Leafs Sign Joey MacDonald
by Chemmy on Aug 10, 2009 5:47 PM EDT
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PrintThe Leafs have signed ex Peterborough Petes goaltender Joey MacDonald [HockeyDB stats] to a one year deal at a yet to be determined salary. This is a solid move to give the Marlies some competent goaltending with the departure of franchise savior a horrible goalie who we always hated Justin Pogge. (Sigh.)
Joey MacDonald played for a godawful Islanders team (no offense intended) last season and put up better numbers than Vesa Toskala by a wide margin. On Long Island MacDonald posted a respectable .901 save percentage and shut out the Detroit Red Wings.
This seems like a very shrewd signing. To reiterate, MacDonald is probably a better goaltender than Vesa Toskala at this point in time. Assuming Toskala gets hurt or plays like he usually does, or if both Gustavsson and Toskala play well making Vesa expendable then MacDonald would be a more than capable backup. This addresses our lack of organization depth at the goaltending spot and earns Chemmy's "Useful Minor Leaguer" Seal of Approval.
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Islanders castoffs….yaaaaay…
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 5:50 PM EDT reply actions
MacDonald put up better numbers than Toskala on a worse team. I watched MacDonald get hung out to dry plenty of times.
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oh of course, his numbers were stellar for playing behind that team, just there is something tainted about former islanders players
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah its hard to keep a save % over .900 giving up 3.37 a game.
Just think of him as a former Red Wings castoff.
by Grabovski's better than you think on Aug 10, 2009 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions
I can live with that
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
I have
to admit, it worries me a bit. That they chose Osgoode over a young, cheap guy….
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Osgood was the bee’s knees in the playoffs this year.
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still
I dunno. I’m a little scared is all.
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions
worst case scenario he sucks
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah
I’m just confused as to why Holland is signing our failed prospects and we’re signing one of his
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions
its the circle of life
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks J, now I have Sir Elton John’s Circle of life song running through my head.
Do you know how many Alexander Keiths it took to kill that the first time..
Oh well, fun to start over.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 10, 2009 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions
and it moooooves us aaaaaaaaalll
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:30 PM EDT up reply actions
This is NOT going to end up like the Bohemian Rhapsody post! IT STOPS HERE
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 10, 2009 6:32 PM EDT up reply actions
mama mia mama mia mama mia let me go!
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions
through despair and hope!
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
fortunately Brodeurs shadow is a deep and dark place from which no laugher or pie ever returns
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
When Clemensen found the end of that shadow he found himself in Florida. That’s a big shadow.
by Ryan Classic on Aug 10, 2009 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions
thank the pies
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Pie is always a rec
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 10, 2009 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions
I’d say GAA over 3 SV% over .9 means you do a pretty good job despite getting fucking shelled.
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he’ll feel right at home on the marlies
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions
This opens up some possibilities with moving Toskala.
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if he plays the way he did down the stretch before his surgery yea, lets just hope a cup contender comes down with a desperate need for a goalie for the year but isnt worried about retaining him past the end of the season
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Nah, the Leafs have two sets of NHL defencemen now. That means the Marlies will be automatically better than the Islanders. MacDonald also had an assist last year, so he should finish among the top scorers on the Marlies.
by Ryan Classic on Aug 10, 2009 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions
REC'D
"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 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions
The Leafs have signed ex Peterborough Petes goaltender
Chemmy puts the most important fact right in the lede. That’s the mark of a pro right there.
Just for you, Jorn and kidkawartha.
Gotta build up pro-Chemmy support in PTBO.
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Fuckin’ A it is. It’s almost a requirement for me.
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
* shakes hands in PTBO, kisses a baby *
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Your appreciation for the Heart of Central Ontario has been weighed against Triple P’s constant digs, and noted.
Peterborough, at least its not Buffalo
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:21 PM EDT up reply actions
“What’s the smell?”
“oh, that’s just Buffalo”
I like to eat the yellow snow behind the zamboni
by Kerry Fraser on Aug 10, 2009 10:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Gotta even out the ticket.
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Easy for him to suck up when he’s never been to Peterborough.
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while the rest of us try to forget
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions
He makes tasty fries, too. Tho how he skates with those shoes on, friggin amazing.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 10, 2009 6:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Mac Attacks stats
other than the year on the wings, where his stats were Poggish, he has some pretty solid numbers
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=35678
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:35 PM EDT reply actions
Redwings
The only team that can’t win with a good Goalie(except Hasek, but I hate him so I omitted him)
Average to sub par, Sign him up, he is perfect! – I think it makes the rest of the team play harder.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 10, 2009 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions
I like how you’re already using Pogge as a measuring stick for suckage. Let’s just hope he doesn’t pull a carlo and get injured, and that he’s doesn’t razrburn out or stempnicrack under the pressure.
by Shield on Aug 10, 2009 6:39 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
its part of the healing process
thats why we still make wellwood jokes
crushing injuries take longer to heal
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions
psychological scars run deep…
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 10, 2009 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions
that and he stepped on my food, so crushed
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Did anyone else notice that Anaheim doesn’t have an AHL affiliate? They have to convince an AHL team to take Pogge on their roster. Does any team have a spot open? The only one I can think of is Providence. They need to replace Tuukka Rask.
