From The Branches

Thursday at four in the morning, I woke up in the great city of Prague in the glorious nation of the Czech Republic. Three planes, three buses, two trains, a taxi cab, one volcano spewing volcanic ash into the atmosphere, and 21 hours later I found myself back home in

Plekanec has his 'Jagr' moment - Puck Daddy What an asshole. Thank God this isn't a one and done playoff system. Dear God. Bitter Leaf Fan Page: Early Playoff Thoughts # 2 is so true it's not even funny. Ovechkin sees room for improvement -

So yesterday I got really bored.  Like, really, really bored.  So I finally did it - signed Jared up for Cougar Life.  Fergus30 was a great help in filling out the profile, but the icing on the cake was my answer to the question "What is your ideal fantasy

The NHL playoffs are the best in sport. There is no contest and anyone offering up a counter argument is a fascist. By some fluke, we've previewed three of the four series that are starting today and we'll get the fourth up some point today. This

With the Leafs out of the playoffs for yet another year, the time is again upon us to decide whether or not we want to find a playoff bandwagon to jump onto. I was thinking about this a lot yesterday, as I'm going to game 2 of the

As I may have mentioned once or twice, I am an alum of Queen's University. I spent this past weekend playing in an alumni tournament and reliving past glories and past failures. The hockey was a lot of fun although we were missing a couple of our best

I could write about the last game of the season, do a look-back at what was, and wasn't, accomplished this past year, really put some meat into this post.  But, it's Sunday morning, who wants to read about that? So here's a picture of

via imgs.xkcd.com Whenever the Leafs become a good team again, I'm going to be like this guy in yesterday's xkcd. I will find those people who said "the Leafs suck and have always sucked and will suck forever" and I'll

Last night, step one in a five step process that will result in the Montreal Canadiens missing the playoffs took place. Here's what else needs to happen to give us one hell of a chip to play in future trash-talking: 1. The New York Rangers need to win

The deadline to write a fan post about this ended on Tuesday, but I thought you all might still like to read my 5 reasons.  I think #5 is unique to me!   If you don't really care about this, just scroll down and click the jump to read

My Google Reader is woefully out of date and I'm ok with that. Here are the links I have, feel free to complain that I ignored your site in the comments and I'll add it. * Vintage Leafs cannot be stopped. More pics over at the site.

So today at 5:30pm EST, I'll be boarding a plane bound for the motherland of absinthe and hockey mullets; the Czech Republic. While there I hope to find Tomas Kaberle's lost hockey skills, and the bottom of dozens upon dozens of pint glasses. Hopefully I

* On this date - April 5 - two years ago, I was getting married.  It was an overcast day, maybe about 7C, which our photographer said was perfect for our pictures.  Everything went off with out a hitch, aside from my corset restricting how much I could eat, which really

Right now, the Toronto Maple Leafs are still in the cave with a rock in front of the entrance. The team may not rise on the third day, actually it'll be the third season at the earliest, but they do have some guys that are working on rolling

Well I had a really cool idea for this FTB last night, but I knew it would take some effort to put together.  I brainstormed, made notes, and was excited to write it.  And then, we went for dinner at our friend's place, and played a bunch of

This day is usually the one Friday in Lent I remember not to eat meat. Most of the other Fridays I will try my best and remember once I am through my second or third bite. By then, the cat's already out of the bag so I finish.

Well last week, when I initially figured out how to work DOS Box, I featured one of the best games ever, from 1993 - Scorched Earth.  This week, being sick, afforded me the opportunity to find and play one of my personal favourite games - Mega Lo Mania.  I was

Will all due respect to Bloge Salming and general borschevsky, this is the best spoof of the Stanley Cup Playoff commercials yet: History Will Be Made - Gordon Bombay (via amorebettersn) Now some of you may not know it, but this winter I coached a squirt hockey team from New

So there seems to be something that's changed about the Leafs since the trade deadline. No, not the amazing play of our top line (although I do find it to be soothing to my soul that Phil Kessel hit the 30 goal mark, the first time since Sundin

If you didn't see the fantastic ending last night, then you really missed out on something special. No, I'm not talking about the Leafs game; I'm talking about Wrestlemania XXVI and the epic rematch between the Heart Break Kid Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker.

Here are you links for a sleepy Sunday morning: Price tag going up for Gustavsson, Kulemin - James Mirtle Two young Leafs, both set to be restricted free agents this summer, have earned bigger paydays lately just your usual general borschevsky: Mikhail "Difference Maker" Grabovski The General likes

No words, just links Dion Phaneuf hits a lot. Jason Blake gets hit a lot. Mikhail Grabovski plays in a non-checking league. Looking at hitting stats at [Behind the Net] Former Leaf and Marlie, Tim Stapleton, has been recalled to the big club in Atlanta. I link this because Chemmy

So Wednesday at work I got asked to go kayaking down this little stream/river by our work that leads to the Long Island Sound. Hell yeah I said! Kayaking is sweet. So yesterday I put on a wetsuit, climbed into a kayak, set off down the river......and soon

So yesterday was a rather slow day at work, so I got to know the guy who sits next to me better.  We discussed our software, the limits of doing things in 3D, and then started reminiscing about old versions of AutoCAD... which somehow led to the video games we

Last night's loss to the Florida Panthers can only be described as a God damn catastrophe for the upcoming 2010 Stanley Cup Champions. Grrrrrrrrrrr. David Booth, he sucks and I want to rip his head off, scored two goals and some shitty backup goalie named Scott Clemmensen nearly