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[BigJonsson]

Try having a team you don't give a shit about rammed down your throat by the so-called national media, night in and night out.

Try having a so-called national hockey program refuse to show your games in HD, but continually show the favour to a team you don't give a shit about.

Try having that same so-called national hockey program's announcers refuse to learn the names of any player on a different team than the one you don't give a shit about.

Vitriol? You bet. No offense to you guys because we're all fans here, but the Leafs and the Toronto media are beyond ****ing annoying and I'm ecstatic that I won't have to hear about them until next September.

Aren't the Nucks on almost every Saturday??

 

[DopeyFish]

Try having a team you don't give a shit about rammed down your throat by the so-called national media, night in and night out.

Try having a so-called national hockey program refuse to show your games in HD, but continually show the favour to a team you don't give a shit about.

Try having that same so-called national hockey program's announcers refuse to learn the names of any player on a different team than the one you don't give a shit about.

Vitriol? You bet. No offense to you guys because we're all fans here, but the Leafs and the Toronto media are beyond ****ing annoying and I'm ecstatic that I won't have to hear about them until next September.

the awesomeness of the leafs media will drown out the vast tales of the canucks postseason mediocrity!

 

[bishoptl]

Nope. You can count on seeing the Leafs every goddamn weekend, though.

Well, for a couple of months now, anyways.

the awesomeness of the leafs media will drown out the vast tales of the canucks postseason mediocrity!

Only on TO - now it's all about the playoffs. I won't have to hear about the JFJ firing until the second segment of SportsCenter at the earliest. Praise Jesus!

 

[Kabuki Waq]

the awesomeness of the leafs media will drown out the vast tales of the canucks postseason mediocrity!

they should just replay the 92-93 season in HD it would get more ratings.

 

[R_GILL]

Try having a team you don't give a shit about rammed down your throat by the so-called national media, night in and night out.

Try having a so-called national hockey program refuse to show your games in HD, but continually show the favour to a team you don't give a shit about.

Try having that same so-called national hockey program's announcers refuse to learn the names of any player on a different team than the one you don't give a shit about.

Vitriol? You bet. No offense to you guys because we're all fans here, but the Leafs and the Toronto media are beyond ****ing annoying and I'm ecstatic that I won't have to hear about them until next September.

 

[Socreges]

PRE-THURSDAY:

3 scenarios tonight:

- Leafs lose, Habs win - Leafs are done
- Leafs lose or win and Habs do the same - Saturday decides things
- Leafs win and Habs lose - Saturday decides thing

Oh, drama!

if montreal wins in regulation tonight (and toronto wins) and loses on saturday... montreals deciding game will be Pittsburgh vs NYR on sunday.

Ah yes, scenrario #4, aka the backdoor sneak.

Heck, Leafs still have an outside shot at 6th place too :lol

Pit vs NYR is on Saturday.

How about this scenario:

NYI beats Toronto (tonight) and Philly (saturday).

Montreal loses to NYR (tonight) and loses to Toronto (saturday).

NYI beats NJ (sunday) and gets the eighth seed.

No one replied to that.... yet.... :lol

 

[Alucard]

This is almost as good as the Pens winning. Almost. Regardless, it's pretty sweet.

In all seriousness, the Leafs need a wholesale reassessment. Where is this team going? What is the management trying to build? The team they had on the ice this year was a mish-mash that basically said to fans, "Well, we've got some guys that might help us make the playoffs...and some guys for the future too...pretty wishy-washy." As fun as it is to watch the Leafs lose and to make fun of their incompetent broadcast team on CBC every Saturday, you have to feel bad for the team's fans, who have to put up with this garbage year after year. This team needs to start from the ground up. It's that simple.

 

[ForzaItalia]

Hmmm....Leafs record this season:

GP -82 W-40 L-31 11 91pts GF-258 GA-269



Leafs record last season:

GP-82 W-41 L-33 8 90pts GF-257 GA-270


Awesome improvement there!!!

 

[DopeyFish]

Nope. You can count on seeing the Leafs every goddamn weekend, though.

Well, for a couple of months now, anyways.

Leafs TV 1980 playoff reruns will get higher ratings than the canucks... in the finals ;0

 

[BigJonsson]

Is the playoff schedule out yet?

 

[Socreges]

Aren't the Nucks on almost every Saturday??

**** you for even saying that. Jesus Christ. That just exemplifies the ignorance prevalent among Leafs fans as to what goes on in the rest of the league. The Canucks weren't even on HALF of the Saturday night HNICs. The Leafs were on EVERY. SINGLE. SATURDAY. NIGHT.

Good riddance.

 

[R_GILL]

Hmmm....Leafs record this season:

GP -82 W-40 L-31 11 91pts GF-258 GA-269

Leafs record last season:

GP-82 W-41 L-33 8 90pts GF-257 GA-270


Awesome improvement there!!!

What are you talking about Forza, don't you see we scored 1 more goal and let one less in. Drastic improvement right there. Oh well at least JFJ is gone.

 

[djkimothy]

Hmmm....Leafs record this season:

GP -82 W-40 L-31 11 91pts GF-258 GA-269



Leafs record last season:

GP-82 W-41 L-33 8 90pts GF-257 GA-270


Awesome improvement there!!!

:lol :lol :lol

I'm not surprised.

 

[Pochacco]

Crazy.

 

[DarkJediKnight]

I find it sad that you hate us so much. I don't give a rat's ass what happens to the Canucks.

It'll be a cold day in hell when a European Captain leads their team to the cup. Has never happened and won't happen for a long time.

 

[The Elite]

Try having a team you don't give a shit about rammed down your throat by the so-called national media, night in and night out.

Try having a so-called national hockey program refuse to show your games in HD, but continually show the favour to a team you don't give a shit about.

Try having that same so-called national hockey program's announcers refuse to learn the names of any player on a different team than the one you don't give a shit about.

Vitriol? You bet. No offense to you guys because we're all fans here, but the Leafs and the Toronto media are beyond ****ing annoying and I'm ecstatic that I won't have to hear about them until next September.

You will not hear the last of the playoffs.

JFJr fired. What impact will this have on sports in general? A retrospect of his career and the search for a new GM.

Raycroft. Should he remain in TO and was he the reason the Leafs didn't make the playoffs: A FIVE PART INVESTIGATIVE REPORT!

Raycroft traded... the search for a new goalie begins.

Sundin: Will he return? A FIVE PART SERIES!

 

[R_GILL]

**** you for even saying that. Jesus Christ. That just exemplifies the ignorance prevalent among Leafs fans as to what goes on in the rest of the league. The Canucks weren't even on HALF of the Saturday night HNICs. The Leafs were on EVERY. SINGLE. SATURDAY. NIGHT.

Good riddance.

It's not our fault, blame the CBC.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

well now its time to bask in the Drama of Stars Vs Nucks.


Barrage vs the World

 

[BigJonsson]

Oh yea

Habs still finished behind the Leafs

Booya

 

[rs7k]

Oh yea

Habs still finished behind the Leafs

Booya

only a leaf fan would find some positive out of his team missing the playoffs two years in a row :lol :lol

 

[Mike Works]

 

[BigJonsson]

only a leaf fan would find some positive out of his team missing the playoffs two years in a row :lol :lol

Shit happens

Habs still finished behind the Leafs

 

[fallout]

It's not our fault, blame the CBC.

It's not just the CBC. There's the Toronto Sports Network, too.

 

[DopeyFish]

only a leaf fan would find some positive out of his team missing the playoffs two years in a row :lol :lol

he's the one who jinxed us out of one! burn him at the stake! rahhhh

 

[ForzaItalia]

What are you talking about Forza, don't you see we scored 1 more goal and let one less in. Drastic improvement right there. Oh well at least JFJ is gone.

:lol

I hope so man. Get rid of JFJ. Get rid of Raycroft. Hell...they got rid of Belfour and yet his stats were better than Raycroft's. :lol I'm not sure what they'll do with Sundin though but they sure as hell are stuck with McCabe and Kubina. Great signings there JFJ.

I ask honestly...sincerely...is there one GOOD trade that JFJ has made during his tenure here?

 

[R_GILL]

:lol

I hope so man. Get rid of JFJ. Get rid of Raycroft. Hell...they got rid of Belfour and yet his stats were better than Raycroft's. :lol I'm not sure what they'll do with Sundin though but they sure as hell are stuck with McCabe and Kubina. Great signings there JFJ.

