Jonas Gustavsson to Get First Career Start
by Chemmy on Oct 6, 2009 11:19 AM EDT
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PrintHockey Night in Canada's Elliotte Friedman, AM640's Jonas Siegel and the Canadian Press' Chris Johnson are all reporting that Jonas Gustavsson was the first goaltender off the ice in practice today which traditionally means that he'll get the start at home tonight against Toronto's provincial rivals the Ottawa Senators.
This is a gutsy move by Wilson that shows how much confidence he has in the rookie netminder. The Battle of Ontario kicks off tonight at 7PM, let's hope #50's up to the task.
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It’s not goalie free it’s that one goalie free.
This other goalie isn’t that first goalie.
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Ah, right, I get you.
Well…putting The Monster in is a no brainer…it would also be a no brainer to have Joey MacDonald be the backup. And to have only two goalies on the roster.
We’ll see if this results in a banning…
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Oh Please
Please, please, please, please, please be good.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 11:22 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I have no doubt he’ll be good. At very least, he’ll be better than Toskala.
by Blue and White Expat on Oct 6, 2009 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions
YOU’VE SAID THE FORBIDDEN NAME!
Being a Leaf fan here requires one to be sufficiently lubricated... and truculent!
The quote I liked was this one:
“You’ll just have to come to the game and see who comes out of the tunnel first,”
Or you could go to practice and see who comes off the ice first. Same thing, I guess.
by general borschevsky on Oct 6, 2009 11:22 AM EDT reply actions
im going to predict a leaf romp tonight. I think we spank the sens 5-1
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
I made the same prediction. Or is it wishful thinking?
Either way, I think it’s a very attractive score.
If Jonas comes in and stonewalls the Sens, he’ll be a hero, and he’ll get the starts from here on out (see Toskala vs. Raycroft, 2007).
If we lose by even a goal, the controversy lives.
If we get blown out, the city will riot.
by Van Ryn's Neurologist on Oct 6, 2009 11:24 AM EDT reply actions
or
we wait for something a bit more than 1 game of NHL action.
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 11:26 AM EDT up reply actions
Yes
Unless he is amazing and then it is on!
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But
It will be 1 games and 2 periods. I think that’s a large enough sample size!
by Hungry Leafs Fan on Oct 6, 2009 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
No, we’ll probably riot to be honest.
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sweet
FREE TV’S FOR ALL!!!!
(only applicable to rioters in the greater Toronto area)
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions
I'll riot anyway
from Calgary. To hell with geography.
People will be so confused!
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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 6, 2009 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions
“Local schizophrenic disturbs mall shoppers by knocking over rack of clothes. The suspect was wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey and has been transported to hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.”
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now that’s a headline i can get behind.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 6, 2009 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions
me too
it’ll be easy to get Canucks fans to join me, I’ll tell them Luongo sucks, we should riot.
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions
Depends on the score – we lose 1-0 or 2-1, we’ll look at his save percentage and the goals that went in. That said, I think we’re going to destroy Ottawa – everyone’s going to come in to kick the shit out of them – and purge that god-awful game against the Caps from memory.
by Blue and White Expat on Oct 6, 2009 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions
i hope not
doesn’t seem like the refs are giving us any leeway.
If Komisarek is supposed to be on our #1 d pairing, it’d be nice if he spent more time on the ice than he does in the penalty box…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions
How about the idea of platoon #1 defensive pairs? I like the idea of Kaberle and Beachemin as one tandem, and Schenn and Komi as a second #1 pair. You could alternate which is #1 depending on what level of skill/speed/line you are trying to match. That being said, if Komi is in the box half the time anyway, other players will have to take his spot, anyway.
had to
pick up komikazi for my pool team. short on PIMs.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 6, 2009 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Toskala vs Raycrap should never have been a controversy.
A Nation of Masochists I can't believe "Stay Truculent!!!1" replaced goodbye.
Wooo
Let’s do the Monster Mash! (I really wish I could go to YouTube and post a link to a video of that song….)
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 11:25 AM EDT reply actions
Just for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxcM3nCsglA
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Oct 6, 2009 11:26 AM EDT up reply actions
ha
i was just gonna link that one.
great minds…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
wooo
thank you!
