Tuesday's Here! Hockey? Not So Much...
by blurr1974 on Aug 4, 2009 5:00 AM EDT
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More Pogues!
- What can we expect from Poni-Grabs-Lemon? Sharpen your pencils and brush upon your arith-a-ma-tic. Dr. Steve is taking you to school.
- TSM gives us the quick and dirty scoop on the Marlies new head coach.
- The Other Vatican likes what he sees in Zherdev. The bigger question: Does Brian Burke?
- If half the quotes at the bottom of this Heroes In Rehab post come true, I'll be a Twitter junkie, and jrwendelman will be my pusher.
- My favorite Fin not named Hagman; Sleza starts putting together the 2010 team Finland. Up first, the goalies.
- Blue Notes says the Leafs and Rangers are indeed talking Zherdev. But at what cost...?
- MYFO let's Chris Pronger send out some warnin...er...set the record straight (please don't stomp on my ankle Mr. Pronger.)
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poni/grabs/kulemin
Have we officially abandoned the Hagman/Grabs/Kulemin line that was in place for a large chunk of last year? Because they were holding their own at evens most of the time.
Looking back, the few times I can recall games where the Leafs were truly rolling several lines that could play were that one, antro/poni doing their usual puck control with whoever, and the surprising Blake/Moore chemistry.
Do you mean the Man Grabs Lemon line?
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
Any line that can be depicted via rebus is cool with me.
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)
Either one is good for me. Wilson’s blender will be in full effect during the pre-season so maybe a Poni-led line will develop.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
by PPP on Aug 4, 2009 9:18 AM EDT up reply actions
lot’s of new faces, and still plenty of time for Burke to swing a trade or two if he so desires.
Probably no point in getting caught up in line combos. Still, the aforementioned Poni/Grabs/Lemon combiination was incredible. Hagman was a good foil for Blake, allowed him more freedom to get up the ice and do his thing, while Hagman played his usual solid two way game.
"Sanity is not statistical." - George Orwell, a Leafs fan...
Stalk me here...
by blurr1974 on Aug 4, 2009 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions
Tuesday’s coming, did you bring your coat?
I live in a giant bucket.
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 4, 2009 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions
I AM A BANANA!!!!!1
The Guess Who sucked, the Jets were lousy anyway
by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Aug 4, 2009 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions
Did anyone really thing everything about Reinsdorf's bid was kosher?
The confidential information, posted briefly by Moyes’ legal team on the court website, shows that Reinsdorf is seeking some $23 million in subsidies next year. If the Coyotes continue to lose money after five years, the team would get an additional $15 million per year and could be sold or moved.
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
This whole situation has been a giant mess right from the start. The city of Glendale has big objections with giving any group financial concessions, especially of the size asked for in Reinsdorf’s bid. Now it sounds as if even Reinsdorf himself may not be so fully committed to the bid.
The team and the fans deserve better than this.
Being a Leaf fan here requires one to be sufficiently lubricated... and truculent!
What fans?
"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 4, 2009 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I kid.
"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 4, 2009 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions
And what a surprise, like every other big money deal in the US, it looks like this deal stinks to high heaven of corruption.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
Rich guys and their friends. Reminds me I should return Richie Rich’s call.
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
I had to clarify the Stajan thing
Apparently the guys on HFBoards and TMLfans.ca couldn’t understand why having 2 players directly involved in half your production when you skated with them as a COMPLETE line for half your shifts would be a problem.
I suppose they are incapable of realizing that the number of times you skate with your complete line and/or the number of times a player DIRECTLY influences your production shouldn’t be quite that dominant if you expect production with anyone else.
I mean seriously… I put up the numbers for his production with other players… he had 7 points scored with Hamilton, Devereaux, and Kubina helping him! Unfortunately they are also gone.
It’s the lack of production with other lines that worries me… nobody seemed to get that.
"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.
woops forgot the link
http://leafs.hockeyanalysis.com/2009/08/04/clarification-on-stajan/
"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 4, 2009 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions
Good Follow-up
If that doesn’t hammer home the crystal clear point that you made in the last post then I think it’s safe to say that nothing will.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
I think Stajan is the kind of player that takes his role on the team very seriously. Very early on Wilson made it clear that Stajan’s role was to be an offensive contributor or he wasn’t going to play. After the Antro trade, Stajan spent more time with spare parts and assumed a more defensive/checking approach. Stajan is versatlie but he can’t multi-task. I think his linemates greatly influence his focus, positioning, and style of play.
I don’t think Stajan’s gifted enough to just go out there and do what he wants and put up points. But if the coach gives him a specific responsibilty, he carries it out to the best of his abilities rather then just sticking to “his game”.
by general borschevsky on Aug 4, 2009 10:52 AM EDT up reply actions
I’m sure even Crosby’s points would drop if he went to Hamilton and Devereaux from Antropov and Poni.
It’s clear that Antro and Poni were driving his offence and not the other way around.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
My day DOES need more Pogues. Can’t get access to the embedded clip, so I am relying on mine own iPod for same.
Thx for the link love, blurr.
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)
no worries
and it’s “Tuesday Morning” from Waiting for Herb
"Sanity is not statistical." - George Orwell, a Leafs fan...
Stalk me here...
by blurr1974 on Aug 4, 2009 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions
AND
speaking of twitter
the twitterati (©blurr1974) are saying both Ken Klee and Jeremy Roenick will be retiring.
"Sanity is not statistical." - George Orwell, a Leafs fan...
Stalk me here...
by blurr1974 on Aug 4, 2009 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions
I still pick “under”.
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)
Heads up, Barilkosphere!
Something interesting from On Frozen Blog today: AP wants to charge you for quoting five words from their articles.
Presented without comment to facilitate your rage.
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’m pretty sure this won’t stand up to a legal challenge. As long as you cite the source it qualifies as “fair use”.
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
That’s actually pretty sad. How do they think that they’ll manage that? Are they going to send thousands of e-mails an hour demanding payment?
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
I don't think the system of honour is going to work
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
We’ve talked a very, very lot about this on dailykos.com. It is the absolute height of journalism stupidity and shortsightedness. Blogs,etc, drive up internet views of your work, which drives up ad revenenue. So, what’s the solution? Put an end to the massive mulitplying (for free, BTW) of your work. Fucking morons. And the new head of AP is a manipulative right-wing tool on top of everything else.
Fournier in the tank for McCain.
More of the same.
Feel free to stop reading AP content altogether, save the world.
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
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