Toronto Maple Leafs Thread

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Hockey Players are treated to kindly by the NHL....it's a joke really.

Bathgate66

http://stats.nypost.com/nhl/story.asp?i=20070912230617910000101&ref=hea&tm=


i think the hit and run charge is more damaging--
terrible situation to have to deal with !

Maple Leafs forward Mark Bell suspended by NHL for 15 games

NEW YORK (AP) Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mark Bell was suspended for 15 games without pay Wednesday by the NHL after his plea last month of no contest to drunken driving and hit-and-run charges.

"Playing in the National Hockey League is a privilege, and with that privilege comes a corresponding responsibility for exemplary conduct off the ice as well as on it," commissioner Gary Bettman said.

"Yeah I think the length of the suspension was a surprise," Bell said at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto after the announcement. "I haven't been in contact with the league until about 48 hours ago, but I respect the decision the commissioner made and I look forward to moving on in a positive manner - as I have been for the last year."

Bell is in Stage 2 of the NHL's substance abuse program. He was suspended indefinitely Sept. 4, and the suspension will start once he's cleared to return by the program's doctors. The doctors also will determine what, if any, activities Bell can participate in when Toronto opens training camp Thursday.

"The NHLPA sees no basis for the excessive suspension Gary Bettman has imposed upon Mark Bell," said Ian Penny, the NHL Players' Association's associate counsel.

"Mark has fully accepted the serious consequences of his actions. He faces incarceration at the conclusion of the season and has already been suspended without pay as a result of his placement in Stage 2. ... There is no legitimate purpose served by adding a substantial league disciplinary suspension to the severe sanctions that have already been imposed. We are currently reviewing all of our legal options with respect to this matter."

Bell was arrested in September 2006 after his sedan rear-ended a pickup truck in Milpitas, Calif., in the San Jose foothills.

Bell is expected to serve six months in a California jail, beginning after this season. Santa Clara County prosecutor Cindy Seeley Hendrickson said Bell could complete the sentence over the next two offseasons under the agreement, which has yet to be entered in court.

The Maple Leafs acquired Bell in June along with goalie Vesa Toskala in a trade with the San Jose Sharks.

"I'm going to continue to get in the best shape of my life," Bell said. "I'm not just going to sit around. This is time that I will use to become a better hockey player. I want to show all Maple Leaf fans and the whole league what kind of player that I am."

Hawkshore

New gay Leaf movie....Ken do you know if this is based on a true story?

http://sports.sympatico.msn.ca/Tom+Cavanagh+doesnt+mind+that+his+new+movie+has+been+dubbed+gay+hockey+movie/NHL/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&newsitemid=66071031&feedname=CP-SPORTS-HOCKEY&show=True&number=6&showbyline=False&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc

Tom Cavanagh doesn't mind that his new movie has been dubbed 'gay hockey movie'
08/09/2007 7:26:00 PM

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TORONTO (CP) - Actor Tom Cavanagh isn't at all bothered that his new film, "Breakfast With Scot," is being called "the gay hockey movie."



Actor Tom Cavanagh is shown in a scene from the film "Breakfast with Scot," shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. (CP PHOTO/HO)
"I think that the attention that (label) gives the movie is more than anything you could do with any publicity campaign," Cavanagh, who played the title character on the TV series "Ed," said in an interview Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

"If you see the movie, you realize at once that it isn't a gay hockey movie but it doesn't really matter ... If people want to throw a tagline on it that makes it easy to digest or easier to talk about, then more the better for us .... We'll fan those flames."

In "Breakfast With Scot," Cavanagh plays a gay ex-Toronto Maple Leaf whose life is turned upside down when he and his partner suddenly find themselves caring for a flamboyant young boy.

The NHL and the Leafs gave permission for their logos to be used in the movie, something that Toronto-raised director Laurie Lynd says has never before been done for a gay-themed movie.

But some hockey fans are evidently not happy about "Breakfast With Scot." The Leafs heard from a couple of right-wing groups in the United States and Lynd says he got hate mail.

Cavanagh was surprised by the ruckus that erupted around the film.

"When the news broke (that we were making the movie), we were filming and there was controversy on the sports call-in shows. ....We were amazed. First off, we couldn't believe that anyone was talking about our movie, and second ... it's 2007, 2006 when we shot it; it took me by surprise that it would be an issue."

"In a strange way, even though they were upset about the fact that we were using the Maple Leafs logo and the NHL logo, the angrier they got, the better it got for our movie."