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Monster Hospital is better
That should be the theme song for Gustavsson…
by Peter de Chatham on Oct 6, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Dear Leafs D
Ron Wilson just washed the stink of Saturday’s game off of you.
We understand the challenges you’ve faced the last two games, and we appreciate your acknowledgement that you need to be better.
Give the rook a great showing tonight.
Don’t fuck this up.
Signed,
Leaf Nation
Resident Capologist
by clrkaitken on Oct 6, 2009 11:39 AM EDT reply actions 5 recs
Bingo
They better perform now that they basically were given a blank slate.
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That’s quite the proclamation.
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“That on the sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand and nine, all persons held as Sens fans within any Province or designated part of a Province, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against Canada, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever punchisized; and the Executive Government of Canada, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the ass-whooping of such persons, and will do no act or acts to aid such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual fanddom.”
Amen, Abe. Amen
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by Blinky on Oct 6, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
You better believe that’s a rec’n.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Apparently
Toskala is very angry. “Pissed off” according to the guy with the moustache at Fan590…so take it for what it’s worth.
You got the names that you can use and can’t use reversed.
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by Hungry Leafs Fan on Oct 6, 2009 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions
maybe ‘we all know who’ will pull a jason blake. Get all pissed, thow his equipment around then proceed to tear up the league for the next couple months
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by Matt_Roberts on Oct 6, 2009 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions
I’m OK with that – we only have to keep one of them cough Gustavsson cough next year anyways.
by Blue and White Expat on Oct 6, 2009 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions
The Leafs could get rid of both of them too!
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions
eye – I think it’s more your style to add a slash after your question marks:
Who’s Toskala???/
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That’s OK – now he has an idea how the rest of Leafs Nation is feeling – except that our anger is directed more or less towards him.
by Blue and White Expat on Oct 6, 2009 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions
heh
for some reason, when I see the rogers logo it keeps looking like someone photoshopped in a beachball….
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 12:22 PM EDT reply actions
Speaking of beachballs, Leclaire should be good for 3-4 goals tonight…
by BesterThanYesterday on Oct 6, 2009 12:27 PM EDT reply actions
get out
just get out! i will fight you…
he CANT suck!
I’m just saying, we’re all getting our hopes up. Let’s relax a little and see how he does before we start predicting he’ll be amazing.
One save a career does not make:
Case in Point – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aDv7VpbP0o
Getting saltier by the post.
Good point – that WAS a damned good save.
by Blue and White Expat on Oct 6, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Raycroft kicks the rebound directly to the Blues player.
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Shhhhh – don’t tell anyone.
by Blue and White Expat on Oct 6, 2009 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Then at least it’s just one game and not 121.
Monster gets one year per his contract to prove that he has a future with the team.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Leafs247 had a recap of Burke’s appearance on Water’s show. One of the things Burke said was that the reason he was OK with trading away picks for Kessel was having Bozak, Hanson and Gustavsson on the team.
My guess then is, Hanson is the second rounder equivalent and Gustavsson and Bozak are the first rounders (the picks traded for Kessel.)
Chances are he’ll get quite a while (more than this season) to prove he’s the future.
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Chances are he’ll get quite a while (more than this season) to prove he’s the future
Definitely. I think he’ll have to show that he’s part of the Leafs’ future not necessarily that he is the number 1 for the next 10 years. He’s an RFA though so he’ll take a bit bigger financial investment to keep him around and giving him a longer look.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions
That's perfectly fair.
But would you go out and try to sign a big free agent goalie after this season if he still needs a year or two to develop?
at the least
you sign a stop gap…
if he needs another year, does he go to the Marlies?
that’s what i’m curious about…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions
good question. did he walk from the Islanders, or did they walk from him?
seems to me they signed every goalie available except for MacDonald to be the starter until DiPietro comes back from injury.
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions
ya
not saying he isn’t any good. just seems odd to me.
of course, it’s the islanders, so it doesn’t have to make much sense…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions
apparently
their plan is to play Biron and Roloson until DiPietro is healthy (duh) and then trade one to Detroit.
If that’s the case (although it sounds weird that they would target a team) Joey Mac wouldn’t have been helpful because Detroit already gave up on him.
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions
that’s a brilliant plan.
