It's Thursday, and the Leafs Aren't Playing...

by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 5:15 AM EST in From The Branches

...so what to do, what to do? This sounds like a job for Super-Poni!

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Always looking on the bright side, mf37 dangles a carrot for the Leafs game against Carolina.
Dr. Steve is sensing a method to Ron Wilson's madness. Is he using Phil Kessel to jump start the lesser lights?
The general is tired of excuses. He wants results.
Furcifer wants to introduce you to Mr. Murphy.
MLHS has the story behind the season long suspension of Erie Otter Michael Liambas.
Leafs247 goes through the long list of Leaf forwards with expiring contracts.
Behind the Net breaks down Kessel's first night on the ice as a Leaf.
Speaking of Kessel, View From My Seats is wondering if he was worth the price paid. Not sure one game is enough time to measure that...
Toronto Maple Leaf Legends profiles Jack McLean.
Hockey Independent has 10 questions about the Leafs that need answers. They're the same as the ones on MLHS, except for the bonus question. Care to answer them?
Ever wonder where all the money comes from for the league and the teams? Well, wonder no more.
I somehow missed this recap of the Leafs @ Sabres game from the Good Point.
Update: Bloge Salming has outtakes!
Update: Truculence is Everything's take on the Liambas suspension in the OHL.
Update: eyebleaf would like to congratulate World Series winner A.J. Burnett.
Update: Some guy named Jared wrote something, and he's pissed.

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Hey guys.

New video up if you want to add it to your list.

http://www.blogesalming.com/2009/11/outtakes.html#comments

Thanks.

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by Bloge Salming on Nov 5, 2009 7:33 AM EST reply actions

Adding now.

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by Chemmy on Nov 5, 2009 9:14 AM EST up reply actions

Hey

I’ve added two new blog entries over on the blog. If you could add to the FTB, it would be appreciated. Thanks.

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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 5, 2009 7:44 AM EST via mobile reply actions

Links pls

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by Chemmy on Nov 5, 2009 9:14 AM EST up reply actions

http://truculenceiseverything.blogspot.com/2009/11/non-leafs-chatter-ohl-hit-from-behind.html
http://truculenceiseverything.blogspot.com/2009/11/call-to-action-vote-kadri-for-team-ohl.html

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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 5, 2009 9:27 AM EST up reply actions

For those of you hankering for a trade with the Panthers

David Staples of the Edmonton Journal has a look at some scouting work being done in Florida: Who’s Hot/ Who’s Cold on the Panthers.

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

by mf37 on Nov 5, 2009 9:03 AM EST reply actions

The Leafs are 4 wins and an overtime loss out of 6th in the East. Provided the eight teams between them and 6th lose five in a row, of course. Playoffs!!!1

http://www.sportsandthecity.com/2009/11/prophecy-realized.html

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PLAYOFFS!!!!1

by eyebleaf on Nov 5, 2009 9:06 AM EST reply actions

You’re $pot on about the Yankee$. They ~~paid~~ played a great $erie$ and this is one for the age$.

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by Chemmy on Nov 5, 2009 9:16 AM EST up reply actions

The functional equivalent of rooting for Microsoft

I love this quote from Malcolm Gladwell:

To me, the hard cap in football — and, to a lesser extent, the soft cap in basketball — are what makes those sports so interesting. It’s what makes them sports. Contests where one player has significantly more resources than another are not sports. They are marketplaces. To root for the Yankees or the Red Sox is the functional equivalent of rooting for Microsoft or General Electric. No thanks.

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by mf37 on Nov 5, 2009 9:18 AM EST up reply actions

Why do the Red Sox get lumped in with the Yankees? Honestly.

Yankees $201M
Mets $149M
Cubs $135M
Red Sox $120M
Tigers $115M
Angels $115M
Phillies $113M
Astros $102M
Dodgers $100M

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by Chemmy on Nov 5, 2009 9:23 AM EST up reply actions

The difference between the Red Sox payroll and the Yankees payroll, in Yankee player’s salaries is:

Jeter, A-Rod, Burnett, Sabathia. No biggie, right?

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by Chemmy on Nov 5, 2009 9:27 AM EST up reply actions

They’re a similar affront to humanity

Harder, better, faster, stronger because our work is never over.

by Mattblack on Nov 5, 2009 9:28 AM EST up reply actions

The Yankees have six players in the top 100 salaries in baseball. Boston has zero.

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by Chemmy on Nov 5, 2009 9:30 AM EST up reply actions

The quote is an old one, so perhaps at the time it was said the payrolls of the BoSox and Yankees were closer.

By centering the quote on one of the great rivalries it gains more rhetorical power. I don’t think it would work as well if he said Yankees and Mets or Mets and Cubs.

Despite the protestations of the BoSox innocense, I think his larger point remains: the absence of a cap system in baseball makes it more of a marketplace than a sport and cheering for the Yankees is like taking a rooting interest in a multinational.

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by mf37 on Nov 5, 2009 9:36 AM EST up reply actions

I hope future editions of SBNation include an edit comments feature. I can’t believe I just typed “innosence.”

Seriously.

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by mf37 on Nov 5, 2009 9:37 AM EST up reply actions

Why o why did you give Jared your password?

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by Mattblack on Nov 5, 2009 9:38 AM EST up reply actions

thats “Oh” not “o”

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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 9:45 AM EST up reply actions

That’s “that’s” not “thats”

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by Mattblack on Nov 5, 2009 9:46 AM EST up reply actions

now your cookin’ with gas!

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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 9:47 AM EST up reply actions

High Fives All Round

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by Mattblack on Nov 5, 2009 9:49 AM EST up reply actions

preview :P

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by PPP on Nov 5, 2009 10:20 AM EST up reply actions

PLAYOFFS!!!1

by PLAYOFFS!!!1 on Nov 5, 2009 9:18 AM EST up reply actions

The link to my article and eyebleaf's one

are mixed up. :P

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by Marc Pilgrim on Nov 5, 2009 9:31 AM EST reply actions

pay attention to me now, I write too!

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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 9:45 AM EST reply actions

/points!

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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 9:59 AM EST up reply actions

Wrong link format dipshit.

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by Chemmy on Nov 5, 2009 10:02 AM EST up reply actions

meanie

http://diehardblueandwhite.blogspot.com/2009/11/sell-hard.html

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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 10:06 AM EST up reply actions

he must be excited about a night full of dancing shows.

by birky on Nov 5, 2009 10:08 AM EST up reply actions

is it just me

or are the leafs doing more of an odd schedule compared to last season? They’re doing more friday and monday games. Wasn’t it usually tues-Thurs-Sat?

THIS IS A JOKE

by loser domi on Nov 5, 2009 10:44 AM EST reply actions

that’s what i thought. all this talk of “compressed schedules” and it seems to me like the Leafs haven’t played all that much yet…

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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 10:47 AM EST up reply actions

yeah

they seem to be doing more of these games on tues and friday kind of thing. But maybe it evens out more as the season goes on? (I haven’t checked the schedule for the rest of the season yet)

THIS IS A JOKE

by loser domi on Nov 5, 2009 10:50 AM EST up reply actions

Yes!

And it sucks.

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by PPP on Nov 5, 2009 10:49 AM EST up reply actions

this schedual is definitely terrible

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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 10:53 AM EST up reply actions

For some reason they really messed up the beginning, but look at it for the rest of the year:

Nov – 13 games, with 2 back to backs
Dec – 15, 3 btbs
Jan – 15, 5 btbs
Feb – 5, 1 btb (all before Olympics)
Mar – 16, no back to backs, and only 1 two day rest.
Apr – 5, 1 btb. Then playoffs.

61 games before the Olympics (Feb 12th) and then only 21 after them. Last year there were 47 before the All Star game (Jan 24th) and 35 after.

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by SkinnyFish on Nov 5, 2009 11:04 AM EST up reply actions

January is gonna be a busy month…

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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 11:12 AM EST up reply actions

Marlies schedule

is even worst…

their schedule for October to the first half of November looks like an NFL schedule, they play one game a week for a month and a half pretty much

by PLAYOFFS!!!1 on Nov 5, 2009 11:14 AM EST up reply actions

Screw you guys, the Bruins have the league-high number of afternoon games with 19. Throws me right off.

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 5, 2009 11:37 AM EST up reply actions

This may be heresy, but I wish the Leafs had one or two afternoon home games a year. Be a good chance to get more kids in the building, create a bit more noise and stem all the nonesense about the Leafs not investing/marketing to future fans.

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by mf37 on Nov 5, 2009 11:44 AM EST up reply actions

Sunday afternoon games would be awesome.

The Leafs could even market them as “family day” games, and freeze out companies from buying up all the golds somehow…?

wishful thinking

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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 12:22 PM EST up reply actions

Interesting new blog:

Bone’s Corner takes a look back at a heartbreaking game. As if we didn’t already have enough motivation to get Maurice fired.

by general borschevsky on Nov 5, 2009 11:24 AM EST reply actions

thanks

adding it to my reader.

that font coloring makes for some tough reading though…

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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 12:21 PM EST up reply actions

HEH

about the article with the expiring player contracts… I love Poni, I really really do, but does it seem to anyone else that Kulemin is a younger, cheaper version? I mean, I want to keep Poni, but he’s gotta get a raise, and I really think that, on the ice at least (I have no idea if Poni is considered a leader in the room), Kulemin can give us everything he does….

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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 11:29 AM EST reply actions