Two Wild and Crazy Teams!

by blurr1974 on Nov 10, 2009 5:00 AM EST in From The Branches

Fox Gallery - The Czech Brothers (via gooblymoo)

Loser Domi describes the day Tie Domi discovers the internet.
In a controversial declaration, that only eyebleaf can make, he believes in Jonas Gustavsson.
You know who else is a fan of Jonas Gustavsson? Nik Lidstrom, that's who. The Battle of Ontario has the full quote here.
MLHS has word on a few things happening with the Leafs.
Norman James is For and Against a lot of things.
It's official: Vesa Toskala, bench warmer.
The Hockey News is reporting that the Leafs do not have any veto power when it comes to the league placing another franchise in the GTA.
Vintage Leafs has the exact moment when Wendel Clark turned some guy into Zombie Some Guy.
Update: In the words of Odin "Move the team to Canada!"
Update: Is Gustavsson part of a growing trend of late-blooming European goalies?
Update: For bkblades, Phil Kessel is not the answer to this teams woes, but just another piece of the puzzle.
Update: Leaf and Lion wonders how far the Heroes are from the Cup.

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7 new photos added at Vintage Leafs yesterday.
Highlights include Keon getting the “C”, and Wendel punching out blood.

Vintage Leafs Blog

by somny on Nov 10, 2009 7:03 AM EST reply actions

I love the Czech borthers

THIS IS A JOKE

by loser domi on Nov 10, 2009 8:25 AM EST reply actions

Attendance problems at Sens games. You mean Sens’ fans won’t support the team through highs and lows? I’m nonplussed!!

by lb71 on Nov 10, 2009 8:44 AM EST reply actions

Contract Ottawa.

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by Chemmy on Nov 10, 2009 8:56 AM EST up reply actions

Bomb Ottawa

by lordosis on Nov 10, 2009 9:29 AM EST up reply actions

No one would notice.

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by Chemmy on Nov 10, 2009 9:45 AM EST up reply actions

You guys will give me a few hours notice, right?

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by Down Goes Brown on Nov 10, 2009 10:13 AM EST up reply actions

I was JUST about to add, get DGB and LeafsFanInOttawa out first.

Vintage Leafs Blog

by somny on Nov 10, 2009 10:14 AM EST up reply actions

And me!!!!

leaf fan stuck in ottawa, still. Now truculently rebranded!

by stucky on Nov 10, 2009 10:35 AM EST up reply actions

Is there a LeafFanInOttawa as well as a former LeafFanStuckInOttawa?

Join me on the Hockey Blog Adventure! (or Twitter.) GO BRUINS! (and Wild!)

by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 10, 2009 10:36 AM EST up reply actions

Stucky is the artist formerly known as “stuck in Ottawa”.

I am Mikhail Grabovski's smirking revenge.

by kidkawartha on Nov 10, 2009 1:43 PM EST up reply actions

Safest plan

Wait till the Leafs are in town, then bomb all of Ottawa outside of Kanata to pieces.

and the Mustache of Truculence (formerly Canada4Mizzou)

by Wan Ihite on Nov 10, 2009 5:19 PM EST up reply actions

So we’re in agreement with Melnyk then? I never thought the day would come.

I am Mikhail Grabovski's smirking revenge.

by kidkawartha on Nov 10, 2009 5:54 PM EST up reply actions

Make sure you let me know too! And maybe wait until after the 17th so I can watch us kick the crap out of the SNES?

Moustache Fever, not to be confused with swine flu.

by Shield on Nov 10, 2009 1:08 PM EST up reply actions

I love the writing of that article. So many shots thrown at Toronto beside the point, careful wording of Ottawa’s citizens being mindless bandwagon-hoppers, bashing of fans who follow a losing team for having “no life.”

Anyone who writes a small dissertation on his sports blog has no right to play the “get a life” card. It doesn’t even matter what your personal life is like.

The irony up and down that piece is just so… thick.

Old Guys in Blue and White

by koopa kid on Nov 10, 2009 9:58 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs

“Get a life” is a really idiotic criticism in any case. It’s essentially analogous to “have less passion.”

