Caps @ Leafs: Tuesday Night Home Game... Uh Oh
by Chemmy on Mar 24, 2009 2:00 PM EDT
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Vesa Toskala should have made some saves in November, when... nevermind.
Fresh off of saving his stick from a dangerous overheating problem, Alexander Ovechkin and the Capitals make their way to the ACC tonight. I should warn you however, that Ovechkin has 13 goals in 14 career games played against the Leafs, and Toronto is at home on a Tuesday night. I'm going to go ahead and call the score at 6-1 Washington right now.
Previous Matchups:
Injuries:
For the Leafs, the usual crew are injured: Hagman, Van Ryn, Kaberle, Heward, Kolzig, Toskala, and Frogren. The Capitals seem to be over some of their injury woes of the midseason, missing only Brashear, Brent Johnson, and Boyd Gordon.
According to Japers' Rink, Alex Semin and Matt Bradley have the flu, so depending on your hopes and dreams for this season you can hope that either A. the Caps all have the flu and lose bad, B. the Caps give the flu to the Leafs who lose every remaining game this season.
Win, lose or draw shootout, let's just hope Ovechkin doesn't break Schenn again.
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Overheating has been a chronic problem with those composite sticks. That’s why so many of them break down.
Leaf, the universe and everything.
wouldn’t be surprised if he puked on the ice tonight.
by ns on Mar 24, 2009 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions
sweet
Got the nod to go to the game tonight. Golds too.
Full disclosure: my cohort and I will both be wearing suits, but I promise not to eat sushi or to miss the start of any of the periods. We may have to get inappropriately drunk to make up for our attire, I don’t care if it’s only Tuesday.
oh shit, it’s a tuesday home game? this is gonna be ugly…
Hockey without sushi? If you can even call that hockey!
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
I pick up sushi on my way home and change into my suit to watch the games. I tell everyone in the house to be very quiet. It’s just like the ACC.
Draft Schmaft....I wanna win the last 12 games.
by floridaLEAF on Mar 24, 2009 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I’d love some sushi. I haven’t had any in a while…
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
Heck, we should all get sushi for the game…but I’m not doing the suit thing
Running over terribleness in search for something positive about the Leafs. Anything? Anyone?!
by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 24, 2009 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I think I have a suit (dress suit), but I’d have to shave my legs for that. But I love the jacket however.
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
The sushi I eat
Is so expensive I wouldn’t have money left to buy a suit…
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Sounds like sushi, I must discover it
Running over terribleness in search for something positive about the Leafs. Anything? Anyone?!
by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 24, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions
a grocery store here has little trays you can get. After some debating, I got one (California rolls) and all I can say is:
OM NOM NOM NOM
tasties (even if a sushi snob would turn up his nose at it, all you guys made me want some)
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
Hmmm...
..I do want some…and I have dinner plans (sans sushi) already! blast!
Running over terribleness in search for something positive about the Leafs. Anything? Anyone?!
by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 24, 2009 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions
back to the store for a reload?
Running over terribleness in search for something positive about the Leafs. Anything? Anyone?!
by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 24, 2009 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions
nah, it’s pretty pricey. you can get either a tray of 9 (5-7 dollars pre tax) or one of 18 (over 10 bucks) and I didn’t know if I’d eat 18.
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
yeah...
…not so much of a deal for store bought
Running over terribleness in search for something positive about the Leafs. Anything? Anyone?!
by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 24, 2009 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
it’ll be weird for sure, but i’ll survive.
pretty jacked actually… haven’t had golds in a few years. hopefully they don’t lay too big a turd.
Nice
Yeah, hopefully. But it is a Tuesday so don’t hold your breath.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
I'm sitting
In Gold’s for this one. Best case scenario, Ovenchkin and mates do a synchronized version of The LIon King on Ice when he scores his 51st. That would be different.
If When Ovi scores tonite, I wanna see him put one foot on the top of the bench and wave his arms out.
Disappointed since 1984
nice...
…better if he borrowed Boudreau’s jacket and did it.
Running over terribleness in search for something positive about the Leafs. Anything? Anyone?!
by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 24, 2009 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Or maybe he could celebrate on the ice with five of his teammates.
Down Goes Brown - Unapologetically nostalgic for the past. Brutally realistic about the present. Grudgingly optimistic about the future.
by Down Goes Brown on Mar 24, 2009 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions
general Leafs question: who do you not hate on your team
and would want to keep around for next year?
easier to answer, who do I wanna see gone
Kaberle or Kubina, Jason Blake, Boyd Devereaux, CuJo, Jeff Finger
Disappointed since 1984
Schenn, Hagman, Grabovski, Kulemin, Van Ryn, Mitchell, Ponikarovsky, Stralman.
Really I’d say “buh-bye” to anything for the right price.
Pension Plan Puppets*
* Blog contains less than 2% puppet content by weight.
Schenn, Kaberle, Grabovski, Kulemin, and Frogren.
Everyone else: make an offer…
by general borschevsky on Mar 24, 2009 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions
i really like Grabovski. he reminds me of the Tasmanian Devil.
by ns on Mar 24, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Schenn, Hagman, Grabovski, Kulemin, Stralman, Ponikarovsky, Mitchell, Van Ryn, Antropov.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
you’re taking Antropov’s trade harder than Ponikarovsky is.
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
We won’t see PPP for weeks if Antro doesn’t come back…
You've had all your word nourishment for one day.
he has a cardboard standout of Antro he keeps by his bed. He talks to it and pretends to brush its mom hair
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
But the evil cardboard standout of Blake that lives in his wardrobe is plotting against them both!
You've had all your word nourishment for one day.
I would have thought PPP punched the head off that one ages ago
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
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