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by PPP on Mar 14, 2010 7:41 PM EDT
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PrintWell, I called this morning the worst of the year and it apparently rubbed off on the Leafs as they played their first truly horrible effort since the Carolina game. I said it about some other disappointing game but I won't be as upset if this is just a blip. The powerplay led by irreplaceable quarterback Tomas Kaberle went 0-of-7 and was every bit the 29th ranked powerplay in the league. Not that being useless was it's only quality. It also managed to cough up a short-handed goal which will no doubt be chosen by AM640 as their Ridiculous Sponsor Turning Point.
The game didn't start off bad as the continually great Nikolai Kulemin got the Leafs on the board in the first minute of the game. Allegedly lots of games in few days tired out the team. If so, these guys better have summer-long meetings with Gary Roberts because only terrible teams whine about being tired. The only good part of this game was that it happened early so there's still lots of time left tonight to do more interesting things like tear off my fingernails or waterboard myself.
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Apparently, today is “rag on Garrett Bauman day”, and PPP is all out of bubblegum.
/laughing
I am Mikhail Grabovski's smirking revenge.
haha
Joe Bowen said they got in to the hotel at 3:15am. So…they slept until noon? Boo-hoo.
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You try keeping your head in the game when all you can remember is being woken up by that terribly annoying call of “Housekeeping?” at 10am.
But seriously, no excuses. Lame game.
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Apparently there was a fire alarm at 9am in the hotel.
by Leaf in Habland on Mar 14, 2010 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions
tough crowd. i’ll bet you 20 bucks that you’ve stayed up late on a weeknight and been useless at work the next day at some point in your life.
Yesterday is dead, but not my memory.
Sure
But I don’t get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to perform only 82 nights out of 365.
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And how pissed would you be is she just lied there the whole time?
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by seankelly on Mar 15, 2010 1:36 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
red’c
Loving the Leafs is like being in love with a drug-addled, gambling addicted prostitute with a heart of gold and a bunch of humanitarian awards from her youth. It’s hard. It hurts. But dammit! I just love them!
by Van Ryn's Neurologist on Mar 15, 2010 8:22 AM EDT up reply actions
this is just a guess, but i suspect that money doesn’t magically alter the physiological processes that make someone tired after not getting enough sleep.
Yesterday is dead, but not my memory.
No but it might provide a bit of motivation to work through the tiredness of having to live a cushy life.
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Lazy effort yields lazy results
Brain: The irony of it all, Pinky. Years of trying to take over the world, and all I had to do was say "truculence".
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by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 14, 2010 7:56 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
That might be the best recap ever.
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Glad I missed most of this game – and also glad that what I saw was on a less than optimal online feed.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Mar 14, 2010 7:58 PM EDT reply actions
The Leafs had been putting in a really solid effort for over a week, it’s understandable that they hit a blip.
Don’t get me wrong, I want those 3 hours of my life back, but it’s a solid indication that the club has a long way to go. And that Kaberle needs to be traded. Like… the instant the window in his contract opens up.
BUT TOMAS KABERLE MAKES A GREAT FIRST PASS HOW DON’T YOU SEE THAT
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Right on park’s stick! Tape to tape!
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by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 14, 2010 9:00 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Kabs did turn the puck over on that PK, but what was Beauch doing? It was his hesitancy that let Park walk right into the prime shooting lane.
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He hesitated and played it wrong because of it.
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by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 14, 2010 10:07 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
They both blew it, though Kabs wears the bigger goat horns for the lazy turnover.
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Yeah
Beauchemin’s play is giving me ulcers. I am just telling myself that next year is another story.
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He’s just having trouble adjusting to his new teammates and coaching. Plus new-contract syndrome does funny things to players. Pavel Kubina admitted that he got away from his game his first year because of the contract weighing on his mind right? And he was pretty awesome after that, right?
Right?
actually, he wasn’t half bad.
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by Van Ryn's Neurologist on Mar 15, 2010 8:23 AM EDT up reply actions
Agreed, if Beauch plays as well as Kubina did the last couple years of his deal we should all be very happy.
Unfortunately that’s a pretty enormous “if”.
by The '67 Sound on Mar 15, 2010 8:25 AM EDT up reply actions
If
Is my new most hated word :(
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Mephistopheles is still my most hated word
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by JaredFromLondon on Mar 15, 2010 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions
Lol, its bad, but I’m pretty sure I kicked his ass with my index finger in Diablo II (well, a version of him).
Phaneuf Phever, an upgrade in skill and alliteration!
Or how about ‘finessed’ instead of ‘passed’.
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WAFFLEBOARD
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by JaredFromLondon on Mar 15, 2010 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Anyone that adds “ful” to the end of a word, instead of using the easy and common synonym.
i.e.:
prideful vs. proud
Lazy athlete-talk.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Mar 15, 2010 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
‘synergy’
‘copacetic’
‘opportunity’ (as in problem, fuck up etc)
any of those management-used words.
hate doesn’t come close to describing the feeling I have for the usage of these words
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Mar 15, 2010 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Unfortunately that’s the only thing we’re likely to lead the league in next year.
If the young forwards can develop fast, and if we get league-average goaltending, and if Beauch and Komi start to earn their contracts, and if Phaneuf returns to Norris candidate form, and if we can solve the PK, and if Gunnar doesn’t regress, and if Schenn improves, and if we stay healthy, and if…
My head hurts.
by The '67 Sound on Mar 15, 2010 10:12 AM EDT up reply actions
well the PK is all but solved since the Phaneuf and giggy trades….but the rest
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by JaredFromLondon on Mar 15, 2010 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
I think it was Sjostrom. We need to re-sign him.
