Stop! Collaborate and Listen

by blurr1974 on Aug 31, 2009 5:00 AM EDT

blurr is back with the same old crap.

I know, it doesn't rhyme. Thanks to my west coast amigo (amigette?) WAC, I've had horrible early 90s rap songs stuck in my head all day. Thankfully, I own all of Run DMCs catalog (Peter Piper is still a personal fav of mine) and much of Public Enemy. So, why didn't I quote something of theirs you ask...?

It's because I rock the mic like a vandal.

To the links!

Dr. Steve would like you to meet Rickard Wallin. (Everyone in unison) - "Hi Rickard!"
Bitter Leaf channels his inner Dude and finds that even an article in the Star can't really tie a room together.
TML Nation takes us inside the Leafs' weight room where we learn hockey is not a goal scoring competition.
Vintage Leafs continues to bring the good stuff with pics of Borje Salming and Darryl Sittler rocking a great head of hockey hair.
TSM takes a gander at the recent Craig Button quotes from "Leafs AbomiNation" and leaves me wondering: if JFJ were sitting alone in an empty room, would he still be crazy for thinking he's the smartest one in there?
MLHS has more on the ongoing, unending, unkillable zombie story of Jim Ballsille and the Hamilton Coyotes. Did the Leafs, and the league, violate antitrust laws? I'm sure there will be more and more (and more) on this in the weeks ahead.
And speaking of the unkillable story, it has now come to light that the league has made a court filing regarding the matter of whether or not the Leafs have veto power in regards to a team setting up shop in their territory. It's silly really, as the Leafs "territory" is at minimum, planet Earth.
Always a fun exercise, TML Fan Fury points out all the woulda, coulda, shouldas of Leaf past.
The Hockey Writers takes a closer look at Beauchemin's recent participation in a Team Canada Red & White scrimmage game. The long and short of it: Happy Trails does not look a bit out of place with (and against) the bigger names on Team Canada.
Lost in the molasses haze of Jason Allison's Leafs try out are the reasons for it in the first place.
Ever wonder :what if the league were still an "original six?" How stacked would the teams be? This article takes a swing at it, and I must admit, it's hard to not like any of the teams rosters...

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Paul Kelly is fired. Does this mean we have another strike on the way?

Currently tracking outbreaks of Hogtown Flu, specifically the LS02 strain.

by Robot Godzilla on Aug 31, 2009 5:57 AM EDT reply actions

Paul Kelly’s demise is the latest example of the PA’s ongoing internal struggle

The players are turning into a disfunctional group.

by lb71 on Aug 31, 2009 8:17 AM EDT up reply actions

Unfortunately I agree, I think a strike will be on the way.

Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...

by JohnnyG on Aug 31, 2009 8:32 AM EDT up reply actions

I would imagine so, since they got absolutely slaughtered in the last CBA.

Ron and Fez Noon to Three

by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 31, 2009 9:02 AM EDT up reply actions

I'd say the players

are doing alright as a result of the last CBA. If it wasn’t for the salary cap, their job security wouldn’t be increasing as a result of ridiculously front loaded, long term contracts.

If I was the players I’d want that trend to continue.

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Sir Winston Churchill

I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.

by Steve Burtch on Aug 31, 2009 9:58 AM EDT up reply actions

Yes

All four major sports could go on strike after the 2010-2011 season. I’d call that the fan’s Armageddon.

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Aug 31, 2009 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions

Seriously, this is ridiculous. What the hell are these guys doing?

I know I don’t know all the details and am not on the inside, etc. etc. But it seemed to me Paul Kelly was very knowledgeable and was trying to look out for the players’ interests. Add that to the fact that despite the salary cap the players are collectively doing pretty well with the latest CBA, and it leaves me absolutely baffled that they’d get rid of Kelly.

This has bad news written all over it.

Being a Leaf fan here requires one to be sufficiently lubricated... and truculent!

by stucky on Aug 31, 2009 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions

as soon

as Hargrove was made Ombudsman, I saw this coming.
I swear, if he gets his hands on the NHLPA…. we’re in for one doozy of a strike. It’ll suck for us fans.

"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 31, 2009 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Not to Worry

The lockout will be averted, and poetic justice achieved, after I run him over with a Chevy Silverado.

Resident Capologist

by clrkaitken on Aug 31, 2009 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions

heh

better make it an import :)

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Aug 31, 2009 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions

I also read reports that Eric Lindros had something to do with this.

At least we won’t have to do much with him, just tap him on the head.

Being a Leaf fan here requires one to be sufficiently lubricated... and truculent!

by stucky on Aug 31, 2009 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions

On that original 6 fantasy article Toews was drafted twice, both by the Leafs and the Wings

Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...

by JohnnyG on Aug 31, 2009 8:32 AM EDT reply actions

I just went through it quickly, and didn’t see Schenn (though I did see McCabe). Discuss.

by lordosis on Aug 31, 2009 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions

Beauchemin and Kabby were the only current Leafs on those six rosters.

Vintage Leafs Blog

by somny on Aug 31, 2009 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Also, we took Datsyuk before, Malkin, no.

The Guess Who sucked, the Jets were lousy anyway

by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Aug 31, 2009 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions

It’s because we were classified as building with two-way players.

Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...

by JohnnyG on Aug 31, 2009 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Rollin' in my grey volvo

He rocks the mic like a vandal

Bitter Leaf Fan: a life-long Toronto Maple Leafs fan comments on the team, the media and the exasperation...

by mf37 on Aug 31, 2009 8:48 AM EDT reply actions

I have no problem with a team in Hamilton, or or anywhere else nearby for that matter. The closer, in fact. I’m not bothered by infringement on the Leafs’ territory at all. In fact, I support it, because it’s much, much more fun to hate on an enemy who is on your doorstep than one a thousand kilometers away.

Unless we got a team in the Maritimes somehow. Then I’d be tested.

Can it before I drive this truculence through your faceulence and put you in an ambulance.

by Brunswick Bruiser on Aug 31, 2009 9:24 AM EDT reply actions

I can’t see rooting for the Halifax Herring-Chokers.

"I'd walk into the Leafs dressing room to get ready for the day and Harold would be there in his boxer shorts shaving. King Clancy would drop by a little later, play the fool, and then head off to the racetrack." John Brophy

by Mike Pelyk's Hairdo on Aug 31, 2009 9:48 AM EDT up reply actions

The New Scotia Newfie-Islanders!

Vintage Leafs Blog

by somny on Aug 31, 2009 9:51 AM EDT up reply actions

the pei potatoes!

Refusing To Bow To Your Standards Since 2006

by JaredFromLondon on Aug 31, 2009 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions

The Kouchibouguac Killers

Vintage Leafs Blog

by somny on Aug 31, 2009 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions

The St. John Cod. After a few years they’d have to lose the franchise though.

by Mirinov's Nose on Aug 31, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions

The Halifax Hurricances………….oh, wait.
The Dynamite? The Gunpowder Boys?

"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09

by kidkawartha on Aug 31, 2009 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions

A team in Hamilton just means more, marginally cheaper chances to see the Leafs!

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Aug 31, 2009 10:03 AM EDT up reply actions

i wonder for how long will that be the marketing ploy if a team does get set up in Hamilton?

"Sanity is not statistical." - George Orwell, a Leafs fan...
Stalk me here...

by blurr1974 on Aug 31, 2009 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions

Forever

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Aug 31, 2009 10:10 AM EDT up reply actions

They’ll make Leafs games “platinum” and probably sell tickets for as much as scalped seats at the ACC.

Pension Plan Puppets*
* Blog contains less than 2% puppet content by weight.

by Chemmy on Aug 31, 2009 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions

What are you talking about… the Hamilton Jetyotes will obviously stay in the Western Conference and will only host the Leafs every other season, at most.

...rely a bit to heavily on alcohol and irony...

by My Poor Friend Me on Aug 31, 2009 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions

heh

yeah, by marginal I mean like $1 less.

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Aug 31, 2009 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions

Had to make a correction

My Zone Shift Numbers – Luke Schenn was actually pretty good at that stuff last year.

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Sir Winston Churchill

I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.

by Steve Burtch on Aug 31, 2009 9:52 AM EDT reply actions

I KNEW IT!

Phew. I feel better now knowing that Schenn was actually awesome.

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Aug 31, 2009 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions

i never doubted it for a second

Refusing To Bow To Your Standards Since 2006

by JaredFromLondon on Aug 31, 2009 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions

I still have no idea

why Vic’s game sheets were skewing the data for Schenn… it’s like they missed over 150 offensive zone shift ends? I was cutting and pasting from individual sheets 82 times, so I don’t see making the same mistake 82 times… and having it compound like that.

It also makes no sense that Schenn was the only one affected like that.

Oh well… it’s fixed now.

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Sir Winston Churchill

I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.

by Steve Burtch on Aug 31, 2009 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions