garnetpalmetto
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What is this guy on the aftermath going on about?
What's the current member of the Maniscalco brain trust jabbering about? No really, I turned off the radio for the Jeopardy online test.
GDT: First Triannual Toronto Maple Leafs Players vs Alumni Charity Event
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What's the current member of the Maniscalco brain trust jabbering about? No really, I turned off the radio for the Jeopardy online test.
My Special Purpose
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I have an issue with the guy picking the stars tonight. No beef with the games by Jordan, Lindholm and Chuckie, but how can you *not* make Liles the No. 1 star tonight? Even the Leafs fans I was sitting around were fully expecting it, just to rub the last of the salt in the wound.
Also, I think the Canes had more odd-man opportunities tonight than the first 41 games of the season combined. The Leafs team defense was an embarrassment to hockey tonight. Not that I'm complaining at all. It was kinda fun to watch them implode.
U-S-A! U-S-A!
Also, I think the Canes had more odd-man opportunities tonight than the first 41 games of the season combined. The Leafs team defense was an embarrassment to hockey tonight. Not that I'm complaining at all. It was kinda fun to watch them implode.
U-S-A! U-S-A!
BrindAmours Army
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The twitter feed following the game last night is entertaining. So many people upset about the USA chant
The twitter feed following the game last night is entertaining. So many people upset about the USA chant
What the Faulk
You'll know when you go
It wasn't much of a slash he gave Jordan. Plus he just saw his old team kick the ever loving **** out of his new team, so it's tough.
Elias Lindholm was great, but man he needs to put some meat on his bones. Any hit sends him flying. I don't want to see him broken before the year is out.
Elias Lindholm was great, but man he needs to put some meat on his bones. Any hit sends him flying. I don't want to see him broken before the year is out.
gocanes88
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How'd you do (if you kept track)? I should've taken Tuesday night's test... it was easy last year, and it was easy again this year. I took the one last night, though... didn't do so hot.
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That and Big Mike blowing his horn. Not to generalize, but what's the deal with Leaf fans and not being to take a joke? They got all pissy after Eric make the comment about them "not being a hockey market" (while being over the top sarcastic, no less) during the ASG here in Raleigh.
garnetpalmetto
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How'd you do (if you kept track)? I should've taken Tuesday night's test... it was easy last year, and it was easy again this year. I took the one last night, though... didn't do so hot.
I passed on 3, I know I got 1 just absolutely wrong, but they don't give you your results. This is my third try on it - first time I did get an invite to an audition in DC but, alas, grad school got in the way.
It's because they take themselves entirely too seriously. They're fine bagging on themselves - throwing waffles around, spending half their GDT talking about goats, but the minute anybody even jokes about them, they get pissy. I blame the fact that despite all the history the Maple Leafs represent, they're a team that has vastly underwhelmed for years and outright disappointed for nearly half a century. In that span they've seen the League quintuple in size from the last time they won the Stanley Cup and have yet to hoist the Cup in those 47 years. It's bad enough to see upstarts without your pedigree hoist the Cup year after year, but when the fans of those teams start joking about you? Uh uh. Can't have that. That's not a joke, it's an insult.
Beyond that, I think that like any large market team that's something of a regional icon, they have their disproportionate number of fans who just aren't that knowledgeable about the game, either the history or the current state of the game outside of the Leafs. I'd honestly be surprised if half the posters on their board caught that Faulk, a US Olympian, doing something he normally doesn't do (not just fighting but winning that fight) sparked the "USA" chants. Beyond that, being in a larger city they're probably not that knowledgeable about either us or our market and think we're all a bunch of inbred hicks in the "'Murica" vein.
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DougieSmash
WE'RE IN! WE'RE IN! YES! YES! WOO!
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"Guys are believing in the message that the staff is giving to us," he said. "I think the atmosphere in the room is great. We have a really good core of leaders. Maybe they're not the most vocal, but when guys say things, it's the right thing at the right time."
But i thought that both Staal brothers are amongs the worst leaders in the entire league...
But i thought that both Staal brothers are amongs the worst leaders in the entire league...
SeaBasstian
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I havent heard it mentioned on here, but other than Jordan who was obviously a beast, and Khudobin, I thought the best player on the ice last night was Gerbe. he was EVERYWHERE. And not just there, but on the puck, or in a good position for the puck, and making people miss all night. his stick handling was awesome. and on Dwyers goal, Gerbe was in front of Reimer....with FOUR Leafs around him. wow
AD Skinner
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How'd you do (if you kept track)? I should've taken Tuesday night's test... it was easy last year, and it was easy again this year. I took the one last night, though... didn't do so hot.
I took the Wednesday test also, and thought it was harder than in previous years. There was an option to possibly have auditions in Raleigh this year though, so we may yet put all our brains to the test.
FeedDaPuck
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Dobby is in net for the next game... KM is riding that horse hard! LMAO!
P.S.: Can someone provide a report on how he played? (THANX in advance, and you can PM it to me!!!)
P.S.: Can someone provide a report on how he played? (THANX in advance, and you can PM it to me!!!)
Boom Boom Apathy
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That's likely part of it, but part of it is that they have such a huge fan base that even if only 1% of them can't take a joke, it's a lot of people. Not knocking our fan base, but it is what it is. If 1% of our fanbase on HF can't take a joke, it's like 1 or 2 that you would hear from. If 1% of their fanbase on HF can't take a joke, it's probably closer to 50-100 so ends up coming across as all of them.
VAcaniac
SHOOT THE PUCK
He had a great game as usual. There were a couple flurries where he stood on his head. But other than that, Carolina's sound defensive play limited Toronto's shots to one-chance opportunities and shots from the point.
Cardiac Jerks
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My Special Purpose
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Hey, it kinda slipped my mind, too, but nobody has mentioned the team coming together at center ice and saluting the fans after last night's game. I thought it was nice, but it was also kinda weird to start something like that *without* Eric Staal on the ice. It *appeared* to me that Manny Malhotra -- and maybe Patrick Dwyer -- was the driving force behind it. What did you guys think?
bb99
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They sorta showed it on tv. I love when teams salute the home crowd and wish they'd do it more often. Good on them.
rocky7
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Unsustainable
Seth Jarvis has Big Kahunas
Still think the LA Kings guy is the best, but that was epic, and the leafs people calling is classless.
Lol
Unsustainable
Seth Jarvis has Big Kahunas
@NHLCanes: J-M Liles said after the #Canes 6-1 win vs. #Leafs that it's nice to be in a situation where he can contribute.
I'll enjoy it all the same.
It was great to see the scoring distribution last night. Along with the big guns we had great secondary scoring from Patty, Lindholm, JML. 9 players registered points.
All risk aside, I loved the Faulk fight. I can't stand Lupul.
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Just rewatching the highlights, Bellemore had a really rough night. Lots of unforced turnovers, especially in the defensive zone.
And I have no idea what he was thinking on the goal against. Bad enough he goes straight up the middle with the pass, but when it's picked off, he bull charges the player that picked it off (in Aaron Ward-esque fashion), leaving him completely out of position and chasing the puck for the remainder of the play.
His growing pains have been a lot more noticeable of late.
And I have no idea what he was thinking on the goal against. Bad enough he goes straight up the middle with the pass, but when it's picked off, he bull charges the player that picked it off (in Aaron Ward-esque fashion), leaving him completely out of position and chasing the puck for the remainder of the play.
His growing pains have been a lot more noticeable of late.
