Leaf Lovin' Since '92

Hello fellow Leaf fans!

I joined PPP about a month ago, and within a week of joining I forgot my password and was too embarrassed to make a new account. [Editor's Note: If you forget your password or want to change your username e-mail me and I will fixt it. Do not make a new account. Thanks] After another month of lurking on the site and trying to guess my password, I managed to get back into my account,  and followed this up by re-establishing my noob blogger ways by commenting on the wrong fanpost... typical of me.

Anyways, I'm hoping to be frequenting these parts now that I've had all my vacation time burned and my mental lapses out of the way.  I figure if I hope to contribute anything to this community I should give a brief summary of me and my Leaf loving ways. If I make any mistakes along the ways, please let me know as I hope to establish myself as less of an idiot than I already have!

My irrational love for the blue and white must have started the day I was born.  I was immediately wrapped in a leaf blanket and grew up with a large majority of my possessions covered in various leaf logos.  My dad loved the Leafs in the 90s and I remember going to games at the Gardens and ACC as some of the best time i have ever spent with him, so naturally the Leafs were the only team I had ever cared for.

On my 4th birthday i received a Sega Genesis as well as a copy of NHL 96, and by the time I was 8 I was ready to take my shot at making it to the NHL by signing up to start playing hockey, but I quickly buried that dream as I absolutely hated falling all over the ice. Street hockey was more my game anyways.  I remember turning 10 though, and I laid my eyes on the new Markham Waxers jerseys for the first time....they were these super cool leaf replicas and I remember telling myself the I need to would find a way to make the Waxers as fast as possible, and by the age of 12, I had. Our team sucked, and I was probably the worst player in the league, but I had a Leaf look-a-like jersey with my name sewn onto the back, so I was satisfied. I remember when we got our jerseys for the first game and I begged for number 13, but I couldn't get it, so I ended up taking the number 12, which was as close as I could get. 12 is still my favorite number to this day.

Each year the leafs made the playoffs, my love for the team grew, and my room was completely decked out with posters of my favorite players of all time, Mats Sundin and Tie Domi. My mom is originally from Montreal, so her brothers always gave me such a hard time for being a Leaf fan, but nothing made me feel better as a little kid than calling my uncles every time our beloved leafs beat the habs.

When the lockout came around I was 14 I believe, so I didn't really know what to do with myself.  I took my hockey more seriously and became the captain of the Waxers.  A blue and white jersey with the C on it... I remember having so much pride that I was just like Mats Sundin, minus any sort of skill.

After the lockout I suffered as all of you have, watching my team fall from grace and seemingly cement themselves into what seemed to be an eternity of mediocrity. I will skip those years, as I'm sure they have been discussed enough on this site.

Anyways, over the past few months with the Kaberle saga and the hope for more groundbreaking news, I took my passion to the Internet, searching the net for any insiders news or new rumors to read about, so naturally I stumbled upon PPP, which I have lingered on ever since. Now that I myself am a member i look forward to visiting here more often and discussing whatever may come with the rest of you.

Here's to a winning season!

Cheers.