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It’s still been pretty good when he’s been out hurt, many of the PP goals the leafs let in since are 5 on 3s
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by JaredFromLondon on Mar 15, 2010 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions
TOR v EDM ended around 9:30. Puck drop today was 5:00, and an hour lost to Daylight Savings Time. 18.5 hours from game to game, with travel involved?
I know it’s not the reason they lost (“we’re tired!” gets a “whaaaaammbulance” response from me), but it’s hard to look at that and expect a win from a young team like this.
Well the Isles are also a young team and played last night albeit without travel.
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Like I said, not excusing the team, more commenting that this game was bound to be sloppy, lousy hockey, which I don’t think our kids are up to fumbling their way through. (Didn’t see the game, just heard it was low quality hockey)
Lookit,
when you are a low-talent team that wins games by pure hustle, then you have to have 100% jump to win. That means overtime and a short layover between games will kill you in a way that is far more deadly than for other team that can parlay actual talent into goals.
Good teams don’t use this as an excuse, but the Leafs aren’t good, and nobody pretended they were.
i totally fell asleep on my laptop, that game sucked
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by JaredFromLondon on Mar 14, 2010 8:19 PM EDT reply actions
Thankfully discovery has a show about dinosaurs
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by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 14, 2010 9:01 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
that’s a wolf. Dinosaurs don’t howl!
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by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 14, 2010 9:17 PM EDT up reply actions
i like to pretend they all speak perfect english in a variety of silly accents
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by JaredFromLondon on Mar 14, 2010 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions
especially that silly bastard, Utahraptor!
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by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 14, 2010 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions
still said with a silly sounding voice
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by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 14, 2010 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions
he so has a cockney accent and says “whats this then?” all the time
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by JaredFromLondon on Mar 14, 2010 9:39 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
probably a chimney sweep in his free time too.
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by blindfolded tank driver on Mar 14, 2010 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions
stegosaurus are so clearly french too
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by JaredFromLondon on Mar 14, 2010 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions
other things that would have been a better use of my time:
lighting farts on fire, trying to get my socks pregnant, “cleaning/studying/snuffleuppagusing/other made up stuff”, learning to breakdance.. anything but watch this piece of shit game
Dmitri Yushkevich was so tough, he once blocked a Chuck Norris kick with his teeth and finished the shift.
Beauchemin continually makes me feel embarassed over how excited I was when he first signed in Toronto. Ugh.
I liked Kulemin’s (my new favourite Leaf) and Grabovski’s play and/or energy. Bulk Grabovski up a bit in the offseason and he will be a slobbering beast, it’ll be great.
Kaberle is doing his part to keep us from feeling sad when he gets traded away as soon as the window opens up. Whatta guy!
Beauchemin continually makes me feel embarassed over how excited I was when he first signed in Toronto. Ugh.
There’s still time. Just been an inconsistent player this year, which isn’t surprising, since that was common in Anaheim, too. I think he works best with a puck mover, which seems like that is what Wilson is trying to do pairing him with Kaberle. But Kaberle’s struggles haven’t helped Beauchemin either.
I said before that I preferred Beauchemin over Komisarek during free agency, and I still believe it. We’ll see next season.
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Also
not so much an excuse but he did miss almost all of last year with injury.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Mar 15, 2010 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I feel the same as you about everything.
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wooo, someone else who likes wagons!
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by JaredFromLondon on Mar 15, 2010 9:35 AM EDT up reply actions
What?
there was a Leafs game tonight?
I blame the time change.
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by Karina on Mar 15, 2010 1:02 AM EDT reply actions
only terrible teams whine about being tired
and what gave you the impression that this Leafs team isn’t terrible?
They should read this quote:
Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won
A Nation of Masochists Waiting is the hardest part.
It was a shitty game but (other than Kaberle) I didn’t really notice anyone quitting. Fatigue does more than just make you feel sore, it inhibits your mental functions and alertness. At least half of our top 6 is not in NHL shape right now, it probably felt to them like they were giving the same effort but it was clear that they weren’t all there.
ooooh
I like that one.
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not as good as
Losers always whine about their best, Winners go home and fuck the prom queen
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by JaredFromLondon on Mar 15, 2010 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions
With the time change and the early start, I feel like this game was a figment of my imagination. Like, it didn’t really happen. I’m totally okay with that. In fact, I’m going to just ignore any references to last night’s game and just pretend that I didn’t waste 2.5hrs of my early evening yesterday.
I missed this game… guess I didn’t really miss much.
Losing to the Islanders? I know we’re not a good team and all, but still… ew.
leaf fan stuck in ottawa, a localized black hole that will suck everything in that area to oblivion.
Kids aren’t ready yet for the step-up in competition from the 30th place team to the 28th.
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I was legitimately falling asleep at the end of the 2nd.
Phaneuf Phever, an upgrade in skill and alliteration!
One of the least entertaining games I’ve ever watched.
Just caught the post-game with Coach Ron. Will Hendrick ever learn how to ask an actual question?
“Well Ron, your team played pretty badly tonight” (shoves mic into face).
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by Sergei Puckizin on Mar 15, 2010 12:40 PM EDT reply actions
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