Most people are writing Toronto’s chances of making the playoffs and while I will admit they have an uphill battle there are several positives on their side. They play 2 games against Montreal. If they win those 2 games they will close the game on Montreal by 4 points. They also play Tampa on Saturday [...]
The Toronto hockey media and Toronto Maple Leaf fans are quite amusing if you follow them closely like myself. It is completely rediculous how much Toronto GM John Ferguson Jr is getting scolded for trading a 5th round pick for Luke Richardson. Chris Selley of Battle of Ontario criticized the deal. Ninja at Raking Leafs [...]
The push for the playoffs is on and with the extremely unabalanced schedules it becomes important to look at which teams have the more favourable schedules between now and the end of the season to see who has the best chance of making the playoffs. So what I did was look at how many points [...]
I think I have seen it all now. A member of the Toronto hockey media, George Gross, is lecturing Toronto Maple Leaf fans to lay off criticizing coach Pat Quinn. The hunt for Quinn’s skin is nothing new for Toronto’s so-called sports fans. They do it all the time, regardless of whether they condemn the [...]
For those who still think that Sidney Crosby, or anyone else (in my mind Lundqvist is the only other rookie worth considering), deserves the rookie of the year over Alexander Ovechkin you really need to watch this. He does everything. Not only do I think that Alexander Ovechkin is the best rookie in the NHL [...]
I’ve criticize the main stream hockey media (particularly the Toronto one) here many times and I will continue to do so every once and a while. One of the reasons I started this website was to counter some of the pure nonsense that some in the media choose to write. Today’s target is Al Strachan. [...]
To win the Stanley Cup, you have got to win in the playoffs and that means beating the best of the rest. That led me to ask the question, who is the best at beating the best? To answer that question I started with my power ranking calculation based on games through last night. Just [...]
We are coming up to the trading season so it is time to start looking at some players who might be changing teams and where they might be going. Goalies Martin Biron, Buffalo Sabres Dwayne Roloson, Minnesota Wild Nikolai Khabibulin, Chicago Blackhawks Andrew Raycroft, Boston Bruins Olaf Kolzig, Washington Capitals There are a number of [...]
What is it with Ottawa sports writers and their fascination with wanting the Leafs to trade Sundin. Today Bruce Garrioch is the guy who thinks the Leafs should trade Sundin. But let’s put the matter of whether the Leafs should trade Sundin or not to the side because I have some other beefs that need [...]
For those of you who are Leaf fans, or just observers of the Leafs, I don’t need to tell you that the Leafs have struggled in recent weeks and have been somewhat inconsistent for much of the year. The question is why, and what can be done about it. The first thing to do is [...]
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