That would be “A monkey shot me in the ass with a dart, Oh sweet irony!”
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 10, 2009 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions
hmmm,that is odd
where did they stick bobby ryan?>
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Do you really want a response to that???
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 10, 2009 6:45 PM EDT up reply actions
hmm
I could be wrong on this, but didn’t their affiliate used to be the Iowa Chops?
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 6:45 PM EDT up reply actions
seems to have confirmed this… they’ve had operations suspended for 2009-2010.
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions
link to suspension info
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions
and
because I find the jersey funny:
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 6:48 PM EDT up reply actions
HAW….g
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions
There were 29 teams last year because Dallas left Iowa for a year until the Texas Stars were ready to join this coming season. That’s why Dallas had to find another team to take Avery. This year it’s the Ducks. Goodbye sweet Chops, we hardly knew ye.
How long until Burke gets quoted saying “Let me be clear, he did NOT earn this trade to an NHL franchise”?
by Ryan Classic on Aug 10, 2009 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Toronto could use a back up!
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by PPP on Aug 10, 2009 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
We also got tougher in the process lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lINfTqVt14M – Joey Macdonald vs John Curry line brawl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VH0vppeu4 – Danny Bois jumps Joey MacDonald
HE LIVES
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions
that was the worst goalie fight ever
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Reimer peaks over his shoulder...
…and now sees Joey MacDonald, a guy with NHL experience, on a two-way deal, who wants nothing more than to get a crack at the Leafs.
Lets do a quick Burke check:
1. Make the team tougher. Check
2. Have competition at every position. Check.
One of MacDonald or Reimer will grab the reigns. Or they’ll fight? Both?
Should be worth the $10 seat at Ricoh…
no ones job is secure!
outsourcing outsourcing!
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Rumour has it when Kyle Wellowood learned of this signing he immediately begain lobbying Gillis to sign Joey’s brother Ronald.
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by mf37 on Aug 10, 2009 7:27 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs
oh dear god…..
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 7:46 PM EDT up reply actions
that is awesome. Where did you find it?
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 7:47 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
not_Chemmy is funny…
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 7:54 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
does that mean Chemmy is not?
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
WORLDS ARE COLLIDING!
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this is disorienting
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions
oh baby this is getting me so hot
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:P
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 7:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Can it before I drive this truculence through your faceulence and put you in an ambulance.
by Brunswick Bruiser on Aug 10, 2009 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions
it means Chemmy IS funny
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 7:59 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I guess it’s because he’s not_Chemmy and not Bizarro Chemmy.
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What a fucking clown.
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by kidkawartha on Aug 10, 2009 9:08 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
what is?
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions
youve been drinking havnt you?
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 8:28 PM EDT reply actions
you ruin everything
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions
dammit
I was so excited about that too, Jared.
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 10:44 PM EDT up reply actions
why isn’t anyone disappointed that EA sports models its hockey gear on the Habs?
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by blindfolded tank driver on Aug 10, 2009 10:55 PM EDT up reply actions
‘cause as leaf fans we aren’t insecure like that
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by Karina on Aug 10, 2009 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions
i knew it from the start, I was just hoping CH would see it before SOMEONE ruined it
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 10, 2009 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions
maybe he did see it and is drowning his sorrows
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by blindfolded tank driver on Aug 10, 2009 11:01 PM EDT up reply actions
I saw that shit when it first came out and I’m well aware its an EA Sports jersey.
He also totally decked some nerd over the boards.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Aug 11, 2009 8:03 AM EDT up reply actions
$1M Question
Which goalie will have the best mask???
"There's been four different Cup winners the last four years, and I got one of them (Anaheim) and it was a fighting team. We're playing it that way regardless." - B. Burke, Toronto Maple Leafs GM
Toskala has a pretty good mask to be honest.
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I hope he has the Cookie Monster, he’s blue and white, so that works, plus he could add in some pictures of Cookies, leading to Kyle Wellwood’s indefinite suspension for trying to bite a goalie’s face, ripping off a goalie’s mask, proceeding to somehow easily tear through the mask with his teeth, and then falling over and crushing Lee Stempniak, ending his career and getting his contract off the books. THAT would be the greatest mask of all time.
by Shield on Aug 11, 2009 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I’m kinda hoping that the Monster goes with a lightning, scars and neckbolts motif when he plays in Castle Burkenstein.
Now I am picturing Brian Burke returning to Toronto from Sweden, and greeted by a hunchbacked Keith Acton and proclaiming “It’s SIIIIIIIIGNED!”
Can it before I drive this truculence through your faceulence and put you in an ambulance.
by Brunswick Bruiser on Aug 12, 2009 12:25 AM EDT reply actions
he is actually peiced together from Leaf goalies of the past!
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 12, 2009 3:54 AM EDT up reply actions
I see a really good Die Hard Blue and White post here, Jared. Looking forward to seeing it the next time you get lit up enough. Shall we say………Friday?
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
to the MSPaint!
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 12, 2009 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions
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