That Ain't Cool Fool 'Cause it's Friday
by blurr1974 on Jul 24, 2009 5:00 AM EDT
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PrintWe made it through another week, Burke's first back since vacation. So far, some minimal changes in the front office and none for the team. Yet.
It's Friday, so we'll keep it short and sweet. Here's your linkage:
- Norte emerges from his cave and let's loose a diatribe of hate, pointed in the general direction of, who else but, Ottawa.
- TSM thinks Pogge and Kaberle should be packing their bags.
- Toronto Mike has all the yo-yoing you could want in the career direction of Justin Pogge so far.
- MLHS has more on three recently signed Marlies.
- Changing On the Fly gives you some sweet new wallpaper options for your desktop.
- Here's an article from one of Gilmour's players in the OHL, giving us a first hand account of his skills as an NHL coach. Also, it's kosher.
- The Good Point breaks down 20 years of Joe Sakic.
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diatribe is such an awesome word
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Jul 24, 2009 7:05 AM EDT reply actions
also got to give credit to the general for bringing back “larceny”
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Desktop Wallpapers
The photo of the Monster is awfully close. I would hate to stare at that all day at work.
Is it just me or does the Mike Komisarek shot look like a Poker Stars ad minus Mats?
Follow your Hunger
by Hungry Leafs Fan on Jul 24, 2009 8:43 AM EDT reply actions
Poker Stars. That’s why it looked so familar. You are correct sir.
Wings fan by birth. Leafs fan via truculent osmosis.
Komikazi
looks absolutely bitching in that
if I didn’t prefer women I would totally swoon over that
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
GRABBO TIGHT KOMIKAZI CUZ WE'RE EXELERATING INTO THE PLAYOFFS!!!!11
I still hate his guts from the Montreal-Boston series until he dons a Leafs jersey and starts pounding Alfredsson’s face into the boards.
I got over my hate of him
the instant my brain put together “KOMIKAZI”, its just so awesome it overrides everything
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
GRABBO TIGHT KOMIKAZI CUZ WE'RE EXELERATING INTO THE PLAYOFFS!!!!11
i'm with ya
we can continue our mutual disdain until such an event occurs
"If you are going through hell, keep going." Sir Winston Churchill, a Leafs fan...
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by blurr1974 on Jul 24, 2009 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions
Grabovski should’ve been october pic and with pineapple…
the monster looks bit scary, it feels like he’s staring right into my soul (or the lack of it…)
miss u, CR baby...u want 2 get back 2gether? - now with lots of Ducks love
Does anyone know if the Leafs or the NHL have put out an iCal version of the Leafs’ schedule? I could find the whole NHL and a few team specific ones at NHL.com (PHX, NJD) but nothing for the Leafs…
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I have yet to find the Leafs one….
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 24, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks WAC, please post one if you find it.
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Eureka?
I’d been searching for one too… this is what I found. Leafs iCal schedule. It seems to have all the right date/times… but don’t take it as gospel.
Hockey ain't fun unless it's dirrrty, kids.
It works for me! Thanks very much for posting the link.
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Apparently Ponikarovsky not only has his own website but his own vat of Carbonite
The Guess Who sucked, the Jets were lousy anyway
by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Jul 24, 2009 9:41 AM EDT reply actions
The Guess Who sucked, the Jets were lousy anyway
by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Jul 24, 2009 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions
Would it be impolite to ask him to autograph it “Alexei Ponikarovsky future Leafs 1st round pick”?
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kind of
what with his hand being FROZEN IN CARBONITE!
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by blurr1974 on Jul 24, 2009 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
maybe Han Solo is his hero?
"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 24, 2009 11:02 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Anyone have
the Leafs TV online package? I’m moving outside the Leafs “region” and want to know if it’s any good. It streams all the TSN, Sportsnet and Leafs TV games.
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I don’t, but I’m going to write a post about MLB.tv and MLB At Bat on the iPhone asking why the NHL isn’t straight ripping them off.
For $99 I got MLB.tv which lets me watch any MLB game online in HD. For $10 I got MLB At Bat on my iPhone and they sent out an update this week that lets me log into MLB.tv and watch any MLB game live on my iPhone for no extra charge. $110 and I can watch in HD on my computer or fucking telephone vs. $199 from my cable company to watch in SD and only on my TV. I built a media PC to hook up to my plasma.
Come on NHL. I want NHL Gamecenter on the iPhone, HD Leafs streaming, the whole fucking deal.
