From The Branches

This is what you resemble when you wear a bag over your head.(via www.canadianthinker.com) * Sometimes, the Truthulence hurts. * Leafs247 continues picking teams, with their favorites of the new millennium edition. * TSM woud like to have a great story to share here, but they're just not

Things are wild and crazy in blurratopia.  Little bubba has the bacon-itis (aka H1N1, or swine flu) and the wife and I have spent the better part of the evening disinfecting our entire household in what I'm fairly certain will prove to be a futile exercise.  Still, the

We here at Pension Plan Puppets Amalgamated Industries and Pillow Fluffing Inc. LLC, take our jobs as Leaf fans seriously. So, when it occurred to the movers and shakers of PPPAI&PF Inc. LLC that there was no manual on how to be a Leaf fan, we tackled the

From left to right: Vesa Toskala, Jason Blake, Matt Stajan and Jamal Mayers (via jareandbecc.files.wordpress.com) * Down Goes Brown has his thoughts on the 90s nights. * Straight Outta SoCal is looking for a captain. * Leafs247 reviews the upcoming road trip, and doesn't see much in the

* I think we need a bit of cheer today. And Bloge Salming is the man to provide it. * Anyway, so that's it for the larks and funnies. Last night's action is reviewed by Leafs247, Jared in 10 words or less stylee, a more than slightly cross

Is this the day a win comes to Toronto? Is this the day someone scores twice in sixty minutes? In forty minutes? In twenty? Is this the day someone puts more than two points on the board? Is this the day we kill a penalty? Is this the day Garnet

Recent events in the news have rocked us all, especially we "feelers" here at PPP Amalgamated Heavy Industries and Pet Clothing Inc. LLC.  It has, in fact, rocked us to our very core.  Today, we draw a line in the sand and we say "No More!"

Our industrious and creative West Coast correspondent ran into technical difficulties and the East Coast USA office isn't at work so it fell to PPP Amalgamated Heavy Industries (Canada) to put up the FTB. Good thing Blurr did the heavy lifting. So without futher ado, your links: * The

The Leafs lost last night.  Nothing new, right?  In the immortal words of Samuel Jackson:  "Be Cool." * At Bitter Leaf, mf37 takes us on a tour through the five stages of grief. Where are you at? * Koopa kid takes you back to another time, when the Leafs scored

I've loved the Leafs effort this much. Ugh. Seriously, ugh. I don't have it in me to say much about the Leafs since that last game. To cheer myself up I went and re-read Infinite Hope by eyebleaf and Truculence from our own Chemmy in the

The National Affairs desk has dreams, man - you know? Crazy dreams. Riding the tracks to the Spadina stockyards with a battered acoustic guitar and notebook full of tragicomic poetry, hoping to make my mark on the mind blowing readings on Front St. Man, those would be crazy times. Shared

Here at PPP Amalgamated Heavy Industries, we take our responsibilities as moral guardians and arbiters of taste and decency seriously. With that in mind, I respectfully take leave to suggest that the following rating system be employed for the Game Day Threads - that way the adults can cuss up

Brian Burke and Phil Kessel can't believe their luck in finding a Kessel jersey at the Leafs store! (via www.cbc.ca) * Norte is back and he is not saying anything about anything. * Down Goes Brown has the greatest picture of Marty McSorley, ever. * Leaf & Lion is

Matt Stajan continues to carry the Leafs / drive his contract price up / increase his trade value (pick your favorite) while the rest of the team pretty much does the opposite. For a guy once considered captain material, he sure ain't inspiring the troops much, is he? After watching

We'll also need to show our work.  What we do know about last night is we had one guy making cross crease passes like you won't believe.  We had disinterested forwards, inept defensemen and one goalie who played his way into Saturday at the least.  Let&

That's right, there will be zero Toskala discussion on the site, aside from this sentence of course, until 7PM. I'm searching for Leafs links; the site was down all night and we stop paying blurr overtime after five minutes of overtime because we're cheap

...then how come we're not laughing? Could it be due to the fact that there are eighty more game to go?  Let's all back away from the ledge, take a few deep breaths and ask ourselves:  "What the f*$# is going on?" Are the

For real yo, this little toaster is our ticket to 160 points this season. So then. Not the best start to the season, but fear not my timorous brethren. MLSE MegaCorp (in association with Zorin Industries) have been diligently beavering away in their research labs and are now ready to

Truly these are the salad days of hockey linkerage. The season is but two days old, the hopes and dreams of the masses are still fertile and fruitful and Carlo Colaiacovo isn't on the Injured Reserved list And still...well, and still we on the National Affairs desk

Look, I love Leafs fans. Three "Go Leafs Go" chants started on my walk from my car to the bar last night and high fives were given out like free candy from the back of Carey Price's van. There was a lot of good to see

Hockey. It starts tonight...(via torontoist.com) We're finally here. Opening night. When the season ended a scant 6 months or so ago, we'd seen a glimpse of Christian Hanson and been recently introduced to Tyler Bozak. However, since that time we've met Happy

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME HOCKEY?!? I KNOW I AM. I'M HAVING TROUBLE CONTROLLING THE SOUND..err, I'm having trouble controlling the sound of my voice, that is. Man oh man I am SO excited! I got my jersey over a sweet new Leafs tee, my

Did you sneak behind the Vesa's net and say not nice things? He sees you... * I'm not sure what to do now, as the man with all the answers, Dr. Steve, has a few questions of his own as the season is quickly closing in. * Oh

...and I'm carrying the Leafs. * Sports and the City is back writing about hockey, which must mean the boys of summer have gone.  Positivity personified, eyebleaf has an answer for the Leafs captain conundrum. * Kohma takes a rational approach to reviewing the final game of the pre-season, and

Fade up to a grimy street corner at night, somewhere in North America in 2014. Enter hotshot investigative reporter, Guy Smiley. "Life on the streets. It's a tough world out here. Crime, narcotics, rum, sodomy and the lash." He encounters a strangely well-dressed man of the