What A Night!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Man, i need to plan this out.

Oh my god that is amazing. I didn’t see this yesterday

Agreed 100%. However if this was his escape plan it worked like a charm. Only person I feel sorry for is Randy Cunneyworth. Dude gets his dream job of coaching in the NHL only to be repeatedly thrown under the bus.

well written magnetron. COMPLETELY unprofessional. if you’re a professional athlete, you should treat your team and fans with respect (regardless of what is happening behind the scenes)…. if you’re a professional athlete making millions of dollars who isn’t living up to his potential… all the worse.

Or maybe what your team does need is a wake-up call. And a player saying that the team has a “losing mentality”, and practices & plays like they are going to lose is the kick in the ass the team might need.

They also sold low on one of their best players, but at least for them they may have also bought low in that trade.

Did he actually say the team was “losers”? I thought his comment was that they were playing with a “losing mentality” ie. they were lacking confidence and feeling sorry for themselves.

Also, by all accounts Cammalleri is a really hard worker who takes hockey very seriously.

I disagree.

When Cammalleri returns to Montreal he will get a halak like standing ovation for his playoff performance there

Here’s a really good observation by Barry Petchesky at Deadspin:

But here’s the fascinating thing about Montreal: players aren’t allowed to badmouth the franchise, but fans and reporters are constantly in a race to do it first and most brutally.

this is the worst trolling i’ve ever seen

Though I’m impressed they mentioned a streaky player and weren’t talking about Kessel.

I just don’t understand the logic of it..
he says things like “finger makes too much, you dont want players who make that much so you should trade him. same with komisarek..” who are going to be taking these guys?
and kadri.. lol that ones just a joke

Gustavsson may be able to provide a bit of return in the way of a solid and much need third line centre.

uh. I want a 1st line centre first. We have a bunch of 3rd line centres.

Don’t give in to troll-hits:

Jeff Finger, “even for a seventh round pick.”
Mikhail Grabovski, “streaky. lacks heart and consistency.”
Jonas Gustavsson, for not being Reimer.
Nazem Kadri, “You can either play in this league or you can’t, and according to MLSE brass, he can’t.”
Mike Komisarek, For being bad.
Cody Franson, “Hit someone, Franson!”
Luke Schenn, “He’s turned into a HUGE defensive liability.”

I wonder if his next article will be about how too many people pay attention to the Leafs.

1. Jason Spezza – He’s got a goofy laugh and that just cuts through the dressing room intensity way too much. You can’t be a playoff team if you have a cartoon character jumping around while the team tries to gear up for battle.

2. Daniel Alfredsson – With fellow countrymen Sundin, Lidstrom, Forsberg, and Salming being the true legends of Sweden, Alfredsson barely squeaks in to the top 10 Swedish players of all-time. Who the hell want’s the 10th best Swede, and a geezer no less playing on a playoff team.

3. Nick Foligno – It won’t be long before Foligno finally snaps. He can only hide his true self for so long. It will come as no surprise to this scribe when Foligno demands to change helmets into a 1970’s spaghetti strainer and starts leaping after he scores the odd goal. The leaps could cause injury and word is Shannahan is ready to Shannaban any shifty shenanigans

4. Erik Karlsson – This inconsistent flash in the pan is European. So it goes without saying that he only shows up when he feels like it and generally doesn’t work hard, with the exception of concussing his own teammates. It’s good to trade high. Trade him for a bundle of picks. Picks win cups.

5. Milan Michalek – When he’s not being murdered by dangerously lazy European teammates Milan likes to hang out with his older brother Zbynek, eat pickled bratwurst and drink Czech pilsner. When he plays he never really wants to show up Zbynek so he keeps his goal totals under 25. With the exception of ’07, through which Zbynek refused to speak to him. Trade him while his value is high.

6. Mika Zibanejad – Some players can play in the NHL and some can’t. Zibanejad can’t. Ottawa’s top stock swindler agrees. Even though the Stockholm native has a stupid amount of skill (almost Chris Neil stupid) he just isn’t 6’4 220 and therefore gives the puck away when he’s being really cute. Trade him while the perceived value is high.

7. Bryan Murray – No offenthe to the man but You can’th keep bathing other GMth around the league in your thaliva and ethpect them to offer you good dealth. If thith thquad ith to thurvive the thuper thprint to the end of the theathon they thimply need thuperior playeth. Tho you mutht thwallow your pride and thupplant Murray from this pothition

Traded a player a day after an honest assessment of his team’s problems.

It is really not the players place to say how the organization is runor what they think of the teams play. Also, he wasn’t accountable for his own play and said he felt he was doing well.

Just be honest, if he was a leaf, we’d be pissed.

Guathier in his conference explained that “they had this deal in the works for over a month”, but yet the best time to trade him was during a game, in which they pulled him, for a player on suspension? Sounds like a perfectly executed trade.

The habs are pathetic right now. I feel really sorry for them. Why the GM hasn’t been fired ages ago is lunacy.. I hope its not coming from ownership.

I think I broke the rec’ing button for this comment.

Habs Eyes on the Prize is even more hilarious, their reactions are absolutely PRICEless (heh)

Mckenzie’s article about it seems to say he’s laughing at Calgary more. I just can’t decide who to laugh at more to be honest.

My old PM was a huge habs/Cammalleri fan, I told my old coworker to openly mock her today.

To be fair, he did score 13 goals in 19 games in what was an unlikely Conference final appearance. That’s pretty impressive.
But yeah, they were so high on him and now he’s just gone. Pretty strange.

I don’t know how Feaster can be so stupid. He should be rebuilding and still manages to send off a 2nd. I mean he gets younger and Cammalleri could work out with Iginla like he did a few years ago, but they’re both older now. Regardless, the team as a whole is so old and locked into no movement clauses I have no idea why he keeps added pieces and trading 2nd round picks.
I honestly think I could be a more compitant GM

so the habbies dont have cammalleri or gionta for the rest of the season?

mon dieux.

I once found myself next to Gare Joyce at a dinner and, without knowing who he was, drew him into a debate over the value of psychological testing of prospects without NHL teams. Then I got home and found out that he’d literally written a book on the subject. (And a good one, too.)

Gomez – 7.3M until 2014
Cole – 4.5M until 2015
Bourque – 3.33M until 2016
Markov – 5.75M until 2014
Kaberle – 4.25M until 2014
Gorges – 3.9M until 2018 (and it hasn`t even started yet)

So much money tied in middling, old (and in Markov`s case, injury-prone) players for so long.

Repeat after me Leaf fans:

I, (state your name), pledge that if hot goaltending carries our flawed Maple Leaf team deep into the playoffs this year, I will not overreact and suddenly believe the Leafs are a perennial contender.