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Posted: 11/24/2007 4:55:30 PM | "The Oiler fans stay away when they don't play competitively. So do the flames fans and so do the Canucks fans."
The Oilers have sold out all but one game since the lockout.
I believe the Canucks have sold out every game since 2001 (even if it is just to boo their own players). | |
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Posted: 11/24/2007 7:58:52 PM | The Oilers season ticket holders gave up around 6,000 tickets for the Hawks game tonight for the military and their families, pretty classy i think.
That being said the Oil need some muscle. I can't believe they let Todd Fedoruck slip by them on re entry waivers, only to be claimed by the wild. Lowe musta been asleep at the wheel. | |
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Posted: 11/24/2007 8:33:58 PM | ^^^ Yes very classy indeed. 
I hope Oilers are pumped to perform better in front of the military and their families. | |
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Posted: 11/24/2007 8:54:21 PM | " I can't believe they let Todd Fedoruck slip by them on re entry waivers, only to be claimed by the wild. Lowe musta been asleep at the wheel."
Yep...that one completely threw me for a loop as well. | |
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Posted: 11/24/2007 9:58:44 PM | """The Oilers season ticket holders gave up around 6,000 tickets for the Hawks game tonight for the military and their families, pretty classy i think"""
Really classy stuuf in Edmonton tonite. The troops and their families were treated really well and got to see a pretty good game. Oilers players saluted the troops from centre ice after the game. Awesome rendition of the American anthem too tonight by the Cdn military. Top marks for Edmonton! . | |
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Posted: 11/25/2007 10:58:57 AM | I was wondering how the seats were provided to the military personnel.
That is great and the Oilers and their fans deserve a "Standing O" for that one.
With the latest scam, disguised as a Leaf hockey game, over ...How long do Fergie Jr. and or Paul Maurice have left in Toronto?
I feel terrible for Maurice but it is clear that this team has quit and he can't motivate them. Perhaps Leaf Stagnation could promote them to a playoff berth and Cup. Come on now all in Leaf StagNation chant with me.....Ohm...Ohm! | |
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Posted: 11/25/2007 3:57:24 PM |
...but it is clear that this team has quit and he can't motivate them...
Crystal clear.
Coaches Corner: Defensive turnovers are killing the Leafs:
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/hnic/coachscorner/2007/11/defensive_turnovers_are_killin.html
Cherry figures they should bring up the Marlies goalie. The CBC fans blogs however, figure the Leafs should call up the whole Marlies team hahaha. i guess i shouldn't laff. The Marlies actually couldn't play any worse, and would probably play better.
Now if you want some more laffs there kaos (besides last nites televised debacle in Phoenix as if you haven't stopped laughing about that one) read what real Leaf fans are saying on the blogs. 218 out of 218 posts all say the leafs suck.
The blogs are funny. There's some pretty good one liners in there. Like Tucker having to eventually find somebody smaller than him to try and fight since he keeps getting beat up all the time.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/your_call/?id=223610&post=193&hubname=
I think the one that hits home the most for me though was: "Somewhere tonight, Pat Quinn is having a mighty good laugh."
Now you know the situation is dire when CBC devotes their entire second intermission on the HotStove round -table as to what the hell needs to be done NOW to fix this decrepit squad. Hey, they're only 27th in the league now with the three teams behind them all having games in hand. Tannenbaum and Peddie by the way declined the invitation to go on the intermission and discuss the team that they're, cough cough, in charge of.
HotStove Discussion of how brutal the leafs are playing and how the hockey players (that excludes Scotty Morrison the newspaper boy) know the season is quickly going down the drain:
http://tinyurl.com/yomnyu
At least teams might start doing like the powerhouse Phoenix Coyotes did last nite and put the leafs away in under 18 minutes. Much less painful that way as opposed to having to wait around fore their usual third period meltdowns. I like the new approach by the Leafs. Get it over and done with early. Down 4-1 just 18 minutes into the game to that offensice juggernaut known as the Coyotes. Leafs played hockey for about 8 minutes midway thru the second period. Blake Wellwood and Tucker looked like a half decent line combination.
Mccabe went -3 on the night and looked like he's not even interested in playing defence anymore, only to be outdone by his creampuff buddy Kaberle who went -4 on the night.
I think if I'm ever tempted to give up on my Laffs, I'll get a dish and become a Coyotes fan. I thought we were at the Sudbury Arena last night listening to the wolves (Coyotes) howl after every goal by the home team. i wonder if the Wolves could take the Leafs. We might have to lend the leafs Foligno Sr. for the nite though just to even up the squads.
After an alarmingly bad performance in a 5-1 loss to Phoenix at the Jobing.com Arena, there was a strong sense that something had to give...the Leafs had the look of a team that knew it had no chance from the start.
http://www.thestar.com/NHL/MapleLeafs/article/279672
Uh ya. No chance right from the start against a club that was lower than them in the standings going into the game. i was kinda hoping the Coyotes would score 4 per period so we could flirt with the century mark of 100 goals against by our 25th game. Maybe the Habs will put this club out of it's misery by pumpin' 14 big ones in on Tuesday night. Then I might be convinced, not that I'm not close already, that this could very well be the worst defense in ""Professional"" hockey. They sure are for this season. Runaway leaders on that one.