Leafs Rumination: hockey and sesquipedalianism.

by puckurgently on Nov 10, 2009 10:11 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs

I could ride around in a Bugati Veyron all day with girls pouring out the windows, wearing night vision goggles, using a gold-plated M16 to shoot out the tires of people who cut me off on the highway, listening to nothing but glam rock and hair metal, while performing numerous life-saving operations in the back seat with one hand, and if I went home and typed up a 5,000 word piece on Sens fan attendance I could still not pull the “get a life” card unironically.

Old Guys in Blue and White

by koopa kid on Nov 10, 2009 10:25 AM EST up reply actions

hahahahaha

nice image

THIS IS A JOKE

by loser domi on Nov 10, 2009 10:27 AM EST up reply actions

How far are we away from winning the cup?

http://leafandlion.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-far-are-we-away-from-cup.html

by leafandlion on Nov 10, 2009 9:57 AM EST reply actions

Guys, I just want to say GO WILD!

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 10, 2009 10:10 AM EST reply actions

TROLL!

GET OUT!

You say you want a revolution // Read the Blog and follow your Hunger

by Hungry Leafs Fan on Nov 10, 2009 10:35 AM EST up reply actions

nah

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 10, 2009 10:36 AM EST up reply actions

Cornelius, you silly, silly man.

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by stucky on Nov 10, 2009 10:37 AM EST up reply actions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXvBW-2iMgE

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 10, 2009 10:44 AM EST up reply actions

Things I don't want to do today:

Everything.

Leafs Rumination: hockey and sesquipedalianism.

by puckurgently on Nov 10, 2009 10:19 AM EST reply actions

Whoops, wrong thread. Need more coffee.

Leafs Rumination: hockey and sesquipedalianism.

by puckurgently on Nov 10, 2009 10:20 AM EST up reply actions

Good test tonight

This is a classic Leafs let-down game. At home, mediocre opponent (not that we can take anyone lightly), coming off a couple big wins. This is the kind of game it seems like we ALWAYS lose. Even back when we were good.

Would be a real statement to put the wood to Minny. The schedule looks friendly for the rest of the month. If we want to jump back in the race we need something like 14 points over the next 10 games (while it still matters).

by The '67 Sound on Nov 10, 2009 10:20 AM EST reply actions

A Tuesday night game at home against a boring Western Conference team with a great goaltender? What could go wrong?

Old Guys in Blue and White

by koopa kid on Nov 10, 2009 10:26 AM EST up reply actions

And don’t forget their star struggling to find his game after a slow start.

Leafs Rumination: hockey and sesquipedalianism.

by puckurgently on Nov 10, 2009 10:28 AM EST up reply actions

My exact feelings.

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by Chemmy on Nov 10, 2009 10:35 AM EST up reply actions

guys, we have the monster now. Everything will be fine :)

There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"

by Matt_Roberts on Nov 10, 2009 10:52 AM EST up reply actions

Still waiting for the rug to get pulled out from under us, sorry.

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by Chemmy on Nov 10, 2009 10:54 AM EST up reply actions

re: the Ottawa "malaise"

this clinches it for me. Ottawa fans only support a winning team, Habs fans only support a winning team. Ottawa fans are former Habs fans, not former Leaf fans…

I have nothing interesting to say.

by blurr1974 on Nov 10, 2009 11:03 AM EST reply actions 8 recs

QED!

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by PPP on Nov 10, 2009 11:07 AM EST up reply actions

Solid deductive reasoning blurr. Good job! Rec’d.

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by stucky on Nov 10, 2009 11:24 AM EST up reply actions

lotsa news about Ottawa

1. They need a forward:

"Very definitely, we have to find a way to get at least one more player here," he (Murray) said, acknowledging that player would probably be another forward. "I’m certainly going to investigate as we go forward here to see if there’s anything more we can do, and at some point we’ll figure out if we need to make a change."

