Injury Update Super Post!
by Chemmy on Oct 20, 2009 2:30 PM EDT
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From Rogers Sportsnet, Jonas Gustavsson is expected to be in action on Monday against the Anaheim Ducks. From a purely speculative standpoint I can only hope that this is to simply give him extra time to rest. No sense rushing Gustavsson back early at this point.
The other Leafs goaltender, Vesa Toskala, wore full gear and skated for 20 minutes this morning, reports MapleLeafs.com, he was supposed to be out two weeks and is probably on schedule. Don't care.
Phil Kessel also practiced this morning and still isn't cleared for contact. His mid November return is probably on schedule though personally I wouldn't mind seeing him wait until December to make sure his shoulder is really 100%. This season isn't going to see Toronto win a playoff spot so the Leafs medical staff should be careful to let our injuries heal properly without rushing players.
This quote from Ron Wilson, courtesy of AM640's Jonas Siegel, shows that things may be turning around:
"I want some players to get mad at each other, not me just getting mad at them," Wilson said. "They have to get really mad within to bust out of this. I see it coming. It wouldn't shock me if before the end of the week, we may have a fight or two in practice which I think would be a good kind of a elixir for us to show that we're getting angry that we haven't won a game up to this point."
Let's hope the players get mad about this losing streak and do something about it, even if it is a fight at practice.
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crap
i should have kept those tickets…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 20, 2009 2:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Well he might not start until Wednesday.
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by Chemmy on Oct 20, 2009 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Tickets are cheap as hell on Stubhub though: http://www.stubhub.com/anaheim-ducks-tickets/ducks-vs-maple-leafs-10-26-2009-860639/
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by Chemmy on Oct 20, 2009 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
rinkside, center ice, $125.
hmmm….
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by blurr1974 on Oct 20, 2009 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
id buy those in a second
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by Matt_Roberts on Oct 20, 2009 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Standing room only – $9
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by SkinnyFish on Oct 20, 2009 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sheesh.
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by Chemmy on Oct 20, 2009 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love Stubhub. When I went to the Leafs/Red Wings preseason game at the Joe I got the tickets for $29 a piece, the face value on them said $85. That was for centre ice, 15 rows up, just above glass level. Honestly the best seats in the house.
-Graham-
by CanadianMaple09 on Oct 20, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I need
The MOnster to start on Saturday. :( :( :( :(
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 2:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
me too
for my head-to-head fantasy league. i picked up Gustavsson in the last round
Is that the kid you want?
by kessticle on Oct 20, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s who PPP has as a goalie.
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by SkinnyFish on Oct 20, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
stupid Carolina keeps losing despite Ward’s awesome stats.
I am getting killed in our pool.
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i took nabokov, rinne, and gustavsson late. i also picked up Niemi off waiver wire
Is that the kid you want?
by kessticle on Oct 20, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I eagerly anticipate someone beating the crap out of Blake in practice this week.
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
by kidkawartha on Oct 20, 2009 2:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah. I’d like to see Rosehill throw down on a vet.
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by Chemmy on Oct 20, 2009 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
blake vs toskala
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by Matt_Roberts on Oct 20, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
ooooh
Toskala needs to take that one.
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Toskala would dodge each punch with ease
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by blindfolded tank driver on Oct 20, 2009 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Impossible. All of Blake’s shots would hit him in the chest.
by general borschevsky on Oct 20, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
the impervious force meeting the immovable object? (i think thats what Gorilla Monsson used to say…. ex: Warrior vs Hogan lol)
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by Matt_Roberts on Oct 20, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
the impervious irresistible force meeting the immovable object
Fixed.
Identical to Sergei Berezin in every way, only 1/10 his size.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 20, 2009 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It could be really bad
Blake would aim for the chest, Toskala would try to get it 5 hole, they split the difference….
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by Wan Ihite on Oct 20, 2009 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by PPP on Oct 21, 2009 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Reimer vs. Toskala
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by Chemmy on Oct 20, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s the one I want to see.
by general borschevsky on Oct 20, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
City TV did a “what is your happy place” interview with Leaf players the other day. When the reporter asked Blake where his happy place was he could barley contain his contempt and said that he doesn’t have a happy place these days. It furthers my belief that Blake is a petty and grumpy player who needs a captain to tell him to drink a tall glass of stfu.
Waive him and Tosk and get JSG
by theothervatican on Oct 20, 2009 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Blake
is at his most effective as a grumpy and petty player who exists to piss people off.
I’m happy he’s not happy.