While controversy has surrounded "Breakfast With Scot," the film itself is a fairly conventional family comedy as Scot (played by 12-year-old Noah Bernett of Montreal) struggles to fit in at school and develop a relationship with Cavanagh's character, Eric, and Eric's partner (played by Ben Shenkman).

Cavanagh was born in Ottawa and grew up cheering for the Montreal Canadiens. Since he moved to the U.S., he says he roots for all Canadian teams. Getting to lace up in the Leafs uniform and shoot scenes at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ont., was a thrill for the actor.

"At one point we had to set the cameras up and I put the jersey on and I had to wait for them to set up, we had about an hour. I was out there by myself - stick and puck - Copps Coliseum to myself," he said.

"I kind of looked over and looked at the wing and I was like 'that's the wing where Gretzky passed to Lemieux. ' You're standing on the same ice ... and you're getting paid to do it. If you're a hockey fan at all, that kind of stuff is great."

NY PJ1

Hawkshore wrote:

New gay Leaf movie....Ken do you know if this is based on a true story?

http://sports.sympatico.msn.ca/Tom+Cavanagh+doesnt+mind+that+his+new+movie+has+been+dubbed+gay+hockey+movie/NHL/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&newsitemid=66071031&feedname=CP-SPORTS-HOCKEY&show=True&number=6&showbyline=False&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc

Tom Cavanagh doesn't mind that his new movie has been dubbed 'gay hockey movie'
08/09/2007 7:26:00 PM

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TORONTO (CP) - Actor Tom Cavanagh isn't at all bothered that his new film, "Breakfast With Scot," is being called "the gay hockey movie."



Actor Tom Cavanagh is shown in a scene from the film "Breakfast with Scot," shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. (CP PHOTO/HO)
"I think that the attention that (label) gives the movie is more than anything you could do with any publicity campaign," Cavanagh, who played the title character on the TV series "Ed," said in an interview Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

"If you see the movie, you realize at once that it isn't a gay hockey movie but it doesn't really matter ... If people want to throw a tagline on it that makes it easy to digest or easier to talk about, then more the better for us .... We'll fan those flames."

In "Breakfast With Scot," Cavanagh plays a gay ex-Toronto Maple Leaf whose life is turned upside down when he and his partner suddenly find themselves caring for a flamboyant young boy.

The NHL and the Leafs gave permission for their logos to be used in the movie, something that Toronto-raised director Laurie Lynd says has never before been done for a gay-themed movie.

But some hockey fans are evidently not happy about "Breakfast With Scot." The Leafs heard from a couple of right-wing groups in the United States and Lynd says he got hate mail.

Cavanagh was surprised by the ruckus that erupted around the film.

"When the news broke (that we were making the movie), we were filming and there was controversy on the sports call-in shows. ....We were amazed. First off, we couldn't believe that anyone was talking about our movie, and second ... it's 2007, 2006 when we shot it; it took me by surprise that it would be an issue."

"In a strange way, even though they were upset about the fact that we were using the Maple Leafs logo and the NHL logo, the angrier they got, the better it got for our movie."

While controversy has surrounded "Breakfast With Scot," the film itself is a fairly conventional family comedy as Scot (played by 12-year-old Noah Bernett of Montreal) struggles to fit in at school and develop a relationship with Cavanagh's character, Eric, and Eric's partner (played by Ben Shenkman).

Cavanagh was born in Ottawa and grew up cheering for the Montreal Canadiens. Since he moved to the U.S., he says he roots for all Canadian teams. Getting to lace up in the Leafs uniform and shoot scenes at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ont., was a thrill for the actor.

"At one point we had to set the cameras up and I put the jersey on and I had to wait for them to set up, we had about an hour. I was out there by myself - stick and puck - Copps Coliseum to myself," he said.

"I kind of looked over and looked at the wing and I was like 'that's the wing where Gretzky passed to Lemieux. ' You're standing on the same ice ... and you're getting paid to do it. If you're a hockey fan at all, that kind of stuff is great."

haha hawk is bitter

Hawkshore

NY PJ1 wrote:

haha hawk is bitter

Bitter about the Leafs???

kenshunt

Well i don't beleaf this is a true story, but i guess ill wait and see if this is based on a true story or not.

NY PJ1

Hawkshore wrote:

Bitter about the Leafs???

just kidding

i meant u were bitter because the story wasnt about a canuck lol

kenshunt

NY PJ1 wrote:

just kidding

i meant u were bitter because the story wasnt about a canuck lol

It would make more sense if it was based on former Canuck Pavel Bure oh yeah and former Ranger too.

NY PJ1

kenshunt wrote:

It would make more sense if it was based on former Canuck Pavel Bure oh yeah and former Ranger too.

the few games he played w/ us he scored like a madman


and the high stick to jay wells in the cup was huge

kenshunt

Well Tuesday is almost here and it's time for Pre-Season hockey to begin, Leafs v.s Oilers 9:00 pm EST

Rygar

kenshunt wrote:

Well i don't beleaf this is a true story, but i guess ill wait and see if this is based on a true story or not.

I'm pretty sure it isn't.
Here's a good article for you Ken - http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Top10/

even flow?

Looking sharp for two teams that didn't make the playoffs last year.

kenshunt

Leafs Fall To Oilers In Overtime Canadian Press Sep 18, 2007, 10:50 PM EDT
EDMONTON (CP) -- Defenceman Denis Grebeshkov scored 3:25 into overtime as the Edmonton Oilers won their second in a row to start the pre-season, defeating the Toront 3-2 on Tuesday.

Grebeshkov, acquired last season from the New York Islanders, took a Shawn Horcoff feed and fluttered a shot past Leafs goalie Justin Pogge to secure the win in front of a sellout crowd of 16,839 at Rexall Place.

Viacheslav Trukhno and Horcoff also scored for the Oilers.

Alexei Ponikarovsky and Bryan McCabe replied for the Maple Leafs, playing their first exhibition match of the year.

The two teams traded power-play goals late in the first.

Edmonton's Trukhno picked up a rebound at the side of the net on a two-man advantage and beat Pogge just past the 15-minute mark.

Less than two minutes later, Darcy Tucker sent Ponikarovsky in on a breakaway and he wristed a shot past Oilers netminder Mathieu Garon to tie the game 1-1.

Toronto took the lead three minutes into the third as McCabe blasted a slap shot up high past replacement goaltender Devan Dubnyk, another power-play goal.

Edmonton responded five minutes later. Shawn Horcoff found a loose puck in a scramble in front of the Leafs net and set a backhand shot through Pogge's legs to knot the game 2-2 and send it into overtime.

Notes: Forward Anson Carter played his first game in an Oilers jersey since coming to the team on a training camp audition last weekend, but left the game with a concussion in the first period. The 33-year-old Toronto native, who has played for eight NHL teams, last suited up for the Oilers in the 2002-03 season. ... Edmonton also lost defenceman Mathieu Roy in the first after he took a Jeremy Williams shot in the face. ... The Oilers unveiled their impressive new locker-room at Rexall Place on Monday. The new 930-square metre expansion project cost $3.5 million.

RockinInCanada

kenshunt wrote:

Leafs Fall To Oilers In Overtime Canadian Press Sep 18, 2007, 10:50 PM EDT
EDMONTON (CP) -- Defenceman Denis Grebeshkov scored 3:25 into overtime as the Edmonton Oilers won their second in a row to start the pre-season, defeating the Toront 3-2 on Tuesday.

Grebeshkov, acquired last season from the New York Islanders, took a Shawn Horcoff feed and fluttered a shot past Leafs goalie Justin Pogge to secure the win in front of a sellout crowd of 16,839 at Rexall Place.

Viacheslav Trukhno and Horcoff also scored for the Oilers.

Alexei Ponikarovsky and Bryan McCabe replied for the Maple Leafs, playing their first exhibition match of the year.

The two teams traded power-play goals late in the first.

Edmonton's Trukhno picked up a rebound at the side of the net on a two-man advantage and beat Pogge just past the 15-minute mark.

Less than two minutes later, Darcy Tucker sent Ponikarovsky in on a breakaway and he wristed a shot past Oilers netminder Mathieu Garon to tie the game 1-1.

Toronto took the lead three minutes into the third as McCabe blasted a slap shot up high past replacement goaltender Devan Dubnyk, another power-play goal.

Edmonton responded five minutes later. Shawn Horcoff found a loose puck in a scramble in front of the Leafs net and set a backhand shot through Pogge's legs to knot the game 2-2 and send it into overtime.

