Toronto Maple Leafs Thread

Rygar

Where is Even Flow's coverage of the event?

Bathgate66

this is a funny little blip i just read off the Blueshirt Bulletin

And how about those Leafs? Surely they can find a way to blame Avery for one of their players posting nude photos of himself on the internet and another (the inimitable Wade Belak, he of the "kill Sean Avery" remark) admitting he takes the trash out naked. Well, maybe they can't blame Avery for all that, but they can blame him for losing -- for losing at least that one game against the Rangers. As they sink toward draft lottery land, mark my words -- they will win the first overall pick, and the league will allow John Tavares to enter this year's draft.

Rygar

Bathgate66 wrote:

this is a funny little blip i just read off the Blueshirt Bulletin

They ARE joking, though, right?

kenshunt

Schaefer leads Bruins past slumping Leafs


Associated Press

11/15/2007 11:18:34 PM

BOSTON - The Maple Leafs were a timely opponent for the offensively deficient Boston Bruins.

Peter Schaefer had a pair of third-period goals, Marc Savard scored 19 seconds into the game and Tim Thomas stopped 34 shots to lead the Bruins to a 5-2 win over Toronto on Thursday night.

The Maple Leafs, who have allowed the most goals in the NHL, were a welcome relief for a struggling Bruins' offence. Boston, held to two goals or less in its previous five games and eight of 10, also got goals from Marco Strum and Glen Metropolit.

It was just the second time this season the Bruins have scored five or more goals, the other in an 8-6 win at Los Angeles on Oct. 12.






Thomas, making his ninth straight start and his first since a 45-save effort in a 2-1 win over Buffalo Saturday, held the league's second-highest scoring team scoreless with 19 saves in the final period.

After having four days off to work on their offence and study the Maple Leafs, everything seemed to click for the Bruins.

"We saw video (of Toronto)," Boston right wing Brandon Bochenski said. "We saw the areas we had to be in to get chances to score."

Boston had more open shots than its had in a few games and continually worked Toronto's defence, the best evidence coming when Metropolit outhustled two defenders to make it 3-1 midway into the second.

"We didn't play well, that's for sure. We didn't play a full 60 minutes," Toronto centre Matthew Stajan said. "They scored on their chances. We had a few miscues on their goals and it just wasn't acceptable. We just weren't good enough. We've got to play better than that, there's no doubt about it."

Kyle Wellwood had a power-play goal and Alexei Ponikarovsky scored for the Maple Leafs, who have lost four of their past five.

Former Bruins goalie Andrew Raycroft started for the third time in four games for Toronto and stopped 22 shots.

The Bruins jumped ahead 1-0 on the game's opening shift when Savard fired a wrist shot from the slot that caromed in off the right post after a feed from Glen Murray along the left boards.

Seventeen seconds after Boston's Mark Stewart was whistled for hooking, the Maple Leafs tied it 1-all when Wellwood slipped a backhand past Thomas from in close. Boston regained the lead 2-1 when Sturm scored off the rebound of Doug Wideman's shot 11:40 into the opening period.

The Bruins made it 3-1 on Metropolit's goal 10:16 into the second.

Ponikarsky's score cut it to 3-2 with 8:03 left in the second, but Schaefer broke in down the left wing and beat Raycroft with a wrist shot 2:11 into the third.

Schaefer scored on the rebound of Bochenski's shot 3:24 later, prompting the crowd to break into mocking chant of 'Ray-croft, Ray-croft'.

"We've been a team that's been offensively challenged," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "We've been doing our homework and trying to find a way to find the back of the net." Notes: Boston plays 11 of its next 13 games on the road. . Bruins injured D Aaron Ward, who missed his third consecutive game with a concussion, sat in the press box. . The Maple Leafs' LW Mark Bell not only lost a first-period fight to Bruins LW Milan Lucic, but he appeared to look to the linesmen to break it up. . Boston recalled rookie G Tuukka Rask to fill in for injured backup G Manny Fernandez earlier in the day.
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even flow?

Rygar wrote:

Where is Even Flow's coverage of the event?

I have been on vacation and training on a new job here at work so I have been missing the thread. But after last nights game, well I had to find some time to come in and say....................Man the Leafs stink.

I probably have said it before but I will type it now. It will come down to two weeks left in the season and the Laughs will be more points out then they were last year and you will hear the finger nails (like on a chalk board) clinging to the last hope that the Buds are going to make the playoffs and vie for the cup. Vie for the cup? Now that is a statement that gets buried here in Toronto about 15 games into the season. Then it becomes, we will vie for a playoff spot and see if we can get through round one.

The reason I became a Dead Wing fan in the first place is the fact that the Laughs haven't won a cup since the year I was born (of which I have a little replica banner hanging in my basement) and then proceeded to put pathetic squads on the ice. You would have to not know anything about hockey to cheer for the Leafs in the era that I grew up in and it shows right up until this day. Bring in the junk and let go the draft choices who are showing promise. If you are going to build a winner then I can see waiting. But they have been building since 68 and came close in 93 and that was it. Knocking off the number one seed only to lose in the next round is not something to wear proudly on your arm. Banners count, the rest don't!

Straight from http://www.anotherverylongseason.ca we have some breaking news.

The Leafs will entertain the high flying team from Ottawa on Saturday. The way Maurice is rewarding his goalies by benching them after a shutout, you would have to wonder when they are going to start tanking the games and stop just plain old stinking. Look for the Sens to light up the red lamp and sunburn the back of the neck of whichever goalie the Leafs put in on Saturday. The way the forwards have been hitting the boards instead of the the net in the opposing teams end, you would think Maurice would dedicate a practice to standing in the slot and trying to hit the net for a couple of hours. May help them when they are on the powerplay or even strength. Look for a huge game from the Sens number one line as they have made the Sens have seemed to make the Leafs their whipping boys since a few early, upset, exits from the playoffs a couple of years back. Now that the Sens have two quality goalies it will be a lopsided rivalry for years to come.

Rygar

even flow? wrote:

I have been on vacation and training on a new job here at work so I have been missing the thread. But after last nights game, well I had to find some time to come in and say....................Man the Leafs stink.

I probably have said it before but I will type it now. It will come down to two weeks left in the season and the Laughs will be more points out then they were last year and you will hear the finger nails (like on a chalk board) clinging to the last hope that the Buds are going to make the playoffs and vie for the cup. Vie for the cup? Now that is a statement that gets buried here in Toronto about 15 games into the season. Then it becomes, we will vie for a playoff spot and see if we can get through round one.

The reason I became a Dead Wing fan in the first place is the fact that the Laughs haven't won a cup since the year I was born (of which I have a little replica banner hanging in my basement) and then proceeded to put pathetic squads on the ice. You would have to not know anything about hockey to cheer for the Leafs in the era that I grew up in and it shows right up until this day. Bring in the junk and let go the draft choices who are showing promise. If you are going to build a winner then I can see waiting. But they have been building since 68 and came close in 93 and that was it. Knocking off the number one seed only to lose in the next round is not something to wear proudly on your arm. Banners count, the rest don't!

Straight from http://www.anotherverylongseason.ca we have some breaking news.

The Leafs will entertain the high flying team from Ottawa on Saturday. The way Maurice is rewarding his goalies by benching them after a shutout, you would have to wonder when they are going to start tanking the games and stop just plain old stinking. Look for the Sens to light up the red lamp and sunburn the back of the neck of whichever goalie the Leafs put in on Saturday. The way the forwards have been hitting the boards instead of the the net in the opposing teams end, you would think Maurice would dedicate a practice to standing in the slot and trying to hit the net for a couple of hours. May help them when they are on the powerplay or even strength. Look for a huge game from the Sens number one line as they have made the Sens have seemed to make the Leafs their whipping boys since a few early, upset, exits from the playoffs a couple of years back. Now that the Sens have two quality goalies it will be a lopsided rivalry for years to come.

Yay!

It'll be a while before Montreal catches Ottawa if Ottawa keeps getting easy games like Buffalo and Toronto...sigh...

kenshunt

even flow? wrote:

I have been on vacation and training on a new job here at work so I have been missing the thread. But after last nights game, well I had to find some time to come in and say....................Man the Leafs stink.

I probably have said it before but I will type it now. It will come down to two weeks left in the season and the Laughs will be more points out then they were last year and you will hear the finger nails (like on a chalk board) clinging to the last hope that the Buds are going to make the playoffs and vie for the cup. Vie for the cup? Now that is a statement that gets buried here in Toronto about 15 games into the season. Then it becomes, we will vie for a playoff spot and see if we can get through round one.

The reason I became a Dead Wing fan in the first place is the fact that the Laughs haven't won a cup since the year I was born (of which I have a little replica banner hanging in my basement) and then proceeded to put pathetic squads on the ice. You would have to not know anything about hockey to cheer for the Leafs in the era that I grew up in and it shows right up until this day. Bring in the junk and let go the draft choices who are showing promise. If you are going to build a winner then I can see waiting. But they have been building since 68 and came close in 93 and that was it. Knocking off the number one seed only to lose in the next round is not something to wear proudly on your arm. Banners count, the rest don't!

Straight from http://www.anotherverylongseason.ca we have some breaking news.

The Leafs will entertain the high flying team from Ottawa on Saturday. The way Maurice is rewarding his goalies by benching them after a shutout, you would have to wonder when they are going to start tanking the games and stop just plain old stinking. Look for the Sens to light up the red lamp and sunburn the back of the neck of whichever goalie the Leafs put in on Saturday. The way the forwards have been hitting the boards instead of the the net in the opposing teams end, you would think Maurice would dedicate a practice to standing in the slot and trying to hit the net for a couple of hours. May help them when they are on the powerplay or even strength. Look for a huge game from the Sens number one line as they have made the Sens have seemed to make the Leafs their whipping boys since a few early, upset, exits from the playoffs a couple of years back. Now that the Sens have two quality goalies it will be a lopsided rivalry for years to come.

Well if the Sens do destroy Toronto tomorrow i won't be forced to watch as im being forced into watching fall out boy at the jlc with my gf, which is torture enough :(

even flow?

kenshunt wrote:

Well if the Sens do destroy Toronto tomorrow i won't be forced to watch as im being forced into watching fall out boy at the jlc with my gf, which is torture enough :(

Fall Out Boy? Is that some sort of Simpson spinoff cartoon?

I live for the weekend games as I don't have cable and the CBC is my only link to live ice.

Sens 7 Laughs 3

Have a good weekend everybody!!!!

Rygar

I CAN NOT believe you ass clowns beat Ottawa, and shut them out, no less!
They must have played their farm team :P

Huge win, huge upset.

even flow?

Rygar wrote:

I CAN NOT believe you ass clowns beat Ottawa, and shut them out, no less!
They must have played their farm team :P

Huge win, huge upset.

Twice I have predicted the Laughs to get smoked and they win. So the lessen learned is when I predict a big loss go and bet on the Laughs to win.

kenshunt

Rygar wrote:

I CAN NOT believe you ass clowns beat Ottawa, and shut them out, no less!
They must have played their farm team :P

Huge win, huge upset.

Too bad i missed it but happy they won.

Rygar

kenshunt wrote:

Too bad i missed it but happy they won.

Only to have them steamroll the Habs tonight...

rambo

im gettin nervous, the leafs gotta get their shit together

kenshunt

Leafs Can't Hold Lead In Loss To Bruins
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TORONTO (CP) -- Tuukka Rask remembers getting the phone call on June 24, 2006, telling him he was no longer a Maple Leaf just a year after Toronto had drafted him.

``It was during the biggest midsummer party in Finland,'' recalled Rask. ``It was 2 a.m., so you can imagine how I felt when they called me. Next day I was kind of surprised and realized what happened.''

He became property of the Boston Bruins with goalie Andrew Raycroft going to Toronto in exchange. Rask was named the game's first star after stopping 30 of 32 shots while the Leafs coughed up a 2-0 lead to lost 4-2 to the Bruins.

Ouch.

``A game like tonight, where we are up two goals and let Boston get back into the game, it's certainly very disappointing,'' said Leafs captain Mats Sundin. ``It was an important game for us.''

The 20-year-old Rask didn't hide the fact that getting his first career NHL win in his first career NHL start against the team that drafted him 21st overall in the 2005 NHL entry draft was sweet indeed.

``Of course, it means a lot,'' Rask said. ``It was fun to play, to show them that I'm good enough to play at this level.''

It was a game Toronto seemingly had in hand. For nearly 50 minutes they played the same boring but effective style that beat the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.

Then the Leafs' sore spot, defensive zone coverage, resurfaced just in time for P.J. Axelsson to tie the game 2-2 at 9:52 of the third period and for Chuck Kobasew to win it with 3:31 left.

Phil Kessel also scored for the Bruins (10-7-2), who beat the Leafs for the second time in less than a week after a 5-2 win at home last Thursday.

Sundin and Bryan McCabe scored for the Maple Leafs (8-9-5), who outshot the Bruins 32-25.

