle. Bad day for Eyebeleaf.
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this is telling...
Kabby quote from the article
“It’s pretty much with Brian if he’s going to talk to me or not,” Kaberle said. “I haven”t talked to the GM and my agent didn"t talk to him. Let’s leave it at that for now."
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
I want nothing for the best for Kabby. I want him to go somewhere where he can get a chance to win, and where he can be appreciated.
Kabby’s a rudey.
If he’s got to go, he’s got to go. I dealt with Mats leaving, I’ll deal with Kaberle leaving as well.
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It’ll give you more teams to cheer for :)
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by PPP on Jan 8, 2009 2:56 PM EST up reply actions
Imagine he goes to Vancouver?!?!?
OH MOMMY.
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i’d imagine they will be in the market for a player of kaberle’s ilk.
by Darryl Sittler's 10 Pt Night on Jan 8, 2009 3:48 PM EST up reply actions
Jeff FREAKIN Carter
it has to be said at least once….
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 2:24 PM EST reply actions
and then forgotten
‘cause we’re not getting anything like that for him this year…
by Karina on Jan 8, 2009 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
Why not?
Kaberle is still the same great player. He’s just struggling right now. I think that the return can still be on the level of last year’s Jeff Carter and a first rounder.
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by PPP on Jan 8, 2009 2:36 PM EST up reply actions
well....
find me a team where an equivalent deal is possible. The best I can come up with would be Kabby to Vancouver for Hodgson and a 1st, but that may be a pipe dream.
by Karina on Jan 8, 2009 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
althought
the TSN has this story listed right above the story about Jordan Staal signing an extension… which just happens for be about $4mil/year…
by Karina on Jan 8, 2009 2:49 PM EST up reply actions
moveon.org
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They are a wonderful progressive website but not really hockey relevant.
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by PPP on Jan 8, 2009 2:56 PM EST up reply actions
you get my point.
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I Do
But missed/botched trades become part of the mythology of a team. Much like the aborted Vinny Lecavalier trade this one is now a part of the fabric of the Leafs’ history. We’ll hear all about it when Carter gets inducted into the hall of fame.
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by PPP on Jan 8, 2009 2:59 PM EST up reply actions
Fair enough.
I still love Kabbs and am glad he’s still a Leaf.
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whatever...
you can cling to former leafs, i can cling to what could have been…
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 3:02 PM EST up reply actions
None of this rates with sending Bobby Orr a form letter that said, “Thanks but no thanks. Come talk to us when you’re older.”
Leaf, the universe and everything.
Now I am crying. Are you happy?
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by PPP on Jan 8, 2009 3:26 PM EST up reply actions
I'll make you sob
The Leafs also had Ted “Terrible” Lindsay playing on St. Mikes, but the Leafs scouted the wrong guy because Lindsay was currently injured at the time. In Lindsay’s own words,
That’s how I became a Red Wing and not a Maple Leaf. If I hadn’t gotten injured, I probably would have wound up playing for the Maple Leafs. They had a pretty good hockey team at that time…
Tell me when you finished that big cry. I know it took me a bit of time to recover, too.
love it....
if if if…kabby had waived his ntc we’d have a 30g scorer as our first line center under 25 years of age.
but hey, let’s hold on to what we’re familiar with because it’s been working so well for us right?
change is good, embrace it
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 3:12 PM EST up reply actions
i can embrace change
i’d rather it not be Tomas going, but if he has to, so be it. i just meant there’s no use dwelling over things that will never be.
and you’re right we’d have a 30-goal scorer, but we’d also be down a powerplay quarterback.
After reading this thread, I’m ready to embrace it by the throat.
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by Down Goes Brown on Jan 8, 2009 3:30 PM EST up reply actions
I don't want him gone
but I am resigned to the fact that it might happen.
I'm not jaded, I'm just realistic.
Let me get this straight.
Burke won’t ask any of his players to waive their NTC/NMC. Kaberle hasn’t spoken to Burke about it. Kaberle’s agent hasn’t spoken to Burke about it. Kaberle says it’s up to Burke to come talk to him about it.
With this level of dialogue and these open channels of communication, there’s no way this can go off the rails..
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I'm hoping
they are all just lying about stuff to the media. That’s what I’d do, if I were them.
I'm not jaded, I'm just realistic.
part of the plan
to confuse people?
Also, I love that photo they use of Kabby and that I’ve seen around. It almost looks like he’s wearing lots of mascara and eyeliner on one eye.
