Leafs 2 Flames 5 - I Hate The 80s
by Godd Till on Nov 14, 2009 9:48 PM EST
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PrintLeafs outplay Calgary most of the game and still lose going away. Positives - Luke Schenn, Gunner, Phil Kessel, Matt Stajan. Negatives - pretty much everything else.
Calgary got a quick three, and then, Bundy-style, asked for the five count. We almost hulked-up for the comeback, but then got squashed in the third.
So, playoffs is kinda definitely not happening, right? The only thing that ever seems to change is the way it all goes wrong. Give me some reasons to believe, after the jump.
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Save Us Taylor Hal-----
Oh yeah, right. :P
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 9:52 PM EST up reply actions
That was funny the first time I heard it…on broadway…which is where ya moved to after ya left Texas Chainsaw Mascara..where you’re from!
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by SkinnyFish on Nov 14, 2009 9:53 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Meh.
I’ll get better at it.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 9:53 PM EST up reply actions
Without Kiprusoff
Flames lose.
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Without Miller, Buffalo loses
Without Luongo, Vancouver loses
Without Turco, Dallas loses
etc.
Seems like a recurring theme.
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Hah, excellent old school wrestling reference. Where’s the bell?
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Indeed.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 9:54 PM EST up reply actions
Don't tease me.
I would so love to see Exelby on waivers.
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 9:54 PM EST up reply actions
As does everyone here.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 9:55 PM EST up reply actions
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!1
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 10:27 PM EST up reply actions
Yep, that pretty much sums it up for Exelby.
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I’ve been watching Leaf games with regularity since the late eighties, and Garnet Exelby might be the worst player I’ve ever seen consistently keep his NHL job.
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 10:41 PM EST up reply actions
Do we have anything at all to lose by bringing up Tlusty, Bozak, Hanson, and Bozak? Like, a major shake-up? I mean, do we have 4 forwards we can’t afford to replace for a game or two (or three or four?). I don’t want to jump on the whole “our young guys have all the potential and will save the season” bandwagon, but do we really have 4 forwards on the team who can’t possibly be replaced for a game or two?
This x10000000
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 9:54 PM EST up reply actions
The problem with the Leafs though is that they can’t bench all four guys due to roster limits. So they have to waive them to the Marlies. That means they can’t bring them up without fear of losing them on re-entry for nothing. That’s terrible asset management and it’s something the Leafs can’t afford to waste given our lack of tradeable assets in general.
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I’d be fine with risking losing Stajan and Blake. Even on reentry if it’s Stajan (Blake can stay buried).
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 9:56 PM EST up reply actions
Personal feelings aside, the Leafs are without two high draft picks this season, so losing Stajan for nothing is counterproductive.
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Who’s paying for Stajan? I’d have agreed with you at the start of the year, but he’s a pending UFA who doesn’t perform at all in any zone. His trade value is 0 at this point.
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 9:59 PM EST up reply actions
We don’t have many players I’d hate to see sent down, waived, or traded. They’re not really producing, and who knows if they’ll be back next year anyway?
aren’t there quite a few Leafs who have contracts expiring/ under renewal at the end of this season or next?
THIS IS A JOKE
Keep this bookmarked, LD. It gives me hope everyday.
http://www.capgeek.com/charts.php?Team=4
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by kidkawartha on Nov 14, 2009 10:04 PM EST up reply actions
Exactly
Stajan isn’t worth a lot now, but the fact of the matter is, the Leafs just have too many forwards on this team and have to make some trades. The team is in no position whatsoever to turn down a mid-round pick just because they want to shake things up. Moore and Antropov last season fetched draft picks despite their pending UFA status.
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Moore was a fleecing. Antropov is a good hockey player. Depending on being able to pull off another Mooresque swindle is not good management.
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 10:03 PM EST up reply actions
Depending on being able to pull off another Mooresque swindle is not good management.
Why not? The Leafs trading players of minimal worth for something more is a wrong strategy for management? If they don’t get much, it’s still better than exposing them on re-entry waivers and losing them for nothing. Losing their pending expiring salaries is negligible at this point.
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I’m not saying getting something would be bad management. I’d do cartwheels over it. I’m saying expecting that a GM somewhere will give up a pick for Matt Stajan is too much of a gamble for me to be comfortable with.
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 10:08 PM EST up reply actions
On a side-note, Moore just scored his first assist, and first point of the season………
/laughs
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by kidkawartha on Nov 14, 2009 10:09 PM EST up reply actions
Perhaps, but to be honest, I’d take that risk than to simply stick them in the Marlies and not using them at all.
