Is Today Phil Kessel Day?
by blurr1974 on Nov 3, 2009 5:15 AM EST
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Today is that day we dream about all year. The day where Phil Kessel appears from his hibernation, and if he sees his shadow then he'll put chocolate eggs underneath all our Kessel trees, decorated with one single ornament. Or something like that.
Phil is lost in the embroidering of his last name. (via media.canada.com)
Truth be told, as we go to press, Kessel's debut is still not certain. TSN has reported that the Leafs are still awaiting results from a series of tests. That of course, isn't stopping the conjecture, and the wishful thinking. I for one hope that if Phil's ready, he gets to play tonight. If he's not, then let's not rush him.
- The most connected man in the Barilkosphere, Down Goes Brown has managed to get his hands on a copy of Ron Wilson's 15 step plan to success for the Leafs.
- Speaking of the Clown Prince of the Blogosp
- Leafs Rumination takes a look at the day that was :"#KyleWellwoodIsSoFat."
- TSM can't believe the things being written about the Leafs.
- Leafs247 is wondering, as we are all, when Kessel will make his debut.
- TML Central wonders how different the outcome could have been had Phil Kessel been playing since the start of the season.
- TML Fan Fury has a gallery of some of the top Leafs goalie masks from the past and present. The players who wore them, well, that's a different story.
Your favorite author Chemmy updates with more links:
- Leaf and Lion has been trying to get you to read this post for months: his projections based off of current data.
- MF37 expects Phil Kessel will score two hat tricks tonight and also gives an overview of October looking forward to the month that matters.
- loser domi is probably crazy but that's why we all love her. Here's "Matt Stajan" talking to the haters.
- Down Goes Brown on a Kyle Wellwood is fat themed podcast.
- Eugene Melnyk, not content with securities fraud, wants to be an indian giver - asks for $4M back from Dany Heatley.
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whoa….what happened to the site?
its different….change is scary, someone hold me
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It`s the font i think, and some other crap. Goddamn SB nation
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"DO NOT get stuck behind Kyle Wellwood in the buffet line. This isn't really etiquette, but it will prevent you from starving to death"- Down Goes Brown on Etiquette for Jason Spezza's wedding
by Kevin Sellathamby on Nov 3, 2009 7:40 AM EST up reply actions
This is what happens when PPP has a 90 minute Dreamweaver course at the local technical college.
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by Mattblack on Nov 3, 2009 7:40 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
It was well worth it.
Also, it’s a visual refresh.
Change is scary now but remember when we went from SBN 1.0 to this? You’ll all get used to it.
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by PPP on Nov 3, 2009 9:07 AM EST up reply actions
I think you’re misremembering the old site.
Also, the star isn’t sentient so not need to fear it…yet.
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by PPP on Nov 3, 2009 9:38 AM EST up reply actions
I like it. I hated the old layout. It actually delayed my willingness to look at the screen long enough to find out I enjoyed the content for a while. This is a lot less jarring.
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i miss all the blue
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 9:35 AM EST up reply actions
You know, I kind of like it. More room, cleaner, a little easier to read. Nice work SBN.
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by Down Goes Brown on Nov 3, 2009 9:49 AM EST up reply actions
It’s 1,000 times better.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 9:50 AM EST up reply actions
Brian Burke demands only the finest font for Phil Kessel day! WE MUST OBEY!!!1
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by blindfolded tank driver on Nov 3, 2009 7:44 AM EST reply actions
Something seems a little bit different...
Did you get a haircut blurr?
by general borschevsky on Nov 3, 2009 8:25 AM EST reply actions
PPP hates me
http://leafandlion.blogspot.com/2009/11/big-picture.html
Put it up late yesterday. Maybe my blog isn’t showing up in your feeds?
Thanks guys, keep up the great work. And happy Phil Kessel day.
Or maybe you had it right the first time ;)
Just kidding. e-mail blurr and mattblack. Usually it’s just timing.
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by PPP on Nov 3, 2009 9:08 AM EST up reply actions
no it's in there
it’s just that, according to my reader, “late last night” was yesterday morning, about 10 AM Pacific.
I wrote the FTB about 12.5 hours after that, so chances are i just didn’t scroll far enough back in my reader to catch it.
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Stalk me here...
Whoa everything’s gone crazy
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Now you goes really need one of those mini logos, all the red stars in each tab are annoying as hell…..
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THEY ARE RED STARS FOR MOTHER RUSSIA
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She’s not my mother! My mother is right here and she’s not going to let her baby get shrapnel in his gums!
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in soviet russia, page refreshes you!
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 9:23 AM EST up reply actions
so is your face
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 9:25 AM EST up reply actions
I never liked “shrapnel” brand chewing gum either.
