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# On The Eleventh Day Of Leafsmas
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/on-the-eleventh-day-of-leafsmas/
- Published: 2010-12-24T17:01:10.000Z
- Updated: 2010-12-24T17:01:10.000Z
- Author: Julian Sanchez
- Tags: #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:01

**On the eleventh day of Leafsmas** 
**Burkie gave to me...**

**Eleven Effort Level**

**[Ten Players Swapping](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/on-the-tenth-day-of-leafsmas/)** 
**[Nine Forwards Dangling](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/on-the-ninth-day-of-leafsmas/)** 
**[Eight Brents-A-Renting](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/on-the-eighth-day-of-leafsmas/)** 
**[Seven First Round Draft Picks ](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/on-the-seventh-day-of-leafsmas/)** **[Six Years of Cheering ](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/on-the-sixth-day-of-leafsmas/)** **[Five In A Row! ](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/on-the-fifth-day-of-leafsmas/)[Four Years of Brad](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/on-the-fourth-day-of-leafsmas/)** **,** 
**[Three Luke Schenns](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/on-the-third-day-of-leafsmas/),** 
**[Two Special Teams ](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/the-second-day-of-leafsmas/)** **and** 
**[A center for Phil Kessel](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/the-first-day-of-leafsmas/)**

MF37, or [**Bitter Leaf Fan**](http://bitterleaf.blogspot.com/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) as he's better known, returns for day 11: 

> I was originally going to go with **Eleven Snipers Sniping** but Vinay touched on this on Day 9 with his **9 Forwards Dangling**. Besides, eleven snipers is not remotely close to the Platonic ideal of a hockey team as espoused by Brian Burke, which we all know is 6 snipers sniping and 6 plumbers plumbing (or as it’s played out in Toronto so far: 1.5 snipers sniping, 2 plumbers plumbing, 6 guys laying goose eggs, and 4 turtling doves).
> 
>  
> Next on my idea list was identifying $11 million in under-performing/bad contracts. A task that is way too easy to do with this club so long as you’re ok with rounding errors (Komisarek + Giguere=$11M; Phaneuf+Armstrong+Lebda=$11M; Komisarek+Armstrong+Lebda+Orr+Mitchell=$11M. This little cap geek game is like the worst version of boggle ever.) The problem with this idea is that if the Leafs got $11M in new cap space for Leafmas, I’m sure they'd just spend it on more underperforming, overpaid UFAs (please see The 12 days of Festivus song - 8 guys a-milking their contracts).  
>  
> So for the eleventh day of Leafmas, I’m going to go with the great Nigel Tufnel and wish for the **Leafs to get their effort level up to 11.**   
>  
> Next time the Leafs go all the way up, all the way up, all the way up and need "that extra push over the cliff" to win a game, they’ll have another notch to go.