So is Bozak a number one center yet?

Are we okay with signing Phaneuf?

Trade Kulemin, right?

Are we okay with signing Phaneuf?
- A_Tree

He will be signed and everyone will like it...

He will be signed and everyone will like it...
- Fruitcakenipple

Wishful thinking...

... my favorite Nucktard moment was when they were claiming they had two Vezina contenders on their team.

When I pointed out that Schneider's stats did not support that, I was called an idiot because.... if you take away Schneider's worst two starts, his numbers were almost as good as Luongo's.


- Aetherial

can you blame em? their former blogger used to go on and on about how they had the best set of goalies in the league (Luongo,Schnieder,Lack,Cannata)
They all still think Edler is worth his weight in gold, and Phaneuf wouldn't even crack the nucks top 5 d-men.

So is Bozak a number one center yet?
- A_Tree

He is our number 1 center...Kadri just doesnt fit there, is much better on a line with lupul and Clarkson/Raymond/Kulemin

Mirtle:

The reasons Toronto pulled the victory out were familiar: Phil Kessel scored twice (and is now on a 40-goal pace), Jonathan Bernier was strong in goal, and they had a collective horseshoe up their rear ends given all their good puck luck, despite spending a lot of the game in their own end.

Mirtle:

The reasons Toronto pulled the victory out were familiar: Phil Kessel scored twice (and is now on a 40-goal pace), Jonathan Bernier was strong in goal, and they had a collective horseshoe up their rear ends given all their good puck luck, despite spending a lot of the game in their own end.


- burn

Oh, that guy

Seems to have trouble understanding shot quality versus shot quantity. Ah well, two points is what matters here...

Oh, that guy

Seems to have trouble understanding shot quality versus shot quantity. Ah well, two points is what matters here...
- lumlums

Scoring more goals..... luck..... allowing less goals..... luck...... getting more scoring chances than they gave up...... luck.


I don't even think he understands the game. He's just spewing the same lame tired-ass poop. Aw they were lucky. He's so brutal.

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Scoring more goals..... luck..... allowing less goals..... luck...... getting more scoring chances than they gave up...... luck.


I don't even think he understands the game. He's just spewing the same lame tired-ass poop. Aw they were lucky. He's so brutal.

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- burn

And he's a racist.

So is Bozak a number one center yet?
- A_Tree

Yes

Are we okay with signing Phaneuf?
- A_Tree

Yes

Trade Kulemin, right?
- A_Tree

No

Oh, that guy

Seems to have trouble understanding shot quality versus shot quantity. Ah well, two points is what matters here...
- lumlums

I agree, but double the shots means they had the puck far more than the Leafs did.. Which is not good. The Leafs are not a good puck possession team. Be thankful we have good tenders this year.

Let's give Kulemin 50% of Clarkson's salary under the table and sign him for 2mil on the cap.

I don't miss this site one bit... Why the (frank) am i here right now??

I don't miss this site one bit... Why the (frank) am i here right now??
- Arctic_AARDVARK

Because you can't get porn at the office ??

Mirtle:

The reasons Toronto pulled the victory out were familiar: Phil Kessel scored twice (and is now on a 40-goal pace), Jonathan Bernier was strong in goal, and they had a collective horseshoe up their rear ends given all their good puck luck, despite spending a lot of the game in their own end.


- burn

Well he does make a good point. How many teams in this league win because their top scorer scored and have a good goalie who played a good game? One ...maybe two teams a season? What are the odds of it happening? 1%? 3% if we want to be generous?

Since when did goaltending become part of the game? Typical Toronto delusional nonsense.

http://www.thestar.com.


“It should make all of us feel pretty good,” Lupul was saying on Sunday.
It should. And yet the only thing that definitely appears to be on the rise in the centre of the hockey universe is doomsaying anxiety among the fan base.
Perhaps it’s because the Leafs came into Sunday’s 5-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes with a minus-8.6 shot differential, and no team has ever made the playoffs in the post-1967 expansion era getting outshot so consistently. Perhaps it’s because they’re still prone to late-game cough-ups (they’ve surrendered six game-tying goals in the final five minutes of regulation this season, the most in the league). Perhaps it’s because that when they’ve faced elite teams, they’ve often been humiliated. “They’re playing hockey and we’re playing shinny,” was head coach Randy Carlyle’s 24/7 soundbite in the midst of one recent drubbing. “We suck!” was Carlyle’s synopsis in another.
If that’s the stuff of “progression” — if 20 wins in 41 games is “progress,” this when they had 23 at the same point last season and 21 the season before that — this is a franchise undergoing an awfully uncomfortable growth spurt.