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Mother Russia how are you sleeping
Middle winter cold winds blow
From the trees the snowflakes drifting
Swirling round like ghosts in the snow
Mother Russia poetry majestic
Tells the time of a great empire
Turning round the old man ponders
Reminiscing an age gone by
Mother Russia
Dance of the czars
Hold up your heads
Be proud of what you are
Now it has come
Freedom at last
Turning the tides of history
And your past
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 9:27 AM EST up reply actions
PLAYOFFS!!!11ONE!!!
OK, ok, ok. I know Phil Kessel doesn’t HAVE to play today. And if he does, he doesnt HAVE to score every time he touches the puck.
But if he could that would be awesome.
Have to agree with the TSM post. The amount of positive press I’ve read about the 1-11 Leafs team in the last week is amazing.
I guess it’s because they hit so low so soon, they had no other place to write to. Also, Cox is a total Burke homer and stuck his neck out and predicted the Leafs would make the playoffs, so he might have a vested interest in accentuating the positive.
I don’t expect Kessel to score, but if he unleashes a sick wrister top corner don’t pretend Leafs Nation won’t be spilling beers and flipping furniture over.
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They are going to run him out on every PP and do nothing but try to set him up
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So you’re saying activate him from IR on my fantasy team?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 3, 2009 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
I just did. Had to drop Stempniak though which sucks. I have too much talent on RW and little elsewhere.
Oh yeah? Well the only player on my team playing last night was James “3 assist night” Van Riemsdyk, who I had benched because Yahoo is stupid.
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If you’re using AdBlock the site’s logo hangs down over content. Turning it off fixes it. :\
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Not very subtle attempt to increase site revenue attempt spotted.
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Someone’s cheque just got right-sized.
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Sigh
I wish the internet had existed when Slur Alex went seven years with nowt won.
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I’m going to raking in the nickels.
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It works ok on mine for now.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 3, 2009 10:11 AM EST up reply actions
Wondering
if any of the folks who are stuck behind corporate filters can access the site?
the whole Facebook integration was supposedly going to be an issue for some folks IIRC.
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I can still see you (that’s a lovely shirt, blurr!) – and facecult is blocked in my workplace.
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Same for me, with the ability to see it even though facebook is blocked.
by Its Cold In Here on Nov 3, 2009 10:28 AM EST up reply actions
Facebook integration? Facebook jumped the shark so hard.
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Only with people prone to using the phrase “jumped the shark”
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2005 – The phrase “jump the shark” becomes popular.
2006 – The phrase “jump the shark” jumps the shark
2007 – Making the observation that the phrase “jump the shark” has jumped the shark jumps the shark
2008 – “Jump the shark” is replaced with “Nuked the fridge”
2009 – “Nuked the fridge” is replaced with “Traded the next two first round picks”
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by Down Goes Brown on Nov 3, 2009 10:36 AM EST up reply actions
jump the shark is much, much older than 2005….
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eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh
/double thumbs up
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 12:06 PM EST up reply actions
Two more for the FTB
Looking at the Leafs first 12 games.
Bitter Leaf Fan: because sometimes there's no option but to be bitter...
Important fact:
Starting on December first we will never make another “November when it matters” joke under penalty of death.
Get them out of the way now.
Thanks,
The Management
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thats ok, because everyone knows that december is when everything really matters.
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 3, 2009 10:21 AM EST up reply actions
Ugh this thing eats line breaks. Worst.
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Of course we can always do things MLHS style until it’s fixed.
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OH GOD NO
They are going to fix it.
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when it matters?
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
noes! they is taken mah memes!
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 10:24 AM EST up reply actions
I was just thinking I’m gonna be really sad when this month is over and the games don’t matter anymore.
by general borschevsky on Nov 3, 2009 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
Phil is lost in the embroidering of his last name.
He actually looks like he doesn’t know how to put it on.
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He looks like
he wants to eat it.
Me: “No, Phil, honey, even if it says ‘Maple’ on it, it’s not maple-flavoured. No—Phil, DON’T EAT IT!”
Kessel:BACON GOOD
THIS IS A JOKE
by loser domi on Nov 3, 2009 11:49 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Rec'd
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 3, 2009 12:16 PM EST up reply actions
om nom nom, tasty polyester
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 12:21 PM EST up reply actions
Somebody let “Alex” know he’s being sued.
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by Down Goes Brown on Nov 3, 2009 10:22 AM EST reply actions
DAMN FILTER
What does it say?
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i just thought you morons would get a kick out of this:
Kessel practiced on a line with Blake and Stajan
The idiots are calling the line:
Two Cancers and a Prancer.
I think they should be sued actually.
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that was actually alex Brownscombe a.k.a ‘down goes brown’ who coined that phrase. he is a Leafs Blogger, and he is actually very good and hilarious. This joke was tasteless though.
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So much wrong there.
And is it libelous to state that someone had cancer when they actually did? The law is so confusing to me.
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i didnt know stajan was gay
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 10:28 AM EST up reply actions
he's not gay
he just wants to dance and spread his wings, like a butterfly and really express himself.
