Oilers at Leafs: Will There Be Kevin Lowe Quotes?

by Chemmy on Mar 7, 2009 1:30 PM EST in Maple Leafs Game Previews

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Saturday, Mar 7, 2009, 7:00 PM EST
Air Canada Centre

Pre-Game: 6:00 p.m., Leafs TV
Broadcast: 7 p.m., CBC, NHLN-HD (US), AM640,
Post-Game: 9:30 p.m., Leafs TV
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Sneaky Toskala could be behind you right now.

I'm asking a serious question: will the Maple Leafs ever lose a game again? They haven't lost since February 17th, a game in Buffalo where Justin Pogge got shelled. Since then we've seen Toskala become good and hit the IR, we've seen Hagman get another concussion, Jeff Finger go down in a pool of his own blood at the Verizon Center, Nik Antropov and Dominic Moore get traded, and Martin Gerber arrived to stop 39 out of 40 pucks.

Our injury list is now somewhat comical, I'll skip the IR and recent injured acquisitions to point out that Hagman remains out, Kaberle's out, and Finger will return with a visor.

Maple Leafs defenceman Jeff Finger figures his season came within a centimetre of ending on the ice against Washington on Thursday. But Finger got lucky. If a cut for 21 stitches over your eye can be considered lucky.

Speaking of ugly eye injuries:

Edmonton Oilers Injuries

Out (IR / Out / Suspended / Physically unvailable)

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Ethan Moreau	other-excused	03/01/2009
Lubomir Visnovsky	shoulder	02/04/2009

The NHL's stellar injury reporting standards have apparently dictated that Ethan Moreau getting his eye gouged out is an "other-excused" injury. The good news is apparently his eye is intact and he'll make a recovery.

In the previous matchup the Leafs trounced the Oilers 5-2:

Final - 11.13.2008	1	2	3	Total
Toronto Maple Leafs	0	3	2	5
Edmonton Oilers	1	1	0	2

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The Oilers sit in 9th place in the West currently with 68 points, but they have a game in hand on the three teams tied for sixth with 70 points. Hopefully the Leafs gutting works and the Oilers playoff desperation gets this ship headed back towards the bottom of the seas, where John Tavares lives.

ps. Moose sucks.

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screw edmonton

their fluke cup run in 05/06, where they became the only 8th seeded team ever to make it to the finals, convinced their mouthbreathing fans that they actually had a good team. the fact that they missed the playoffs 2 of the 3 years prior to that (losing in the first round in the other) and haven’t made the playoffs since doesn’t matter apparently.

people joke about the leafs being mediocre, but since the first lockout season the oilers have been the very defnition of mediocre, finishing 7th-12th every year. yeah yeah… they had gretzky and messier and kurri and anderson and coffey and fuhr… i remember. barely though. time to forget about the dynasty days and move on – and that means getting rid MacT and Kevin Lowe. what a couple of losers. city of champions, what a joke. i guess long island is the island of champions then?

and while i’m at it, the only reason ryan smyth is captain canada is because the oilers missed the playoffs or lost in the first round so often, smyth was always available. him crying when he got traded was a joke – they were like $300,000 a year apart in their contract negotiations.

ha – that came out way too easily! who knew i was so hostile about edmonton? i can work myself into a rage about anything apparently.

by daoust on Mar 7, 2009 2:34 PM EST reply actions

Wow, reasoned rant, acceptable level of venom, though watch the excessive bitterness, it could affect the clarity of your vision. On the other hand, you might feel sorry for their fans if you’ve ever visited Edmonton. Nonetheless, I smell a coach killing in the works. Killahs in the hawse!!!!1

by blue with age on Mar 7, 2009 3:22 PM EST reply actions

Oh my god if the Leafs win and MacT gets fired I don’t even know what I’d do.

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by Chemmy on Mar 7, 2009 3:23 PM EST up reply actions

You could celebrate by not wearing a helmet while drinking and driving. But don’t hit anybody, you might end up as a coach in Edmonton

by blue with age on Mar 7, 2009 3:26 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs

I love you.

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by Chemmy on Mar 7, 2009 4:04 PM EST up reply actions

To achieve the full effect, you’d have to also assault Harvey the Hound.

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by jrwendelman on Mar 7, 2009 4:13 PM EST up reply actions