Following the Trade Deadline Made Easy
by PPP on Feb 24, 2009 2:00 PM EST
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PrintRemember how last year at the trade deadline you either pretended to be sick or skipped class in order to spend the day in front of your television watching TSN or The Score (sorry Arch, I hate Kypreos!)? Well, you should still do that this year but when you want to get some fan reaction SBN has organized a one-stop site for all of your trade deadline needs.
Basically, it'll be a huge aggregator of all of the information leading up to the big day, anything posted in reaction to trades (or non-trades if Brian Burke isn't just playing the expectations), and recaps of the days' events.
How does it affect you fine folks? Well, if you write something about the trade deadline make sure to use '2009 NHL Trade Deadline' as a tag on your stories. If they make it to the front page they'll get picked up by the Deadline page.
Also, another bit of housekeeping, in case your attention span doesn't go past 140 characters, we're on twitter so start following our Tweets/Twits/whatevers.
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Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Feb 24, 2009 2:23 PM EST up reply actions
That’s close to what you are but I’d have to change the vowel…
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
twot?
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by JaredFromLondon on Feb 24, 2009 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
The British pronounce it that way…
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
I’m gonna need to hear from Mattblack for confirmation.
You can never be too careful with all this fake information flowing around
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Feb 24, 2009 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
love it guys! Last year I used TSN’s trade ticker and it was pretty slow…. I found Kuklas would have the info first.
Also, I really need to join twitter, don’t i?
by Karina on Feb 24, 2009 2:21 PM EST reply actions
Meh
Not sure other than because it makes me smile when our number of followers goes up.
I have a lot of fun on it though.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
I hear there’s a guy at the Globe and Mail who can help with that.
Down Goes Brown - Unapologetically nostalgic for the past. Brutally realistic about the present. Grudgingly optimistic about the future.
by Down Goes Brown on Feb 24, 2009 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
http://twitter.com/davidshoalts
Bitter Leaf Fan: a life-long Toronto Maple Leafs fan comments on the team, the media and the exasperation...
I’m getting more into twitter now, I am not sure who I am posting my little blurbs for but I enjoy doing it anyway.
by LeafFanInVan on Feb 24, 2009 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
Well lucky for you we’ll be following TSN/Kukla/etc and then typing it up by hand! You heard it here three hours before Eklund!
Pension Plan Puppets*
* Blog contains less than 2% puppet content by weight.
quick
somebody tweet this!
"We’re looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy."
The Left Coast Lock
by blurr1974 on Feb 24, 2009 3:01 PM EST up reply actions
Hopefully Bell joins the team and gives the team another punching bag. Provides a breather to both Mayers and Mays from always getting beat up. Win win.
Supporter of the Sergei Berezin "Give and Go" - You give me puck, then you go to hell
and nearly kills Alfie again
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Feb 24, 2009 3:06 PM EST up reply actions
You should throw up a Fanshot for stuff like this, and I’ll promote it to the front page. :)
Pension Plan Puppets*
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prob a little of topic
Came across this in today’s Globe and Mail. RE: Habs worship.
We’re not worthy, folks. Just ask this jackass:
‘Notice it’s Brunt doing the writing, not Shoalts or Wharnsby. The truth is that the Habs aren’t just a local/provincial phenomenon, they outdraw every other team in the league in terms of attendance and television ratings. The leaf are simply irrelevant and inconsequential, no matter how hard they try to convince themselves they aren’t’
Vindictive Canadiens’ fans. Can’t indulge in themselves without some kind of comparison to the Leafs.
Go Leafs... at some point.
Well, to be fair, the Habs draw an average of 17,726 on the road vs. the Leafs’ 17,115. However looking at average road attendance, the Bruins are up top with the Red Wings, which would suggest that recent performance is a huge factor.
I’d suggest that if the Leafs were a playoff team they’d draw more on the road.
Pension Plan Puppets*
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doesnt their rink have a larger capacity too though?
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Feb 24, 2009 3:33 PM EST up reply actions
Uh yeah, that doesn’t work in the Leafs favor either.
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ticket prices then???
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by JaredFromLondon on Feb 24, 2009 3:47 PM EST up reply actions
silly...
it’s because when the Leafs come to town, every team whips out their ugly ass third jerseys, and no fan wants to be subjected to those things.
at least when the Habs visit and they bring along their non-national TV coverage, the hometown fans know they’ll be seeing their team in a somewhat more respectable jersey*
( * excludes Atlanta)
"We’re looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy."
The Left Coast Lock
by blurr1974 on Feb 24, 2009 3:50 PM EST up reply actions
I think it’s the economy combined with how bad the Leafs are right now. Montreal is inarguably more popular right now, but barely and they’ve hosted the All Star Game, are in a playoff spot, big celebration year for them etc.
It’s a lot to ask Leafs fans to shell out hard earned cash to get heckled by fans in other arenas.
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* Blog contains less than 2% puppet content by weight.
ah, so those are single season numbers, that really doesnt say much in the long run, you need at least a 5 year window to show trends in a realistic light
how does that look on paper?
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Feb 24, 2009 3:54 PM EST up reply actions
SHOW YOUR
TWITS
A Toronto sports blog, where we unequivocally and unapologetically support the home team...
I’m here.
Bitter Leaf Fan: a life-long Toronto Maple Leafs fan comments on the team, the media and the exasperation...
i’m not there, i’m here
"We’re looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy."
The Left Coast Lock
by blurr1974 on Feb 24, 2009 3:42 PM EST up reply actions
Ryan Hollweg is here
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Feb 24, 2009 3:46 PM EST up reply actions
Heya, I saw other twitterers use this and thought it might suit your vintage leaf pic posting ways as well: http://twitpic.com/
Kind of an overlap with the whole regular blog thing, but perhaps it might be of interest..
by LeafFanInVan on Feb 24, 2009 6:26 PM EST up reply actions
Need to vent for 4.2 seconds
stumbling into coxbloc territory here, but I just can’t get over Tim Wharnsby’s lede:
Toronto Maple Leafs’ fanatics who would like to see Tomas Kaberle traded for Chris Pronger can forget about that transaction happening before the NHL trade deadline next week.
When Kaberle, who has a no-trade clause in his contract, submitted his list of 10 teams he would agree to be traded to before the March 4 deadline, there were no Western Conference clubs on his list.
Yeah, Wharnsby that news is going to disappoint a lot of nine year olds who had their heart set on acquiring Pronger, never mind that Burke, to quote the big GM himself, “peed” all over that rumour some weeks ago.
Is this really the best these guys can do?
Bitter Leaf Fan: a life-long Toronto Maple Leafs fan comments on the team, the media and the exasperation...
Pronger
DO. NOT. WANT.
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Feb 24, 2009 3:42 PM EST up reply actions
Neither does Burke, who went out of his way on the Fan to make it clear that such a trade would make zero sense for the Leafs.
Is it just me, or is Leafs media coverage is some sort of death spiral. As the games mean less and less, the reporters are unable to step-up with anything bordering on insight/analysis/competence.
Bitter Leaf Fan: a life-long Toronto Maple Leafs fan comments on the team, the media and the exasperation...
that's why
I follow their stories less and less, and read blogs more and more. I read headlines a lot, get facts from the media, but beyond that… no.
They’re merely a tool for the team to release information to me, now.
by Karina on Feb 24, 2009 3:46 PM EST up reply actions
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