Notes: Forward Anson Carter played his first game in an Oilers jersey since coming to the team on a training camp audition last weekend, but left the game with a concussion in the first period. The 33-year-old Toronto native, who has played for eight NHL teams, last suited up for the Oilers in the 2002-03 season. ... Edmonton also lost defenceman Mathieu Roy in the first after he took a Jeremy Williams shot in the face. ... The Oilers unveiled their impressive new locker-room at Rexall Place on Monday. The new 930-square metre expansion project cost $3.5 million.

Watched this game last night on-line and I must say holy fucking penalties....decent pace to the game I thought....happy with the outcome ...as for Carter he was never gonna to make the team anyways...however I do hope he gets better.....

kenshunt

Well last night was a bummer, but nice to see the blue and white back on the ice, but it's time for some more hockey tonight.

RockinInCanada

kenshunt wrote:

Well last night was a bummer, but nice to see the blue and white back on the ice, but it's time for some more hockey tonight.

Sundin and Blake should be in tonight eh?

Toskala starting?

kenshunt

Yeah i believe Sundin and Blake will be playing from what i heard last night, as for Vesa, i have no clue, i was surprised to see Pogge last night with Raycroft and Clemmenson on the team to.

RockinInCanada

kenshunt wrote:

Yeah i believe Sundin and Blake will be playing from what i heard last night, as for Vesa, i have no clue, i was surprised to see Pogge last night with Raycroft and Clemmenson on the team to.

He didn't look too shabby.....nice to see him play the entire game....

Red Lukin

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kenshunt

September 19, 2007




Leafs vs. Coyotes - Sept. 19, 2007
WINNIPEG (CP) -- It's still early in the pre-season, but the Toronto Maple Leafs' new top line is already looking good.

Newly acquired forward Jason Blake scored the tying goal as the Leafs went on to beat the Phoenix Coyotes 3-2 in NHL exhibition action Wednesday night.

It was the first game together for the line of Blake, Mats Sundin and Nik Antropov and their performance showed promise as the trio created numerous scoring opportunities.

``It's all about timing, jumping in the holes for me and what Mats is going to do and what Nik is going to do,'' said Blake, the former New York Islander who signed a five-year deal with Toronto in July.

``Once we get more comfortable like we did in the third period, I think things should be good.''

Chad Kilger scored the winning goal on Phoenix netminder Alex Auld at 12:03 of the third period in front of 13,417 fans at MTS Centre in Winnipeg.

Alex Steen had the other goal for Toronto (1-1-0). Martin Hanzal and Daniel Winnik replied for the Coyotes (1-1-1).

The two teams play each other again Thursday night in Toronto.

Blake tied the game 2-2 five minutes into the third period after Sundin curled around the back of the net and flipped a backhand shot at the net. Blake was standing at the side and shot the puck past Auld.

``You can't draw too many conclusions after one exhibition game, but I thought we created some chances,'' Sundin said. ``Coming from behind like that is always nice. We'll take the win.''

Toronto head coach Paul Maurice liked the effort he saw, even though he knew his players were tired after getting into Winnipeg at 3 a.m.

Kilger's goal was an example of that effort, he said.

Leafs forward Bates Battaglia had sent a pass from behind the net to Kilger out in front, who was starting to fall when he shot the puck.

``Chad is having a really good camp,'' Maurice said. ``What he's become is a real versatile player.

``We've played him left wing, we've played him centre, we've used him to kill penalties, but he's also got a big shot.''

Maurice said he'll put a younger line-up on the ice for Thursday's game.

Winnipeg-born Steen, playing his first pro game in the city where his father Thomas left his mark with the former Winnipeg Jets, scored Toronto's first goal of the game. On the power play, Steen sent a rebound from teammate Andy Wozniewski's shot past Auld at 9:43.

The crowd appeared divided between the Maple Leafs and Coyotes, judging by the number of Toronto and Phoenix jerseys in the crowd. There were even a few Jets shirts, even though the franchise left for Phoenix after the 1995-96 season.

Hanzal tied the game for Phoenix at 8:09 of the second period on a deflected pass that snuck past netminder Andrew Raycroft. Hanzal was Phoenix's first-round pick (17th overall) in the 2005 draft. The centre played with the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League last season.

Four minutes later, Winnik made it 2-1 on a shot that had the crowd confused for a moment. Winnik's bullet wrist shot looked like it hit the crossbar and zipped out, where it was slapped in by Hanzal. It ended up that Winnik's shot had hit the inside of the net.

Winnik played for San Antonio of the American Hockey League last season.