Thanks to a 6-2 thumping by the mediocre Boston Bruins tonight, the fabricated dreams of many of "YOU" "LEAVES" fans has finally been squashed for another year!!!
Oh what a run tey gave all of you "Leaf Nation" (oh brother). They literally fu**ed the dog for "60" games and then all of a sudden decided to start playing hockey for 6 weeks and try and salvage the eighth and final playoff spot! I was actually hoping that they would squeak in and be exposed for what they really are ...... nearly average! lol
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Here's hoping that Andrew Raycrap starts the rest of their games so they go back in the tank in order to secure a better draft position.
Making the playoffs would have been the worst thing possible for them....
Now, if only the Oilers can squeak in.... atleast that team has alot of upside, with promise of good things to come with guys like Cogliano and Gagner.
Geez, it burns me that the Leafs didn't draft Cogliano.
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They did provide some great entertainment for the last month.
Alot of conversation also.
Although I must admit, they are just a very average team.
I pray they can make some draft picks and begin a complete rebuilding.
But you can not correct in 1 year, what you have screwed up for the last 10!
Maybe in 2 years they can make the playoffs.
Again its just a prayer, LOL.
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If Fletcher has anything to do with this team, he will make DAMN sure that they will start from scratch...He said on Trade Deadline day that he will dismember this team, and start anew..
I think his mind has been touched a bit with the play of the entire team over the last month, however, if he can make some trades involving older players (Kubina, Tucker, McCabe, etc) for younger, potential filled players, Im sure he will..
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...... what you have screwed up for the last 10! I'm sure that most "Leaves" fans only wished that it were "10" years as opposed to "FOUR DECADES"!
Let's face it fans this team has been in the "rebulding" process half a dozen or so times since the mid to late sixties! There was the Ballard era with Sittler, Salming, Turnbull, MacDonald and the likes. Then a crap load of mediocrity like you have now. Then emerged the early nineties team, ala Gilmour, Clark.
Now you die-hards have had to endure another 15 years of hell, with the leagues wealthiest franchise, and NO end in sight to the sub-par performances/results. How many more bonehead acquisitions will it take before this ownership group gets their collective heads out of their asses?
I know, I know, they're selling out every game and making bajilliones right? Well why not go for the motherload by making the playoffs? If a team can survive to the Semi-Finals (3 rounds) playing several (more than 10) home games in the process, the accelerated ticket prices each round, combined with television revenues, concessions and most of all team related souvenirs, would easily more than compensate the organization for their entire teams payroll for the year!!!!
Once a team is exposed to the kind of revenue stream that exists deep into the playoffs (especially in such a lucrative market as Toronto), it makes the regular season income look like chicken feed. But then who could blame the Leaves, or how would they know, because it's been so many decades since their cashbox saw the light of day past April 10th! (teehee)
This message has been edited by THAYWARD on Mar 27, 2008 10:51 AM
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Personally, my vote has always been to have Jim Rutherford come in and take over as Leafs GM.
The "cool" pick is Brian Burke, but let's be honest, he didn't build the Ducks team that won it all last year, it was Andy Murray's team.
Rutherford's an ex-Leafs and he was born in the area. He's also rebuilt the Carolina Hurricanes into Stanley Cup Finalists twice in the last decade; once pre-cap and won it post-cap era. He's capable and willing to come, so it's just a matter of time.
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Anyone has to be better than that idiot Ferguson who tied up nearly half ($20 million) of his salary cap on a very average defensive core! Kaberle is the only one worth the money the were paying him. The rest of them (Kubina, McCabe and Gill) should have been sent to the glue factory a long time ago!
Can you imagine spending $20 M-I-L-L-I-O-N dollars on those plugs on defense? If it's not bad enough that these players can sleep at night being rewarded with such an undeserving compensation package, how is it possible for Furguson to sleep knowing that he contributed NOTHING to an already dysfunctional organization?
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Ferguson was never really the problem. The problem was upper management forced his hand to make moves. He's on the record as saying he wanted to blow it up, but was restricted from doing so by certain people.
Toronto Maple Leafs= Ford Motor Company
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You my friend Ron are forever the eternal optimist! The guys were talking on Sportdesk last night that with five games to go and six points to make up, that in fact ..... IT IS OVER! The fat lady is midway through her final ballad! I do appreciate and applaud/endorse your positive attitude though Ron! It's THE only way to be!
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If they blow this team up the way it should be done. The Leafs will be in the Tavares sweepstakes next year. But let's remember it's the Leafs. They'll screw it up somehow.
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You gotta know that if there's a decision to be made involving the Laughs, invariably it'll be the wrong one! Besides other than the family thing why would a young Superstar like Tavares want anything to do with being around here? A young kid like Tavares doesn't need to be around the bullsh#t in Toronto!
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That's It! It's Official! No More Pretending! They're Out, It's Over, The Laughs Are Gone!
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March 27 2008, 10:22 PM
Finally! After dragging the pathetic followers through the swamp of mediocrity, this misfit of an organization found themselves EXACTLY where they deserve to be ....... NOWHERE!
