11-26-2009, 08:02 AM | #82 (permalink) |
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so last night was a big night in the league, prior to American Thanksgiving I guess. OVechkin lays on a hard check and gets ejected! (Ovechkin drew a major for boarding and a game misconduct 3:38 into the third period when he ran Buffalo's Patrick Kaleta into the boards with his shoulder opposite the benches. tsn)
Washington still goes on to win (beating Buffalo is good for Toronto!) Meanwhile Toronto wins over Tampa, getting 5 out of 6 points for their last 3 games. Not bad for a 'bad' team eh? Who thinks that Toskala will ever play for the Leafs again? By the way, I was at a cocktail function at the Hockey Hall of Fame last night (Toronto). As I wandered around the place, spicy Caesar in hand, I took a couple of shots of the sweaters of my favourite players from the past:
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12-01-2009, 09:50 AM | #84 (permalink) |
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Nice game eh? I just may just come out of the closet and proclaim my fan-ship to the Sabres. Miller is awesome. One of many hot goalies that the Leafs have peppered with shots in the last few games, with little success. Did you see how Miller gave his stick to the Toronto Star photog that got the puck in the face? Class act.
I tried to find a video of that, but instead found an interesting one (less of a class act) of Lindy Ruff getting a stick in the eye, compliments of Billy Smith circa 1980: While on the topic of less than a class act, Ovechkin continues to dazzle and dismay. Looks like he will be ejected (5 games maybe?) for a Knee on knee in Carolina last night. Was he really injured? Or did he play it up realizing how badly obvious he was? OH ya, and while we are on the topic, this really tops the entertainment from last night. Ballard wacks his own goalie:
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12-01-2009, 11:34 AM | #86 (permalink) |
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Well, he arleady got kicked out of last night's game. I expect more than one additional game for Alex.
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12-01-2009, 01:58 PM | #87 (permalink) |
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Not to mention it's his second game misconduct penalty in just the last week. The league has a real dilemma on it's hands with this one. My guess is an official 1 game suspension followed by an unofficial 4 - 5 game 'injury'.
Edit - Guess I should have checked before I posted. Looks like he got 2 games and is day to day with his knee. Last edited by BulletCatcher; 12-01-2009 at 02:01 PM.. |
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Of course Laraque gets 5 Ovechkin gets 2, fuckin NHL and their double standards for suspensions, it's pathetic.
Let me guess Laraque got more games because of his reputation, I call bullshit on that excuse as well, his reputation is he's a fighter, and a good one at that, Ovechkin's reputation is he's a damn good player, but he's increasingly becoming a dirty prick who's going to get his someday and I won't feel bad about it in the least. Especially when he makes statements like this: Quote:
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12-01-2009, 11:17 PM | #89 (permalink) | |
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It's been weird how many kneeings there have been so far this season, reminds me of when Rick Tocchet used to play haha
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Add that video to the list of reasons why I love Ruff... and kudos for Buffalo keeping him around for I believe over a decade now. Here's to hoping him and Babcock will be a great tandem come the olympics. Anyone catch the game tonight? What was up with Gustavsson? Does he actually have a heart condition? Hopefully he turns out alright, more goal-tending injuries are the last thing the Leafs need.
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12-02-2009, 08:52 AM | #90 (permalink) | |
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12-02-2009, 09:49 AM | #91 (permalink) |
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I really thought that when Toskala pulled himself out of that game, that that would have been the last we saw of him. I say let MacDonald develop in goal. He's game, and we can't do worse than lose some more.
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12-02-2009, 11:27 AM | #92 (permalink) |
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Exactly Leto, I'd rather lose with a young goalie, who wil lat least get better as time goes on, than lose with a pylon in nets like Toskala, as I said before, the guy isn't and never was a starting goalie, if it wasn't for expansion he'd be flipping burgers in Finland.
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12-03-2009, 04:51 AM | #93 (permalink) |
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Reindeer burgers. mmmmmm........
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12-05-2009, 04:43 PM | #94 (permalink) |
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Wow, what a horrible start against the Bruins tonight.
I just got reminded that Chara won the Norris last year, what the fuck were the people who pick the winners thinking? Other than being big the guy is a useless tit, he has the lateral movement of a Mack Truck, and skates like a pregnant cow, for his size he's weak on his skates, all around not a Norris winner in my opinion. |
12-06-2009, 05:07 AM | #95 (permalink) |
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and a horrible finish. But Boston got routed the night before. The season is long and things tend to even out. But for things to even out for the Leafs, the season needs to be a couple of months longer this year! OH, yes, and better players would be nice.
So Montreal celebrated 100 years with an amazing pre-game show on Friday. Check out the hockey royalty in the warmup: And this promo:
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12-06-2009, 11:26 AM | #96 (permalink) |
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My Blackhawks just keep on rolling, I went to the game tuesday and saw an 11 round shootout, it was crazy!! They seem to be really coming together and now have signed Toews, Kane, and Duncan Keith to extensions....so they'll be around for a while.
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12-06-2009, 05:14 PM | #97 (permalink) | |
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Looks like we got another suspension this weekend Carcillo gets four games for sucker punching Bradley, now as much as I liked the punch, it was pretty dumb, mind you I bet Bradley thinks twice before playing tough guy again, I mean christ how long does it take the kid to get his gloves off? I'm torn on this one I think four is a little much, especially when Ovechkin only get's two for throwing the knee which is just a dirty play.
Then we get Duncan Keith giving Matt Cooke a head shot, now will Keith get suspended? I'm going to say no, but if he doesn't it's just another bullshit call on the leagues 'disciplinarians', and I use the term very loosely when referringto Colin Campbell and his lot. Quote:
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12-30-2009, 07:11 PM | #99 (permalink) |
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Holy fuckin Toskala, that pylon, Leafs have a solid first against the Oilers and that pylon let`s in a fluff goal in the last minute of the period.
In unrelated Spengler Cup new, Canada loses to Minsk and won`t be in the finals, they played a couple of good games, but their goaltending was weak compared to the rest of the players. I always enjoy the Spengler, get to see solme good Canadian hockey players you don`t always see, I used to paly against Shawn Heins when I was in Jr. B, good to see him playing for Canada again. |
01-02-2010, 09:40 AM | #100 (permalink) |
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Wow, thought this thread had died .
I missed the Winter Classic yesterday but from everything I've seen and heard so far it sounds as though it was another good one. Would have been interesting to see what would have happened had it rained like it was forcasted. Would they really have called the game after 2 periods? The Olympic rosters for Canada and the US have been announced finally. No real surprises for Canada and has to be considered the favorites going into Vancouver. Not sure I agree with the US decision to focus on the youth. Only two players over the age of 34 amd an overall average age of 26. I guess if anything they will be fun to watch though I am a bit disappointed TJ Oshie didn't make the squad. Lastly, the Blues fired Andy Murray this morning. Not sure if I agree with this. Rumors have been swirling for awhile that it was coming but I see it as a case of it's easier to fire a coach than to get rid of several players. Word has it the older vets loved him and backed him but the young guns stopped listning awhile back which is stupid if true. Did they learn nothing during their second half run last year? Play the system and you'll be sucessful. Sounds like some of the younger players started buying into their own hype and need to grow up. |
01-04-2010, 10:18 AM | #101 (permalink) | |
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It will never die as long as the Leafs have Toskala to bitch about haha.
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01-05-2010, 01:07 PM | #102 (permalink) |
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but potentially Bergeron is out??? He sustained a hand injury in the Boston / New York game last night. He's out 4 to 6 weeks.
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01-05-2010, 03:04 PM | #103 (permalink) |
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There's no arguing that my dead grandmother is a better goalie than Toskala. At the same time, I don't think the Leafs can pin all their woes on him.
I thought we were looking at a rally in early December, but then they lost it again. Oh, well. Back to the unofficial Leaf's motto: there's always next season.
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Well it's been an interesting couple of days on the discipline front, first you got the Burrows/Auger situation, then you got the Gonchar hit on Clutterbuck.
First the Gonchar hit: It seems Campbell likes to talk a lot about getting rid of headshots from the game, yet when an obvious one takes place like this hit, he says this: Quote:
Then on to the Burrows/Auger situation, I really don't thik they handled this well, he basically took whatever Auger said as gospel and blamed the whole thing on Burrows. To see those penalties called kind of makes me wonder if Auger did in fact say that to Burrows, I know refs hold grudges, and those calls were both grudge calls in my opinion, here's part of Campbell on the NHL.com radio show Quote:
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02-01-2010, 05:05 AM | #106 (permalink) |
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just looked at that last posting Jay... Clearly Bradley should have been suspended. he skated the length of the ice to get at Downie. Plus we were robbed of a good tilt between Ovechkin & Downie.
SO..... some big trades in the NHL yesterday. Calgary gets some quality players from an Eastern Division team to bolster their firepower (Matt Stajan, Hagman, Mayers & Ian White) and Annaheim pulls the trigger sending their backup goalie (Giguere) to Toronto for Toskala and Blake. Lots of traffic (oh ya, Toronto also got Phaneuf - a Brian McCabe redux?) over the past 24 hours. think it will make a difference to a team that can lose a 3-0 lead regularly?
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02-01-2010, 12:05 PM | #107 (permalink) | |
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The trades were a good start, they unloaded Blake's huge contract which is a great win for Burke, especially since no one thought he'd be able to unload it, and they got rid of Toskala who has just been a clusterfuck since he got to Toronto, hopefully JS will be able to find his old form, but that deal at least made them stronger in goal. I would have liked to see them get something for Blake, but I guess when his contract is huge and Toskala is a pylon you have to give up a bit more.
