Oil thigh na Banrighinn a’Banrighinn gu brath!
Oil thigh na Banrighinn a’Banrighinn gu brath!
Oil thigh na Banrighinn a’Banrighinn gu brath!
Cha-Gheill! Cha-Gheill! Cha-Gheill! (pronounced Kay-Ya, Kay-Ya, Kay-ya)

Sing!

Queen’s College colours we are wearing once again,
Soiled as they are by the battle and the rain,
Yet another victory to wipe away the stain,
So, Gaels go in and win!

No way Columbus will deal him to T.O. short of anything less then Kessel going the other way.

Doesn’t hurt for Burke to try but they’ll probably just put him on hold.

Yeah, who exactly is complaining about the Neil/Schenn fight? Neil even let up at the end. Not sure what else he was supposed to do there.

Now, you could argue that he should have answered the bell with Orr in the second. You know, instead of what he actually did, which was shit his pants on national TV and hide under the zamboni. But that’s a separate discussion.

thanks to a LONG (a 3.5 hour drive became 6 last night…) time spent on the road. I haven’t bothered to read through all of yesterday’s FTB, so I apologize if these have already been said.

anyhoo, TSM’s quote below is how i feel about not just the MSM, but much of the Barilkosphere currently:

Where stay at home Berger fails, is offering solutions. A true insider does that. It’s very easy to sit back and identify the problem. What separates the pretenders from the real deal are those who can suggest fixes. That’s not to suggest any of them will be done, but at least it shows that the author has the ability to make suggestions and not just point out the obvious.

That’s not to say EVERYONE is pointing out the obvious, without giving possible solutions, but at some point it’s a broken record.

Yes Blake sucks. Yes Schenn is not playing up to expectations. Yes Mayers and Primeau are redundant. I get that. Everyone gets that. What can be done (beyond the “Waive them/trade them!” simplistic arguments) is the question. Waive them, and replace them with whom? Trade them for whom? To where? And who would want them?

I get the feeling Burke isn’t making any moves because he’s not in a position of strength. He’ll be lucky to get pennies on the dollar for any Leaf not named Schenn, Gustavsson or Kessel. Is that smart? I’m certainly not suggesting he can hold out hope forever, or assume someone will overpay for a current roster player, but the season is still young. One look out at Pittsburgh, and one can see that teams with higher expectations can quickly be put in a position of desperation.

For how many years have we fans complained about “selling low?” Now that the Leafs are stinking up the joint, it’s the first thing that’s brought up. We probably aren’t making the playoffs this season, although miracles do happen and I’m holding out for one.

Secondly, I love Phil Kessel. I love Luke Schenn. I love Jonas Gustavsson, Kadri, Tlusty, Stempniak, Kaberle, White etc etc etc. But if any one of those guys can be traded to make the Leafs a better team, I’m 100% behind it. If, in some course over the season, I suggest trading one of your favorite players, I apologize. It is nothing personal.

Lastly, if the Leafs are a lottery team, then they are a lottery team. Not much can be done about that. Kessel was traded for those picks, and regardless of how you think about the deal, it’s done. We can dissect it twenty ways from Sunday, but at the end of it all, Kessel is a Leaf, and those picks are Bruins. there isn’t a single solution that can be offered that will change that. You all know, I’m a fan of the move though, so take that for what you will…

Missed you all in SOCAL, and sorry I missed the sens game. I’d prescribe a few days in Disneyland for all of us at some point this season…

http://farawayleaf.blogspot.com/2009/11/daddy-no-more-pull-ups.html

The make your own Berger template isn’t self-congratulatory enough.