Flames at Leafs: A Rivalry Born of GMs Emerges
by Chemmy on Oct 15, 2011 1:48 PM EDT
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It's been a whole week without hockey and personally my thumbs are tired of twiddling. We watched the Senators get pumped by Colorado to become the odds on favorites to draft Nail Yakupov (20pts in 8GP in the OHL so far...) but remember that Daigle scored 137pts in 53 games in the Q once and Ottawa once used a first overall pick to draft Chris Phillips ahead of... holy shit look at this first round. Nevermind.
Tonight the Leafs play the Calgary Flames at home. It'll be a chance for Capt. Caveman to demonstrate his resurgence as an elite NHL player and to make the point that trading him and a good prospect in Keith Aulie for Matt Stajan and role players was a poor decision.
As motivation for the boys remember that it was five years ago this week that Mats Sundin scored his 500th regular season goal: shorthanded, in overtime, to complete the hat trick against Miikka Kiprusoff.
Between that and his overtime "ping" goal Sundin certainly had a flair for the dramatic from that left point. Watching that video the players congratulating Sundin stick out: Tucker, McCabe, Gill, Steen. The Leafs moved all of those guys and got a lot younger. For a team ridiculed for never developing talent the Leafs have taken risks on players like Mikhail Grabovski and Clarke MacArthur to say nothing of bringing in Phil Kessel and Dion Phaneuf.
Anybody miss Matt Stajan, Ian White, Niklas Hagman, or Jamal Mayers?
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GO LEAFS GO
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by CanadianMaple09 on Oct 15, 2011 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Wow, that 96 draft is atrocious… when JP Dumont has the most points of the first 20 picks, you know it’s rough
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by BetterThanBester on Oct 15, 2011 1:55 PM EDT reply actions
That’s a scary 1st round. Figures the Leafs had no 1st rounder then either.
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by ThickSkinnedAlive on Oct 15, 2011 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions
funny no one ever brings up how we traded that 1st round pick.
by Nigel Cadbury on Oct 15, 2011 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions
what the hell did we even trade it for?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions
was that one of the clark trades? like to bring him back from the islanders?
by Nigel Cadbury on Oct 15, 2011 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I dunno. Let’s figure out where we should have picked.
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15th, would have got us Zubrus if the leafs had picked where Philly did, only better player on board in the 1st were Brier and Sturm
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd have gladly
taken Briere.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
So would we all, but we probably wouldn’t have had the patience for him and traded him before he broke out.
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he broke out in Phoenix
before he went to Buffalo or Philly… 32 goals as a 24 year old? I think we’d have been willing to wait that long. It took Kulemin until he was 24 to hit 30 goals.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions
and the answer is Dmitri Yushkevich
also coming to the leafs was the flyers 2nd
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Great trade then
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by ThickSkinnedAlive on Oct 15, 2011 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Leafs traded their 1st, 2nd (in 97) and a 4th (that they had got from LA for Yanic Perreault
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Flyers
Traded Dmitry Yushkevich, 1996 second round pick (#50-Francis Larivee) to Maple Leafs for 1996 first round pick (#15-Dainius Zubrus), 1997 second round pick (#30-Jean-Marc Pelletier), 1996 fourth round pick (#84-Mikael Simons) on 1995-08-30
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We got Kaberle in that draft so it can’t be that rough can it?
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by Leafswinthecup on Oct 15, 2011 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Man, i wish i had saved the url for that flames fan forum on the day of the dion trade
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 1:58 PM EDT reply actions
It's not the one you wanted but still pretty funny
http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=732054&page=2
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Jeez…how dumb are those people to think Burke lost that deal.
Oh, hfboards…
Oh, Oiler fans…
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the deal looked much better at the time for Calgary, Hagman was scoring at a decent clip, Ian white was playing like a beast and Matt Stajan was a good 2nd line center who had yet to sign that ghastly contract, also Phaneuf had come off the worst season in his career and was set to be replaced by Boumeister who everyone thought would be amazing for Calgary
fast forward to now and it is side splitting funny how badly the wheels fell off for calgary
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
I still remember the sheer terror of what we gave up when it first broke we traded for Phaneuf compared to when I found out what we actually gave up and laughing.
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I legit still remember that day almost perfectly. I returned from going out for breakfast (well brunch) at F&S while still living in Ottawa and opened up my laptop on my bed to check email, etc. Opened PP and say “DION PHANEUF A MAPLE LEAF” and thought it was a joke at first.
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The Leafs had just lost brutally the night before, and I went to bed in a bad mood. I slept in, which was bad because I had an essay to write. While waking up, I perused TSN. Headline: Phaneuf to Leafs? I woke up in a darn hurry.
Over the next few hours I every possible emotion: hope, fear, anguish, doubt, and finally bliss. That was a good day. No idea how that essay turned out. Don’t think it really matters.
Almost as good a day as when we traded Lebda. My brother knocked on my door and woke me up with the news, holy fuck, I was as happy as a kid on Christmas.
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Oh yeah? Well I was hungover as fuck because I got married the night before and I blogged the FUCK out of that trade while trying not to hurl and getting ready to fly to my honeymoon.
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by Chemmy on Oct 15, 2011 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That’s a nice wedding present.
by Self Destructive Zones on Oct 15, 2011 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions
did PPP call you and yell at you to blog it?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions
minister – “do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife for blah blah blah blah”
chemmy -" fuck man get on with it I gotta post the GDT…shit"
October 25, 1966. Thank you Lord Kelvin
by Chuck Diesel on Oct 15, 2011 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions
You got married on my 21st birthday? That’s pretty cool.
At least I’ll never forget your anniversary…
I wonder who got drunker
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I vote for myself here
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions
As an indicator: after five hours of an open bar we went to a Mexican place where two of my friends raced tequila shots down the bar:
First person to drink 12 shots of patron won. My buddy Weiner drank his 12 and then drank the 3 remaining from his competition.
My little stepbrother got so drunk the police arrested him and took him to get his stomach pumped and the doctor said “nah he’ll be fine”.
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My buddy’s wife emptied a giant bowl of mints into her purse. Like five pounds.
This was a night of drinking.
