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Zyklon_Jay
wehrmacht bitches be at!
Registered: Oct 2010
Location: Ici William Bumbray du service de police de la communauté urbaine de Montréal Esti.
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the habs need offense more. They are one injury away from disaster on the blueline, but they play a really solid d game from the forwards back and Price is doing what he needs to do. The habs are always coming from behind lately for wins...this won't happen come playoff time, so i think it would be nicer to have a bit more firepower to protect leads instead of trying to catch up.
we could get an older player like Arnott for cheap, add a little grit and experience and still have enough cap room left for a better bottom 6 dman than picard.
Gauhtier is sitting and waiting right now, but he has done a decent enough job.
losing markov, gorges, and cammilieri is big...but getting james wisnewski for nothing was brilliant, as was signing jeff halpern in the off season. I scratched my head at first with halpern...but his pk and faceoff skills are off the charts, plus he has produced more points than anyone could have expected.
Wisnewski is a defensive liability, but since he joined the habs the pp moved up almost 20 rankings in the league. Great shot and outlet pass...although he has not shown the mean streak in his game yet...come playoff time we should get a little more of that.
Our most likely playoff opponents will be boston, washington or pittsburg. Cammi will be back (and hopefully benefit from some time off like he did last year), and i think we can beat washington or boston....pitts is a stretch, but after last year who knows?
Pk and Price can beat them. Pk can get under Crosby's skin like a wiley vet...and i think at the socci olympics he will be on team canada (if the nhl goes.) He won't win rookie of the year, but i think PK is one of the best prospects in the nhl right now, and although he makes rookie mistakes...he is playing years beyond his tender age...if anything Gomez could learn a thing or 2 from him and stop playing like an 18 year old with a napoleon complex.
Price and PK are the wild cards...and if Price brings his A game...he can shut even a team like the Pens down. He sure as hell shut up the Halakers this year.
sorry, i know this is a leafs thread...what can i say there ain't much leaf related worth talking about right now. Any other city in the NHL = Burke would be jobless right now.
The D that everyone was touting (including myself, i gave the leafs credit for the d at the beginning of the year) is a bust.
Phaneuf = garbage
Beauchemin = finished
Komisarek = pylon
Lebda = does not belong in the nhl 9-19 in 22 games lol)
Kaberle = only guy that can skate backwards
Schenn = gets points for being the only leaf dman not in the minus...he is at 0.
Aulie = give me a break
The goaltending everyone in leafs nation thought was so awesome was an even bigger bust.
Giguere = career done.
Gustavsson = fail
Reimer = hope...but be careful, once shooters figure him out it might be a very diff story. Too early to tell if he is a fluke...although his pedigree points to that right now. Hopefully for you guys he will be a diamond in the rough, considering no one expected him to play at all this year, i'm not holding my breath.
The offense?
Kessel is the only legitamate top 6 forward you have imo...and with no o0ne to feed him, he is useless. Macarthur is nice, but let's see him do this for more than 1 season before we say he is for real. If anything, the fact that he leads the team in scoring says it all. The reality is that for most of your top 6 o men...they end up playing in the bottom 6 for at least 80% of nhl teams.
The positives? As bad as the farm prospects are for the leafs (other than kadri who do they have of note, and is kadri even that good of a prospect?), they have a better future than Ottawa. Ottawa is completely fucked, and the only team in the NHL that has had worse moves made by the GM is the Islanders.
The Leafs have a better shot of turning the team around in the next few years than the sens by far...although that is really not saying much. You still need draft picks to rebuild....and no matter what Torontonians may think abgout their fair city...free agents tend to not sign with bottom dwelling teams in canada because why pay a boatload of taxes to play in a market that you are going to get castrated in if the team sucks?
we lived the same thing in montreal....tradition does not mean squat come free agency, unless you make the destination sound promising.
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Feb-08-2011 18:30
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Milton, ON Canada
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LEAFS TRADE BEAUCHEMIN TO DUCKS FOR LUPUL, GARDINER, DRAFT PICK
The first domino appears to have fallen prior to the NHL trade deadline as the Toronto Maple Leafs have shipped defenceman Francois Beauchemin back to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for forward Joffrey Lupul, defenceman Jake Gardiner and a conditional fourth-round draft pick in the 2013 Entry Draft.
The 30-year old Beauchemin struggled during his time in Toronto after signing as a free agent in 2009, however he helped the Ducks capture the Stanley Cup in 2007.
A stay-at-home defender, the Sorel, Quebec native has two goals and 10 assists in 54games this season with the Leafs.
Originally selected in the third round, 75th overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, Beauchemin has 27 goals and 99 assists in 373 career games split between the Canadiens, Columbus Blue Jackets, Ducks and Maple Leafs.
Meanwhile the 27-year old Lupul who missed 24 games earlier in the season following back surgery has five goals and eight assists in 26 games this season.
Originally a first round pick, seventh overall by the Ducks in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, the Fort Saskatchewan native has 117 goals and 121 assists in 421 career games between the Ducks, Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers.
The 20-year old Gardiner, who is among the Ducks top defensive prospects, currently plays for the University of Wisconsin where he has seven goals and 23 assists in 30 games this season. He was selected in the first round, 17th overall, by Anaheim in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. |
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Feb-09-2011 18:28
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Dior Homme
Hedi Slimane
Registered: Aug 2008
Location: Paris
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It will be interesting watching these two teams play next year.