The shame of it all is that it's not even the players fault! This team is doing the very best that they can with the VERY limited talent pool that they've assembled! At least now there won't be those Leaf flags hangin' out the windows of ever second car, or the sounds of horns on every street after a round one, game two playoff victory!
No, this has been of an organization has been able to suck the life out of Torontonians throughout the past four decades without ever even having to show the least bit of interest in improving their situation!
Now is the time that we true hockey fans are afforded the opportunity to bask in the glory of the Leaves mismanagement, both at ice level and the boardroom! Because ask anyone who knows anything about hockey and they will no doubt confirm that while the Leaves take comfort in knowing that their castle that they choose to call home is filled to the rafters with sold out corporate seating every night, these morons have NO hockey/business sense to realize that they are missing out on the mother lode of all......... THE PLAYOFFS!
Hell, if the Leaves could make it through two or (pipe dreaming) even in to the third round, the inflated (doubled) ticket prices, souvenirs, television revenues and everything else to do with the Leaves would exceed the regular season revenues. But why get greedy? Why bother? When it's so much easier to flounder with bottom feeders in 10th thru14th spot and tease your bewildered fans with the outside chance of finishing ....... 10th? lol
This organization is in desperate need of a major shakeup, and yes Leaves fans, I'm afraid that means your illustrious Mats Sundin has got to go as well! Cut them loose, cut all of the over priced, average at best talent loose!
I'm just glad there'll be no more of those stupid friggin' "HOLY MACKINAWS". In all my travels thats the dumbest thing I've heard since...." ....and with less than a minute to go,the Prince George goalie is pulling himself." We fell off our kegs on that one.
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I think Tavares is deserving of his hype. It's not very often a 16 year old scores 72 goals in the OHL.
Sure he's not the fastest or most graceful skater and he isn't too keen defensively, but the pure offensive upside is more than enough to warrant him being a future star in the NHL.
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Re: Stick A Fork In 'Em The Leafs Misery Is Finally Over!
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March 30 2009, 2:22 PM
Remember this thread everyone? We can resurrect this damn thing around this time every stinking year! Actually we can re-surface this thread every October! (teehee)
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Re: Stick A Fork In 'Em The Leafs Misery Is Finally Over!
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March 30 2009, 9:12 PM
I have a theory about my beloved Leafs that I have held for quite some time.
The Leafs product is not hockey, it never has been, nor is it winning a Stanley Cup. The product that has been selling in this market, at least for the past 20 years or so of the drought, is the Stanley Cup CHASE.
Just listen to the talk radio shows in October every year. The Leafs could ice a team with me, Wayjoy and Tony as their first line scorers and first PP unit, Wexdog and Ron as their top blueline pair, and Ice Baby Girl in goal, and they would get idiot after idiot hailing Tony as the second coming of Wayne Gretzky and be asking Andy Frost about the parade route.
The vast majority of Leaf fans don't seem to care if the team is crap, and it is very easy for MLSE to convince Leaf fans that there is hope for a Stanley Cup in a very short time.
And it is my belief that winning a Stanley Cup would actually HURT business for MLSE.
Remember the 70's, when the Argos were an extremely good draw in the CFL, despite a ridiculous Grey Cup drought? Then, in the 80's, they finally snapped the drought and went on to become a nightmare at the gate, and almost folded a few times. The crowds have gotten better in recent years, but they are still far from being a good draw. They still haven't recovered, and they also haven't had another major Cup-less run like that since, either.
If you think that is just coincidence, consider the Blue Jays. They were a fantastic draw at the gate from their inception in 1977 right up until they won the World Series back-to-back. They even had no problem selling out the Skydome, and regularly had to turn away fans at the window. Now, the strike didn't help, but Toronto is one of the few markets left that has not quite recovered from that. As each season goes by without a World Series, though, the Jays' attendance has steadily risen. It seems the further they get from their "glory years", the closer they get to filling their stadium again.
This may all seem very strange, but I believe that business-wise, winning the Stanley Cup would be the worst possible thing for the Leafs, because their fans would not be able to be sold hope anymore.
By the way, as an aside to one of those posts last year, the one about the Rask trade. I don't think the worst loss to the Leafs was in the actual exchange of Rask for Raycroft. As ridiculous as that was and proved to be, I think the biggest loss the Leafs suffered was in Pogge's development. Imagine how much faster he would have progressed, not to mention Rask as well, if the two were on the Marlies together, constantly battling for ice time and pushing each other.
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Re: Stick A Fork In 'Em The Leafs Misery Is Finally Over!
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March 30 2009, 11:48 PM
I had a chuckle at this little snippet from the TSN website.
Sources tell TSN the Toronto Maple Leafs are close to signing 23-year old Christian Hanson.
Hanson, the son of Dave Hanson of the famed Hanson brothers from the move Slapshot is a centreman with the NCAA's Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Christian is 6'4" and 225 pounds and is considered to be a sturdy two way centre who scored 16 goals and 15 assists for 31 points in 37 games for the Fighting Irish this season.
Hanson's contract with the Maple Leafs is expected to be signed on Tuesday.
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