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Brian fell asleep on the toilet in someone else’s room.
The maid of honor almost hooked up with the Manchester Monarchs.
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is the LA-Anaheim trip going to be this crazy? cuz i’m in…
by Nigel Cadbury on Oct 15, 2011 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
you shoulda been at the draft in montreal
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
I was at a wedding
last May, where at the end of the night I thought it would be a good idea to take things out of my camera bag in exchange for these tiny jars of strawberry jam they were giving away as favours.
I left an extra battery and charger that cost me around $120 combined so I could have 6 more tiny jars of home-made jam that would probably have set me back like $20 if I’d just gone and bought it in a store.
Drunken-ness leads to some poor decision making.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions
And sometimes great decision making!
Not as often.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions
well
it does sometimes lead to those decisions like going to get “cold tea” on Spadina at 3:00 AM… which can work out well.
I think good vs. bad changes at different life stages.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
This sheer terror?
http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2010/1/31/1285626/dion-phaneuf-a-leaf
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I was also at brunch. Then the giggy trade came in. What a day! My dad was just getting back from vacation. He didn’t believe me when I told him. It was a good day. Doug Gilmour good.
by Leaf in Habland on Oct 15, 2011 2:52 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Anti-Leafs bias has to be the most annoying thing in the world. I have a flames-fan friend who still thinks it was a decent deal and thinks the Leafs will be bottom feeders and the Flames have a good chance at playoffs… all my other friends who are non-Leafs fans (but not flames fans) agree.
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Meh, they’ll see for themselves at the end of the season.
by leaflover4ever on Oct 15, 2011 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
pretty much, you open up any thread on a mass media outlet and there will be at least one coment about how the Leafs will NEVER win a cup no matter what happens
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
This is why I don’t read those things, I get enough of it daily at school or on BBM.
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the only regular chirping i get is from my best friend who is a Bruins fan, but he knows his hockey pretty good and is actually funny and origional
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions
My one friend who is a Habs/Nucks fan used to be like that, but since I cheered so incredibly assholishly against his teams in the playoffs he’s turned into a dick about the Leafs.
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Yeah, though he was born in Montreal and grew up in Victoria so it’s kind of like one of the rare circumstances where it makes sense.
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That’s what I say, he is “a habs fan who also cheers for vancouver”
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One guy I went to school with keeps on changing his BBM picture between the Leafs and Jets depending on who is playing. I mocked him and he threw a fit.
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fuck.the.jets.
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
The Winnipeg Jets – helping to carry on the tradition of ensuring that former Barrie Colts fail miserably in the NHL.
by Self Destructive Zones on Oct 15, 2011 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions
To be fair, I think that’s Barrie finally rubbing off on them.
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barrie is where people go to die on the inside.
by spoonie on Oct 15, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Jared you found a source for unlimited recs.
not that I disagree, fuck the jets, but did you get mugged in Winnipeg?
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nope, in fact I’m a Bombers fan, im just sick of the entitled bullshit and media deep throating
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions
I’ve actually met a reasonable Habs fan. I joke that we can watch games together as long as he promises not to set my car on fire and he takes it well.
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I’ve met a couple of em, went to a Jays game with them this summer
good people, shitty choice in hockey teams though
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions
what those grammatically challenged paraquats are saying is that THEY’ll never need a cup because they got no dick to protect.
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by Chuck Diesel on Oct 15, 2011 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions
based on last season
your friend isn’t all wrong… the Flames were better at the end of the year than the Leafs were.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah but that’s a pretty one-dimensional argument.
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how many
dimensions does an argument have to have to be reasonable?
"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 Oct 15, 2011 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I think the rule of thumb is 4.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
let's arbitrarily
say 7.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
personally
I think if you call an argument one dimensional what you’re saying is “that’s a good point and I can’t refute it… but it’s only ONE good point”.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t understand how the Flames being better than the Leafs last year is a good point that they will be playoff contenders and the Leafs will be bottom feeders.
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it doesn’t prove that we didn’t win that trade either.
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by Chuck Diesel on Oct 15, 2011 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions
People (a) think Kippur is a good goalie and (b) think that Iggy can carry a huge team. The biggest problems for the flames is not that they have no shot at making the playoffs this year (it is possible, but not likely) its that they have no future. They are old, full of NTC/NMCs, at the salary cap and have NO PROSPECTS>
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to be fair to Calgary
they have not made the playoffs for the past 2 years, but they’ve gotten 40 wins in both seasons… that’s kind of shitty for them frankly.
They’d easily have been a playoff team in the East.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions
They've also had
Iginla, Tanguay, Borque and Jokinen… really not that bad a top 4.
They got 94 points last year and 41 wins… I’d be ecstatic if we could manage the same.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah I wish we played against the Oilers Wild and Avalanche all year long too
Sometimes it seems this cycle never ends, we slide from top to bottom then we turn and climb again.
by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions
you mean
how much better that would be than playing Ottawa, Montreal, and oh… the Isles, Panthers, Hurricanes, etc.
The West is a far superior conference.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions
oh and
Atlanta.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions
as for bashing the Wild
they had 39 wins and 86 points last year… Leafs had 37 wins and 85 points… so they were better than we were.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Really
only Columbus, Edmonton, and Colorado are bad in the West right now.
Considering Minny added Heatley and Setoguchi this past off season, I don’t see them sucking crap all year.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t think Columbus is so bad. They’re my call for 9th. If it weren’t for my lack of faith in Mason I think they could be a playoff team.
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yes well
their D and goaltending are pretty shite… so good luck with 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.
by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions
also
losing Wisniewski for the start of the year wasn’t a great thing for them.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Some other people have more faith in their goaltending than me. There forwards are surprisingly deep.
Their D really isn’t all that bad, just lacks a stud.
Tyutin is a pretty damn good D-man and Russel/Methot both seem like legit top 4 guys. Wiz is there other top 4 Dman. Martinek and Clitsome seem like a fine 5/6 and Savard and Moore as prospects pushing seems solid to me.
Nothing special but not shite.
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The Wild hit a wall the last 6 weeks or so last year.
