Toronto Maple Leafs' 2009-2010 Schedule
by PPP on Jul 15, 2009 3:30 PM EDT
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PrintThe NHL has finally released the schedule for the 2009-2010 schedule and here's a first look at the Toronto Maple Leafs' schedule.
Home Highlights
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Home Opener - Thursday October 1st 2009 against the Montreal Canadiens and the Lollipop Guild
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Ovechkin Visits Toronto - Saturday December 12th 2009
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Crosby, Malkin, and the defending champs - Saturday October 10th 2009 and Saturday January 9th 2010
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Tri-Annual Red Wings Visit - Saturday November 7th 2009
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Nik Antropov Homecoming - Monday December 9th 2009
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Western Canadian Team Loses A Sellout - Saturday November 14th 2009 v. Calgary
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See The Tavares That Got Away Nights - Monday November 23rd 2009 and Monday December 9th 2009
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Last Game of the Regular Season - Saturday April 10th 2010 v. Montreal
IMPORTANT UPDATE
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Make Other Plans Nights - November 28th 2009 and January 16th 2009 - Two Saturday nights where the Leafs will be donating air-time to underprivileged franchises.
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Snipe JFJ Out of the Press Box Night - February 8th 2010 the San Jose Sharks come to Toronto with the destroyer of all that is good in the world in tow
What games are you most looking forward to seeing? Which are you going to try to get tickets to see?
Full Schedule after the jump.
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A week before the game against the Canucks?
Back-to-back games to end a 6 game road trip including a west swing?
Go from Chicago to Toronto for back-to-back games?
When did they hand monkeys the keys to the scheduling machine?
They hate us for our truculence.
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by article1 on Jul 15, 2009 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions 8 recs
hehehe
rec’d.
I propose this is the official motto of the 2009-2010 Leafs.
"Life is just a place where we spend time between games. Hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death." - Fred Shero
by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed
Hell I think that should be in the title bar for the site
The Leafs may not win everygame, but they will beat the shit out of you
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Ya it is!!!
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by Sergei Puckizin on Jul 15, 2009 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s only a 5-game road trip, but still..
Vancouver OFF Anaheim OFF Dallas OFF Buffalo Montreal
That’s rough.
Dec.27 in Pittsburgh looks like a possible road trip destination. Dec. 18 &/or Jan. 8 in Buffalo as well.
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great
now where’s the TV schedule?
And what’s this I hear about getting around blackouts by ordering bell express vu and having your bill sent to an ontario address?
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 3:35 PM EDT reply actions
haha that would be awesome.
Luckily being in London I don’t have to deal with the blackouts but still.
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My family decided to switch to Bell, now I have to pay for Leafs TV – go Flyers!
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dammmmmmmn! that sucks
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions
I’ll pay for anything if it means I can watch any Leafs game I want without a major hassle.
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Same here
It’s only $3 a month more, but still pisses me off.
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that’s two large coffees from Timmy’s! NO!!
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Or halfway to a pack of smokes. (peter jackson’s, the cheap brand!)
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and for 5 months, one pint of domestic beer at the ACC! Wooo!
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions
I pay 300$ a season to see every leafs game. on top of my monthly 100$ :(
Living in western canada BLOWS.
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That’s how much your center ice is? I paid like 180. And Comcast gave me ticket vouchers for Chiefs games. I have to add on NHL network to make sure I get all Leafs games in case there is a CI blackout. But that’s only like 4 bucks a month.
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 15, 2009 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I pay $150 and that includes NHL Network.
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Did they add on NHL network or is it with your cable package already?
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 15, 2009 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Add on. I don’t get the NHL network from June through August. Morons.
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Centre Ice
Was 140 here, but they also throw in the OHL package, Nascar in car(whoopie) an NFL and NBA package. Makes me wish I had more than a passing interest in those other sports.
Unfortunately, i get royally ass-raped when Sportsnet is carrying a Leafs game(about 25 times a year) because it gets blacked out at least 75% of the time.
