From The Branches

I like seeing when coaches progress up the ranks. When they go from a small school to a big school to the pros it's like following a player's career. However, when those college coaches think that they are hot shit I love nothing more than seeing

Hey, look, links! Add any I missed into the comments. Down Goes Brown: The other Toronto Maple Leaf training camp letters Dear God DGB does it again. The Cliff Fletcher letter is so damn angry I love it. And I can't even begin to describe the last letter.

GP MIN W L EGA GA GAA SA SV SV% SO 2009 - Tuukka Rask 16 942 10 3 29 1.85 448 419 .935 2 You thought that things were gloomy before? You know how Ryan Miller is all that kills the Maple Leafs in a greasy package? GP

After an excellent run, the incomparable Blurr has had to hang up his Google Reader. However, where one might weep for the loss of our California Correspondent (I know I do) the rest of you should see an opportunity. That's right, PPP Amalgamated Heavy Industries is on the

Do you want to write the FTB? Let me know in the comments. * eyebleaf has some Deep Thoughts on the first Monday of 2010. * loser domi finishes up her Holiday Kesstacular series. * Andrew R at Maple Leafs Hot Stove has some sort of complex poker analogy.

* The Leafs dropped the last game of their mini-road trip 3 - 1 last night against the Flames. Views from the side of righteousness and truth come from Jared and AkiSchennberg. Opinions from the forces of evil and misery from the gamethread at Matchsticks and Gasoline. Dull but worthy copy

So then, a start to the decade that will finally bring the cup back to Toronto (offer is NOT legally binding in North America). I'm sure, like me, you've all been pondering hard on what resolutions to make this year - especially binding ones of course,

Welcome to a new year. I hope you enjoyed the US once again blowing it in the World Juniors against Canada. Sigh. I also hope you didn't watch the zombie corpse of Dick Clark on ABC last night which was truly horrifying. I have to believe someone forced

We're in the homestretch now.  The final 48 hours of 2009 are upon us.  Be you happy, sad or indifferent, one thing is for certain, we're all moving forward.  Well, all of us except these guys.  They're timeless! There's hockey on tonight

...of the year!  If you're looking for the right song to play as the clock rings in 2010, might I suggest the following?  Oh, and by the way, lyrics are completely NSFW. Leafs play tomorrow tonight (sigh.)  I have no idea who it's against, but I&

Christmas came and went without much of a hitch for mi familia blurr here in California.  The sun shone, the weather was pleasant.  You know, just your typical Christmas day.  Presents were opened, receipts exchanged, food eaten.  When I finally got home, I took stock of our haul, and was

The man who knew too much... Gustavsson is going to start which makes me smile and he'll be facing off against Jaroslav Halak. That means that the Leafs will need about 50 shots to get 3 goals. by PPP on Dec 26, 2009 8:00 PM GMT in

I'll be rainin' down the pain on anyone who describes these links as 'shoddy'. * At this time of contemplation and reflection, let's look back at where it all began for Bloge Salming. * Friend of the show Loser Domi dusts off the second part

'Twas the day before Christmas, and all through the Barilkosphere, not a blogger was writing, not even LD. The FTB was typed, all snug in it's spot, with hopes that more links would soon show up... * BoO's Five-O got drunk with NSFW and all he

It has been determined, if not thoroughly proven, that the Leafs are never going to win on talent alone. They need to work. They need to fight. Not fisticuffs (but ya, some of that won't hurt...) but puck battles. Take a page from Nikolai Kulemin's performance

There goes the rhythm!  Leafs lost again last night, like you didn't already know that.  So much for win two, lose one.  Poop... I've got nothing else to add, my mind is experiencing some sort of blackout.  Maybe I'm numb...?  Butch Walker is going

Here's the skinny.  At this writing, I've literally just walked in the door from a weekend in San Francisco.  I've left my wife to unload the car and put the bubba to bed, as I've got important things to attend to.  No,

Eh, it was only Jefferson. Hop to it South Dakota, tout de suite! * Let's get reviewing, because that was all too beautiful. Like a Japanese meal (or how PPP makes love), small portions but soooo many courses from Wrap, Eyebleaf, Jared, Rock Outta SoCal, The Hockey News and

So I says to God, I says "He's playing again tonight. Yeah, I know...dude couldn't stop a pig in passage and now he's backing us up against the Sabres." You know God, he's sympathetic. Always has a good word

I made the mistake of pointing out a slow trickle of blog posts for yesterday's previous FTB, and what do you know?  It's a full on deluge of posts today!  When it rains it pours.  I think I've filled my cliche quote for the

Between taxing games of beer-pong and co-ed pillow fights, we here at PPP Amalgamated Heavy Industries and Corner Lemonade Stands LLC put in long arduous hours of work. So you can imagine, much to our chagrin, that after the Leafs loss to the Coyotes there wasn't much of

So it is another short and sweet FTB.  Well, short anyways... * Our very own Bitter Leaf kicks things off first. Is John Mitchell's injury the best thing to ever happen to the Leafs (Stajan in particular) so far this season? Speaking of Matt Stajan, how much money is

is much easier when they're actually winning games.  Wouldn't you agree?  Moral victories are all well and good (psst, they're not) but a few "W's" are what it's all about.  When those losses pile up, it's

* On Mondays, eyebleaf likes to think about stuff, and hockey. * Rankings through science! Dr. Steve PHD has the formulas. * Just your usual general Seuss. Or is it Doctor borschevsky? * Phil Kessel is out wandering the wilds of Toronto. Loser Domi's "Holiday Kesstacular!" continues. * Down Goes Brown

...although with seventeen points in his last sixteen games, he never went away. Perhaps I owe this man an apology for suggesting a kitten sniper was going to take him out a few weeks back. I'll level with you good people - I was absolutely full of scotch