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fair enough
but they’re still better than Toronto over the past 5 years.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Take out
The Flames 1-4-1 record against the Canucks and the Flames went 12-6 against the rest. Tough division, that one
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions
in the past
decade, Iginla has managed 10 straight 30 goal seasons, including two 50, and two 40 goal seasons.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, remember at this time Flames fans had become very disillusioned about Phaneuf. He was supposed to be a star defenceman, but when you looked closely he was playing extremely sheltered minutes. All style and no substance; guys like Regehr and Sarich did all the heavy lifting. With his outsize contract and rumours he was poison in the dressing room, they were happy to be rid of him – addition by subtraction, but with useful parts coming in exchange.
To put it another way, they believed they’d traded away their Brett Lebda.
They still don’t think Phaneuf is worth having and he’ll have to prove himself to them before they change their mind.
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by Back In Black on Oct 15, 2011 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions
they traded away a 50 point defender that was having an off year and was victim of scape goatitis
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Also Phaneuf played like hot garbage here until the end of last year.
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i give him a bit of a pass after his leg injury, but before, yeah, he was crap
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions
He’s been a 30-point defender the last two years. You can see how Flames fans are glad they’re not paying Marc-Andre Bergeron $6.5M per year for the next three seasons. From their perspective, that was the guy (minus the showy bodychecks) they traded away.
I agree he seems to be successfully learning a much bigger role with the Leafs, and may still score 50 points and be the star defender the Flames fans once thought they had. I’m just saying he’s going to have to prove it to them before they believe it.
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by Back In Black on Oct 15, 2011 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions
he scored 30 points in 66 games last year, and with the ones who think they won the trade he could have scored 90 last year and they wouldnt admit fuck all
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
he takes top minutes on the first D pairing….I know he’s gotten 50 points, I’d like him to again, but I don’t really care as long as he plays well in the defensive zone against top comp.
by Goosemonster on Oct 15, 2011 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions
My main point is that he never took top minutes on the first D pairing in Calgary. That’s why they still think they won the trade.
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by Back In Black on Oct 15, 2011 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Brett Lebda is not to be compared to anyone who can do anything useful.
More comparable would be “The cancer patient had a successful surgery today. He is reported to have said that he was glad to get rid of his Brett Lebda”
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by Chuck Diesel on Oct 15, 2011 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions
I find it interesting that what’s tipped this trade in the Leafs’ favour is how Calgary handled their players after the trade.
If they trade Stajan or don’t sign him to the ridiculous deal and keep White at a reasonable contract this trade doesn’t look as bad.
Instead they lost White and are handcuffed by Stajan’s ridiculous deal ($3.5M and a NTC?)
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by mf37 on Oct 15, 2011 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
my favorite so far
If there are no picks involved, Stajan and White for Dion is a respectable deal. I could see something like a conditional 3rd headed to Toronto if Stajan is signed by Calgary.
by pho king awesome on Oct 15, 2011 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I really like this one:
“IMO this deal sets the Leafs back. Phanuef has all kinds of warts on his game. I believe Calgary dumping Phaneuf actually makes them a better team, whatever they get back in the deal is gravy. They got a nice return on the deal.”
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by BetterThanBester on Oct 15, 2011 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Ha, via one of the old PPP Phaneuf trade threads:
Captain?
Does anyone think Phaneuf can fill this role down the road?
by Another Good Kingston Boy on Jan 31, 2010 9:22 PM EST actions
no
by JaredFromLondon on Jan 31, 2010 9:23 PM EST up actions
if he fits in well and performs like he can, then yes. But it might be Komisarek first
by blindfolded tank driver on Jan 31, 2010 9:24 PM EST up actions
Not really. He could, but from what I’ve read he didn’t fit in the Calgary dressing room very well, nor provide any leadership. That doesn’t discount him in the future, but I doubt he has the tools to do it right now. Or in the near future.
by steve_w on Jan 31, 2010 9:25 PM EST up actions
Nope.
by mf37 on Jan 31, 2010 9:25 PM EST up actions
Survey says…..
X
Three strikes.
by SkinnyFish on Jan 31, 2010 9:26 PM EST up actions
To be fair, he did wear the A in Calgary but I just don’t see him being a captain.
by SkinnyFish on Jan 31, 2010 9:27 PM EST up actions
Nope
Not from what I’ve read.
by PPP on Jan 31, 2010 9:30 PM EST up actions
Captain?
Of what? His sailboat? Oh good Lord, no.
by jrwendelman on Jan 31, 2010 9:43 PM EST up actions
The SS Sloppy Seconds!
by blindfolded tank driver on Jan 31, 2010 9:44 PM EST up actions 1 recs
slow down
the need for a captain is overrated anyway.
by pevans on Jan 31, 2010 10:34 PM EST up actions
http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2010/1/31/1285901/leafs-go-trade-crazy-the-media
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions
more comfortable with the idea now than I was then, still dont think we have anyone better for the C though
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe
but at the time – and even now – do we have a better one?
MGK leads on the ice, but not really Captain material.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions
also hard to give the C to a whole line
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I meant any of them, but ya.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t think the right answer is – nobody here is a good choice, let’s give it to Dion.
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Hindsight is 20/20 but
Maybe the plan was if Phaneuf didn’t get along with the Flames locker room because they thought he was too big for his britches then make a commitment to him by making him the voice in the locker room.
Dunno. Just glad he’s playing well.
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I don’t know if he’s a good captain or not. I do think that it would be a bad idea to have a young team with no captain for an extended period. He may not be perfect, but I think he’s probably the best choice we have.
I also think that Mats set the bar pretty fucking high, but it’s not really fair to compare everyone to him. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think we’re going to see anyone of Mats’ caliber (in terms of both skills and leadership) around here for a long time.
Bottom line though, I’m happy as long as he’s playing well, which is he for now.
I had something really clever to say here. But I forgot.
I think that was the belief at the time. By allowing him to be the big fish in the small pond he was able to be vocal and lead. Over there he looked like the kid with talent who had to big a mouth and needed to learn his place.
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Fair enough, ask me again in 80 games if he is fit for it.
Like all things Leafs I’m trying to remain cautiously optimistic.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions
So we’ll revisit this right before the Leafs first game of the playoffs?