Leafs TV is like $2.50 a month.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Jul 15, 2009 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I need to get the Vancouver CBC feed so I don’t have to watch Habs on Saturday night. I could watch on the internet, but I like my couch. I managed to negotiate TSN (traded away RDS) with my girlfriend, and I got NHL network in the deal. I think I will try to flip NHLN for RSO, since they seem to have more Leaf games than TSN even. Not a chance I am getting express-anything.
by Leaf in Habland on Jul 15, 2009 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions
TV Schedule should be up in a couple of weeks.
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I need my school schedule, so I can figure out when I am visiting Toronto.
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 15, 2009 3:36 PM EDT reply actions
We wait patiently for WAC to grace us with her presence in Toronto.
The Leafs may not win everygame, but they will beat the shit out of you
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I’m trying to work it out in my head and figure when spring break is. Unless by chance I can visit winter break in December.
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 15, 2009 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Spring break is probably during the Olympics.
by Leaf in Habland on Jul 15, 2009 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions
nope!
3/30-4/3!!!
I am looking to hit TO for those games. Who is down/will help me track down tickets?
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 15, 2009 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions
ANDDDDD.
DEC 13-JAN 4 is winter break.
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 15, 2009 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
as Leafer mentioned below, tickets are hard to come by, especially hard during the xmas holidays as over eager parents fork over ridiculous sums to sclapers to make sure that little timmy and sally’s holidays aren’t ruined my not seeing a Leaf game. I’m sure you’ll find some available for midweek games
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions
This year, the Leafs will play 13 games that matter.
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by Down Goes Brown on Jul 15, 2009 3:36 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Whats gonna happen in November? Is that saying gonna just stop?
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No. It will just keep going and be funnier for not making sense, like Conan’s “Year 2000” bit did.
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by Down Goes Brown on Jul 15, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions
haha
I love that he still does it.
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That could happen. However, I think for the opener a PPPPN might have to be in order
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agreed. Hell we should do one for the preseason too
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Good idea
Y’all should come to Spokane for a Chiefs game.
Hahaha.
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 15, 2009 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Nov 23. JT’s first game at the ACC.
The Leafs may not win everygame, but they will beat the shit out of you
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You can chant what we did at a Pete’s game here- “OVER-RATED!”- over and over and over.
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
Pffft, big deal. I was chanting that at Spezza (Windsor) in Guelph 10 years ago! People thought we were being rude. Oh if they knew just how right we were!
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by Sergei Puckizin on Jul 15, 2009 6:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I have tickets for (and can get a few more if you want to come):
Mon Oct 12 @ New York Rangers
Wed Apr 7 @ New York Rangers
I also will probably attend:
Wed Dec 23 @ New York Islanders
Fri Jan 29 @ New Jersey Devils Wedding rehearsal dinner.
Fri Feb 5 @ New Jersey Devils Shit. Honeymoon :(
Sun Mar 14 @ New York Islanders
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by Chemmy on Jul 15, 2009 3:38 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Shit. Honeymoon????
Seriously?
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m pissed that the fucking schedule has Toronto play its only two games in New Jersey in a single week.
Plus they’re both on Friday and would have been a good candidate for a road trip since no one goes to Devils games.
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ah
yes that does suck, rather unfortunate timing.
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Fine don’t come to New York I didn’t want to hang out with you anyways.
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Being in Toledo, Ohio, I will be going to the Dec. 3rd Columbus game as well as on Jan. 23rd. staying with friends in West Palm Beach and attending the Florida game!! Sweet.
Will be attending both the Calgary and Edmonton games here out west. Last year was my first Toronto games in those cities as well
did you have much trouble getting tickets for those?
This year I HAVE to go to that Canucks game.
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I bought a single ticket for the Edmonton game because tahts all I could get, was a good seat though. For calgary I had a hookup though a company that sponsors the Flames so I got a couple seats to that one… I tried to get them when they went on sale but they were all sold out within like negative 30 seconds.
heh
well this year I will pay attention to when the canucks tickets go on sale and buy two right away, wherever they are. Fortunately, GM place has good viewing angles from pretty much everywhere.
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions
start saving for those sclaper prices…and you’ll be fine
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions
I contemplated going to the Vancouver game as well last year but stuck with the 2 closer to home (Calgary)
I wish I could go to the Leafs game in Calgary but it’s on Jan. 2, so hopefully I’ll be ass deep in snow somewhere.
by Its Cold In Here on Jul 15, 2009 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Jawsh, let’s hook it up my man.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Jul 15, 2009 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
JEALOUS!
Was hoping the jackets were coming to TO again this year!
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cool…I live by the Best Buy on Monroe Street…
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by leafer madness on Jul 15, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions
At gotcha. That was my go to BB.
I went to and played hockey at St. Francis. fyi
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So in Toledo the only landmarks are Best Buys?
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Does anyone know if there’s a version that I could sync with my ical?
by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Jul 15, 2009 3:47 PM EDT reply actions
oooh
if there is, i wanna know too
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
When it goes up on MapleLeafs.com they have a bunch of syncing options.
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Money. Thanks for the heads up.
by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Jul 15, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions
DEFINITELY doing the Hwy 2 run up to Edm and back around New Years! Might even ride the Red Arrow home for New Years Eve vs. the Shames.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Jul 15, 2009 3:47 PM EDT reply actions
Cal-town. Kind of. Carstairs, Alberta for home. It’s nice, look it up.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Jul 15, 2009 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions
I love that the Leafs have a week off from Oct 17 to 24th and then play five games in seven nights. You can’t make this stuff up.
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all on the road too, across 3 times zones
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions
So… not a single home-and-home, other than the one with the Devils with three entire days in between?
Thanks, NHL.
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by Down Goes Brown on Jul 15, 2009 3:59 PM EDT reply actions
Of course, we still manage to play Boston thrice in 2 weeks, and then twice in five days.
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GAH!!
Why do we always have to play Boston bunched together. They are, without fail, among the very worst games of the year.
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Except
Boston’s in them, so it’s great.
as soon as I figure out an apartment for next year (goddamn rent-raising landlord) I’ll know how many leaf fans can crash at my place if they want.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jul 15, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions
crap that makes the Devils, 3 games out of 4 (all in a week)
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
You’ll at least sleep well that week.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jul 15, 2009 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions
PRACTICING FOR OUR FIRST ROUND SWEEP OF NEW JERSEY!!!1
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Start of Oilers schedule – Calgary, Dallas, Calgary.
WTF?
They play Calgary three times in October, twice in December (28th and 31st, broken up by the Toronto game – WHY NOT HAVE A HOME AND HOME??) AND they don’t finish with a home-and-home, or shit, even a game against Calgary? WTF.
I realize this is PPP, but dammit, all I have is Oilers games to actually go and physically see.
I love you guys,
But you’re going down on Decemeber 16th.
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Sucks that the Leafs aren’t going to Glendale this season! Flights and tickets from Calgary are stupid-cheap…
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by Sergei Puckizin on Jul 15, 2009 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions
It does suck.
THen could have drunken leaf fans at my house!
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by Travis Hair on Jul 15, 2009 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm calling it
The 2010-2011 NHL season PPP Invasion of Phoenix.
We’re going tear them cactii up!!!
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Well hopefully the ASG will be here in 10/11 then you can really go nuts.
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Boston’s playing there….hmmmmmm….Blake Wheeler’s first game in Phoenix?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jul 15, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Yep. Shane Doan is going to check his friggin head off. If Wheeler isn’t sitting in the press box.
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It would cost me around 400-500 to get there and back in a weekend. And about 150 for a Wheeler jersey. And then a couple thousand in hospital bills. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jul 15, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Ha!
Hospital bills from what? being a decoy for wheeler? Shane Doan patrols the corridors checking opposing fans at the intermission.
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Well, I assume walking into the phoenix arena in a Bruins jersey with Wheeler on the back and being loud would at the very least lead to needing to do some laundry, if not worse.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jul 15, 2009 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
No. Most people would just think you’re a crazy person (correct) but wouldn’t do anything about it. We have few drunken thugs at the hockey game either. THough I can direct them your direction.
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Maybe I’m just used to the Bruins/Habs games and sitting in the wicked cheap seats.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jul 15, 2009 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
also, yes, I would be crazy to do this.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jul 15, 2009 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Pfft… If it’s not November…
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impossible
that is my birthday, and the Leafs know better than to lose on that date.
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Games you couldn't pay me to attend
November 3 against Tampa Bay – first game home after a five game road stand against a joke of a franchise. Leafs will lose that one 8-1.
January 26 against LA – leafs home from a five game road trip, LA will have had two days off after playing Detroit on Jan 23.
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yikes…that’ll be two ugly nights
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Good Eye
Definitely avoid those like the plague.
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The new look Leafs will win both of those games 400 to nothing.
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Olympics
This is really screwing up the schedule. Not that they haven’t still done a good job on their own.
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But the Olympics are gonna rock.
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I am going to Game 1 of Prelims, Canada vs Norway.
by Leaf in Habland on Jul 15, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions
I have tickets with buddies to a couple of quarters and two semis
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do you have tickets to Vancouver?
‘cause, you know, if you don’t, I may know someone in Vancouver who could make sure those tickets get used…
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice. We are also seeing xc skiing, snowboard cross and skeleton (that was an alternate pick). Got a free place to stay, too. It should be fun.
by Leaf in Habland on Jul 15, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah
We got lucky with a free place to crash as well. We don’t have any other tickets so we’ll see what we get up to. Probably try to get to medal presentations as often as possible.
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I think I have tickets to that game too. Or some other Canada game against a crappy hockey country that really should be a good hockey country.
Seriously Norway, get some Fins and Swedes to immigrate.
by Its Cold In Here on Jul 15, 2009 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions
At the Bell Centre
Saturday Oct 31
Tuesday Dec 1
Saturday April 10 (in which we eliminate them from playoff contention and grab the 8th spot)
All the Habs “intersting” games are around the same week, too. End of November is Red Wings, centenial game against the Bruins is Dec 4th. I guess the game at the Big O is a no go, since it hasn’t been mentioned?
Tickets to Montreal games go on sale later, probably September. I’m hoping to get a 10 game package that includes the Leaf games, and try to move some of the other ones. Our friends that we go with are also a Leafs/Habs couple, so it makes for interesting times.
by Leaf in Habland on Jul 15, 2009 4:11 PM EDT reply actions
your wife likes the Habs?
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 4:21 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
My girlfriend is from Montreal. It’s not her fault. She likes them in so far as she is entertained by my dedication to the Leafs and likes to tease me by pretending to care about hockey.
by Leaf in Habland on Jul 15, 2009 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
In 2006 at the ACC I was sitting behind some guys who were Leafs fans but one of their girlfriends was a Habs fan.
She was absurdly hot so hopefully that guy was you.
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ah, I thought you may be in a worse predicament than me. I am married to a die hard Canucks fan. Thank goodness for Raycroft.
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 5:03 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
If she takes the pretending to like hockey stuff to the point where she’ll watch hockey with you, it’s totally worth it.
by Its Cold In Here on Jul 15, 2009 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Post Updated
CBC has decided to not maximise revenues on November 28th and January 16th.
Feel free to make other plans.
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is that CBC’s decision or NHL’s?
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only those two though, right? or are there non-Leaf national games on other nights?
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 4:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Hmmm…won’t know yet if they are going to make some Leafs games regional. Good thing for me it doesn’t matter or I’d flip out. I expect you all to flip out.
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oh I will. Nothing puts me in a bad mood faster than tirning on CBC on Saturday night when the Leafs play only to find that the CBC brass has decided I want to watch the Habs.
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 4:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That’s why ‘Spinner Spencer’s Dad’ jokes were invented.
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Rec’d, good sir. Nicely played.
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but you’re a wings fan
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 5:06 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Seriously, Fuck the NHL
I was so looking forward to the night when we’d get a tired Montreal team that we could mercilessly pound into the boards until the 3rd period devolved into the end of Rollerball. Here are our games with them:
Oct. 1 (Toronto) Opening game of the season.
Oct. 31 (Montreal) The only time this season we play them where Montreal played the night before (In Chicago). However, this is our 5th game in 8 nights, and we’ve been to BC, Cali, and Texas along the way.
Dec 1 (Montreal) They get 2 nights off before this, we play at home against Buffalo the night before.
Dec. 26 (Toronto) After the mandatory 2 days off for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Mar. 20 (Toronto) They have 3 nights off before this, we have one.
Apr. 10 (Montreal) They have one night off, we have two.
FWIW, Dec. 4 might simultaneously be the Habs’ 100th anniversary AND the night they die, seeing as how the play us on the 1st, Buffalo on the 3rd, then Boston on the 4th.
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us on the 1st, Buffalo on the 3rd, then Boston on the 4th
That’s awesome. Goodnight sweet princesses.
by general borschevsky on Jul 15, 2009 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Look for me
I am a beer vendor at the games (ie I go up and down in the seats yelling “Alcohol” and making fun of opposing teams’ fans). I might wear a button that says “truculence” so you can recognize me better. I can’t give discounts on beer, but I’d love to meet various PPP ppl here and there!
Zack
Jesus didn’t need a brother to be great. Neither does Luke Schenn.
What section do you sell beer in? If it’s the upper bowl I might find you.
And the button is a good idea. It can be one of your pieces of flair.
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Here’s your “flair”, Stan!
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by Sergei Puckizin on Jul 15, 2009 6:43 PM EDT up reply actions
i normally work upper bowl because I find it’s a better view of the game. and I really like to watch the game while selling. sometimes I’m down with the suits in the gold/red though (shitty). I have to make sure it’s ok for me to get the button. i want to make one with the word Truculence inside a blue Maple Leaf. that way everyone knows it’s Leafs-related. anyone want to make me one?
Jesus didn’t need a brother to be great. Neither does Luke Schenn.
x
I want your job
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 4:32 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
yeah
it’s pretty sweet. this summer we got to work the No Doubt concert, both Elton John/Billy Joel concerts, Russell Peters (he’s an asshole though), Bruce Springsteen, Sting/Sheryl Crow, Dane Cook, and Kings of Leon. all of those would have been way better if the Leafs were in the playoffs instead….
Jesus didn’t need a brother to be great. Neither does Luke Schenn.
Russell Peters looks like he would be an asshole
The Leafs may not win everygame, but they will beat the shit out of you
Truculence FTW
He's Not
I met him in Cancun. He was really cool considering he seemed shocked to be recognised and we told him that ’someone’s gonna get hurt real bad’ about 2 dozen times.
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I saw him like 6 years ago at yuk yuks in Mississauga, we sat in the front row and ripped on me fr being italian and being from rexdale.
Yes, he was using the same material back then too
The Leafs may not win everygame, but they will beat the shit out of you
Truculence FTW
Meh
That’s his schtick. It’s important to never stop making fun of Italians.
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That’s not nice PPP. Not very nice at all.
The Leafs may not win everygame, but they will beat the shit out of you
Truculence FTW
No Gino no cry, …
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by Sergei Puckizin on Jul 15, 2009 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions
asshole as a performer
he’s an asshole. his show was the same night as Pens vs Wings game 7, and he refused to let the ACC air the game anywhere in the arena. he then got distracted by a brown beer vendor who was quietly pouring a beer in the front row (as is his job) and proceeded to almost get him fired.
Jesus didn’t need a brother to be great. Neither does Luke Schenn.
The beer vendor shit isn’t cool but I wouldn’t be surprised if not showing the game was the ACC’s decision. They turned off TVs during the Russia-Canada junior game DURING OVERTIME after the Leafs-Sens game.
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OUCH!!!
That is tight
The Leafs may not win everygame, but they will beat the shit out of you
Truculence FTW
It was a woman that did it and I thought a couple of the more lubricated guys were going to hit her. It got angry really fast.
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YES!
There were like 100 of us and we ended up watching it on the nearby Rogers promotional stand. They tried to tell us to go to the bar on the first floor. Right.
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Anybody like Mike Macdonald? I listen to the XM Canadian Comedy channel a lot.
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tighter…must make it tighter! he’s pretty funny, if they didn’t air him on just for laughs re-runs daily!
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions
If you sit in the front row you’re asking for it.
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he is also one of the richest comediens
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 4:52 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
- on Forbers list this year – 10 Million in earnings….
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
weird! I put #10
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
- even more of an asshole then. not even rich enough to deserve it
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The pound sign followed by a space starts a numbered list.
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Learning is fun!
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions
The only game I’m like to attend is the Rangers season opener against the Penguinos since I’ll be in NYC on October 2.
I’m in Sudbury in August, wonder when the Wolves start skating…
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Fictitous Conversaton between JFJ and Bettman
Bettman: Hey Johnny, how’s San Jose?
JFJ: Good, good. No more hard decision to make. Say, is that the new schedule?
Bettman: Um, yes?
JFJ: Ok, I’ll take it to the bathroom for a few seconds just to refine it. You know, see when I have to go on the road
Bettman: Sorry John, I can’t let you do that
JFJ: Hey Gary, the Nets are playing the 76ers on the TV over there!
Bettman: Oh goodie!
JFJ: Hee hee hee. Watch out Toronto, here comes JFJ!!!!!
(6 months later)
Doug Wilson: WTF? Whoever makes the schedule forgot to put us against the Leafs. Now, who could do thi…John?! I need to call him!
(Bring, bring)
JFJ: Hello, this is the Ferguson family. We have gone to Mexico for a brief fmaily emergency. Please leave a message at the beep. BEEEEPP
i don't get it...
SJ @ Toronto Feb 8…
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Bettman caught it just in time.
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it was JFJ after all…he likely traded his idea to the KHL for something shiny
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Montreal Invasion Part Deux!
Need to get together and take up at least half a section in the Bell(Molson?) Centre!
Also, more smoked meat and more truculence!
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Jul 15, 2009 4:41 PM EDT reply actions
April 10th game…when we make the Playoffs!!!1 and they don’t
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
oh I know…but it will be great to rub it in their faces in person.
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Prediction: the Leafs finish 34-35-13
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I was thinking that…I was guessing they’d go 37-35-10…but then I’m an optimist
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions
we can all dream…and what a wonderful dream it would be
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t care about trying to work out what our record is going to be. I wanna know the body count. Guessing 7, myself.
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that’s just the number of Habs…think big, think truculent…I’m starting the over under at 12
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions
who wants to work for Leafs TV
I saw this on Twitter and as it is Leafs related here’s the link:
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 5:01 PM EDT reply actions
might be an Archi kind of deal
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey Archi, if it helps you get the job we’ll add you to the masthead and you can say you tweet on @mlse.
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I'll consider it
But they’ll need to pay me pretty handsomely to drag me outta here
The Handsome Man's Guide To Life- Schenners and Kabby and Komikazi, OH MY!
Stubhub?
(843): the red head has a bf
(1-843): just because there's a goalie doesn't mean u can't score
by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 15, 2009 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions
What the crap
Home-road road-home 4 games in 5 nights? (Jan 5th)
14 games in 24 nights? (Nov. 30th to Xmas)
Why have the week off in October?
by McCabe the Martyr on Jul 15, 2009 5:55 PM EDT reply actions
Welcome to PPP
(843): the red head has a bf
(1-843): just because there's a goalie doesn't mean u can't score
by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 15, 2009 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
to give the rest of the teams time to adjust to the truculence early in the season
it wont be enough
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by JaredFromLondon on Jul 15, 2009 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s ridiculous.
They play Boston in Boston and then again 5 days later. Awesome.
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Truculence Buffet! just when you thought you couldnt eat anymore
BAM
truculence sandwich with some truculence cake for desert. then some minty after dinner truculence
truculence!
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by JaredFromLondon on Jul 15, 2009 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions
death by truculence?!!1
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 15, 2009 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Uhhh guys...
…PTI just mentioned Barry Melrose was the best dressed man from Kelvington, Sask. There was no mention of Wendel. Is somebody getting blood punched out tonight?
Holy Shit
RIP Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon
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I thought Wendel was from Shonovan(sp) Sask?
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Jul 15, 2009 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions
“He learned how to play Kelvington SASK…”
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by furcifer on Jul 15, 2009 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Rec’d for the Rheostatics reference.
/Jacques Plante didn’t die so all of us could fly
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)
I love the Rheos. Saw their final concert at Massey Hall.
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was never a huge fan, but some of their stuff’s really good.
my band in university got to open for them as well – we got to hang ‘backstage’ for a bit with them and drink some of their delicious free beer. really nice guys.
got to open for them
I am very jealous. That was always a goal my own band had…and never achieved, though I have met Dave Bidini. He gave me some good advice when my own band was doing a movie soundtrack project. I’m laughing at myself, because I sound almost like him, referring to Michael Stipe in the song “My First Rock Concert”. He was distant, but he was nice.
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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 Jul 16, 2009 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions
I was there too. Big time fan.
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
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by jrwendelman on Jul 16, 2009 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions
I might have been sitting right near you. I believe i was in row J if I remember correctly. I went to a bunch of their shows at the Horseshoe including some of the free ones.
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Ho-lee!
One year, I went to 7 of the 10 nights of Winter Nationals, and I live in Hamilton. I took a taxi both ways to every show, because I didn’t have access to a vehicle and the bus schedule wouldn’t allow me to stay to the end of the show and still make it to work the next morning.
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
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by jrwendelman on Jul 16, 2009 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions
That’s hardcore. We just walked there from U of T.
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Before PPP smashes us
this should be in Chatty Cathy.
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True ’dat….see you there…
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"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 Jul 16, 2009 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Shaunavon is the Wickenheisers. Wendel is definitely Kelvington.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Jul 16, 2009 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Triple P - an idea...
…any way we (by which I mean “you” and/or the SBNation IT elves) can set something up on the site, like a database that keeps track of whether any Triple-P peeps are going to a particular game, and who they are (obviously, we’d have to submit info pertaining to which games we’re attending on a voluntary basis).
Just thinking reading this list that chances are pretty good somebody from the site is going to be at most, if not all games. It’d be fun if people could determine whether somebody else from the site might be at the same game, maybe hook up for a bevvy or to before/after/during, etc.
Also, with so many of us attending these various games, such a feature might help in getting people who are actually at the games to something, maybe a fanpost about what they saw/noticed/took pictures of/posted by way of bail…
/end pie in the sky dreaming…
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)
I’d be nice if we had a calendar with stuff of who is planning on going to what.
I might be able to making something up.
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 15, 2009 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Looking forward to seeing the new and improved Leafs at the Caps home opener!
Rockin' the Red in Section 412
Ah, so I guess the Caps will be breaking out the 3rd jerseys, yes?
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I’m pretty sure that was written into the CBA
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by Karina on Jul 15, 2009 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Ovechkin’s likely safe but hide the women (Jurcina) and children (Backstrom) ;)
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Seeing as I’m living in Alberta for the time being, I can see the Leafs in Calgary and Edmonton! Y’know, just like last year!
…
OH, WAIT, I CAN’T BECAUSE I’LL BE IN FARKING TORONTO.
(Grr.)
(Oh, well—home opener/Pens/Christmas games for me, I guess. Plus a buttload of Flames games.)
Yeah, they pulled that on me a couple years back (‘01 or ’02?), playing out west over Christmas break while I was back home. I won’t be heading that way this year so will be gunning for tickets to both games!
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by Sergei Puckizin on Jul 16, 2009 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions
chicago road trip!
just need to convince the missus that the kids will be ready for a weekend visit with the grandparents. i’m gonna make this happen.
Can’t wait for you baboons to watch my team manhandle your team in Philly on January 6th.
Go Flyers!!!
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that was so dirty.
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 16, 2009 12:20 AM EDT up reply actions
so
why is it this past season, as well as this season? had me confused…
I’ll be in Anaheim on 10/26 (fingers crossed) watching the Leafs at Ducks.
Also, I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon. In case you missed me.
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Stalk me here...
by blurr1974 on Jul 16, 2009 12:42 AM EDT reply actions
I think I recognize you… Mattblack?
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A Development Year?
“They hate us for our truculence.”
I love that tagline.
I hope Ovechkin gets hammered by Exelby in the home opener. That would be worth the price of admission.
I beleaf the Leafs will win it all!
Welcome
Thanks for joining.
I am working on a post but I think that it’s safe to say that this is both a development year AND a year to push for a return to the playoffs.
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dont forget truculence!
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by JaredFromLondon on Jul 17, 2009 8:54 AM EDT up reply actions
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