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If there were no one else to come and take the roster spot, I’d agree, but as it is, he’s just taking NHL ice time away from the kids.
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 10:12 PM EST up reply actions
Stajan himself isn’t that old. But I agree that Hanson and Stalberg at the very least should be playing for the Leafs. It’s just there are too many forwards on this team that are in “betweeners” where they’re not talented enough to keep, but aren’t totally worthless where the Leafs can ship them off to the Marlies and know they won’t be claimed.
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I’m gonna go light myself on fire. That’ll make me feel better.
I like to eat the yellow snow behind the zamboni
Nah.
The Leafs will still suck. And you’ll be quite hot.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 9:54 PM EST up reply actions
Reasons to believe-
BB is still our GM and he suffers no fools. I don’t think we’ll recognize half this team next September. (please shoot Jason Blake. plz plz plz)
Toskala is almost playing good enough to garner a 3rd round pick.
Gunnarson.
Beauchemin game, while it still has holes, is improving.
The PKG line can only get better, right?
We have Kessel for the next 5 seasons.
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OK guys
I’d like to hear at least one positive thing about the Leafs tonight, even it’s it’s something silly like “I like Wallin’s gold chain” or “Grabbo’s hair was awesome”
THIS IS A JOKE
Beauchemin in general played a better game. I want to see his ice-time tonight. He usually plays way too much, so a good balance of his minutes makes him play better in my mind.
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The fucking dominated that second period. Too bad hockey is played over three of them.
They call me Splodeybones.
Wendel was in the arena.
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 9:56 PM EST up reply actions
It was one game closer to the last one Jason Blake will play as a Leaf.
by Godd Till on Nov 14, 2009 9:57 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Rule #32- Enjoy the little things.
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by kidkawartha on Nov 14, 2009 10:01 PM EST up reply actions
Positive thing #6- Burke is a hunter, and therefore understands how to double-tap.
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by kidkawartha on Nov 14, 2009 10:06 PM EST up reply actions
These things have to be done carefully. No witnesses, get rid of the weapon, scrub out the powder burns, have an alibi.
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by kidkawartha on Nov 14, 2009 10:08 PM EST up reply actions
Carl Gunnarsson.
As well as that second period.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 9:58 PM EST up reply actions
I love you, Carl Gunnar-Stahl.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 9:59 PM EST up reply actions
Gunnar-Stahl
;D
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 10:06 PM EST up reply actions
the Leafs got me drunk tonight.
I like to eat the yellow snow behind the zamboni
by Kerry Fraser on Nov 14, 2009 9:59 PM EST up reply actions
They were actually truculent
out hitting the flames and making them bleed with their fists
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:10 PM EST up reply actions
Angry Schenn was very Angry.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 10:12 PM EST up reply actions
Who’d he stop in for?
Sjostrom.
Oh whatever.
What is his Swedish a Finn? Ah it doesn’t matter.
Look at him. He’s got a golden chain on. What’s he doing?
Grapes is on a fucking roll tonight.
They call me Splodeybones.
Who’s he talking about? Wallin?
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Goaluvsson.
Wow.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 10:00 PM EST up reply actions
I’m not even sure they make sense, which is vintage Cherry to be honest.
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does this mean
Rick “gold chain” Wallin is going to be a meme now? I wouldn’t have believed that comment had I not watched it myself
THIS IS A JOKE
I like it
He’s one guy we didn’t have a nickname for. Gold chain will do nicely.
leaf fan stuck in ottawa, still. Now truculently rebranded!
Yeah could be. Don’t think it stuck though.
leaf fan stuck in ottawa, still. Now truculently rebranded!
nah
I don’t think I;ve seen rickard’s here, but it may be because I haven’t been looking for it
THIS IS A JOKE
It was the best option at Wendel’s bar. That’s the only complaint I had about the place, which is otherwise awesome.
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 10:12 PM EST up reply actions
1. you can sleep when you’re dead
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by Kerry Fraser on Nov 14, 2009 9:59 PM EST up reply actions
2. Phil Kessel
...Being surrounded by Sens and Habs fans makes me feel intrinsically superior...
by El Monstruo on Nov 14, 2009 10:00 PM EST up reply actions
4. Pavel will be your friend.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 10:02 PM EST reply actions
**Kavel
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 10:02 PM EST up reply actions
5. I will come to your party/shindig/etc
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 10:03 PM EST up reply actions
For a small fee of $200/hour
Wait, I wasn’t supposed to tell people that, was I?
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 10:04 PM EST up reply actions
And a bonus!
They’ll get a #81 Kessel jersey, #21 Reyes jersey, or a #2 Pubina jersey along with my appearance.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 10:05 PM EST up reply actions
WTF Happened to Andi Petrullo?