Or maybe he’s a reindeer?
THIS IS A JOKE
on poni on stajan on Kessel on blake
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
From the bottom of the standings, there’s nowhere left to fall,
Now dash away, dash away, dash away all!
by general borschevsky on Nov 3, 2009 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
He should just be glad there was no move to acquire Saku Koivu to centre Kessel and Blake.
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by puckurgently on Nov 3, 2009 10:27 AM EST up reply actions
I’d just like to point out that the “Two Cancers” was a reference to their dressing room attitude, and I am shocked and offended that anyone would think otherwise.
Lawsuits pending.
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by Down Goes Brown on Nov 3, 2009 10:27 AM EST up reply actions
That’s how I read it. I was unaware that there was any other way to read it.
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So is there anyone that DGB won’t impersonate on Twitter?
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you
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 10:29 AM EST up reply actions
here ya go
let me help you with that
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Cheers Noodles
In other news, Jared will not be featuring in a weekend links round up until 2017.
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i always saved by best links for the other FTBers anyways
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
6012
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 10:38 AM EST up reply actions
you jumped two keys to get that by instead of my. Impressive, Star Fox. Now look out for enemies in the Asteroid Field!
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 3, 2009 10:38 AM EST up reply actions
"by best links"
instead of “my best links”
not sure about the rest though…
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best link
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
I can't be the only one who played this
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 3, 2009 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
oh i got it
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
Yes you’re the only person who’s played Starfox.
Twit.
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I love that game. i still play it
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by Matt_Roberts on Nov 3, 2009 11:20 AM EST up reply actions
I didn’t know you were Alex Brownscombe.
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Hey PPP
What’s up with the Leafs franchise page on hockey-reference? Did we not decide on a caption?
And are we leaving the Habs one as-is too?
Yesterday is dead, but not my memory.
uhhhh
Yeah, about that…
/runs away.
I’m on it. I’ll try to get it all done by Friday.
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I yell at him constantly.
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to be fair, you yell at everyone constantly
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
It’s true. It’s why I start shaking whenever there is a loud noise in my vicinity.
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640 reporting
he’s been cleared to play. fanshot up
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heh
this Melnyk thing is amusing. He agreed to structure the contract the way it was done, so really isn’t it his fault that he had to pay that $4 mill bonus?
Also, with how Penner’s been playing, I think the Oilers lucked out that Heatley refused to be traded there.
"The only way out is in a body bag. Go Leafs Go." - Blinky
i actually kinda wanted burke to go after Penner when Camalari got signed, but thought it was too stupid to say out loud
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 12:29 PM EST up reply actions
hehe
Burke was too mad at the Penner offer sheet to go after him now, via trade at least.
If Penner makes it to UFA, though, I think there’ll be an offer.
"The only way out is in a body bag. Go Leafs Go." - Blinky
If Hanson fails to develop into a top 6 power forward in the next year or so, Burke will drive hard at a UFA like Penner. Id still rather have Horton, but im starting to think thats a pipe dream
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 12:37 PM EST up reply actions
I’d much rather have Horton as well.
OOooh I was at the drugstore last night, they have all their McFarlane figures on sale. They had Sittler, Worsely, Horton and Blake.
And a gift pack of Sundin, Domi and Kaberle.
I got Sittler.
"The only way out is in a body bag. Go Leafs Go." - Blinky
good plan, I have sittler, its awesome
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 12:55 PM EST up reply actions
I don’t understand how this situation is really much different from the McCabe situation last summer when the Leafs had to wait until September to move him so that McCabe would pick up his bonus, except that the Leafs didn’t cry about it.
by general borschevsky on Nov 3, 2009 12:39 PM EST up reply actions
That's the big difference, but...
Keeping him around was not an option either. McCabe’s attitude punched his own ticket out of town. It was clear that he had to go, and other then collecting his bonus, I don’t think he had any desire to block the trade. Once he got his money he was happy to leave. The Leafs didn’t make a big fuss about that, they just dealt with it.
by general borschevsky on Nov 3, 2009 1:04 PM EST up reply actions
yes
but it’s different when the player requests a trade, you accomodate him, and then he says “no” and it costs you $4 mill.
We had to wait to make McCabe attractive to other teams to take him. The Oilers were willing to pay the bonus money.
"The only way out is in a body bag. Go Leafs Go." - Blinky
I think Melnyk just wants to cause Heatley some headaches because of what happened in the summer. I doubt that he’ll get out of paying that $4 million bonus though.
Truculence...starting 10/1/09
that is a dumb ass thing to do
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 3, 2009 5:03 PM EST up reply actions
I also wrote a recap of the road trip..
…and some reasons for optimism!
http://50-mission-cap.blogspot.com/2009/11/take-long-way-home.html
/shameless self promotion
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Leaf fan for life! (No, really. They gave me a no-trade clause when I was born.)
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