You know, sometimes people forget that haters are always going to hate. Apparently the Leafs can never do anything right and you know what? Shut up. We don't care. We don't need you. HATE HATE HATE. Get over it. Obviously if we have this many hating, we're doing something right. Brian Burke strips the team and brings in new talent? Hate. The goaltending situation has improved since Vesa Toskala? Hate. Different stripe on the jerseys? Hate. I tend to take advice from Andy Warhol and think he was right to say, "don't read what they write about you, just measure it in inches."

I suggest doing the following:

• Brush your shoulders off
• Stop telephonin' me
• Shake it off
• Breaking stuff
• Bringing the ruckus

This is what I'm doing:

Sorry, I can't hear you. I'm shaking my hair curtain. So KEEP IT CUTE, OR PUT IT ON MUTE.

SPG picks are here.