Phaneuf should help the defence if he can get over this hump he's been on in his development, he seems to have stalled, but he may have just got to used to Calgary. Now the Leafs have a big problem with salaries for the defence, almost half their cap is taken up on the point, Beauchemin, Komasarek, Kaberle, Schenn, and now Phaneuf, I reckon you'll see Kaberle traded before the deadline, probably for a goal scorer up front to make up for the loss of Hagman and Stajan's offence. Although I'd rather see Komasarek gone, they should have never picked him up, he's a big man, but he has no idea how to use his size and seems like a really weak man the way he get bullied around, also I've never seen someone so big be such a terrible fighter and hitter. I'm going to miss White, he's easily been the Leafs best defenceman this season, and has probably been playing better than Phaneuf, he's a solid d-man for a guy who isn't the biggest player in the world, much like Blake, as much as I didn't like Blake for his lack of offence the guy had the heart of someone who is much bigger, Blake would always be the first in the corner and would never pussy out if he heard footsteps behind him. As Burke said 'we're open for business', so hopefully a couple of more trades can at least turn the second half of the season around and get that pick the gave to Boston for Kessel out of the lottery. This is why Campbell and Bettman are idiots, they seem to think Ken Dryden is a 'politician', which he obviously is, but he's also one of the greatest players to have played the game, and Campbell dismisses his opinion on the head shot debate? Quote:
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02-01-2010, 06:20 PM | #108 (permalink) |
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I think Burke did a great job pulling out these trades for Toronto. At the cost of 6 average to less-than-average players they've added 2 all-stars and an awesome prospect to boot. Although with the loss of Stajan I'm not really sure how the Leafs will manage up front. They'll need to pick up someone quick, most likely at Kaberle's expense.
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02-03-2010, 04:54 PM | #110 (permalink) |
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Their first game in their Leafs jerseys and Giguere, Phaneuf, and Sjostrom all manage to pick up Hockey Night in Canada's Three Stars. Symbolic?
Regardless of the performance on their first night, this trading looks good to me. I've been reading the Kaberle trade rationale, and it seems to make sense. I wonder who they could get for him.
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02-03-2010, 08:17 PM | #111 (permalink) |
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I really don't want them to trade Kaberle, as he's easily better than Komisarek, who I think should be traded, he's a disappointment, at least to me for such a big man to be so weak on his skates, but he's hurt, or get the hell rid of Jeff Finger, what an awful defenceman he is, fuckin awful hockey player in general, no idea how he ever made it to the NHL, a scout must have been drunk, he's taking up like 3.5mil on the cap.
But trading Kaberle does make sense, they could easily get a first line center, and probably an early secound rounder as well, but who can they get, Kovalchuk, meh, don't really think he'd be a great fit, I'd like a Marleau to come to Toronto, he's a great playe and would fit right in, but doubt he's on the market, so in the end I don't know what will happen. |
02-03-2010, 08:22 PM | #112 (permalink) |
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Yeah, I think that Kaberle is on the block because they need a forward of value. You can't trade a shitty defenceman for a decent forward.
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02-03-2010, 08:41 PM | #113 (permalink) |
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lol so true,but you can trade a shitty forward for a good forward, remember Kordic for Courtnall haha.
Kaberle's best move is to go to Burke with a liest of teams he'd be willing to go to, if he waits until summer he's at Burke's mercy and where he wants to send him, I'd still like to see Marleau come to Toronto. |
02-08-2010, 06:33 PM | #114 (permalink) |
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I can't believe Jiggy got back-to-back shutouts, especially against Ottawa (and especially 5 - 0).... a franchise first for debuting goaltenders.
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02-09-2010, 12:15 PM | #116 (permalink) | |
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You happen to red this BG? Seems poor Vesa is bitter already.
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Now he's right he isn't a back up, he certainly wasn't a starter, and he isn't even good enough to be a back up, he should be back in Finland doing something, anything but playing hockey. As for playing his best when he plays a lot, yeah we saw how well that worked out in Toronto, the guy is a joke. I do like how they basically fucked him off though from getting number 35, it's like 'you're a piece of drift Vesa, take what fuckin number we give you'. As for washing out the Blue and White, I'm sure Toronto wants to forget the Toskala clusterfuck as well. |
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02-09-2010, 01:21 PM | #117 (permalink) |
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haha... Ya I saw JS wearing the #35, and wondered what he thought of the history of Toskala wearing that in Toronto.
At least he plays with confidence, I can already see the improvement in the way the team plays in front of him. Or maybe it's the fact that the team is different too. JS & Vesa should have just traded masks. Save a bit of effort in repainting...
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02-09-2010, 01:24 PM | #118 (permalink) |
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Well they said on that first night with the new players, the building was absolutely electric. It's the kind of thing the team needs. It'd be nice to see what a few more changes and a fresh new season will bring.
Oh, and they beat Ottawa 5 to 0. That's not supposed to happen. Not business as usual?
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02-09-2010, 06:09 PM | #119 (permalink) |
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Yeah they are definitely playing with more confidence now that they have some good in nets. I mean it wasn't all Toskala's fault, but a team loses confiedence after busting their balls to get back into a game only to have an easy one cost them the game, which is someting Vesa did far too often.
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