From The Branches

Monday morning is my least favourite morning of the week, so I thought I'd present you all with a lovely breakfast to consume while you enjoy today's reading material. * First up today, PuckDrawn thinks the Leafs need a new look. He's currently running a

* With no Leafs game last night (sit down the boy who cheered!), the Marlies moved into the spotlight - sadly going down 5 - 2 to the Houston Astros, Kyle Calder and Greg Scott with the markers. * Dr Steve has thoughts on Friday's game in DC, along with some possible

In an post-apocalyptic landscape, brought to the very brink of existence itself by a cataclysm known only as the 'JFJ Event', two figures move slowly through the ash-laden air.Their chances are not good, the statistics say 1 - 9 in the last ten games. The last

A lot of people question the title. They wanna know what it means. Most known unknown means that Tyler Bozak is known, but at the same time he unknown. Ya know what I'm sayin'? He got a lot to do with what's going on with

Sometimes this season, I think I can click my heels 3X, say "there's no place like home" and suddenly, the Leafs will be a winning team.  But instead, I wake up to reality where we have the worst team since I started following the Leafs, noone

Before we step into the SkinnyFish Era, let's take a moment to thank blurr1974 for his most excellent job at providing the daily dose of Maple Leaf Linkage these past 7 months. Why I remember blurr's very first FTB, mostly because of the nightmare inducing picture

Well, ladies and gents, welcome to your first day under your new FTB overlords.  In honour of this momentous occasion, I thought I would take the opportunity to write an ode to my long-since defeated nemesis, who I am sure rolled in his grave at yesterday’s announcement that

With the departure of Blurr from the ranks of Princesses it left a massive gap in the operations of PPP Amalgamated Heavy Industries and Kitten Ranch. We received approximately 100 applications for this most prestigious of positions and wittled it down to two. Actually, it's only one right

* Another Saturday night in Palookaville and the Leafs fall 4 - 1 against the Penguins. Alex Tran at MLHS has his post game thoughts as does Toronto Mike and there's a review of the action from The Hockey News. Pensburgh supplies opinion from Pennsylvania. * The Marlies fared no better,

* Leafs played Buffalo who played Ryan Miller in goal and....I don't really need to finish that sentence, do I? Good on Jared, Under The Helmet of Slava Duris, The Hockey News and Die By The Blade for saving me the trouble then. * In further 'copping for

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 MIN

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, this

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

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