Links from the Leafs' week off

by James Mirtle on Oct 22, 2009 2:28 PM CDT Comment 16 comments

A few items from around the Maple Leafs this week:

Monster a maybe for Canucks
Schenn fighting sophomore slump
Leafs get physical
Leafs not alone on the path to misery
Leafs all business despite long layoff
Kessel participates in game-day skate
No Toskala in Leafs lineup tonight

Toronto is flying out to Vancouver right about now in order to get to the West Coast well ahead of Saturday night's game. Jonas Gustavsson is getting all of the attention at practice lately from the media, but Joey MacDonald likely gets that start.

The Leafs play five road games in eight nights beginning this weekend, so if the slump's going to end soon, it'll be away from the Air Canada Centre.

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I thought I was so smart taking the monster in the last round of my fantasy draft….I haven’t won a goalie category yet.

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by Original Six on Oct 22, 2009 4:16 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Hang in there. He may play a lot.

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by James Mirtle on Oct 22, 2009 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have to think Burke will need to trade for a goalie if he is still serious about making the playoffs. He might have been better off keeping Gerber around. Wonder how he’s doing in Europe?

by Pseudonym on Oct 23, 2009 5:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hell

He might have to trade for a goalie to keep from having traded away Taylor Hall.

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by PPP on Oct 23, 2009 8:45 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If Toronto goes .500 the rest of the way by posting 75 points in the final 75 games, the Leafs will almost certainly finish among the NHL’s lottery teams

No offense, James, but I’m starting to really hate it when people use ‘.500’ as if it is still some kind of useful benchmark in the NHL, and I’m hoping you can be the one to stop it. With the current point structure, .500 is worse than ordinary: it’s lousy, plain and simple. What you wrote here is basically that if the Leafs play poorly the rest of the year, they will have a poor result.

I've been looking at the sky

by Back In Black on Oct 22, 2009 4:49 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I know. I think we can still use .500 but only in the context of .500 being pretty lousy.

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by James Mirtle on Oct 22, 2009 5:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh God

They have to be better than crap to get out of this hole? Gustavsson better be Pelle Lindbergh re-incarnated.

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Oct 22, 2009 10:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Now I know why Gary Bettman’s gang-name is ‘5 double naught’.

All this time I thought it was in reference to his height.

by HockeyinHD on Oct 22, 2009 9:12 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

So this is a leafs blog now?

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by garth the hoser on Oct 22, 2009 10:34 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Here's a thought

Leave or don’t comment. No one’s paying you to be here.

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Oct 22, 2009 10:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whoa.

Never saw that one coming from you, P3.

by HockeyinHD on Oct 23, 2009 6:49 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The guy gets on my nerves. He basically never adds anything to the conversation with his comments.

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Oct 23, 2009 8:45 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

To be fair,

The Leafs are a little over-covered in North America, especially considering they’ve sucked since the lockout… which I refuse to believe is anything remotely resembling a coincidence.

I get it, hockey’s obviously gigantic in Canada and in Toronto in particular, but on a more general level (like what the internet covers) it’s a little disappointing to see a writer who I like ‘have’ to spend time doing stories on a team that’s largely irrelevant outside of Toronto.

It’s obviously a great opportunity for James, but beyond watching Brian Burke failcascade stories about the Leafs are going to be uninteresting to me, and I’ll miss him spending more time tackling more relevant (to me) stories about the NHL.

by HockeyinHD on Oct 25, 2009 7:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs