Maple Leafs at S*nators: For All Of The Marbles

You need new people in your IT department

And bleep the Sens!

I like our chances if this is an Ottawa playoff game.
4-2 Leafs.

Also, friend of PPP LeafBoy will be attending, as well as a bevy of Leafs fans from the office.
In other news, the local media here have their panties in a bunch that there are Leafs fans attending and still cheering for the Leafs instead of their bland, lifeless and irrelevant franchise.

It’s always good for a laugh so here’s a link to Bruce Firestone telling Ottawa hockey fans they’re crazy to cheer for the Leafs. Slightly dated though, penned in 2004.

http://www.dramatispersonae.org/CheeringForTheLeafs.html

GO LEAFS!

“The S*nators are seemingly safe in their playoff spot but they’ve also won only one game since the Olympic break so there’s still hope for a hilarious collapse that will stunt the nascent Cory Clouston for Jack Adams Delusion Brigade.”

is funny stuff

Not S*nators. Not Snes.

You know why? They aren’t our rivals. To treat the Senators like our rivals, to heap disproportionate hatred on them, is to flatter them. They haven’t earned it.

I always remember pre-2004 people saying the Sox-Yanks wasn’t really a rivalry because in a rivalry both teams need to occasionally win. So here’s the thing: the Ottawa Senators have never beaten us in a playoff series. They even lost the one regular season game that determined playoff seeding between us to close out the 2003/2004 season (I can’t remember which). To call them a rival is to give them WAY too much credit.

The Flyers are a rival. The Habs are a rival. Going back further, the Wings are a rival. The Senators are like the pathetic younger kid that just moved into the neighbourhood and desperately wants to be accepted by the older kids. Do you heap scorn on that younger kid? No, you pat them on their head and then kick their ass if they get uppity. I know their fans can be annoying, but so are little kids sometimes.

So here’s my plea. Don’t dignify the Senators by treating them like a rival. If they beat us, big deal—we know they’ll choke in the playoffs like the always do, whether it’s against us or someone else.

If they ever win a Cup or beat us in the post-season, then they’ve earned our hate. But not until then.

—>Maybe the “terrible preview” is also in part from leafing through almost 1000 comments on AO’s apology?

Go Leafs.

I’m American, so I may have a bias, but Battle of Ontario doesn’t even have the same ring of Battle of California, let alone Battle of Pennsylvania. Beats Battle of New York though. Just my two cents.

I have no ending to this story

you know who I hate?
the Senators

I feel like field trips for a Leafs-Sens GDT would be a hilarious huge disaster that would consist of friendly banter and logical, reasonable analysis of the on-ice play an incredible amount of profanity.

But apparently Ovechkin hit a guy from behind over the weekend