Well, they are who we thought they were. At first we were over-optimistic, then extremely pessimistic, then guardedly optimistic, and now it’s back to realistically pessimistic. The Toronto Maple Leafs are not a good hockey team. We knew this, ignored it, and paid the price of missing expectations. Playoffs, while a nice goal, was not [...]
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47/82 of What We’ll Know: We Suck Again
Posted: 14th January 2010 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, Hockey2
26/82 of What We’ll Know: Assymptotic to the Playoffs and Some Love for Matt Stajan
Posted: 2nd December 2009 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, HockeyDecember is here just as quickly as November went (obviously?), and not without some all-too-familiar Maple Leaf sentiments. The Leafs are still in second last place in the NHL, still struggling to decide what is to become of overpriced veterans and/or underutilized youngsters, and still trying to keep one goalie healthy long enough to determine [...]
T-Mac’s Top 10: Sexiest Hockey Players
Posted: 25th November 2009 by Tieja Maclaughlin in Hockey, Tieja MacComments Off
It’s no secret that hockey players are some of the best looking athletes on the planet (Editor’s Note: This is an extremely well kept secret to the male population). They’ve got the body, the grit, the attitude…oh, and did I mention the body? The question is how do you narrow it down and pick the [...]
18/82 of What We’ll Know: Shifting the November Focus, and a Live Kadri Scouting Report
Posted: 16th November 2009 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, HockeySince I last wrote, the Leafs have railed off three straight losses. I’m not sure why I’m surprised; perhaps, my concluding paragraphs last Tuesday were too optimistic, too hope-inspiring, effectively turning on the Blue-blinders that we as Leaf fans all too often adorn. Upon closer reflection, it was the month as a whole that I [...]
15/82 of What We’ll Know: 28th With a Bullet
Posted: 10th November 2009 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, HockeyComments Off
Idle hands are the devil’s playground, so they say. I guess, then, it’s good that I’ve been a little too busy (and under the weather) to write much in the way of coherent sports analysis the past few weeks. I say that, of course, because if I had wrote the latest Leafs’ update at the [...]
Toronto Maple Leafs Aren’t as Bad as You Think
Posted: 23rd October 2009 by mattrego in Hockey, Matt RegoComments Off
This article has been submitted by the debuting Matt Rego…I didn’t have time to set him up as an author so for today he appears to be me. I wish! Welcome, Regg Ross. We are just about three weeks into the season and our most beloved, and also most hated, NHL hockey franchise are winless [...]
Five for Fighting: Leafs Goaltending, Leafs Youngsters, What Laraques is Cookin, and NHL Rule Changes
Posted: 16th October 2009 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, HockeyToronto Maple Leafs and the Goaltending Carousel The Leafs’ goaltending situation is getting ridiculous, already. Obviously, nobody is happy with Vesa Toskala between the pipes. This has been the case all offseason as people clamored for Jonas Gustafsson and Joey MacDonald to be the team’s one-two punch in net, and after an extremely shaky start [...]
This title, which will be a running one for Leafs coverage here, assumes that knowledge is evenly distributed across 82 regular season games. This is not reality, of course, as we know plenty from previous seasons, the offseason, the preseason, and other “hockey insider” cues. Still, there are but 82 games that count, unless you [...]
Please Welcome Me Back to NHL Fanhood
Posted: 25th September 2009 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, HockeyHockey…I’m back. No, seriously this time, I mean it. I’m back again…for the very first time. Allow me to take you back to give you a better grasp of just how grandiose a statement this is. And it is, trust. As a kid, I was 100% hockey all the time. And I don’t mean just [...]
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With all of the attention the National Hockey League has earned during the offseason, it can only be regarded as nothing short of a public relations’ dream. Has it been good publicity? No. Not entirely. But as most PR personnel would suggest, any news is good news. In direct competition with the National Football League [...]