Leafs Wave Bye Bye Bye (Bye Bye) to Pogge, Barilkosphere Explodes
by blurr1974 on Aug 10, 2009 5:00 AM EDT
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PrintThe man, the myth, the legend; these are the things you may be reading about Justin Pogge in the main stream media. None of them are true.
Today's collection of links looks at every aspect of the Pogge deal, ad nauseum. Enjoy the final farewell.
Fans telegraph Justin Pogge's future in the Leafs organization
- Steve questions the sanity of moving a depth player from an already weak position.
- TSM has a look at the man rumored to be signing on as Pogge's replacement, Joey MacDonald.
- TML Central thinks Brian Burke is trying to say something by moving Justin Pogge.
- Toronto Mike sums up the pro-Pogge camp's feelings in 7 words and....
- ...being slightly wordier, eyebleaf summarizes the anti-Pogge camp in 10.
- Fallen Leafs wonders if Justin Pogge is...well, a fallen Leaf.
- Speaking of myths and legends, jrwendelman has an interview with a true Canadian icon.
- MLHS wonders who the next Leafs captain should be.
- A two-fer from TML-Nation. First, an inside look at the Nazdaq's performance during the Canadian Junior Hockey training camps (is it just me, or is my stock rising? In my pants! Hello!) Then they look at Jiri Tlusty's big thing...er...I mean...hmmm. Let's start over. Does Jiri Tlusty have the complete package...no. Can Tlusty play hockey better than most overexposed prospects. Forget it. TlustyNSFW!!!1. (btw - totally safe for work.)
Update:
- Kohma wonders what the phone call to Bob Murray might have entailed.
- The General makes the arguments for captain that usually go unmade.
- Furcifer notes that the Leafs had the gold-medal winning goalie and the best goalie in the tournament from the same WJHC and now they only have a conditional draft pick and the ability to look forward to years of nightmares.
- The Other Vatican points out the symbolism of what Burke did in jettisoning Mr. Pogge.
- The Truthulence is that Pogge was a triangle and wasn't square enough to play in Toronto.
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ho!
I missed a lot this weekend.
"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
2 for 1
I was wondering who the next Leaf Captain shouldn’t be.
And Burke speaks the Truthulence regarding Pogge.
by general borschevsky on Aug 10, 2009 8:26 AM EDT reply actions
The Truthulence is my bible
Follow your Hunger
by Hungry Leafs Fan on Aug 10, 2009 9:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Funny. I read The Hitchhikers’s Guide To The Galaxy for spiritual guidance.
by general borschevsky on Aug 10, 2009 9:23 AM EDT up reply actions
Is the book miles better than the movie? I tried watching the movie but I hated it and couldn’t get through it.
Follow your Hunger
by Hungry Leafs Fan on Aug 10, 2009 9:23 AM EDT up reply actions
About a light year better.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
Ya, a kajillion times better. It was meant to be read.
by general borschevsky on Aug 10, 2009 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions
a kajillion times better
The general is being kind to the director of this shite movie. The book is an inexpressibly large number of times better than the movie. Douglas Adams = genius. Read everything he wrote, it’s all funny.
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 think it was 42 times better.
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
Yes
I’m hanging on to this avatar and my sig line even though we’re now into 43.
It’s the 43rd year of the 42-year saga….
Leaf, the universe and everything.
But now it’s the 42nd season so your avatar is still valid.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
42 is always valid.
and 1967ers, as the guy with the answers to life (aka Leafs,) the universe (aka the Leafs) and everything (aka the Leafs,) I’d say it’ll always fit.
"Sanity is not statistical." - George Orwell, a Leafs fan...
Stalk me here...
by blurr1974 on Aug 10, 2009 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
Remember, the question itself is flawed. But the answer is “42”.
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)
by jrwendelman on Aug 10, 2009 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions
I don’t know if this is meant to be a Wellwood joke, but it is now!
Follow your Hunger
by Hungry Leafs Fan on Aug 10, 2009 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions
The movie, although well outdone by the book, is very funny and well-filmed with an excellent cast, and a very good treatment of such a culturally important novel.
That’s my $0.02, and I’m sticking with it.
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
by kidkawartha on Aug 10, 2009 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Years of nightmares? Huh?
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
Rask and Pogge were to be the future of the Leafs for years to come.
That is what is going to come befor any article written about those two if they have any success. Ie:
Rask and Pogge were to be the future of the Leafs for years to come. Sadly for Leafs fan consecutive incompetent regimes gave them away in the misguided belief that first the washed up Andrew Raycroft and then the laugably inept Jonas Gustavsson were the true answers in goal.
See? Years of nightmares.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
Ah okay. Just to be clear though my post argues that even without reaping anything for those two the Leafs are still better off now as they have a GM with a fucking clue.
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
And this
Instead of focusing on the loss of assets Leafs fans should focus on the new Burkian attitude: Play hard, play proud or get out.
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
You’re such a Debbie Downer.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
New post
New TOV blog about…you guessed it!
by theothervatican on Aug 10, 2009 9:28 AM EDT reply actions
All Updated
Thanks for dropping by with the links folks.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
ditto
and as always, a friendly reminder. This is scheduled to post at 2 AM. I however, am not up when it does. I send out a call for FTB links on twitter around 9 PM pacific, but please feel free to email me anything you’ve got: it’s my handle at gmail [dot] com
"Sanity is not statistical." - George Orwell, a Leafs fan...
Stalk me here...
by blurr1974 on Aug 10, 2009 10:03 AM EDT up reply actions
That man wants exchange change and he is going to get it dammit.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
Does nobody tip cab drivers anymore?
At 4:30 in the morning, he should have thrown the cabbie $20 and been happy to be home.
Leaf, the universe and everything.
Just wanted to drop my congrats on getting that annual published. That was such a cool project and it would have been a ton of fun to be part of. I’ll be buying one for sure.
Leaf, the universe and everything.
For me, I’m looking forward to getting Kim Jorn just down the street to sign mine, thereby making it invaluable, as he’s been teasing for months about this “super important project” he was working on.
Also, I’ve been noticing a lot of religious imagery and symbolism around here the last 24 hours, and being a former member of the ministry, I’m wondering if it means:
1. The Leaf’s are going to win a Cup soon and therefore bring on some universe-changing event.
2. We were all bored on a Sunday morning, or
3. LeafNation truly is a cult, and PPP is our Crystal Cathedral.
If it’s 1, I assume we’ll be giving one of these to the rest of the league-
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
by kidkawartha on Aug 10, 2009 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions
please don’t mock the Church of Mabelism, its a blessed institution of the interwebs and beyond. And I want number #1 to happen. MIDDLE FINGER OF THE APOCALYPSE!!!1
Brain: The irony of it all, Pinky. Years of trying to take over the world, and all I had to do was say "truculence".
Follow me I'm Boring!
by blindfolded tank driver on Aug 10, 2009 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions
I like to think of it more as La Sagrada Familia:
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
because it’s unfinished?
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
What you see you like but when it’s done it’ll be glorious.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
back to work
and it sucks.. thank goodness Burke did something to occupy me while I try to avoid getting back into the work routine!
"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 Aug 10, 2009 12:29 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
What does the head of the Church of Mabel have to do work-wise, besides count up the river of cash flowing in from sales of Holy Paddles?
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
by kidkawartha on Aug 10, 2009 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions
wouldn’t you like to know
Brain: The irony of it all, Pinky. Years of trying to take over the world, and all I had to do was say "truculence".
Follow me I'm Boring!
by blindfolded tank driver on Aug 10, 2009 12:47 PM EDT up reply actions
isn’t mabel the head of the Church of Mabel? I missed a lot last week…
"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 Aug 10, 2009 12:52 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
wow
apparenlty Jason Blake and Zedeno Chara have two of the worst contracts in the NHL according to Matthew Barry at the fraud site, reason? Toronto hasnt made the playoffs with Blake and the Bruins havnt made it past the second round….
Relying on Nonsense and Cheap Gimmicks Since 2006
by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 8:18 PM EDT reply actions
Did anyone...
else tune into Dean Blundell this morning on 102.1 the edge? They had Pogge on for an interview, I only caught the last ten minutes but he seems pretty happy to be heading out of town.
Feeling is mutual
"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 Aug 11, 2009 6:52 PM EDT up reply actions
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