Maple Leafs v. Canadiens: Alternating Wins FTW!

by PPP on Dec 26, 2009 3:00 PM EST in Maple Leafs Game Previews

Next Game

Montreal Canadiens
@ Toronto Maple Leafs

Saturday, Dec 26, 2009, 7:00 PM EST
Air Canada Centre

Being the great brother that I am, I gave my sister a ticket to tonight's Toronto/Montreal game. Being my # 1 fan I gave myself the other ticket. So far this year the Leafs are alternating results when I am in attendance. They lost stupidly to Minnesota, beat the s*nators, and let Toskala gift a game to the Sabres.

Tonight they face the horrible Montreal Canadiens who are one of their direct rivals for 10th place in the East. The Leafs are currently 5 points back of the Habs with a game in hand. The standings are, as they likely will remain for the rest of the year, an absolute clusterf*ck. This is a big game for the Buds as they will all remain for the rest of the year. It's hardly do-or-die but if they have to win any game it's the ones against their fellow potential first round fodder.

Gustavsson is going to start which makes me smile and he'll be facing off against Jaroslav Halak. That means that the Leafs will need about 50 shots to get 3 goals. Andrei Markov is back at the arena where Jim Carey Price cut his foot or something so the Leafs better stay out of the penalty box.

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What a fantastic day

To be a Canadian hockey fan. World Juniors and Leafs game in the same day, amazing.

by Huey2k2 on Dec 26, 2009 3:25 PM EST reply actions

Amen. Somebody up there likes us.

Is there a WJC GT anywhere?

Why do we do this to ourselves?

by Kenjamin on Dec 26, 2009 3:31 PM EST up reply actions

I’ll make one.

Pension Plan Puppets*
* Blog contains less than 2% puppet content by weight.

by Chemmy on Dec 26, 2009 3:40 PM EST up reply actions

I wish

some one start one?

Leafs Nation: A drinking team with a hockey problem.

by nhlcheapshot on Dec 26, 2009 3:41 PM EST up reply actions

Anybody going to the game tonight?

I’ll be the guy in section 309(?) wearing the white Hackey Night shirt. Don’t think there will be too many white Hackey Night shirts, so I shouldn’t be too hard to find.

We require, as a team, proper levels of pugnacity, testosterone, truculence and belligerence.

by Belligerent Burkie on Dec 26, 2009 3:34 PM EST reply actions

Is your sister smarter, nicer and cuter than you??1

Because in a real pinch I might drive the 7,000 kilometers to Toronto and take her to a game on your behalf so you don’t feel so burdened by the fraternal (sisternal?) love thingie. The Christmas season, after all, can be so trying on family relations. For tickets within the first 200 rows, 4 plastic cups of beer and a Burkie dog (the Baconator!!!1 of course …. no, screw that, the Baconator with Extra Lard!!!1 … the hell with these recent heart attacks … you only live once!!!1) I might be willing to share that burden. I’ll be the skinny old bald guy wearing the carnation doddering around the corner of Carlton and Yonge wondering where the game went and muttering to myself about why everything has gone to hell-in-a-hand-basket.

"I'd walk into the Leafs dressing room to get ready for the day and Harold would be there in his boxer shorts shaving. King Clancy would drop by a little later, play the fool, and then head off to the racetrack." John Brophy

by Mike Pelyk's Hairdo on Dec 26, 2009 3:40 PM EST reply actions

no one is cuter than PPP,
smarter maybe, nicer, possibly
cuter? never

Puns, Innuendo and Bad Spelling, Yes We Got That

by JaredFromLondon on Dec 26, 2009 3:48 PM EST up reply actions

Alright, got my Dad a ticket for Christmas, this will be my one and only game at the ACC this year so the boys better win.

If anyone else is at the game, i’ll be the only guy with a Blake jersey eating a Burke dog, and i’ll have a nosebleed…

Go Leafs Go!

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by Johnny Toronto (in Ottawa) on Dec 26, 2009 4:48 PM EST reply actions

I’ll be standing in either 323 or 307 (at least I think it’s 307…), depending on where we can find more room (my cousin and I have two singles). Might well be the last of four home games this year and I’m assuming the Leafs will take this into consideration.

by NWOntario on Dec 26, 2009 5:43 PM EST reply actions

That 50th shot that never came, might just have been the third goal needed. Leafs deserved better, and everyone knows it.

by Robert L on Dec 27, 2009 12:53 AM EST reply actions

That meanst the Leafs will need about 50 shots to get 3 goals

I haven’t checked the boxscore yet, but I’mma bet 1000 bucks the Leafs got 49 shots tonight. Dammit, PPP, in future you’re gonna just have to shut your PPPiehole before actually attending games. The losing is bad; the clairvoyance creeps me out.

jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog

"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)

by jrwendelman on Dec 27, 2009 1:05 AM EST up reply actions