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by Chemmy on Jul 24, 2009 9:59 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The only problem I have with MLB is they stopped free online streaming of radio broadcasts, even if you try to stream it locally.
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NHL owns the telecasts, I don’t see why they couldn’t do that. Holy shit that would be so awesome.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jul 24, 2009 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions
I thought I heard that the aspect ratio was screwed up. Also, I believe I tried to get it but wasn’t allowed because I am not in the Leafs region, which I think makes the whole thing pointless.
"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 24, 2009 11:04 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I go to University of Ottawa
And I got Leafs TV interactive last year. It’s not great quality, but you get every game that’s not national (and some TSN and CBC games you can watch on their respective websites). I don’t know how I’d survive in Ottawa without it.
Also, this year they are going to have the online games in HD, so make sure you have a good connection if you want to use this option. It’s well worth the $80 though, especially since its on your computer so you can watch games in Class or wherever else you have to be on a tuesday night.
HD!! Sweet. I’m going to be back in Toronto every other month but for the months I’m in Kingston I’m definitely getting this.
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The LeafsTV online package is great for one reason and one reason alone: They have an alternate view with no announcer and no commercial break. Watching some kid picking his nose in the stands can be incredibly mesmerizing.
Also, while they schedule/list all the TSN games as offered, it’s up to TSN which ones actually get streamed. Which means you’ll often still miss games on TSN because they’re dicks.
Gilmour article
Didn’t really say anything about his coaching. Actually, it seems like Dougie’s coaching style mirrors Don Cherry’s…
by Leaf in Habland on Jul 24, 2009 10:35 AM EDT reply actions
ya
sarcasm doesn’t carry well…
if your religious beliefs require you to not click the link, here’s all you need to know from the article:
“Coach Gilmour told me to work hard, keep your feet moving, don’t run all over the ice and be competitive on every shift."
That’s some Scotty Bowman magic right there…
"If you are going through hell, keep going." Sir Winston Churchill, a Leafs fan...
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by blurr1974 on Jul 24, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah sorry, did not catch the sarcasm.
Compare that with what Don told him:
"It was exciting being coached by Don Cherry, who told me to just take care of everything on the ice and have fun during the season."
by Leaf in Habland on Jul 24, 2009 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions
Go out there and play real good! – Doug Gilmour
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Actually Doug Gilmour as an incompetent and belligerent but well intentioned coach might be enough to bring back the Jack Chick tracts.
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Oh right, for those of you worried about the offseason I have like fifty projects I’m ignoring that will come out from hiding at some point because PPP said he’d burn my house down if I didn’t work on them.
Previously that thread sucked because my house is a shithole but now I’m moving to a pretty dope place so I need to get productive.
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yeah!
no work excuses today Chemmy!!!
"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 24, 2009 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Working like a fucking animal over here.
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Big Trouble in Little China kind of trouble? or not?
"I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long." - Mitch Hedberg
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 24, 2009 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions
On [redacted]. I could yell you but then I’d have to kill you.
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Don’t believe her!
Stay bad, Mabel!
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Jul 24, 2009 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Keep your stick on the ice – Doug Gilmour.
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Off topic, but did anyone see this article? http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=munson_lester&id=4336261
If the NFL wins, I would assume that this would apply to all the major leagues. Could change a lot of things.
There have been four Cups won since the lockout ended, and I got one of them, and it was a fighting team.
The NHL would totally use this to take advantage of the lucrative Toronto market to prop up weaker teams. Oh wait.
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Thanks for posting that ESPN story. I wonder how the NHL would be affected vis-a-vis Canadian competition and labour law.
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No problem, I tried to do some Wiki research on the Canadian and American antitrust/anticompetition laws and see if I can wrap my head around it, but alas, I don’t have a law degree, nor much sense of how this could affect everything, but I’m hoping maybe someone else can come up with something.
There have been four Cups won since the lockout ended, and I got one of them, and it was a fighting team.
I wonder also how it impacts the single teams in Toronto for MLB and the NBA, seems like Toronto might become a popular place for squeezed players to go, mattering on impact of Canadian laws.
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 24, 2009 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m also surprised this isn’t a bigger issue, it sounds like it could be a really big deal, yet PTS lightly touched on it last night. I guess noone really understands what this could mean, and until more info gets out there, noone has much to say.
There have been four Cups won since the lockout ended, and I got one of them, and it was a fighting team.
It could be a really really huge deal, that’s why the PAs of all the leagues are working together to fight it and the leagues are all getting together to try to win it.
This would change the face of American pro sports, and I don’t think it would be for the better.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jul 24, 2009 12:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m not a lawyer, but I have worked on the communication side of labour issues, competition law and civil litigation/product recall issues involving US based companies operating in Canada.
In all three instances, the US companies had to hire Canadian legal firms and go through Canadian courts even though their Canadian operations were pretty much nothing more than distribution centres.
I’d love to hear from a lawyer/legal expert as to what the implications are for Canadian franchises in a case like this.
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PTS will probably talk about it tonight with Becker.
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Plus, this-
• A young Detroit Red Wings fan who has saved his pennies for months shells out $300 to buy a replica sweater that would have cost him $80 in 2009.
The new RBK jersey at the Leaf’s site is…………….$300. If the NFL wins, our jerseys will go to $500 or $600.
Also, poor deluded child. :)
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
I bought a personalized Replica for $120 Saturday. Last August I bought a personalized authentic for $180.
That kid is a retard.
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Plus he lives in Detroit. If he’s going to be buying an article of clothing with those 30,000 pennies, he should get a bullet-proof vest.
Wings fan by birth. Leafs fan by truculent osmosis.
by SkinnyFish on Jul 24, 2009 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
Legal scholars and experts agree that the case is of enormous significance. Gary Roberts, the dean of the Indiana University School of Law and the author of the leading textbook on sports law, tells ESPN.com that the case “could easily turn out to be the most significant sports law decision ever.”
Who knew? Wreck Senators playoff hopes by night, shining legal knight in armour by day.
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
¿que?
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by blurr1974 on Jul 24, 2009 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions
i didn’t realize you all were grammar nazi’s.
it’s safe to assume then that this is the VERY FIRST typo in the history of the english language.
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by blurr1974 on Jul 24, 2009 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Christ man, you’re writing stuff that goes on the front page of a website. You’d think YOU should be the one to be a grammar nazi.
Also, the plural of nazi is nazis, not nazi’s. :)
by LeafFanInVan on Jul 24, 2009 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
print this out and stick it next to your computer
by LeafFanInVan on Jul 24, 2009 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions
what’s the plural for asshole?
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by blurr1974 on Jul 24, 2009 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions
oh fuck you. I was letting you know nicely and then you pulled out the “grammar nazi” bullshit.
I miss MattBlack
by LeafFanInVan on Jul 24, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Don’t take what blurr says seriously. He’s a teddybear at heart.
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and yes it was all a joke…
i thought the “nazi’s” was the dead giveaway…
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by blurr1974 on Jul 24, 2009 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions
blurrs1974??
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Jul 24, 2009 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I kid, I kid!
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Jul 24, 2009 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I think
blurr needs an editor to proof read his stuff ;)
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by Karina on Jul 24, 2009 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions
not you
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
GRABBO TIGHT KOMIKAZI CUZ WE'RE EXELERATING INTO THE PLAYOFFS!!!!11
but I’m the grammer police.
"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 24, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions
just because
you have a dead to winkle badge does not make you a cop
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
GRABBO TIGHT KOMIKAZI CUZ WE'RE EXELERATING INTO THE PLAYOFFS!!!!11
of course that’s what having a badge means
"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 24, 2009 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions
We should all attend the National Grammar Rodeo.
And the “Grammer Police” should be able to spell grammar properly.
by general borschevsky on Jul 24, 2009 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions
ah
the irony
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by Karina on Jul 24, 2009 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions
uh yes… of course I did…
"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 24, 2009 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I need some volunteers all across the board.
http://wraparoundcurl.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/the-hockey-survey/
Also, that Komikazi wallpaper? Oh heyyyyyy Mike!
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by Wrap Around Curl on Jul 24, 2009 1:49 PM EDT reply actions
A very late link
A Decision tree for Toronto sports reporters thanks to some early afternoon procrastination at the office.
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the secret’s out!
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by blindfolded tank driver on Jul 24, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions
liars
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by blurr1974 on Jul 24, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions
oops, hit post too soon
i mean, all this time they say they went to school and it turns out, this is all you need to write for the MSM…
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by blurr1974 on Jul 24, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions
“Leafs sign a pair”
Does anyone else think this should simply refer to the moment that Burkie was hired? A freakin’ huge pair, and more to follow.
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
it is
rather an interesting phrase for a headline
"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 24, 2009 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions
“Leaf Pockets Big Enough For This Pair!”
by general borschevsky on Jul 24, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions
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