``The frustration now is trying to get a good solid defensive game out of our team,'' said Leafs head coach Paul Maurice. ``We give up 25 shots, not a whole lot, but now we're not generating much offence at the other end.''

The patrons at Air Canada Centre should have asked for their money back. Both the Bruins and Leafs were content with a low-risk, brutally defensive approach that featured dump ins and dump outs and very little else until Boston's late comeback.

The Leafs opened the scoring during a power play 15:10 into the first period. McCabe's pass attempt deflected off Bruins centre Glen Metropolit and behind Rask.

The fluky goal gave Toronto some wings and the Leafs had the better of play for most of the second period.

Sundin then made it 2-0 at 15:36 of the middle period on a goal no NHL goalie should give up, his blast from just inside the blue-line beating Rask _ who was not screened _ on the stick side. To Rask's defence, the puck was on edge when Sundin shot it and had a sinker effect on it.

``It wasn't tipped, but it was a curveball,'' said Rask.

The Bruins came to life when Kessel scored with only 47.9 seconds to go in the second period during a Boston power play. The second-year forward one-timed a nifty pass from behind the net by Kobasew. The goal ended Toskala's personal best shutout streak at 141 minutes 47 seconds.

Boston carried the play into the third period and pressed until finally getting the equalizer. Axelsson scored his first goal of the season at 9:52 when he one-timed a shot into an empty net after a nice deke and pass from Marc Savard that got Toskala to commit.

That set up Kobasew's heroics. The Bruins winger ripped a wrist shot from the slot that beat Toskala on the stick side, then capped the scoring with an empty-netter 26.7 seconds from the end.

Notes: Boston was 1-for-2 on the power play while Toronto was 1-for-4 ... Anaheim Ducks GM Brian Burke took in the game ,,, Sundin's goal moved him into sole possession of 27th all-time on the NHL goal list with 534, one ahead of Frank Mahovlich. Teemu Selanne is Sundin's next target at 540 ... Leafs defenceman Tomas Kaberle had two assists on the night, giving him 300 for his NHL career ... Tim Thomas had started 10 straight games before giving way to Rask on Tuesday. Rask was 7-2-0 with a 2.10 goals-against average in nine AHL games at Providence this season ... Boston goalie Manny Fernandez, out since Oct. 30 with a knee injury, is expected to be activated Wednesday ... The Bruins next play a home-and-home set with the New York Islanders on Friday and Saturday ... The Leafs travel West and play Friday at Dallas followed by a Saturday game at Phoenix.


Canadian Press
Three star selections:
1st: TUUKKA RASK
2nd: TOMAS KABERLE
3rd: MARC SAVARD
Winning Goaltender:
Tuukka Rask

Losing Goaltender:
Vesa Toskala

http://mapleleafs.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=Recap&seas=20072008&gtype=2&gnum=297

NY PJ1

glad to see u post,,got nervous for a day

even flow?

The Leafs let another good draft choice go and yet again it bites them in the ass. Bunch of fck tards that they are. But in typical Leaf fashion they will sign Rask in about five years after he comes back from major knee surgery and have him be a bust, just like Ray(squeezeyourpads)croft.

Rygar

How the hell can you beat Ottawa (on an off night) yet still can't beat the Bruins, who can't beat Montreal, who can rarely beat Toronto....

NY PJ1

Rygar wrote:

How the hell can you beat Ottawa (on an off night) yet still can't beat the Bruins, who can't beat Montreal, who can rarely beat Toronto....

its an amazing cycle in hockey

kenshunt

even flow? wrote:

The Leafs let another good draft choice go and yet again it bites them in the ass. Bunch of fck tards that they are. But in typical Leaf fashion they will sign Rask in about five years after he comes back from major knee surgery and have him be a bust, just like Ray(squeezeyourpads)croft.

I didn't like the Rask trade when it happened, and i still don't today, i thought they should have went a season with Tellqvist and Aubin and had Pogge and Rask for there future and it looks like maybe they picked the wrong goalie to trade as Rask is already in the NHL and Pogge is backup to Clemmensen in the minors.

kenshunt

Rygar wrote:

How the hell can you beat Ottawa (on an off night) yet still can't beat the Bruins, who can't beat Montreal, who can rarely beat Toronto....

Well they did have a 2-0 lead, then next thing it was 2-2 and then a shot Toskala shoulda had made it 3-2 and an empty net goal 4-2 the final.