I ask honestly...sincerely...is there one GOOD trade that JFJ has made during his tenure here?

No, either they sucked like the Leetch trade and the Raycroft trade. Or they were just meh like Klee for Suglabov.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Mcabe was crap this season for every goal he scored 3 goals were scored on us as a direct result of his mistakes.


RayCroft just simply is not a clutch goaltender. Should be a nice backup one day.

 

[super funk]

:lol Hot damn, I cant believe the Isles pulled that off.

 

[fallout]

So uh, who was involved in the Leafs/Habs playoff bet? What were the details? Do both sides get banned?

 

[BigJonsson]

Can Brian Colangelo become Leafs GM?

 

[Socreges]

It'll be a cold day in hell when a European Captain leads their team to the cup. Has never happened and won't happen for a long time.

Interesting. 5 of the top 9 teams during the regular season had European captains. You're willing to say that none of them (absolutely) will not win the Cup?

The most important reason why a European captain has never won the Cup is largely because European captains used to be very rare. That's beginning to change. I'm thinking one will win the Cup either this year or the next.

 

[ForzaItalia]

Eddie Belfour:

Age: Unknown
GP: 58
GAA: 2.77
SV%: .902

Andrew Raycroft:

Age: Does it matter?
GP: 72
GAA: 2.99
SV%: .894

 

[Shinobi]

oh hey it's basketball

Yep...it's the MLSE team that isn't run by monkeys. And hey, they won their division before your Canucks!

*dances around the living room*

No more Neale and Cole ballwashing the Leafs and mangling the great discipline of playcalling.

No more 7-minute lead-off stories on SportCentre about how the Leafs skate sharpener learned his craft at the feet of the masters.

No more crap about "WILL SUNDIN BE TRADED? OMG WHAT TO DO? RAYCROFT FOR EMPEROR" and whatnot.

No more Leafs.

*dances around the living room*

WTF are you talking about? Now that the Leafs are out, all you're going to see on Sportsnet/TSN/The Score for the next four days is hourly state of the union addresses on the Maple Leafs.

Enjoy!

:lol :lol :lol That's the pettiest thing I've ever seen. Funny though.

As far as the Leafs go, this team should've been blown up before/during/right after the lockout. Instead they decided to do another half-assed reload, for more middling performance. Except unlike the previous regime, they couldn't even get into the playoffs.

Don't kid yourself though...that previous regime built teams that were just as lousy, just as old, just as inconsistent and just as incompetent as the one currently under JFJ's soon to be expired watch. They just happened to get their asses saved for six years by two world beating goaltenders in Cujo and (to a lesser extent) Belfour. Without that ingredient in place, the holes became all the more apparant.

Of course, how you rebuild a team that has 11 mill a year tied up in two stiffs like McCabe and Kubina (who was ****ing shit last night, as usual) is beyond me.

And frankly, firing JFJ on it's own isn't gonna cut it. What MLSE has needed for years is an enema from the top down. Even getting rid of that twat Richard Peddie wouldn't be enough to cleanse what ails this team, though that would be a start.

Anyway, this was the funniest 24 hours the NHL has given me in my life...so for a few brief moments, this dumb ass league actually gave me some quality entertainment. Though to be fair, Sens vs Pens oughta be a scorcher.

 

[BigJonsson]

When will the playoff schedule be out?

I need to get my bar schedule in order

 

[R_GILL]

It's not just the CBC. There's the Toronto Sports Network, too.

It's not like Torontonians like TSN either. if we want to see Raptor or Jays highlights we have to wait til they are done recapping all the hockey games, even ones that are between American teams.

Don't kid yourself though...that previous regime built teams that were just as lousy, just as old, just as inconsistent and just as incompetent as the one currently under JFJ's soon to be expired watch. They just happened to get their asses saved for six years by two world beating goaltenders in Cujo and (to a lesser extent) Belfour. Without that ingreidiant in place, the holes became all the more apparant.

Well that is true, the 1999 team that lost to Buffalo was basically carried by Cujo and Sundin to the ECF.

 

[GSG Flash]

It's not like Torontonians like TSN either. if we want to see Raptor or Jays highlights we have to wait til they are done recapping all the hockey games, even ones that are between American teams.