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Probably a few times before then too, but ya if we make the playoffs and Dion is a big part of it, then I can probably already guess what my argument is going to be.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions
I was just going by your schedule.
ask me again in 80 games
If I ask you then, the playoffs will just be starting…
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it will be
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I doubt it now. I can see Phaneuf being here quite a while if he keeps up this play.
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Someone’s gotta keep it warm for Tyler Biggs
by Self Destructive Zones on Oct 15, 2011 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions
If there are no picks involved, Stajan and White for Dion is a respectable deal. I could see something like a conditional 3rd headed to Toronto if Stajan is signed by Calgary.
LOL
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Does his performance reflect his contract? No.
Is it better to have him and Aulie than Stajan, Hagman, Mayers and White? Yes.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Sportsnet’s preview was just saying how they still need more time to determine a winner for the trade.
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by BetterThanBester on Oct 15, 2011 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I miss hagman’s wife.
I had something really clever to say here. But I forgot.
by daoust on Oct 15, 2011 2:02 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I prefer Dions girlfriend
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Mrs. Hagman > Ms. Cuthbert
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by SkinnyFish on Oct 15, 2011 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Jack Bauers daughter for life
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Last game my drunk friends and I were like “WOO ELISHA!! SHES SO HOTT” whenever they showed her. Good times.
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No, funny story though is that my one friend who was there is in a frat (we make fun of him for it a lot). We were just really drunk.
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bro Dion liked it, bro
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
I love the internet
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions
He got wayy to many fashion ideas from watching the Mighty Ducks.
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Add spray tan and he’s ready for Jersey Shore.
Living and dying with the Blue and White, season to season, game to game, shift to shift.
by ThickSkinnedAlive on Oct 15, 2011 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions
what a little masturbator.
Move along. Nothing to see here...
by Van Ryn's Neurologist on Oct 15, 2011 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Mats :(
Also Dion’s scary
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Also just scary
Can it before I drive this truculence through your faceulence and put you in an ambulance.
by Brunswick Bruiser on Oct 15, 2011 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
DION HAPPY RAAAAAAAAAR
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
McKegg fart, Dion stare in disgust.
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by Shield on Oct 15, 2011 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
blue and white steel
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
This face should show up whenever someone comments about Calgary winning the trade.
Can it before I drive this truculence through your faceulence and put you in an ambulance.
by Brunswick Bruiser on Oct 15, 2011 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
We play Calgary twice right? Week before next game we need to all start blogging about how Matt Stajan is what the Leafs needed to make the playoffs.
A whole week of “WHY’D WE MOVE STAJAN”.
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HAGMAN WOULD BE THE PERFECT COMPLIMENTARY WINGER FOR KESSEL!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Mayers was way more truculent than Steckel and we miss him on the 3rd line. White is the puck mover we desperately need in Kaberle’s absence. Stempniak has left a humongous gaping hole in our 2nd unit scoring. We’re fucked!
Kind of like when Jeff Reese and Alex Godynyuk murdered our goals against when they left for that bum we got back in Ric Natress
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by Chuck Diesel on Oct 15, 2011 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions
it’s stuck in my head now
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the hell is a maroon 5?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Title of a Gilligan’s Island remake?
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by Clawson on Oct 15, 2011 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Damn
Jason Blake out 3 months with a skate cut to his wrist.
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yeah poor guy, i thought players under armour covered their wrists
by pho king awesome on Oct 15, 2011 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Under Armour might as well be tissue paper compared to a skate blade.
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When I played competitive hockey most of us had like “slash guards” that we wore to cover between gloves and elbow pads, maybe Blake is just too old school.
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yeah sorry this is what i meant, i wore them too
by pho king awesome on Oct 15, 2011 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions
3 months?!? Should’ve been the HNIC broadcast crew.
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I believe
the Marlies game is about to start and is being broadcast on Rogers for us Torontonians.
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by Nigel Cadbury on Oct 15, 2011 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Lake Erie scores early.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions
It was a savable shot IMO, but ya.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions
96 draft
best part about that 96 draft is nobody has more pts then Kaberle except Danny briere, everyone got shafted in that draft except us :D
Chara’s a pretty good pick.
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along with the 2nd overall pick (ie Spezza) for Yashin.
by Nigel Cadbury on Oct 15, 2011 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Like a clown….. (no I’m not quoting the movie, I’m just stating facts)
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by Chuck Diesel on Oct 15, 2011 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions
still love his comment about Ziggy Palffy
by Nigel Cadbury on Oct 15, 2011 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions
His comments (which are 99% asinine) notwithstanding it’s this that makes me laugh:
Bertuzzi and Mccabe for Linden
Yashin for Chara and 2nd overall pick (Spezza)
Berard for Potvin
Luongo and Jokien for Parrish and Kvasha
and the best part from a blog “Milbury doesn’t suck as bad as the Leafs GM”
yeah that nameless Leafs GM was way worse than Moronic Mike.
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by Chuck Diesel on Oct 15, 2011 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions
and Ottawa once used a first overall pick to draft Chris Phillips ahead of… holy shit look at this first round. Nevermind.
We got a better player in the 8th round – Tomas Kaberle.
LOLTTAWA!
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Ick
Defense not looking good early in the Marlies game
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This PP is pretty bad
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Now a penalty on Crabb
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Ha – Boyce looked like he was trying a Kadri toe drag
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions
FTW
The morning of the Phaneuf trade, I woke up in a mountainside resort with just the right amount of hangover. I was then immediately ravaged by my then-girlfriend, before flipping on the television to watch Manchester United beat Arsenal 3-1. And then I turned on the computer and went to PPP to read reactions from the previous night’s loss to Vancouver…only to discover that the Flames had given us Dion Phaneuf. AND…I live in Calgary. It was a truly glorious occasion on so many levels.
Oh—and I was at Sundin’s 500th. Of all the NHL games I’ve seen, none—with the possible exception of a couple playoff games—can match that one. Just an amazing night.
It’s hilarious how everyone – including myself – was super hungover that morning.