/sarcasm
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions
well the islanders are known for their savy
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I think
Garth Snow just wanted to have his own private Islanders Goalie Club.
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions
i just think he’s going to part out all the goalies he is bringing in to rebuild dipietro
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions
I dunno, if you have the cap space why not sign two free agent goalies and hope one of them shines enough to get you something in trade?
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Eerily similar to Potvin and Fuhr back in the 90’s.
Let’s hope Gus has the same impact The Cat did.
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by Halifax Hockey Hooligan on Oct 6, 2009 1:13 PM EDT reply actions
I doubt we trade you know who for a 50 goal scorer.
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I’ll give you… Ryan Holwegg. But you’ll have to give us a second round pick too.
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considering there are maybe two in the league who are a lock for 50 these days, it is increasingly unlikely
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Finger out Exelby in tonight. Think Finger’s hurt?
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WCH said on HockeyCentral that he thinks it’s because XLB is a Burke signing and Finger was a Silver Fox signing.
I think they’re just saving Finger until November. Y’know, when it matters.
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Does anyone believe Burke actually decides things for such petty reasons?
Why can’t Berger try to provide some insight on the… what’s it called again?… hockey rather than rampant speculation about boardroom BS.
by The '67 Sound on Oct 6, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions
i hope exelby has studied the mark bell on alfie hit. its his turn.
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That’s OK – him, Komy, and Beauchemin can line up. After that, we’ll send OLAS out to finish the job.
by Blue and White Expat on Oct 6, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
The nice thing about tonight
is no matter how things shake down, we’ve still got another debut to look forward to in late November / early December…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 1:26 PM EDT reply actions
Heh, you said “de butt”.
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heh
i heard a commercial for a dodge dealership yesterday, and the guy doing the voice over was talking all deep and angry 9because that’s apparently what motivates people into buying trucks) and he’s rattling off all the different Ram configurations until he finishes with:
“Super Duty”
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions
i imagine it like that, only angrier.
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions
When it matters
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Oct 6, 2009 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions
For all the talk of calm and patience, I say
What the hell would be the point of
a) the internet or
b) being a Leafs fan
if we couldn’t get all fickle and overzealous over nothing and everything all at once. For the love of god, it’s the only thing that gets me up in the morning.
by Van Ryn's Neurologist on Oct 6, 2009 1:47 PM EDT reply actions
woowoo!
just found out i’m going to the game tonight. they’ve got at least a point in the last 8 home games i’ve gone too, let’s keep the streak alive!
Get season tix. And do something Truculent there too
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Oct 6, 2009 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Not if you are in a suit, suit.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions
so hurtful. is that what you do in your mom’s basement all day, think of ways to insult your readers?
you’re probably right though. to make up for the suit factor, i guess i can maybe throw some peanuts at them or something.
Some expensive bourgeois peanuts no doubt. People in the upper deck are starving while you plutocrats throw food around like it’s nothing.
Suit.
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you need to
keep a Leafs jersey at work to throw on over the suit.
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions
it’s pure laziness. i could easily bring a jersey and change of clothes down here, but that would mean having to bring my suit back home tomorrow on the subway + the 10 minute walk home from the subway. (that’s right chemmy – mr suit takes public transit). i just don’t care that much.
(that’s right chemmy – mr suit takes public transit).
So first you throw peanuts at the proletariat and then you mockingly ride their mode of transportation?
Michael Moore warned me about you.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions
don't change
just put the jersey over your shirt, carry your suit jacket…
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Also, completely unrelated, your avatar’s latest venture is hilarious.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions
I have never seen the Leafs win a regular season game live before.
The closest was a 1-1 tie against Jersey years ago.
by Hungry Leafs Fan on Oct 6, 2009 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I was at the Leafs-Habs HNIC game where Stralman scored that end to end rush. 
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who?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
this
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions
AHHHHH
Hide.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
it's bizarre
pre-lockout, when the leafs were actually good, i probably saw 10 live games over a 5-year period and maybe saw 2 wins. it was brutal.
post-lockout, when the leafs have been nothing but mediocre, i’ve probably seen 15 or 20 games and they must have got at least a point in 75% of them. even the games they’ve lost have been entertaining.
