Hooray for Hagman!
by blurr1974 on Nov 23, 2009 5:15 AM EST
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PrintLost in all the hoopla that is the Leafs 4 win in a non-consecutive row streak, is the fact that Niklas Hagman continues to be awesome.
As a card carrying member of the "Hagman for Captain" and "How Awesome is Awesome?" Niklas Hagman booster clubs, I felt inclined to remind you.
In case you forgot...
- eyebleaf knows how to use a great quote. I'm glad it wasn't something by Nietzsche...
- Steve sees no need to take Ronnie's hands off the wheel.
- JaredFromLOLdon has some LOLeafs to share.
- MLHS has a duo of links today. The first calls for Burke to send messages to the players buy waiving Blake and Stempniak to the Marlies, while the second hypothesizes on the rumoured deals Brian Burke is currently working on.
- Truth and Rumours takes David Shoalts to task for his latest piece of Leaf fan bashing.
- The bud blog sees only a delay of the inevitable for the Leafs, despite the win against the Caps.
- TML Fan Fury has a list of their all time top Leafs goaltenders. Do you have yours?
- Winning is infectious. Seems the Marlies caught a case of it as well...
- HockeyCentric has updates on the kids. Who are alright.
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-6 for hagman on the season is not awesome, especially in my fantasy pool.
otherwise though, he is awesome.
Yesterday is dead, but not my memory.
thats what he gets for being a defensivly able forward on a horrible defensive team
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 9:26 AM EST up reply actions
I voted #1
because the rest of those guys are STIFFS
Agree
That’s what makes those rumours so ridiculous. He has what? 6 more years after this one?
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Im not saying I like the rumoured deal, but would you rather let Kaberle walk for nothing (which I’m not saying what will happen) or trade for Campbell?
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Well, like you said, those aren’t the options. I’d rather Burke re-sign Kaberle until he’s 37 than Campbell until he’s 37.
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$7.1M a year for 6 more years.
if burke’s going to trade kabby, he can get better value than one high first-rounder and the worst D contract in the league.
Yesterday is dead, but not my memory.
for the package offered up on MLHS i’d definitely balk .
But something like Kabby + Stajan + 4th for Campbell + versteeg + first I would be hard pressed to say no
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 9:49 AM EST up reply actions
haha, I knew someone had proposed something similar at least
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:45 AM EST up reply actions
agreed
stuff like that solves absolutely nothing. I don’t want change for the sake of change. We’d be twisting ourselves into knots trying to get out of Campbell’s contract in 2014.
Kaberle and a better player than Campbell at the SAME money. Never mind for $3M cheaper.
If we’re taking on useful yet expensive players, i want a hell of a lot more coming back.
agreed on most points, it would all come down on to what was coming back with Campbell to see if it was close to worth it.
Problem is, what happens in 2011? I’m pretty damned sure kabby will want to stay in TO and probably take a home town discount. He’ll get at the VERY least 5.5 a year for however long, and how long will he be worth that?
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:13 AM EST up reply actions
Glad to see Tavares coming home...
… a perfect opportunity for Burke to show the kid where his dressing room stall will be in 7 years.
Why wait?
RFA in 3 seasons ;)
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so no first rounder for 3 years running?
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 9:50 AM EST up reply actions
Tavares would likely cost four firsts!
So let’s go with hockeysense’s plan and let him know to wait for UFA time to come along.
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Brayden Schenn and doughty too right?
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 10:07 AM EST up reply actions
We should sign the Stanley Cup to a 50 year deal.
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i like the way you think
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 10:11 AM EST up reply actions
Ooo…. I smell a comedy infused robbery movie coming on…
Ocean’s 11 PPP style!
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
*puts on aviator glasses*
Why steal the cup? Lets just steal Vancouver’s Canucks Stanley Cup banners and get immense and perverse satisfaction of hearing them whine about the Leafs tampering with their Stanley Cup Bann…. wait a minute…
by hockeysense on Nov 23, 2009 10:35 AM EST up reply actions 4 recs
I like your style, GOLD STAR
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Nov 23, 2009 4:07 PM EST up reply actions
I smell a comedy infused robbery movie coming on…
Roy MacGregor beat you to it:
Bitter Leaf Fan: because sometimes there's no option but to be bitter...
ALSO
WTF is with up the article talking about sending Stemps to the Marlies. Fuck that
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Yeah
Stempniak’s been fine. He’s not lighting the world on fire but he’s playing decently and chipping in goals.