Jan 30 was a good party night
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions
In fairness, it was the night the Leafs went up 3-0 against Vancouver and then lost 5-3. Drinking was in order from coast-to-coast.
fuckin`raycroft too
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I remember that loss, I was already pretty ripped when that collapse occurred. I was swearing quite profusely.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions
wasn’t hung over, but I remember still being in a crappy mood that morning from the game the night before and opening up TSN.ca to the headline of the trade. Mood gone instantly
by Nigel Cadbury on Oct 15, 2011 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t remember how I found out who we gave up for Phaneuf. But I remember driving to work and the radio said we got JS Giguere and I was like hmmmm a goalie..we need that, I wonder who we had to give up. When I heard it was Blake and Toskala I almost crashed my car. Fist pumping at 100 km/h is inadvisable.
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by Chuck Diesel on Oct 15, 2011 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions
I call January 31st “Moving Day”…I was helping my buddy move, and on the way to his new place he gets a TSN update saying Phaneuf is a Leaf. Then later on, we were going to get pizza and on the way to do that, we get a call saying Blake and Toskala moved for Giguere…my buddy wasn’t the only one moving lol.
1/1/11: Saw the beginning of the Optimus Reim era. And it was glorious!!!1
Oh...and Phil Kessel says YAAAAAAYYYY!!!1
I was hungover as hell as well, don’t remember why though
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
That would make sense yes, I just wonder where
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I was out the night before so I was sleeping on the couch (I snore when I’m drunk, so that’s the deal I have with my wife). My wife’s on the computer and says “Did you hear about this Leaf trade? They got … Phaneuf?? Is he good?” I shot up and ran over – I was scared to see who they had given up. When I read the details I thought it was a joke.
I had something really clever to say here. But I forgot.
Schenn/Kadri fears were rampant
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions
exactly – I thought at least one if not both had gone the other way.
I had something really clever to say here. But I forgot.
i remember from one flames forum a guy was convinced the Leafs were getting Kessel+ one of Kadri, schenn or the leafs 1st in 2012
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions
you sleep on the couch? unreal
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I sleep like a log no matter where I am when I’m drunk. I can sleep sitting up at our dining room table (and I have – my wife came down one morning and I had fallen asleep checking the hockey pool). it’s no skin off my ass and it’s a lot better than having a cranky wife that hasn’t slept because I was snoring all night.
I had something really clever to say here. But I forgot.
I was actually sad we gave up Stajan
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Some questionable defense happening with the Marlies here
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clap-clap-clapclapclap
Kulemin so hot right now, Kulemin.
by PassivelyTruculent on Oct 15, 2011 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
One Marlie threw a hit, 2 Monsters forechecked behind the net, no Marlies player picked them up, just watched.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
and another penalty for the Marlies it sounds like.
by Nigel Cadbury on Oct 15, 2011 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions
lol Boyce fight, headlocked Stoa’s helmet until it fell off
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Speaking of January 31, 2010...
Jason Blake out three months with a wrist injury.
see above
Kulemin so hot right now, Kulemin.
by PassivelyTruculent on Oct 15, 2011 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions
I just noticed
Doesn’t Eakins look like David Tennant, who played the 10th Doctor?
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WHAT A SICK MOVE BY COLBONER!
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Joe Colborne 3 goals 3 games wooooooo
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
6 points in 3 games, not bad
by scrambles the death dealer on Oct 15, 2011 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions
I think you sit for 5 minutes then you go free
by Nigel Cadbury on Oct 15, 2011 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Anyone else’s TV freaking out?
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Does Ricoh really have an upper bowl? Don’t remember one when I was there.
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I won seats on twitter from the marlies play by play guy that were at the very top level, it’s not that high up
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions
lol technical difficulties
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Marlies take a lot of penalties, but their PK is awesome
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
8 for 8 after the first 2 games I believe I read on twitter.
by Nigel Cadbury on Oct 15, 2011 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
What are some cool things
to do or see in downtown Toronto that wont cost me a kidney?
I’m taking my girlfriend to the CN Tower on monday but after that I’m not sure what we’ll do, I don’t know downtown Toronto very well at all. Any suggestions?
p.s. Go Leafs Go and all that
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Are you going to do the Edgewalk?
Hockey Hall of Fame is good too
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Edgewalk is expensive for a student
Working twenty hours a week so I’m not sure about that yet.
She’s not much of a hockey fan, at least nowhere near the level I’m at. I’ll ask her anyways.
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions
She’s not much of a hockey fan
red flag red flag red flag
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Haha
She’ll watch it but she isn’t dedicated or anything like that (she likes the Sharks I guess) and I’ve also been called a nerd once or twice for looking up hockey news on my phone
It’s a work in progress
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions
WHAT
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Ya then I don’t know, pretty much everything I do involved drinking, hockey, working or eating, sometimes all at the same time
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I guess
We’ll just walk around and find something, downtown Toronto is a nice place
Might hit up somewhere for the Leafs-Avs game that night but I kinda wanted to get home earlier than midnight for… um, something else
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions
What about the ROM or something? I don’t really know because I’m only ever downtown Toronto for school related events, Leafs games, or the occasional show.
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The ROM is a cool place but in my opinion it’s the kind of thing you plan your day around and we’re already hitting up the CN tower, I was kinda just thinking about trying to find some smaller things
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions
CN Tower shouldn’t take long
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I wouldn’t know, I haven’t been since I was 7. Was planning on sitting down and having a coffee or something in that spinning restaurant or something too
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions
there’s that, and the glass floor. And a million pictures and facts you can look at. That’s about it.
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Might do edge walk too, I’ll have to ask her about it
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions
liking the sharks..hmm could be worse could be Ottawa or Montreal.
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by Future_considerations on Oct 15, 2011 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Hahah rec’d
Kulemin so hot right now, Kulemin.
by PassivelyTruculent on Oct 15, 2011 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions
What the heck is Honest Ed’s it sounds like a horse farm
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Dear god it’s so shiny, what is it?
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Ed%27s
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there’s also two great pubs behind it (west on bloor, Markham St) – The Central, and the one just south of it – AWESOME taps.
The Brunny (Brunwsick house) is right down the street too. Used to have cheap beer and cheap whores I donno what it’s like now though. It’s a hole but a well attended one.
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by Chuck Diesel on Oct 15, 2011 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
The hockey hall of fame is pretty cheap and a must see.
by pho king awesome on Oct 15, 2011 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Steamwhistle tour can be a fun time.
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by BetterThanBester on Oct 15, 2011 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I’d love to tour an old brewery, the distillery district is beautiful
Don’t know how a 21 year old girl would feel about it though
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions
fwiw, the mill st pub is a cool place to check out there, and theres 4-5 GREAT restaurants there – very romantic.
My dad’s childhood best friend lives in an apartment practically right beside that area, I can actually remember all of the quaint restaurants and coffee shops around there
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
The mill st pub has really mediocre food
Confused why people think Aulie is better than Gunnarson. Please ask me to explain
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you don't eat
at the Mill St. Pub… there are other good restaurants in the Distillery District.
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I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Wooooooo Gyspers
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Not giving him credit, but definitely was screening
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice shot from Gysbers
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I thought McKegg had a concussion?
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Pre game meal with @Bthomps22 #begoing
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i dont think concussions prevent you from eating
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions
THEY DONT?
Perhaps I’m reading to much into the “pre game” part of it.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Sid must have been fucking starving all summer
by Self Destructive Zones on Oct 15, 2011 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Do they prevent you from farting?
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- Niels Bohr
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by Chemmy on Oct 15, 2011 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Im brewing you up something special
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
pass me that chili dog
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by Future_considerations on Oct 15, 2011 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions
who wants a dutch oven?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
OH GOD I GOT SOME IN MY MOUTH
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I definitely win the prize for best picture in our fantasy league.
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The Marlies really need to get their feet moving
Another goal by Lake Erie
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Rynnas playing tomorrow, finally get to see this guy again
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Washington vs. Ottawa tonight, Auld in net
I’m calling Auld shutou…. HAHAHAHA
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Shutout… in the shots stopped category.
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Might as well just leave their goal horn playing throughout the entire game ;)
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Ottawa-First game 5 GA
Second 6 GA
Third 7 GA
Trend? 8 goals for the Caps tonight?
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Oct 15, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
That seems fairly likely
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions
If playing your backup against Washington isn’t a sign of early tanking I don’t know what is
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Ottawa is awesome at tanking and not caring who knows it!
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FUCK YOU OILERS YAKUPOV IS OURS
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions
ALL OFFENSE
NO DEFENSE
STANLEY CUP 2013
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions
they picked up a decent guy in Klefborn at this years draft
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
I'll admit
They also have a good one in Petry.
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- Niels Bohr
they also drafted Musil this year too, and whitney is only 28
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Now that I look at it
The Oilers have some good defencemen depth in their farm.
So, me saying the Oilers have no defence was unfair.
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- Niels Bohr
Klefbom was on my list of "wants’ for sure
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions
I only wanted John Gibson.
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best at his position!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Could have had him too had we not traded up for Tyler Bust Biggs!
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
They’re also awesome at tanking for future busts.
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by Frag on Oct 15, 2011 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I grabbed Anderson and Subban in the PPPPP.
They’ve been useless this season. I won’t drop them no matter what.
Go Leafs go.
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Anderson ‘s spot on my fantasy team’s bench is going to be super warm this year
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Someone in one of my hockey pools (6 keepers) traded a 3rd round pick for the right to keep Craig Anderson. I seriously laughed for days at that.
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Talk about your Jekyll/Hyde goaltenders. When Anderson isn’t on fire he’s horrific.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Wanna see something crazy?
Look where Craig Anderson sits on S% by a goalie since 07/08
What are the guesses people? 15th? Probably too high. 20th? 25th?
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Answer
7th.
Ahead of him:
Thomas, Vokoun, Hiller, Rinne, Luongo, Lundy END LIST
Behind him? Guys like:
Bryz, Miller, Backstrom, Halak, Price, Brodeur, Ward, Fleury, and the reason the Flames will succeed: Kipper (at 25 lol)
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The hilarious part is that they have to choose between two terrible terrible choices
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s like having to choose between Toskala and Raycroft in their worst years
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Anderson is a good goalie and most of his sucktitude this season has been due to the random hobos defense in front of him.
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yeah
Ottawa’s D is atrocious
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Ovechkin is going to set a new single game record for goals tonight
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions
They have a couple of forwards who are confused in life and play D. Thats about it.
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sort of like
Jake Gardiner?
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Suggestions.
Who would you guys bench tonight? i have two spots to guess on…
http://games.espn.go.com/fhl/clubhouse?leagueId=47320&teamId=8
Callahan and…. Kulemin? or JvR
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions
callahan gets mega-minutes. kulie usually adds a point when mac-t or grabbo pot one. JvR is getting a hot hand.
choices!
Look at your other players. The choice isn't THAT hard.
You aren’t benching Stamkos, Carter, Nash, Couture, Sharp, Kessel, Duchene
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions
holy shit, how many teams in that league
by pho king awesome on Oct 15, 2011 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Speaking of tall players…. Aulie has not been spectacular this game
Also 0 points, -4 in 3 games, not that he’s supposed to be putting up points though
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
He’s got work to do. He was bad in the NHL last year.
He’s young.
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I’m hoping he has one of those Kadri-esque bad few games of being disappointed in the demotion, followed up by 50 games of trying to prove everyone wrong.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions
to be fair about all of this Aulie
love we show…
When Calgary dealt him they weren’t that high on his eventual up-side… they figured he might develop into at most a defensive stalwart like Gill or something… and that was at best.
He’s got a lot of developing to do to get there.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Next time he comes up will probably be the Gardiner path too, i.e. start on the 5th/6th slot and work his way up, rather than getting 1st line minutes.
Unless Burke trades a bunch of players then I have no idea.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions
The defence as a whole hasn’t looked spectacular. A lot of standing around in the defensive zone, failing to get the puck out of the zone.
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- Niels Bohr
our D
is quite a bit younger this year than last… aside from Finger.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions
I know
Just stating what I’ve been seeing so far in this game. Aside from Aulie, they looked better in the 2nd period.
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- Niels Bohr
Shit Tyson Barrie has some nice hands
Didn’t convert, but damn.
