Dancing the Night Away

Montreal sucks. Ottawa’s next.

Hell yes!

Can we start trolling Silver Seven Sens now? i won’t be online tomorrow.

I’d rather Leafs fans danced in the streets, than light on fire the cars parked along them.

Habs fans in toronto would have been rubbing it in all of our faces had they won, F them

I’ve just joined Habs Eyes on the Prize and Silver Seven for future heckling opportunities. It feels so wrong joining, but it will be worth it later! There’s nothing I enjoy more than rubbing in a great Leafs win against the Habs or Sens.

Seriously, the guy took off his jersey, and hung it UNDER his coat.

It was a koivu jersey too. KOIVU.

Ok, let me get this straight: we’re called idiots for being fans of a team that “can’t win” (no playoffs in years, 1967, etc) and when we get the win that people said we wouldn’t get (the NHL poll last night had a "Carey Price shuts out Toronto option in opening night possibilities) we’re idiots for celebrating. I don’t think these people know what it means to be a fan, or to like something, or to be a reasonable human being.

I don’t like the fact your team won! I will take exception to the method in which you choose to celebrate!

Best part about having a Habs fan behind me: hearing him bitch and moan the whole game about Scott Gomez. I think the best was along the lines of “I even hate how he wears his helmet with the stupid straps bent outwards. He’s more concerned with looking good than playing”.

Reminder that we got Dion Phaneuf and Keith Aulie for Matt Stajan, Jamal Mayers and Niklas Hagman. Bwahahahahaha.

Yeah, that’s a reccin.

This is off topic but it has to be said.

Frattin I like you, but #39? Come on. Clearly he hasn’t watched enough Leaf games.

Colton Orr goes into the lineup tomorrow night even though Matt Carkner is injured. Not sure what he’s going to do now other than play really bad hockey.

There isn’t a goalie in the league that stops that. Perfectly fed into the wheelhouse by Kessel and launched under the crossbar like an uppercut to Avery’s chin.

all I can hear right now is chumbawumba

SkinnyFish and birky are pretty effective too, but of you three Torontonians, I’d have to say that Chemmy always lands the best punches. Whatever they’re putting in the water there in Toronto, I’ll have what these three locals are drinking.

jk

not rly tho

All of them primary, btw.

Goodness Gracious !! hey the NHL doesnt mean “No Happiness League” … If your happy that your team won .. Dance In the Streets. Just don’t do it naked or you will be arrested and having a criminal record is not really cool.

“One victory and we dance, are we supposed to feel shame for that? Should I go around bathed in ashes and wearing a hair shirt because Glenn Healy and a Habs fan told me that my penance as a suffering Leafs fan has yet to be paid? Would you prefer me to be weeping meekly counting up to 81? Let me give you a bit of knowledge: the dancing in the streets and the shouting loud Leafs fans were doing wasn’t for you. It was for us, because really we’d rather party with our own tribe on nights like this. We know how long the road will be, we are aware of victory being as fleeting as defeats are. We are in this for the long haul out of love for the sacred logo we all follow, so every now and again, we go crazy and express our happiness over little things. We celebrate spontaneously for no apparent reason. Or maybe there is a reason.

Let’s review that lacklustre game by the Canadiens, they outplayed Toronto in the first period and aside from Reimer it looked like a game the Canadiens had won without a goal being scored. However in the second period there was a turning of the tide. The Leafs played hungry, they even played just a bit mean. Lombardi’s goal was a third time’s a charm effort which was generated on hustle and desire, we love that sort of scene. You have to understand, we all felt that change, we all saw it. For Leaf fans that makes all the difference in the world. That’s what we celebrated. The fact Reimer played solid and held us together (and the first shutout for OPTIMUS), the fact we found a desire to win and play when we’d been losing the battle. This is far from over, but worthy of a jig their perfomance was.

Next time you see us dancing remember its for our own we do these things. Just like you wouldn’t peek in on your neighbours and cluck your tounge offer us the same courtesy and at least try not to criticize what you can’t understand. "