Blake can take a long walk off a short pier for all I care though.
leaf fan stuck in ottawa, a localized black hole that will suck everything in that area to oblivion.
I usually like the guys at MLHS, but that was a little off base
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yea, people are calling for contracts to be sent to the minors, they looked at stemps 3.5mil and picked him. Not a good choice, if anyone is going down its going to be someone like John Mitchell or Nik Kulemin. I dont think brian wants to loose guys he could trade at the deadline (hopefully) on waivers for nothing.
If Burke wanted to really make a big splash, than Blake is the obvious candidate but does he really want a bitter Jason Blake in his marlies dressing room? Besides, Blake is working hard and it does look like he could finally start stringing together some productive games. I think it was around this time last year he started to play well.
It will be interesting to see what Brian does, especially if they lose tonight and the next game. A couple wins in a row and he probably sits still a little longer, unless he is able to make a trade that he likes.
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
A bitter Blake in the Marlies’ dressing room can be very easily solved with the right “unspecified upper body injury”, specifically Hanson taking him out back and punching the crap out of him.
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or a giant sized mouse trap, damn blake looks like some sort of rat-frog
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
Everyone that calls for players to be stuffed in the minors is off-base I think.
It doesn’t square with how Burke appears to operate, it doesn’t help with the cap, it doesn’t help with player development, and it doesn’t help with discipline.
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i agree, the thing im wondering about is, why would Burke say he will send guys to the minors if it just doesnt make sense at any level right now?
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 11:42 AM EST up reply actions
Because he wants to let them know that it’s an option even if he doesn’t do it.
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ahh, good ol’ fashioned scare tactic
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 1:00 PM EST up reply actions
Thank you
as always for the link, Blurr.
I don’t say it enough, but you and the entire PPP team are greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Nav
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WE MISS YOU!
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:04 AM EST up reply actions
I missed him more before the Boston hate, but then I saw pics of us on Facebook together and fell in love all over again.
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I miss you cats too.
Life is severely kicking my ass right now.
Changed roles at work this year. Had no idea what it would do my time to spend on this site, and blog in general.
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It’s gravy, we’ll get smashed again some time.
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COME HOME!
Leafs Nation needs you now more than ever, eyebleaf. :D
by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 23, 2009 11:07 AM EST up reply actions
I’m always with you folks in spirit.
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Awww.
:D We’ll think of you when things go to hell. (As if we aren’t in hell already…)
by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 23, 2009 11:10 AM EST up reply actions
you are Hopeulence!!!
We need more of that here.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Nov 23, 2009 4:08 PM EST up reply actions
Can’t wait, brother. You’re a rudey.
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Montreal 2 – This time its in Toronto
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:13 AM EST up reply actions
I look forward to entertaining.
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we gotta get it worked for when Wrap comes to town, and when Alix comes to town
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:16 AM EST up reply actions
they are good people
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
and me you jerks
Join me on the Hockey Blog Adventure! (or Twitter.) GO BRUINS! (and Wild!)
by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 23, 2009 1:56 PM EST up reply actions
Next time there is a pub meetup in TO I want to make the trip, either carpool with someone or something.
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Yes. You gotta make it out, bro.
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Next time we’re going straight to the bubbly.
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by Chemmy on Nov 23, 2009 11:16 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I just bought a zone, J’s on my feet
I’m on that Patron, so get like me
I just bought a zone, J’s on my feet
I’m on that Patron, so get like me
Er-ery’body love me, boss so fly
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:19 AM EST up reply actions
I am on a twenty four hour champagne diet
Spillin while I’m sippin I encourage you to try it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h70MMDtW7uo
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whats your facebook? can i add you just for fun?
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 11:43 AM EST up reply actions
I don’t really use it to be honest. I was on it because someone tagged me in a photo and I don’t really want too much info out there on stuff like Facebook. Being a professional by day the less about me on the internet the better.
That’s also why I use a stupid pseudonym here.
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makes sense to me, no worries.
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 1:09 PM EST up reply actions
If you’re friends with other PPPers you can add me, I’ll accept, but I won’t post anything or talk on there so I wouldn’t bother if I were you.
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The people I lost contact with before Facebook I realized I stopped talking to for a reason.
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i have DGB on there…. but no one else. dont worry man, no biggie.
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 3:59 PM EST up reply actions
I heart Nik Hagman.
Maybe they’ll soon realize how flipping awesome he is and (finally!) name him captain.
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by Brad_Richards_Rocks on Nov 23, 2009 11:10 AM EST reply actions
Hagman is...
… the square-root of Kessel.
by hockeysense on Nov 23, 2009 11:16 AM EST up reply actions
we better be getting at least a 2nd pick
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 11:44 AM EST up reply actions
what the fuck for? Do they even have any cap friendly options? Are they going to cripple their future and trade off their prospects?
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:47 AM EST up reply actions
The only “Cap-friendly” contract I see is Campoli at 633K. That would save about 2.3M with Barker going the other way.
Still, Campoli wouldn’t be near enough for Barker. Picks and prospects are really all Ottawa has to offer.
Total backwards move for Chicago if it’s at all true.
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yeah, unless the hawks are getting a first, Cowen, Legine or another high prospect, its a terrible move for the hawks
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 12:05 PM EST up reply actions
doesn't mean it won't happen
why don’t “terrible” deals ever go the Leafs way? I don’t think the Leafs have fleeced anyone since the Gilmour trade.
a 2nd round pick for Hal Gill
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by Karina on Nov 23, 2009 5:37 PM EST up reply actions
mccabe for karpotsev?
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 1:02 PM EST up reply actions
From RotoWorld: “The Maple Leafs are rumored to be willing to take Sopel’s contract if Chicago includes a second round draft pick. We’ll keep you posted.”
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they’d better be taking exelby
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:47 AM EST up reply actions
my feelers also indicate that it might be sopel and a prospect
please be beach, please be beach, please be beach
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
I’m trying not to get my hopes up.
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your hopes are always up
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
shhhhhhhhh
you’re ruining it
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
yes, it would be both awesome and comedic
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 12:05 PM EST up reply actions
jack skille would be pretty good
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 1:02 PM EST up reply actions
Skille
is who I’m hoping for.
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by Karina on Nov 23, 2009 5:38 PM EST up reply actions
Who the hell is Ottawa going to give Chicago for Barker?!?!
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they could get way more for barker on the open market
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 12:08 PM EST up reply actions
From Dreger:
Hawks have presented the Leafs and other teams with different trad options. Sopel and a prospect, or Sopel and draft pick. Stay tuned.
Who will we give
for Sopel/Draft Pick?
by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 23, 2009 12:35 PM EST up reply actions
Please be XLB....
Please be XLB (I know it won’t, but a man can dream…)
by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 23, 2009 12:39 PM EST up reply actions
BOOO
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 23, 2009 12:05 PM EST up reply actions
Yo, Till...
…and other BC residents…
I was watching the Hawks-Canucks game late last night and the Canucks broadcast team talked about how the next Vancouver game vs. Los Angeles would be on Canucks PPV — “only” $12.95 standard def, $15.95 HD. Is this a once-a-year thing, or do they seriously regularly put games on pay-per-view?
I just couldn’t believe that depending where you live, $29.99 can get you
1) from Rogers, a gouge-y provider if there ever was one, a month of every MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL and OHL game, many in HD, plus unlimited college basketball and football (and I think there’s an auto racing series of channels too); or
2) not quite two Canucks (!) regular season games — you’d be $1.91 short.
Can you imagine what the Vancouver media would be saying if it were MLSE offering PPV?
Overtime loss: The new black.
The 'Nucks
broadcast some games on PPV, as do the Flames, Oilers, and the SNES.
by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 23, 2009 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
And yet people bitch and kvetch
about MLSE. At least we don’t put our games on PPV.
by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 23, 2009 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
How much does LeafsTV go for these days?
Not that I can get it in my current location… just curious is all…
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$3/month
And it’s actually included in a bunch of packages now.
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So 4 1/3 months of Leafs TV in standard def (or 5 1/3 in HD) will get you one Canucks PPV game.
Nice.
How many suckers live out west, by the way?
leaf fan stuck in ottawa, a localized black hole that will suck everything in that area to oblivion.
eh
mostly, one person gets it and we all get together to watch the game, or we go out for dinner that night. I’d rather spend $50 on dinner and a game than $15 for a game.
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by Karina on Nov 23, 2009 5:39 PM EST up reply actions
I'd pay $3
to hear said song and yell into my TV when the piece of crap plays.
by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 23, 2009 12:57 PM EST up reply actions
$2.50 here, and I am in a region that is not even supposed to get it.
hee hee
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Nov 23, 2009 4:13 PM EST up reply actions
it just comes with my rogers HD…
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 4:24 PM EST up reply actions
Lines for tonight:
Alexei Ponikarovsky – Matt Stajan – Phil Kessel
Jason Blake – Mikhail Grabovski – Niklas Hagman
Lee Stempniak – John Mitchell – Nikolai Kulemin
Colton Orr – Wayne Primeau – Jamal Mayers
Francois Beauchemin – Ian White
Tomas Kaberle – Carl Gunnarsson
Luke Schenn – Garnet Exelby
Pretty much.
His play as of late has been bad.
On another note, I don’t think I like this Schenn-XLB pairing that much.
by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 23, 2009 1:02 PM EST up reply actions
schenn and gunnar probably will play alot together, wilson will most likely spot XLB in for 8 or 9 minutes tonight with Schenn probably around the 15 minute mark.
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 1:08 PM EST up reply actions
XLB and Schenn are too slow to be on the ice together for any period of time. That defensive pairing is a liability.
I really
don’t know why the hell Wilson insists on putting them as a defensive pairing. No one benefits from it whatsoever.
by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 23, 2009 2:18 PM EST up reply actions
thank god Gunnarsson has panned out as an NHL player
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 1:07 PM EST up reply actions
no, i think this is game 3…
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 3:59 PM EST up reply actions
So what do you guys think, win tonight followed by another win against Tampa? I smell a winning streak coming
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If you’re smelling a winning streak at this point you should phone the hospital immediately, because you may be having a stroke.
I DESPERATELY want to believe in this team, but right now, I just need to concentrate my faith on one period at a time. I admire your own level of faith, though.
hey, i firmly beleive that they will string together a decent winning streak at some point this season and the isles, tampa and florida are all teams we should match up well with.
vesa just played one his better leaf games and the rally cap thing seemed to work. I have a feeling we are going to play well……. but then again chemmy could be right and we could be in for a couple more soul crushing defeats
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 4:01 PM EST up reply actions
I’ll go with “soul crushingly terrible defeats to the Islanders and Tampa”.
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Ok, fellow Leaf nuts, a homework project.
In my pool tonight, my second center beside Carter should be:
a) Grabovski
b) Tavares
Show reasoning in your work. This is for half your grade.
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Nope. What if we shut Tavares down?
What if Grabbo decides to finally light it up?
It’s killing me, because I know if I auto-pick Tavares, he’ll go pointless.
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Toronto kid.
Playing against favorite team.
Over 100 friends and family in stands.
Does Del Zotto ring a bell?
Not to mention every other GTA-born player in the history of ever.
leaf fan stuck in ottawa, a localized black hole that will suck everything in that area to oblivion.
All you guys are not taking into account that I’m the unluckiest SOB on PPP. There’s a 75% chance whoever I bench will have the game of his year. :)
But since the consensus is Tavares, I’ll go with him. Plus, he has some connections to Peterborough.
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Game theory:
1. Leafs win: who cares about fantasy.
2. Leafs don’t win: at least Tavares got you some fantasy points.
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take tavares, that way he will go pointless
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 4:02 PM EST up reply actions
How come there was no vote for
“Niklas’s Wife” She hot.
Also, thank me for Hagman’s awesomeness in the last two games… I dropped him from two of my pools last week….
Of course this is probably only a minor boost, as the day after I dropped Stajan he got a goal.
Should I drop Poni and Blake next so they can score a few goals?
I’m keeping White and Kaberle, so don’t ask me to drop them
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Nov 23, 2009 4:05 PM EST reply actions
Hey all
This is kinda funny. A bunch of mascots playing shinny on the ACC ice before the open-practice they held Saturday.
by general borschevsky on Nov 23, 2009 4:05 PM EST reply actions
i was there, the mascot thing was great for the kids. a couple funny moments in there as well.
Toskala was the only one to get booed when the leafs came out for practice, he then proceeded to play one of his best games as a leaf.
I also managed to get down behind the benches when the caps were coming out for their skate, i was able to tell varlamov that he sucked, and thankfully he listened.
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 23, 2009 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
From Elliotte Friedman's blog
The rally caps Toronto players tried in the shootout against Washington were Jamal Mayers’ idea.
Alexander Ovechkin stops himself more than anyone stops him, but can you believe that the Maple Leafs – of all teams – played him better than anyone else so far this year? The strategy: Ask your defencemen to meet him at his own blue-line. And, if he does get into your zone, keep him out of the middle. Of course, much easier said than done.
And for Jared:
the Ducks are having troubles signing Bobby Ryan. Burke drafted him and Ryan is represented by same agency (Newport) as Phil Kessel. Kessel was a restricted free agent who ended up in Toronto. Could history repeat itself? Just wondering. We’ll see.
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by Karina on Nov 23, 2009 5:53 PM EST reply actions
hehehehehe
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