She looks bizarre tonight
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:07 PM EST reply actions
Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I don’t have access to LeafsTV.
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Same.
Now I’m wondering what you’re alluding to, Meat.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 10:09 PM EST up reply actions
Leafs TV hostess who alternates between hot and fugg game by game
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:11 PM EST up reply actions
How does she look bizarre?
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 10:12 PM EST up reply actions
Her hair greasy looking and she’s got what looks to be a brown blanket wrapped around her
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:13 PM EST up reply actions
I’m thinking it’s a correlation. Leafs win, she looks smoking. Leafs lose, wh, what’s the point?
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I;m gonna start keeping track of that.
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:25 PM EST up reply actions
HOLY SHIT!
Guerin scores with 0.4 scond left to send the game to overtime against the Bruins.
They call me Splodeybones.
Reason to believe?
Let’s see … Leaf management refuse to admit Toskala isn’t the number one goalie so they can fool someone into trading for him. They want us to believe they have chips to play at the trade deadline even though they have traded Stralman, Kubina for players that can’t even crack the current roster. They lost Kronwall for nothing. They also claim the farm is full of Blue Chippers even though the Marlies are as bad as they are. They have no draft picks for the next two years. Hmmm sorry dude, I got nothing for you.
Wilson Presser
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:13 PM EST reply actions
This.
Should be good.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 10:14 PM EST up reply actions
“Its very frustrating to generate that much offense and only two goals”
Re: Gustavsson – I’d already used my time-out and didn’t have time to ask him if he was ok."
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:14 PM EST up reply actions
Reporter asks why they give up first two goals all the time
Wilson" I Don’t have an answer sorry – and then he GLOWERED at her
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:15 PM EST reply actions
Wilson says Gunnarson was the best d-man tonight and he helped Schenn
Will play again.
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:16 PM EST reply actions
Good.
He deserves it.
Best I’ve seen Schenn all year. That pairing brought him to rookie form.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 10:16 PM EST up reply actions
He also said he was as good as any other d-man at camp but it was a question of numbers.
If God didn't want me to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:17 PM EST up reply actions
Did he actually say that?
And then keep Garnet “Acquired Solely To Dump Kubina’s Salary” Exelby on the NHL squad?
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 10:18 PM EST up reply actions
yup he said it
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:21 PM EST up reply actions
Gunnarsson is awesome.
He helped Angry Schenn (is Very Angry) tonight.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 10:18 PM EST up reply actions
Presser over. No Blood spilled. Damn
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:17 PM EST reply actions
Dang.
I expected he was going to maul Howard Berger for a light midnight snack.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 10:21 PM EST up reply actions
Re: Gunnarson/XLB
Seems another data point to me that the players Burke gets and the guys Wilson wants aren’t often that compatible…
I don’t think Burkie is that committed to XLB
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:22 PM EST up reply actions
On Leafs Lunch today though Burkie did say XLB was the reason that Oreskovic was on the Marlies
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:23 PM EST up reply actions
Really?
I would’ve assumed it was because Oreskovich is an AHL quality player.
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 10:23 PM EST up reply actions
not according to Burkie.
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:25 PM EST up reply actions
Had to look that up. Didn’t realise he was that young. Feels like he’s been around longer.
And now I feel old.
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by puckurgently on Nov 14, 2009 10:26 PM EST up reply actions
Yep he was good tonight
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:25 PM EST up reply actions
Good night LD
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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 14, 2009 10:28 PM EST up reply actions
On that note, I shall bid
thee all a good night.
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You stay truculent, Kavel.
Goodnight.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 10:34 PM EST up reply actions
Beauchemin had a Gordie Howe Hat-Trick Tonight
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by The Meatriarchy on Nov 14, 2009 10:30 PM EST reply actions
Another Positive
Most of you don’t live in Calgary. I do; I will not hear the end of this, at least not until January 2, because to a lot of Flames fans, winning this game is better than winning the Stanley Cup. I sorta, kinda like the Flames—it’s nice having easy access to a good hockey team while I’m here—but a lot of their fans are as bad as Vancouver fans but with that pesky “more recent than 1967!” Cup win. (I definitely got “at least I was alive to see my team win” yesterday. Yesterday.)
Nice to see Flames still hoarding over their one Stanley Cup win over the 13 for the Leafs. Guess they know how it feels like being out of the playoffs like the Leafs. After all, they loved not going to the playoffs during the late 1990s.
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Why are the Leafs so bad? Blame the Marlies.