One game,
4-3 OT win vs. Atlanta, sick BtB pass by Grabs right in front of me in the first, Pavel Kubina OT/PP winner, CuJo’s 450th win. Best game ever.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 6, 2009 5:42 PM EDT up reply actions
wear a suit, only to rip it off revealing a clark jersey underneath
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
While the tattered remains of your suit coat and shirt are still on top of your Clark jersey punch the nearest person not wearing a jersey.
The Kiss Cam will be replaced with the Truculence Cam: an opposing fan will be shown on the jumbotron for two seconds. Whoever throws him over the edge of the top deck wins a free soft drink.
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You sire, are a thinker
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Anyone who manages to throw two Senators fans over in one game will get an “attaboy” from Brian Burke.
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by Chemmy on Oct 6, 2009 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
how much fun would it be to get absolutley hammered with burke
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
i cant help but think he’d end up busting out all of these hilarious racist jokes and then start trying to show you all of his old college wrestling moves
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
burke is my uncle Blaine?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions
uhhhh
He takes the fifth.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions
on consultation with my lawyers I am forced to agree
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions
what do you get for the hat trick?
I hope its a free burkie dog
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions
does anyone else ever get bothered by the free t shirt giveaway? i mean serious, people beg and scream for a shitty $3 t shirt like they are giving away leaf tickets or something
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
DRIVES ME INSANE
Then they sit on their hands the rest of the game.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions
yea, wtf is wrong with people.
I was at Gilmour night against the pens last year and we were trying to start a “DOUGIE” chant, all we got were wierd looks…. I had to tell people that it was Gilmour night, the saturday night game and we were all watching our favorite team, the leafs play… i swear i heard a couple “ohhhh yea….”’s behind me….
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
ugh, how do these people get tickets? seriously, there should be some sort of true fan chip you can get implanted and you cannot access the ACC unless you scan in
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions
I know…. i was sitting in the reds behind Tos… err…. the goalie and me and my unc were the only ones trying to start go leafs go chants… it was pretty disheartening. Until Schenn erased Malkin and kennedy’s soul
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During
the single home game that i’ve been to where i got to sit 5 rows from the ice through the first, I was joining a Go Leafs Go and got an awkward smile from some woman in front.
Granted, I’m loud and was wearing a fleece helmet…
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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 6, 2009 5:41 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm going to bring my camera to the bar tonight
So I can take a video if any altercations happen with sens fans.
I'm not even supposed to be here today..!
Nice
Please do your best to initiate them by yelling “FIGHT! FIGHT!” any time one side looks at the other.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Bring eggs or a sock filled with nickels.
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Zombieland at 7:25, Leafs game repeat on TSN2 at 10 with the Monster. This shall be a truculent fantasy night.
Zombieland tomorrow night, catch every drop of Sens blood on the ice tonight.
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zombies are awesome and all, but id rather see the leafs turn the sens into zombies
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions
TO THE CC
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s cheap night. I’m a uni student. I can watch a repeat and catch all the bleeding SNES right after you guys.
I can’t DVR sports, I’d just check the score constantly on my phone while watching the movie.
Plus if I miss the movie: Netflix.
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Agreed
People who say “Why don’t you just record it?” just don’t understand.
by Hungry Leafs Fan on Oct 6, 2009 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions
At least they don’t ask for Hansard renderings like Sens fans…4 hours to game time!!!
by BesterThanYesterday on Oct 6, 2009 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Is this a government worker joke?
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Yes, it sure is! A smattering of people here at work are talking about the game…but it’s mostly women talking about how cute Spezza looks. Some Habs fan’s head has gotten pretty inflated though…
by BesterThanYesterday on Oct 6, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions
spezza looks like something out of snow white and the seven dwarfs
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
Which one is he?
Snow White or Dopey?
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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 6, 2009 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions
defensive liability
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds more like a Care Bear.
“Come on Defensive Liability Bear, leave the zone before we have the puck!”
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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 6, 2009 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh no! its truculent heart! we must flee!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Craig Anderson groin pull.
* sound of plummeting airplane *
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haha
hahahahahahahaahahahahaha
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions
there goes that perfect record
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions
quick
trade them He Who Shall Not Be Named!
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Why do you tempt the Hockey Gods?
Should we really be laughing at another team’s goaltending woes?