I think the peewee Plaza car Wash Pirates i coached last could play better defence than these hockey imposters.
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Back on TOPIC: Real hockey.
Oiler's looked good last nite. Rolly the goalie was very focussed. Good goaltending at both ends. Mac-T's team played like a team and so did Denny Savards club. I like the one defenceman Seabrook. He's a good one.
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Anyone hear on the news last night the new ruling that the atoms can no longer bodycheck. That was always my favorite to coach...the atoms. They're funny at that age, and fun to coach too. Just total sponges absorbing or trying to absorb what they're being taught. I used to have so much fun with them little gaffers i used to rent the ice myself a couple of times a year for our own practices.
I'm not sure what i think about this non-contact hockey. i hope it doesn't spread further up the classes into bantam and midget. | |
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Posted: 11/25/2007 4:32:14 PM | Great post Sly....A Little Golf Applause for that one. I appreciate your honesty about the team you love.
As for me I am working up here in the Yukon...13 hr days so I don't get to see the weekly Saturday Night Leaf Follies sounds like the best comedy on TV. Next week I return home so they better put on a good show, I need a good laugh.
What the "f" is up with my Red Wings can't win in the best division in hockey?
Hockey Town is a marketing ploy ...Don't Let it Bug You | |
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Posted: 11/25/2007 4:44:38 PM |
Hockey Town is a marketing ploy ...Don't Let it Bug You
It doesn't bug me. I like it. it's pretty cool i think. i wish we'd thought of it first.
i don'r know when they came up with that one, but's it a good one. i thought it was when they opened their new arena a while back, i dunno some fifteen years or whatever ago. | |
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Posted: 11/25/2007 8:16:25 PM | "Anyone hear on the news last night the new ruling that the atoms can no longer bodycheck. That was always my favorite to coach...the atoms. They're funny at that age, and fun to coach too. Just total sponges absorbing or trying to absorb what they're being taught. I used to have so much fun with them little gaffers i used to rent the ice myself a couple of times a year for our own practices.
I'm not sure what i think about this non-contact hockey. i hope it doesn't spread further up the classes into bantam and midget. "
Hmm I guess it's different in the East than in the West. Out here they only started allowing bodychecking for peewees three seasons ago. Checking in atom? that's just silly. There's probably only 1 % of all atom players that can even stickhandle with their heads up...and stickhandling with your head down is the cause of the vast majority of injury-causing open-ice hits. Just ask Eric Lindros. | |
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Posted: 11/25/2007 10:30:27 PM | here's the link to that story
No bodychecking till age 11, Hockey Canada says
Last Updated: Sunday, November 25, 2007 | 12:18 AM ET
CBC News
Bodychecking is a fundamental part of hockey, but also controversial, especially in the youth leagues, because of the injuries it can cause...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/11/25/body-checking.html
i only coached house league and the atoms i had couldn't hit anything anyway even if they did try to hit. They were always just trying to get the puck. I haven't coached in a long long time mind you, but i can't ever even remember the kids hitting each other anyway. They may have occassionally collided into one another and they'd both fall down. The kids that could skate usually were good stickhandlers as well and were too busy trying to score goals to go around hitting anyone.
I'd imagine anyone coaching travelling teams would have more intensity to their games. I just thought it was an odd bit of news since i never really remembered my kids , or any of the kids for that matter, being much in the way of hitters. Now i find it odd as well that you'd be operating under seemingly different rules out there than here, or here than there, whatever the case may be. | |
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Posted: 11/26/2007 3:16:56 AM | | This is not even news. Age 11 is peewee age. This rule is 3 years old. The age DROPPED from 12 to 11 three years ago when the peewee age group dropped from 12-13 to 11-12. | |
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Posted: 11/26/2007 6:08:11 AM | | well that clears up that little mystery then. thanks. i never knew they dropped the age. | |
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Posted: 11/26/2007 2:42:40 PM | | That's how it is in the West, at any rate. The East may be different but it's my understanding that the entire country is under the same age brackets now. | |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 7:19:24 AM | Sly, I think your only salvation is to make more use of the man, myth and legend that is Wade Belak. During the lockout he did amazing things for us across the pond here in Coventry | |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 10:45:12 AM | Thanks iggy. Belak platoons at defense as well as the wing, but for some reason the coach never seems to want to dress the guy. I have no idea why not since we seem to be missing about 6 defencemen most nights anyway
Well we have just a plethora in the Toronto papers with all the finger pointing going on now. Tannenbaum and Peddie don't get along. Tannenbaum secretly interviewing people while peddie has the backing of the Ontario teachers because they're hitting all their financial goals. Couple of good articles outlining what a catastrophic mess this organization has become
...It is comments such as these that make the public cringe when Peddie speaks. It is comments such as these -- considering the Leafs have regressed in each of Ferguson's four seasons as GM -- that display Peddie's basic lack of sporting acumen.