2. They’re whiners (we could have told them this years ago):

"If we are perceived (as being mouthy), we have to change that, whether it’s true or not. I don’t think we do anything different, but if the perception is that, we have to make adjustments.

"If that’s our image, we have to turn that around through hard work and just shutting our mouth, maybe to the other extreme. If we are perceived as going one way, we’ll go the other way until it eventually turns around.

"We can’t feel sorry for ourselves. We have to keep working hard, shut our mouths and, hopefully, eventually it will turn around."

"The only way out is in a body bag. Go Leafs Go." - Blinky

by Karina on Nov 10, 2009 12:07 PM EST reply actions

Need a forward....?

They lost Heatley, added Cheechoo, Michalek and Kovalev. That’s addition by subtraction.

maybe they just suck?

I have nothing interesting to say.

by blurr1974 on Nov 10, 2009 12:10 PM EST up reply actions

Kovalev has sucked so far this year, he looks at his floating “best” right now.

Michalek is decent but Cheechoo is toast. This is what happens when you’re forced to trade a star for fifty cents on the dollar.

As for the whiners part… I don’t know if the team itself will turn that around, but the perception will stick as long as Sens fans are whiners. And that ain’t gonna change anytime soon!

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by stucky on Nov 10, 2009 12:13 PM EST up reply actions

The Sharks may choke in the post-season, but Wilson has done a masterful job of unloading bad contracts – Mark Bell to the Leafs and Cheechoo to Ottawa.

Bitter Leaf Fan: because sometimes there's no option but to be bitter...

by mf37 on Nov 10, 2009 12:16 PM EST up reply actions

heh

I never understood why they signed Kovalev… shouldn’t you know before you sign him that he wants to retire with a different team?
Michalek has been playing well, Cheechoo’s injuries seem to have done him in though.

"The only way out is in a body bag. Go Leafs Go." - Blinky

by Karina on Nov 10, 2009 12:16 PM EST up reply actions

Cheechoo – last 5 seasons

05/06 – 1.14 ppg
06/07 – 0.91 ppg
07/08 – 0.54 ppg
08/09 – 0.44 ppg
09/10 – 0.14 ppg

by birky on Nov 10, 2009 12:26 PM EST up reply actions

Turn what around?

At 7-5-2 they don’t seem to be doing that badly to me. It’s better then my expectation, at least. I still think they’re gonna miss the playoffs and probably go through a horrible slump. 7-5-2 might be the best they play all year.

by general borschevsky on Nov 10, 2009 12:42 PM EST up reply actions

it’s possible for a fanbase to see it’s team win games and still know that the team isn’t very good or isn’t performing well. The Sens were being badly outshot and outscored to start the season yet they still managed to win more games than they had lost.

Any team that’s got Alfredsson and Spezza on it’s first line has the potential to be a good team, and the current Sens aren’t there. There’s nothing wrong with feeling some dissatisfaction with that.

Old Guys in Blue and White

by koopa kid on Nov 10, 2009 12:52 PM EST up reply actions

Any team that’s got Alfredsson and Spezza on it’s first line has the potential to be a good team

Respectfully sir, I choose to disagree. Otherwise, a fair point.

by general borschevsky on Nov 10, 2009 1:35 PM EST up reply actions

First in-person game of the season tonight

And in the second row!

…from the top. (Or is row 16 the very top?)

This will actually be my second in-person game between these two teams; I went a few years ago when Pohl (!) scored on a penalty shot. Needless to say, I’m going with the guy I went with to that game. Can’t take any karmic chances with a Letdown Game candidate.

Overtime loss: The new black.

by Varry Galk on Nov 10, 2009 12:43 PM EST reply actions

So you’re suggesting we’re in for a Mayers hat-trick?

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by Wan Ihite on Nov 10, 2009 5:31 PM EST up reply actions

Anyone read this article on the Hockey Night in Punjabi broadcasters?

It’s a neat read, and interesting to hear how they grew up with the game and what they are doing to help spread it to different communities that haven’t traditionally been included in hockey.

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by stucky on Nov 10, 2009 3:06 PM EST reply actions