Because everything sucks next to hockey, it's the truth.

 

[blah141]

So uh, who was involved in the Leafs/Habs playoff bet? What were the details? Do both sides get banned?

Well Manics has effectivly dissapeared... :lol

 

[Manics]

Well Manics has effectivly dissapeared... :lol

Eh? It's Easter am I not allowed to celebrate with my family? If you go back to my original bet with Wolf I said:

"The Leafs and Habs might finish 10th and 11th in the conference, but I'll be damned if the Leafs aren't better than the Habs"

And I was right.

 

[Manics]

only a leaf fan would find some positive out of his team missing the playoffs two years in a row :lol :lol

Kinda like a Habs fan rejoicing cause you won 2 games in the first round to the eventual champions. :lol

 

[MrToughPants]

Half the teams who made the playoffs have a Euro captain, consider that New jersey and Detroit are on the list I think the chances of a European captain winning the cup are pretty good.

New Jersey
Atlanta
Ottawa
Rangers
Islanders
Detroit
Vancouver
Nashville

 

[ForzaItalia]

Eh? It's Easter am I not allowed to celebrate with my family? If you go back to my original bet with Wolf I said:

"The Leafs and Habs might finish 10th and 11th in the conference, but I'll be damned if the Leafs aren't better than the Habs"

And I was right.

We sucked just a little bit less...:lol

 

[MrToughPants]

:lol

 

[Manics]

We sucked just a little bit less...:lol

Hey that's all I ever predicted, I had no illusions of grandeur like the Hab fans thinking Huet would lead them to the Cup. :lol

 

[ForzaItalia]

Hey that's all I ever predicted, I had no illusions of grandeur like the Hab fans thinking Huet would lead them to the Cup. :lol

Yeah. You and I break balls on here with regards to the Leafs but in reality, we knew this team would be mediocre and life and death to make the playoffs. No shock here.

 

[Shinobi]

Manics is a damn sight more reasonable then most of the fans in this thread. The only time I saw him go overboard for a team was with Italy last year. And since they won the World Cup, no one could say shit to him anyway. :lol

The Hab fans really have no room to talk...this team was being called the best in all of Canada just a few months ago, and you couldn't even take out a medicore Leafs squad on Saturday night. It's embarassing really.

 

[DopeyFish]

McCabe isn't a stiff. Kubina, Stajan, O'Neill, Gill, Raycroft and Colaiacovo are stiffs. McCabe is defensively sound. Most of the - on his +/- was all thanks to Colaiacovo.

 

[DarkJediKnight]

Interesting. 5 of the top 9 teams during the regular season had European captains. You're willing to say that none of them (absolutely) will not win the Cup?

The most important reason why a European captain has never won the Cup is largely because European captains used to be very rare. That's beginning to change. I'm thinking one will win the Cup either this year or the next.

I think the main reason is that while Canadians/Americans grow up playing hockey wants to win the cup. Europeans grow up trying to make the NHL and money. It's just not in the blood.

Aside from the language barrier (although with Sundin and Naslund it isn't an issue), I don't believe Europeans have the leadership capabilities to become a captain in the NHL.

 

[Mike Works]

The whole ****ing season comes down to a shootout!

for 2 teams! yikes!

that's gotta be the dumbest thing you've said this week, dopey

McCabe is defensively sound.

disregard the last thing i said

Aren't the Nucks on almost every Saturday??

are you ****ing joking?

Leafs TV 1980 playoff reruns will get higher ratings than the canucks... in the finals ;0

they could re-air the last time the Leafs made the stanley cup final too. and hey, they could even colorize it!

but man, i made a post i think early last month about the leafs and habs fans were looking like two people in the special olympics fighting (and there was an oiler fan in there somehow too), and i wish i could find that post. sums it all up perfectly.

**** you, toronto. no more god damn leafs being shoved down my throat again

CANADA'S TEAMS

 

[Kabuki Waq]

McCabe isn't a stiff. Kubina, Stajan, O'Neill, Gill, Raycroft and Colaiacovo are stiffs. McCabe is defensively sound. Most of the - on his +/- was all thanks to Colaiacovo.

SArcasm?

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

Pardon my ignorance, but dont people in Vancouver have local TV stations picking up games?