Hear me out. Since the Leafs moved their AHL farm team from St. John’’s to Toronto, they have not made the playofffs. In fact, their record with their farm team in Ontario is brutal. Since 1982, their record with the farm team in St. Catherines, Newmarket, and Toronto is .429, missing the playoffs in 8 of 13 seasons. (Keep in mind they made the playoffs twice in that span with fewer than 60 points)
With the farm team on the Rock, they had a record of .540, and only missed the playoffs in 3 of 13 seasons.
My theory is that players are too comfortable when the farm team is close by. Players don’t have to worry about being away from their homes and families if they are sent down. Obviously this is not the only factor, nor is it even a huge factor, but I think there is something to it.
Thoughts?
The Leafs also haven't made the playoffs since I moved to BC.
Coincidence?
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 14, 2009 10:57 PM EST up reply actions
The Leafs haven't made the playoffs since I met my wife.
I’ll have another Guinness. Pack her suitcase. Then give her the bad news.
Me too. I moved to Van on Sept ’05
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Well you guys better figure out who's to blame stat
no point breaking up more marriages than we have to.
and the Mustache of Truculence (formerly Canada4Mizzou)
Thoughts?
Logic 101: Correlation is not causation.
Case closed.
Moustache Fever, not to be confused with swine flu.
I’ll have to agree with the two posters just above me that this theory about the Marlies being too close to the big club is grasping at straws. By the same token, wouldn’t the Leafs being so close inspire the players on the Marlies to know how close they are to the show? Being banished to the minors itself is a big blow to anyone’s egos, no matter where the team is located because they still have to travel on the road. Their families don’t follow them around, so that impact seems negligible.
The Marlies are bad because they’ve been managed pretty badly ever since they relocated to Toronto. Instead of establishing themselves to the community like St. John’s, MLSE mistakenly (and arrogantly I might add) believed that any kind of hockey would be successful in the city. They didn’t advertise or market the team properly, nor are their tickets that great of a value. Only now did the management feel the Marlies should mirror the Leafs as a developmental team, rather than a branch of their corporate and commercial entity.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 15, 2009 12:52 AM EST up reply actions
Optimism
I think at this point, for me, I’ve accepted the fact that this team just ain’t that good. At all.
There are bright spots (Kessel, Gustavsson, Schenn, Kadri, Bozak, Hanson etc.) but that’s just it. Spots. The solution is to wholesale change the team like Cliffy did when he made the trade for Gilmour. The problem is, in a cap system, that will never happen.
Like it or not, this is going to be a long year…
I have nothing interesting to say.
by blurr1974 on Nov 14, 2009 11:29 PM EST reply actions
ooops
enter to soon.
The team is definitely devoid of leadership. Stitching the “C” on anybody at this point won’t solve anything. To those of you who think otherwise, ask yourself what this magic letter on the jersey would change in the dressing room, or on the ice, for this squad. If a guy can’t lead until he’s appointed, then he can’t lead, period.
Burke is going to have to sit down with Nonis, Wilson et. all and start some serious conversations. Who does Wilson want to keep, who does Burke want to keep, Nonis, etc. Target those guys, and begin structuring the team to allow these players to have the ice time to succeed. Trade the disposable for whatever you can get. The guys that this team has that people want, are just the same guys we probably shouldn’t be trading. We can worry about losing players for nothing, but quite frankly, if there was a market for them, then someone would offer something.
I have nothing interesting to say.
by blurr1974 on Nov 14, 2009 11:33 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Good goaltending, decent D that needs some minor improvement
But Burke has to work on getting some decent offense. Kessel is heads and shoulders above the rest.
I’m optimistic for two reasons:
1) The young guys (Kadri, Bozak, Hanson, Stalberg) should do a good job of filling out the top six.
2) All the upcoming UFAs the Leafs have should give enough space to make some good signings and get more skill on this time.
Let Stajan walk, and I say keep one of Poni or Stempninjiak.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 15, 2009 12:51 AM EST up reply actions
Poni
was everywhere throwin the body tonight. I especially liked it when he put phaneuf on his ass.
I go to chicago and now Godd is going game threads? HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD?
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 15, 2009 12:56 AM EST reply actions
New blog up
http://50-mission-cap.blogspot.com/2009/11/livin-in-80s.html
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by FiftyMissionCap on Nov 15, 2009 1:25 AM EST reply actions
kiprusoff (sp) played excellent, but there were a few choice ones where we just stuffed it right at him. we need an iginla ( i know i know) our forwards are pedestrian save kessel. great second period, that one power play was outstanding. we are a train wreck in our own end, i dont expect many wins until theres some accountability back there.
Wow
This was just like a regular post-game recap, only great.
Excellent work GT
You know where I'm from.
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