The man may know how to make money, but when it comes to operating successful professional sporting franchises, he seems ultimately clueless.
But by cuddling up to the silent majority that owns the Leafs, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, and by hitting all of his financial targets, Peddie has manoeuvred himself into a position of extreme power.
He has power. And the Leafs fan is essentially punished for it...
Leafs trouble starts at top
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Toronto/2007/11/27/4689080-sun.html
i believe this is the point agent 86 has been trying to make all along here. The teachers get the gold mine and the leaf fans get the shaft..
JFJ's hiring a 'mistake'
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Toronto/2007/11/27/4689073-sun.html
McKenzie: Tough to make decisions at MLSE
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=223731&hubname=nhl
Are the leafs Considering Radical Changes
http://www.tsn.ca/blogs/dreger/?id=223675
gotta fly... | |
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Msg: 4817 | |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 1:11:02 PM | Last year the Leafs had the opportunity to get rid of Ferguson. Instead they opted to pick up the 1 year option for the 07/08 season.
The leafs established franchise records in points (103) wins (45-tie), home wins (26) and road wins (23) during Fergies tenure. But since then Leafs have stunk it up.
As already stated, im hoping this is his last year as GM. | |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 7:58:23 PM | Forget the leafs, how about the Flames!!! with all the top guns on their team they are going the wrong way in standing! I never thought keenan was the right fit with that team.
I vote to get rid of him now, not in march.  | |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 8:38:20 PM | "forget the leafs, how about the Flames"
i have brought up other Canadian teams but there are some who just like to bash the Leafs. constantly it seems.
As for the Flames they are having defensive troubles as well. Not as bad as the Leafs of course, but Calgary does rank at the bottom in the Western Conference in goals against. There two games below 500 after their loss to the Wings tonite, sitting at 10-12-3. The Edmonton Oilers have a worse record at 10-13-1
Kipper is 29th is goals against average. Not normal numbers for him. Calgary is usually a much better defensive team so what Keenan has changed is beyond me. Kippers save percentage is at .888% before tonite game...very poor as well and he has yet to record a shutout this season. For a team that does not score much, defense is where they need to be solid yet that seems to be one of their biggest problems this year.
I'd sure like to see the Flames, Oilers and Leafs turn it around. | |
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Posted: 11/28/2007 8:40:53 AM | Front page news....
Leafs Determined To Right The Ship
With another embarrassment on the books the Leafs brain trust(oxy-moron) have come up with sweeping changes in order to right the ship and put this team firmly back on track to finish a mediocre 13th.
Mr Peddie this morning announced the firing of long time Zamboni driver Wrongway Foyt. Upon hearing off his firing from a relieved Fergie Jr., Mr Foyt had this comment......Leafs Suck! | |
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Posted: 11/28/2007 10:16:42 AM | ^^^more leaf bashing...there's a surprise
The NHL suspended Hartnell of the Flyers...That is the 4th Flyer player to recieve a suspension this year.
Bad Boys in Philly.
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Posted: 11/28/2007 11:02:59 AM | And the news just keeps getting worse....
NHL Announces Plans To Take Over Hapless Leaf Franchise.
In a not so surprising announcement today Gary Bettman announced plans for the NHL to assume full operational duties of the Toronto franchise(loosely). Said Bettman..."We just got rid of the "Mighty" Ducks now we need to rid the league of the "Toronto Mickey Mouses".
In its first move the league announced the firings of everyone associated with the organization. The leagues 2nd move was to rehire former Zamboni driver Wrongway Foyt and promote him to President of the newly formed franchise Toronto/Hamilton Lakers.
Oh and by the way Toronto's Vaunted offense now sits 8th best in the league. | |
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Posted: 11/28/2007 11:36:42 AM | ^^^^well i hope they do take over..it is time for some sweeping changes.
"oh and by the way Toronto's Vaunted offense now sits 8th best in the league"
They are tied for 3rd in goals for in the Eastern conference.
Carolina 80 GF
Tampa 74 GF
Toronto 73 GF
Habs 73 GF
Flyers 73 GF
8th overall in offense is hardly something to quibble about dont ya think? There are 30 NHL teams.
Defense and GA is where the leafs need improvement. Offense is not the issue with the leafs. They powerplay has been poor, but they have been scoring 5-5 just fine. | |
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Posted: 11/29/2007 11:06:27 AM | Atta boy Pucks welcome to reality.
but... uhm er...Pucks instead of looking at total goals look at the Goals per Game(GPG).
The Leafs have played more games than most and that is why there total goals is mis-leading. Last week they were 4th in GPG(overall NHL) and this week 8th. Pucks its a red flag...they are sinking fast. Their winning percentage is 27th in the league, scary. Someone clue Fergiein ...John Tavares ' draft year is 09. | |
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Posted: 11/29/2007 2:12:41 PM | is that 3 weeks yet?
go flames go in sutter we trust | |
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