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
'zactly
act like you totally aren’t even thinking about it, because you would have talked about it if you were, and then hope that everyone gets snowed into offering more than they would have before because they think they need to sweeten the pot.
I'm not jaded, I'm just realistic.
I know it's a bruise
but I still giggle at this picture:
emo kabby only had time to do one eye
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
Obviously when the GM is going to tell you he doesn’t want you here any more, you don’t want to play for a team if someone doesn’t want you any more
I will now go lie down in traffic.
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he meant to add...
unless all your best buddies are still around. they make the GMs rejection tolerable.
The rugged veteran, who was acquired from Anaheim on Wednesday, skated despite taking a red-eye flight from California to join his new teammates. May, who is scheduled to make his Leafs debut, will wear No. 10.
This is why Brad May is a good idea.
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Because he's wearing #10?
Something we’ve been lacking, surely. :)
Leaf, the universe and everything.
Memories, fond ones, of Garry Valk.
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I remember...
seeing someone at the ACC with a sign that said “I’m a Valk-aholic”. gold. whatever happened to him?
he does
commentary about the Canucks on Sportsnet.
by Karina on Jan 8, 2009 5:42 PM EST up reply actions
the 4th line...
has been lacking a #10 for a few weeks now…
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 5:09 PM EST up reply actions
I hope Kabby goes to Vancouver...
Then I can kill two birds with one stone on Feb. 21.
I just found two purples for $280. Ridiculous price. Lower bowl seats are going for $750/$800.
Bloody hell.
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indeed
I have been preaching that since Sundin signed there.
I’d be willing to part with him for any package including Hodgson. And Salo.
by Karina on Jan 8, 2009 4:11 PM EST up reply actions
hodgson would be sweet...
he looked good in the WJHC
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 4:12 PM EST up reply actions
he looked downright fantastic
and he’s a markham boy
oh, we’re such dreamers.
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I just hope burkie delivers some sweet booty at the deadline..
by Karina on Jan 8, 2009 4:18 PM EST up reply actions
twss
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 4:20 PM EST up reply actions
Buh-Bye. Sooner the Better!
Ok the one thing that I hated in that article is this quote: “Obviously when the GM is going to tell you he doesn’t want you here any more, you don’t want to play for a team if someone doesn’t want you any more,” Kaberle said at the Bell Centre prior to tonight’s game against the Montreal Canadiens. “That’s a different story.”
I’m sorry but to me, this sounds like he is saying, “if I get traded, its because they told me they don’t want me otherwise I would never go because I love the Leafs” Really? Is that how you show love?
...
i sitll think...
he’s a leaf until draft day…
i imagine this only came up because someone asked him. again. for the 1000th time this year (as in 2009…) if he’d waive his NTC if asked. he finally said ya, if they don’t want me around, why would i want to be here…
it’s him making a point that he’s yet to speak to the GM, now 1.5 months on the job, with the team on two road trips, longest tenure of the active roster…that’s strange. that he hasn’t spoken to him i mean.
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 4:12 PM EST up reply actions
It’s the “obviously” that kills me.
That’s like Ryan Hollweg saying “obviously, you shouldn’t hit guys from behind”. Wonderful. Since when?
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by Down Goes Brown on Jan 8, 2009 4:12 PM EST up reply actions
i chalk that up...
to english being his second language. odd faux pas in the choice of words perhaps. i don’t think he would get that cryptic…
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 4:13 PM EST up reply actions
How badis his english? It could explain a lot.
Fletcher: We can get Carter and a first for you if you waive your NTC.
Kaberle: I refuse.
Fletcher: Sigh… OK.
(Deadline expires.)
Kaberle: No wait, not “refuse”. How you say… “accept”.
Fletcher: FAHK!
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by Down Goes Brown on Jan 8, 2009 4:21 PM EST up reply actions
i imagine...
fletch would have choked kabby dead…
scrath that.
i would have expected fletch to choke kabby dead.
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 4:22 PM EST up reply actions
maybe it was more like...
FLETCHER – Will you waive your NTC to go to philly for Carter and a 1st
KABBY – ’eh scooze me?
FLETCHER – We want to trade you to Philly
KABBY – How is Philly?
FLETCHER – Are you staying or going?
KABBY – Obviously…
FLETCHER – What does that mean?
KABBY – ’eh scooze me?
like “who’s on first….”
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 8, 2009 4:25 PM EST up reply actions
I will miss Kabby
And his non-shooting-only-pass-the-puck days under Quinn where he will pass on a break-away.
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