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by mf37 on Oct 6, 2009 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
as hard as we can, else we show that we can be pushed around and that our fate is not our own!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Reassurance
I think we all just want to get back to that point in the early part of the decade when we didn’t have to worry about goaltending. We had Cujo and we knew we could count on him. Was he the best? No, of course not. But he was a top 5 goalie and that was reassuring. We really haven’t had that since he left. (FUCK YOU ED BELFOUR)
My main question to the MonSTAR is this:
Are you more Henrik Lundqvist or more Roman Turek?
um
Belfour had one bad year, post-lockout.
Prior to that, he was awesome.
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah I didn’t know we hated Belfour.
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for a few preseason games we did, but I think that was just displaced Cujo anger
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions
and then we loved him for crazy things like charging out of his net to stop a breakaway, slashing players who stood in his crease, and eating hot dogs on the bench.
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
And basically single-handedly won that 2004 series against the senators.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions
with a littlejoe nieuwendykPatrick Lalime sprinkled in
fixed
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions
i miss crazy eddie
while the Monster could very well be friggen amazing, I cant help but pine for a totally off the wall in public netminder
I guess we have Grabbo for that
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions
the first time i saw the Leafs play in LA, I was talking with some Leaf fans who happened to be staying in the same hotel as the Leafs.
during the pre-game skate, Tellqvist was in net, and Belfour was nowhere to be found. One of the guys said that they had seen Eddie in the bar slamming back drinks and told the team he’d meet them at the rink when he was ready to go.
I believed it…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions
AUNT JEMIMA!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
it has become part of the seldom remembered lore
much like “grandpa it hurt my privates”
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions
"grandpa it hurt my privates"
best meme that never was. it started out strong, but burnt out from it’s own brilliance…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I try to bring it back, but it never takes
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions
different game, but ya, pretty much.
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
i knew it was a kings game ( no idea how the hell i remembered that) so i took a stab
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions
sometime si forget that the LA kings even exist
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
nah, they are firmly planted in my mind as one of the teams i want to pilfer of young talent , along with Atlanta, Nashville and Columbus
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions
yea if we can steal brown, schenn, little, kovalchuk, weber, nash and mason wed be set
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
dont forget Brassard, Nash, Doughty, Filatov, HIckey, Teubert, Moller, Bogsian, Kane, Wilson, Blum and ellis
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Primeau was a horse in 04…… we needed owen Nolan healthy in 03 and 04…. that fucking sack of shit
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the worst part of that goal was probably the fact that we didn’t have enough time to bask in the glory that was the tucker hit on kapanen. Youtube has allowed us to do that since then, but at the time it was like “YEAAA~ HOLY FUCK DID YOU SEE THAT HIT! WOW YAYAAA….. fuck”
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im pretty sure my body functions just ceased for 15 mins after the massive shock of going from elation to depression in such a short timespan
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 6, 2009 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions
please
please don’t remind me.
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by Karina on Oct 6, 2009 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Kuba out?
Any truth to the rumour Kuba is out with a lower body injury? Read this on another Leafs forum (ForumIce I think)
by BesterThanYesterday on Oct 6, 2009 4:22 PM EDT reply actions
Don’t know but I dropped his lame ass for Michael del Zotto in PPPPP.
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Yeah, it looks like Kuba is out with a LBI for tonight’s game as per SilverSevenSens and the Ottawa Citizen. Clouston says it’s a gametime decision.
Wings fan by birth. Leafs fan by truculent osmosis.
Argh my del Zotto pickup doesn’t go into effect until tomorrow.
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COUNTING ON JON QUICK TO GET ME A WIN
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Just in case
anyone needs a reminder why we don’t worry too much about the first couple games of the season…
so
maybe just a rough draft of the parade route is what you’re saying…?
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by blurr1974 on Oct 6, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Not crayon yet just light pencil.
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by PPP on Oct 6, 2009 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions
shitshitshitshitshit
My gf got called into work. Anyone want to buy the ticket and see monster’s first start with me?
If I was in Toronto I’d do it. :(
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yeah!!!1
want to pay for my 4-hour flight and somehow get me to the ACC in an hour?
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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 6, 2009 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions
BOOO, i just had to buy all those groceries
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