TAMPA BAY MAPLE LEAFS
One of the few things that the Toronto Maple Leafs currently share in common with the ultra successful Detroit Red Wings is that both team's uniforms consist of only two colours (or one, if you want to nitpick). That's set to change next year, as the Tampa Bay Lightning, now under the management of former Wings superstar Steve Yzerman, have unveiled a new striped-down, blue and white uniform.
So who cares? The Leafs have bigger fish to fry than the loss of this dubious and already shared "distinction." Yes, to be sure. But, here's the thing about these new Tampa uniforms: aside from their logo, they're eerily similar to those worn by the Leafs. As far as hockey terminology goes, "the blue and white" has now become a shifter, a moniker that lacks a fixed reference point.
For his part, Yzerman admitted the rebranding effort was aimed to capture the aesthetic of original six franchises. "The long-term goal is for the Lightning to be an iconic franchise, rich in tradition with championship values and a strong legacy....We're not trying to reinvent the wheel here. We're just going back to the basics of what a hockey uniform is," he said at last week's unveiling.
Yeah, but did you have to take ours? Couldn't you have used a different shade of blue? Tradition is pretty much all our franchise has to cling to. Well, that and some undefined passion that apparently "unites us all." You can't put a patent on a colour, I suppose, but I can't imagine the MLSE brass are too happy. After all, the way the Lightning are playing (currently third overall in the league), they'll probably be the first team in blue and white to win the Stanley Cup since 1967.
What do you think? Is this little act of mimicry worthy of anger on the part of Leafs fans? A sign that the Leafs no longer yield as much power in the NHL? Or just completely irrelevant, like the ever-losing team itself?
http://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2...ay_maple_leafs/
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Feb-09-2011 20:01
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Jer
Never Left
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: London Town
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HAHAHAH. BEAUTIFUL.
I'd have traded him for a fucking bag of pucks the way he's been playing.
LEAFS TRADE BEAUCHEMIN TO DUCKS FOR LUPUL, GARDINER, DRAFT PICK
From TSN:
quote: | The first domino appears to have fallen prior to the NHL trade deadline as the Toronto Maple Leafs have shipped defenceman Francois Beauchemin back to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for forward Joffrey Lupul, defenceman Jake Gardiner and a conditional fourth-round draft pick in the 2013 Entry Draft.
"I'm excited to get back in a playoff race. I never really wanted to leave Anaheim," Beauchemin told TSN on Wednesday. "It's been a frustrating season. We just couldn't get any consistency."
The 30-year-old Beauchemin struggled during his time in Toronto after signing as a free agent in 2009, however he helped the Ducks capture the Stanley Cup in 2007.
A stay-at-home defender, the Sorel, Quebec native has two goals and 10 assists in 54 games this season with the Leafs.
"I wish I could have scored more goals here," Beauchemin told TSN. "But I played as hard as I could have defensively."
Originally selected in the third round, 75th overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, Beauchemin has 27 goals and 99 assists in 373 career games split between the Canadiens, Columbus Blue Jackets, Ducks and Maple Leafs.
Maple Leafs president and general manager Brian Burke told a press conference that the deal for Lupul had been about three weeks in the making, and that he had tried to acquire the forward while he was still with Philadelphia up until the end of the 2008-09 season.
Lupul, 27, who missed 24 games earlier in the season following back surgery, has five goals and eight assists in 26 games this season. Although his numbers are down this season, Maple Leafs head coach Ron Wilson expects him to contribute immediately.
"We've been trying to look for goal scoring, both inside and out (of the organization), and an opportunity to pick up Joffrey Lupul presented itself," Wilson told the CANADIAN PRESS. "We think that we're deep enough as an organization to give up a player like (Beauchemin), who's played well for us and who was a leader on and off the ice.
Lupul believes that he will thrive in an expanded role in Toronto.
"I think definitely I have a lot to prove to a lot of people now," Lupul told the CANADIAN PRESS. "The Anaheim Ducks kind of just let me go after 20 games. I don't know if it's injury-related or what it is. But I have a lot to prove to myself and to the team that just let me go and, first and foremost, to the new organization and my new teammates.
"I want to step in and help make an impact."
Burke also explained that Lupul had a serious infection following his back surgery, and that he remains on antibiotics. Lupul is scheduled to have a physical tomorrow.
The Leafs reviewed his case with their doctors and have no concerns with his past back issues.
Originally a first round pick (seventh overall) by the Ducks in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, the Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta native has 117 goals and 121 assists in 421 career games split between the Ducks, Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers.
The 20-year old Gardiner, who is among the Ducks' top defensive prospects, currently plays for the University of Wisconsin where he has seven goals and 23 assists in 30 games this season. He was selected in the first round, 17th overall, by Anaheim in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
Burke told media that he prefers to try to make trades in advance of the deadline, which falls this year on Feb. 28. He also said that when a roster spot becomes available, the club will recall defenceman Keith Aulie from the Toronto Marlies of the AHL.
Burke explained that he also believes that Aulie will eventually be a top-four defenceman for the Maple Leafs.
"You can expect more moves...we're not done," Burke added. |
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