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Oh Colborne with a glorious breakaway, puts it off the goalpost
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just rtealized
the Marlies were on… ty for the reminders.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Colborne's chance
would have been pretty.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
His 1st goal was
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
friggen newmarket, they are showing NCAA football instead of the Marlies
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions
On tv guide right now. I’m not hopeful for London.
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“Doggy calls” is on rogers instead. BOOO!!! And NCAA Football LSU at Tennessee.
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and they wonder why there is no interest in the AHL
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
someone
has to agree to carry it over something else that draws more viewers.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions
You missed an amazing goal from Colborne
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- Niels Bohr
they'll have
video highlights later on the Marlies site I’m guessing.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
or if I keep watching
they’ll show clips during the game.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Ya, they take a lot longer than the Leafs ones to get up though, probably not ready unti late tonight/tomorrow
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions
I can wait
I’ve got time.
4 minute PP coming up.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Colborne driving a ton of chances right now
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he looks
very solid… I like the direction of his development… developing a serious net presence offensively could make his game huge.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions
his skating
just needs to keep improving.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
I love Eakins.
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give it 5 years
he might be our Coach by then.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions
I can’t judge if that will be a good thing or not because I don’t watch enough Marlies’ games. He is very good at developing talent (thats what I love). I don’t know how good he is at building a winner though..
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I have 4 goalies in my one league.
Roloson’s not playing.
Theodore’s playing (against the Lightning).
Thomas is not confirmed (against Chicago)
Kipper’s in for sure tonight versus the Leafs.
Is it emotional hedging if I put Kipper in? Or bad karma?
I had something really clever to say here. But I forgot.
I always put in the goalies the Leafs are facing.
Emotional hedging FTW
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
ZIG'D!
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- Niels Bohr
nice goal
for Zigomanis.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
WOW nice goal by Caputi
fun game
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better
fight by Boyce… Wilson really didn’t do much there.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
If I was in an AHL fantasy hockey pool, or if it existed, I’d be picking up Boyce for PIMs.
That’s his 2nd 5 minute major tonight.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions
which is funny
because he never does that in the NHL particularly.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Wow Luca
@KyleTheReporter
Kyle Cicerella
Caputi’s goal was his first since last October 16th against Hamilton. One full year between tallies #Marlies #Leafs
Of course he was injured most of that time.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
luca
nice.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
of course
that was a shit play by Lack… shouldn’t have gone in under his arm that easily…. best goalie in the AHL my ass.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
That’s not Lack in net, it’s Cann
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
is it?
I could have sworn I saw Lack’s name on the jersey… I’ll accept your statement as fact though.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions
I guess
Lake Erie isn’t Vancouver’s farm team anyway.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions
http://theahl.com/stats/official-game-report.php?game_id=1008685
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Jessiman?
who is Lake Erie associated with?
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
The team is an affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions
where was
that quoted from? I missed it… I kinda skipped most of the comments in this thread if it was posted above.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Wasn’t from a link, I was just copying it from the Monsters’ Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Erie_Monsters
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Jean Beliveau: dirtbag
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by Chemmy on Oct 15, 2011 4:54 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
NHL Network showing how Montreal drafted him: by buying the entire amateur league he played in, turning it into a pro league and then signing him.
Dirtbags.
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ah, yeah, they did a lot of that type of thing, there are some shenanigans behind all those dynasty players for sure
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions
that doesn't make
him a dirtbag… it makes the team’s ownership a bunch of dirtbags.
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Dirtbag.
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by Chemmy on Oct 15, 2011 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
montreal..fucking pond scum
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by Future_considerations on Oct 15, 2011 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions
huh?
not following.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
So far
Colborne has 2 points today… Caputi has a goal and is +2… Crabb has 2 assists.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
Colborne 3 goals, 5 points in 3 games.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions
yep
solid season so far… he’s definitely indicating he deserves a look at the NHL level at some point so far.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Super Saiyan Sandwich?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Quick projection
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I like charts
They’re so pretty!
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."
- Niels Bohr
meh
I’ve heard that enough already this year… he’s looked good SO FAR… it’s not like I mentioned the future.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions
you guys need
to recognize when I say “over the past few games”… or “in this game” … that’s all I’m talking about… saying “I think he’ll get 8 zillion goals” has never happened.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Sir Winston Churchill
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
either that OR
next time someone says so-and-so played well tonight… I expect everyone to jump out with “small sample size”.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
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by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
The only time I called you out for small sample size was when you used the words “That’s worrisome” for Olden after 2 games… that, to me, implied that you thought there was a problem with Olden on more than just a non-productive 2 games.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Quote Unquote, Steve Burtch, October 15, 2011 5:09 EDT
saying "I think he’ll get 8 zillion goals" has never happened.
Just happened.
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by not norm ullman on Oct 15, 2011 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Another question or two
Is there any decent parking near the CN Tower? Is it even a good idea to bring the car on a Monday or should I park it somewhere and take a train instead?
Sometimes it seems this cycle never ends, we slide from top to bottom then we turn and climb again.
don't bother
it’s expensive… park elsewhere and take the train.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m coming from Cambridge, where would be a good place to catch said train?
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Hmm
if you’re taking the GO you could just come into the west end near Hamilton and jump on in Burlington or something.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Take the Greyhound..
It stops less, don’t have to transfer, and still drops you off at Union
These aren't the droids you're looking for.....
I believe its much more expensive. Could be wrong though, check the websites.
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Its a bit more, but form what I remember its less than $20 from Guelph. Totally worth it to not have to drive to Milton then transfer in Mississauga.
These aren't the droids you're looking for.....
If you drive to Aldershot or Burlington you can get on the GO and it’s like $16 round trip.
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Take the greyhound instead
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions
No way
I’d rather drive to Kennedy station or something and catch the train
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions
lol
Kennedy is in the East End… you don’t want to do that..
you can’t get on in Milton or Georgetown.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions
or Aldershot or Burlington
something like 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.
by Steve Burtch on Oct 15, 2011 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh yeah, forgot about that. I used to live in Scarborough so I probably should have remembered that
I could get on in Milton, that’s on the way
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions
You can’t get on in Milton. Aldershot, Burlington, Appleby, Bronte, Oakville.
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Oh, I also should have remembered how to read I suppose
Are there no train stations on the west side of the GTA I could hit up? I don’t mind driving to the suburbs, I just don’t want to take the car downtown
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions
the ones listed above (except for milton) are west end accessible via the QEW
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by Future_considerations on Oct 15, 2011 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions
QEW isn’t that far away I guess, a short trip down highway 6
For the record why can’t I get on in Milton? I haven’t taken a train in years
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions
that im not sure.. anyone?
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by Future_considerations on Oct 15, 2011 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions
For some reason I always heard that it did
http://www.gotransit.com/publicroot/en/schedules/sysmap.aspx
This says it does at least
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 5:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Well maybe it does, I’m just assuming and reading what Steve said.
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i think there is a bus involved in that route, but i’m not 100% sure
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by Future_considerations on Oct 15, 2011 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions
What is too expensive for you?
The parking at Rees Rd and Queens Quay is $15. Time is money for me too heh.
Yeah, trying to drive anywhere downtown on a weekday doesn’t sound like a ton of fun. Add in the Leafs game that night and there’s not a chance I take the car all the way
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by Chris Stoikoff on Oct 15, 2011 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Well you could always take the car to Finch Station
401 to Yonge, Yonge north to Finch Station, subway to Union
All the ones I just listed are on the west side of the GTA, in the suburbs.
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Can I just say
comparing Scrivens to Reimer is kind of dumb… it’s not like Reimer was highly touted in the AHL at all prior to showing up in the NHL last year.
"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.
which isn't to say
I think Reimer was bad… I actually liked his game, but he was never the outright starter for the Marlies.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:14 PM EDT up reply actions
mainly because he was hurt so often
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions
right
but nobody went on about how great a calming influence he was on the Marlies.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions
it's the whole
mythology thing… people are revising how we talked about Reimer in the past because he’s now in the NHL so it looks like the talking heads had half a clue about him coming up to the NHL ahead of time.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions
No one did.
At best I thought he was a decent prospect and injury prone.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions
that's my point
which is why I think it’s absurd to compare Scrivens to him in such a “he’s as good as Reimer used to be for the Marlies” kind of context… basically it’s like saying “oh he’s just like this guy we hardly noticed a few years ago”.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Every asshole wants to be a prospect hipster
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd wanna be a dinosaur
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 15, 2011 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Where you find these things i’ll never know
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Well no one had any faith in Scrivens when he came to the team. Also just because we didn’t know Reimer doesn’t mean he wasn’t good down there. It could also mean we weren’t paying enough attention.
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I am acknowledging
that he played well down there, but he was injured often, and a number of us regularly argued that he deserved to be ahead of the latest pickup Rynnas and Scrivens on the depth chart before last year.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Those of us who actually watched him play multiple games thought he should be… He was injury prone and I thought 2 years away because he was behind on development but he always looked good in the small sample sizes he gave us…
yep
and he was playing well behind a relatively shit team in Junior… and his regular run of high ankle sprains was sort of worrying.
I’m actually worried that he needs to stay healthy this year, keeping my fingers crossed
"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 Oct 15, 2011 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought I read somewhere that after 2 seasons ago when he had his like 3rd high ankle sprain or however many it was he changed his physio/workouts and they think its a thing of the past. One can hope
yep we can.
I’m not that stressed atm… Connolly worries me more.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions
No one did
But in all honesty he had a very normal development. Did his years in junior (including a couple after being drafted). Played a bit in the E than in the A than earned a call up through injuries. Played well enough to keep his spot.
But frankly with goalies that happens a lot. Its really hard to predict who will be a stud goal tender.
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by not norm ullman on Oct 15, 2011 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Reimer owned in a pre-season game last year I believe. I went on record at that point and said I think he’d be our #1 forever and ever.
Move along. Nothing to see here...
by Van Ryn's Neurologist on Oct 15, 2011 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions
He was before he got the call up last year (for a very short time). He was the number 3 goalie in camp last year.
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by default
don’t you remember us all talking about how he DESERVED to be #3 because of how long he’d been in the system? nobody was assuming it in the MSM.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I know we talked about how
he’d played well… and he’d been here the longest so he deserved a shot as #3 and the presumptive starter in the AHL… but the press hardly noticed and frankly took no real stock of his game.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought PPP would have had a story up about the MLB time capsule
Am I missing the discussion, it’s kinda cool and I thought it would be fun to guess what is in it.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/10/14/toronto-maple-leaf.html
by plen on Oct 15, 2011 5:37 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Mueller with an EN
Lake Erie pulled the goalie with 3 mins left…. risky.
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Lake Erie gets one late but Marlies win 5-3
3 points for Colborne, 2 for Mueller, and Crabb
Colborne 6 points in 3 games now, I like.
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by nhlcheapshot on Oct 15, 2011 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
He’s showing why he was a first round pick…Its almost like he learned what needed to be done at the pro ranks after his rookie year last year and spent the offseason improving. I say almost because we all know that never happens.
Bottom line is once Burke finds a way to clear the logjam at centre and SB3.0 gets hurt again Colborne might be ready (see February like timeline imo)
I think
Colborne will eventually be our #1 C… I was saying it last year, and I’m still saying it… and I’ve liked him as a prospect since he was back in NCAA hockey… I wanted the Leafs to trade for him 2+ years ago… and I don’t know why I feel the need to justify this… anywaaaaay. If he’s a bust you can all tell me I’m an idiot eventually.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I agree I think he bottoms out as an okay 2nd line centre even at this point but tops out as a almost-allstar level 1st line centre.
Well
this year he’s gone 1 pt, 2 pts, 3 pts, so if his point production per game = the game number, he could finish with 3362 points and 82 goals.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions
is this where I say?
SSS? J.K. I agree.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I get to watch the game preview in HD, then they switch to the Ottawa game :( Luckily i have another stream, but the lack of HD is disappointing.
I get to watch
Toronto on TV whenever they play… hooray for living in Toronto.
"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 Oct 15, 2011 7:08 PM EDT up reply actions
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