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by blurr1974 on Oct 20, 2009 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was just thinking of how his career arc is kind of like Darcy Tucker’s- they have both aged and Tucker appears to have lost some of his feistiness without losing the goal scoring touch. Blake has lost his pestiness, but hasn’t recovered his goal touch. Didn’t he use to be known as a super-pest? And scoring 40 goals in a season may be a fluke, but it’s still 40 goals. I guess we just hit the 1-in-1000 line combination with Moore.
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by kidkawartha on Oct 20, 2009 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Blake was indeed a super pest. his 40 goals was a by-product of playing with Yashin for a full season.
When the Leafs played NYI in the first round of the playoffs a few years back, Blake was the guy I hated more than anything in that series. He was everywhere, under everyone’s skin, finishing his checks and being a real shift disturber.
that’s the guy I wish the Leafs had signed.
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by blurr1974 on Oct 20, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
But they di….
Oh… I see what you did there
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by JohnnyG on Oct 20, 2009 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s the Leaf-effect, JG, as opposed to the butterfly effect. The transfer to the Leafs causes a negative ripple effect to every aspect of some player’s games.
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
by kidkawartha on Oct 20, 2009 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Steve Webb
I would have killed to see someone get a hold of that POS.
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by PPP on Oct 20, 2009 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Eric Cairns, too. And Shawn Bates, for that f***ing penalty shot.
Man, now THAT was a playoff series. And, Burkie, if you’re looking for truculence, youtube every game, every hit, every fight of that series. It doesn’t get much more truculent than that. There has never been a more violent, hard-hitting, high-octane, amazing, close series in recent Leafs history.
Plus, the home team won every game in that series, too. How badass is that?
Frick, I miss 2002.
by FiftyMissionCap on Oct 20, 2009 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That series was epic. I’m pretty neutral on the Islanders now, in fact I hope they do improve as it’s more fun when they are good, especially when they play the Rags. But my hatred for the Isles then was white-hot. Steve Webb can go die in a fire for all I care.
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by stucky on Oct 20, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
blake needs to get sat out vs calgary again, throw his equipment around like a 6 year old, vent all his frustrations to howard berger out back then go on a goal scoring tear
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by Matt_Roberts on Oct 20, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
saturday
vs. vancouver, you mean?
Ooooh I could sneak up to the press box and say mean things to push him over the edge.
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i said calgary because i beleive it was the game agaisnt calgary last year that he was benched for
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by Matt_Roberts on Oct 21, 2009 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
When Chemmy told me the news I told him that the perfect scenario is Exelby breaking his hand punchisizing Blake’s face.
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by PPP on Oct 20, 2009 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sacrificing all these local feral cats has to produce something, dammit.
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by kidkawartha on Oct 20, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd pay
to see Schenn punch out his frustrations at Garnet Exelby. :D
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by Kavel Pubina on Oct 20, 2009 3:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Sweet, I’ll get to Gustavsson when he comes down here to play the Ducks. Hopefully I can eye witness a win… unlike last time
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by Kriv on Oct 20, 2009 3:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
question
do you guys think there is realistically a chance that brian burke would bury blake in the minors? 50% chance, 20% chance? i was discussing it with a friend last night, he thinks it’s an impossibility.
by daoust on Oct 20, 2009 3:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
i think it’s a long shot. less than 20% for sure.
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by blurr1974 on Oct 20, 2009 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think that he would have to begin playing extremely poorly. Not just bad but epically bad.
One problem is that it would be almost three seasons worth of burying him right now. Not sure he’d want to do it.
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by PPP on Oct 20, 2009 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why did Tucker and Raycroft get bought out if we could have buried them in the minors instead?
by Its Cold In Here on Oct 20, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
no idea.
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Raycroft was cheap. Tucker had a NMC if i remember.
As much as people like to talk about burying players in the minors, it really really looks bad on an organization to treat under-performing players like that, and is used as an absolute last resort to keep the public opinion of the organization high.
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by RepressedOptimism on Oct 20, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think it hurts the team’s image as much as people like to say it does.
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by PPP on Oct 20, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Because JFJ is a moron and Fletcher was too nice I guess. There’s a theory that doing that scares away potential free agents but no free agents thinks that they’ll be bad enough to be affected.
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by PPP on Oct 20, 2009 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mark Bell was buried in the minors. It happens.
And he was a former top ten first round pick…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 20, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
For a season I can see it and players are arrogant enough to ignore it because it clearly won’t happen to them.
But 2+ seasons? Hard to believe for now.
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by PPP on Oct 20, 2009 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He won’t get buried this year, he might play a diminished role but we don’t need the cap space. If we need the cap space to bring in assets next summer who knows?
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by Chemmy on Oct 20, 2009 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like blake on the third line if he’s paying pesty.
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
1% at most
Not impossible, obviously, but really not going to happen.
There’s a reason NHL clubs don’t do this. Basically, if you have an underperforming boat anchor, you pay him, bench him, or possibly trade him to a team near the cap floor for nothing.
Blake is far from the only boat anchor contract in the league. Sending legit NHL vets to the minors forever just isn’t done.
by pevans on Oct 20, 2009 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Last week's practice was dodgeball
this week’s will be mixed martial arts
by McGriddle on Oct 20, 2009 4:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Hey, have you seen this: tinyurl.com/mcgriddle
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by Chemmy on Oct 20, 2009 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You sir,
have an awesome name. I ate one of your cousins just last week.
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by SkinnyFish on Oct 20, 2009 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love Ian White
And so does Ronnie:
“Whitey’s done a great job,” Wilson said. "He’s had to battle to get from where he started on the depth chart to being probably our best defenceman right now, without a doubt.
“He’s just played better than other guys. The surprises have been that some other people haven’t played as well as we expected.”
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 4:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Ron Wilson is a smart coach.
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by blurr1974 on Oct 20, 2009 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
A +3 right now.
How anyone could be + anything on THIS team so far, I’ll never figure out.
White is awesome.
by FiftyMissionCap on Oct 20, 2009 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ponikarovsky +5
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by Chemmy on Oct 20, 2009 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yup, and Blake is at the bottom with a -7.
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by SkinnyFish on Oct 20, 2009 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh and Poni is tied for 25th in the league in +/- right now.
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by SkinnyFish on Oct 20, 2009 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Poni
is awesome and I want him to stay a Leaf forever.
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Needs more PK time. Seriously, I don’t see him as much on the PK as he should be.
by FiftyMissionCap on Oct 20, 2009 6:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Whoever tunes up Blake ...
… Should get to wear the “C” Saturday night against Vancouver
by McGriddle on Oct 20, 2009 4:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Chemmy, I agree that Kessel should rest, but I think it would be best if he came back on Nov.17th because a) The leafs are going to be playing ottawa and they suck, and most importantly b) I’m going to that game and want to see him in person asap (next ottawa game is in like march)
I'm not even supposed to be here today..!
by Shield on Oct 20, 2009 4:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
you only
get Kessel if I get Gustavsson on Saturday.
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’d take that deal if it wasn’t already pretty clear that the monster isn’t starting saturday. I REALLY hope Kessel plays in Ottawa, we’ve lost the last 2 games I’ve been to there.
I'm not even supposed to be here today..!
by Shield on Oct 20, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Here's how I see it going down.
Blake skates hard into Toskala in practice, severing one or both Toskala’s legs. XLB smells the blood and can’t help but carve up Blake’s face with his knuckles. Schenn calms things down by snapping rabid XLB’s neck and disposing of all three corpses in the visiting dressing room. The leafs go on to name Schenn captain, and win 60 games in a row. The end.
by Robot Godzilla on Oct 20, 2009 5:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Is this Law and Order: SVU or the Leafs?
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
by kidkawartha on Oct 20, 2009 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Law and Order: TMLVU
I'm not even supposed to be here today..!
by Shield on Oct 20, 2009 6:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
CSI: Leafs Nation, actually.
And after seeing Toskala’s severed legs, David Caruso then says, “Well, that just made his five-hole a whole lot smaller.” He then puts on his sunglasses. Cut to the Who going “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHH!”
by FiftyMissionCap on Oct 20, 2009 6:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
After seeing Toskala’s severed legs, Horatio goes: “Good thing they have, sledge hockey” cut to “Wont get fooled again”
I'm not even supposed to be here today..!
by Shield on Oct 20, 2009 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jason Blake has been streatched to death around the back of the net and ripped in half while tied to each post
“well…”puts on glasses"thats a wrap"
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 20, 2009 7:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
“looks like these guys” puts glasses on, “will be staying on the ice.”
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH
by Robot Godzilla on Oct 20, 2009 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
its a good thing I slept in ‘glasses go on’ because this one is going into over time
YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 20, 2009 7:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Looks like their trade values….puts glasses on….just went down.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
by FiftyMissionCap on Oct 20, 2009 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
FWIW
trades are starting to happen. First Kobasew, now the Bruins traded with the Sabres for Paille, and Columbus traded Stephan Legein To Flyers For Micheal Ratchuk
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 7:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
so you mean the leafs are going to trade one of their marginal players?
fantastic!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 20, 2009 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
resisting urge to....
most of our players are marginal….
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 7:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yes, someone took the set up!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 20, 2009 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I had to.
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by Karina on Oct 20, 2009 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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