That, and a rising salary cap freeing up some cash for more shopping in coming summers, amounts to the hope. But this what we know: The Leafs have locked up a core that was largely at the wheel when this team drove itself off the cliff two seasons ago. They’ve locked up a core that was on the ice for an epic Game 7 disintegration last spring. They’ve locked up a core, but they need more.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/2013/12/29/leafs_beat_hurricanes_amid_dion_phaneuf_contract_backlash_feschuk.html


“It should make all of us feel pretty good,” Lupul was saying on Sunday.
It should. And yet the only thing that definitely appears to be on the rise in the centre of the hockey universe is doomsaying anxiety among the fan base.
Perhaps it’s because the Leafs came into Sunday’s 5-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes with a minus-8.6 shot differential, and no team has ever made the playoffs in the post-1967 expansion era getting outshot so consistently. Perhaps it’s because they’re still prone to late-game cough-ups (they’ve surrendered six game-tying goals in the final five minutes of regulation this season, the most in the league). Perhaps it’s because that when they’ve faced elite teams, they’ve often been humiliated. “They’re playing hockey and we’re playing shinny,” was head coach Randy Carlyle’s 24/7 soundbite in the midst of one recent drubbing. “We suck!” was Carlyle’s synopsis in another.
If that’s the stuff of “progression” — if 20 wins in 41 games is “progress,” this when they had 23 at the same point last season and 21 the season before that — this is a franchise undergoing an awfully uncomfortable growth spurt.

That, and a rising salary cap freeing up some cash for more shopping in coming summers, amounts to the hope. But this what we know: The Leafs have locked up a core that was largely at the wheel when this team drove itself off the cliff two seasons ago. They’ve locked up a core that was on the ice for an epic Game 7 disintegration last spring. They’ve locked up a core, but they need more.
- Fruitcakenipple

Sickening Stat.

Mirtle:

The reasons Toronto pulled the victory out were familiar: Phil Kessel scored twice (and is now on a 40-goal pace), Jonathan Bernier was strong in goal, and they had a collective horseshoe up their rear ends given all their good puck luck, despite spending a lot of the game in their own end.


- burn

They wn because Justin Bieber was there. End. Of. Story.

There’ll almost certainly be a press conference to announce Dion Phaneuf’s impending contract extension this week, but you probably don’t need to sit through it to get the gist of the Maple Leafs’ rationale.
Claude Loiselle, the Leafs’ assistant general manager, explained the thrust of the organization’s motive on the most recent episode of .HBO’s 24/7.
“Dion is our captain. He’s a cornerstone of the organization. He plays the most minutes on our team and plays against the best players on the other team,” Loiselle said. “It’s important to have him signed for a long time so we can continue the progression that we’re on.”
If Leafs Nation was fully prepared to buy into Loiselle’s line of logic, the lead-up to Wednesday’s Winter Classic would count as a moment for the blue and white’s loyalists to celebrate. Phaneuf’s signing, after all, means that a considerable core of the roster is signed for the foreseeable future. It means Phaneuf and top forward Phil Kessel will be on the books through the seasons that end in 2021 and 2022, respectively. A quartet of big-dollar forwards, among them David Clarkson, Joffrey Lupul, Tyler Bozak and James van Riemsdyk, are also inked through at least 2017-18.

not trying to stir the pot... but I'm genuinely curious how Kessel and JVR play the next few games...

and whether the penalty kill improves notably.

rip on Bozak all you want, but the face-off wins - particularly the defensive zone wins are a big deal.
- BorjeFan4Ever

I'm just happy to not see Kadri on the top line. Bozak played well, no doubt.

http://www.thestar.com.


“It should make all of us feel pretty good,” Lupul was saying on Sunday.
It should. And yet the only thing that definitely appears to be on the rise in the centre of the hockey universe is doomsaying anxiety among the fan base.
Perhaps it’s because the Leafs came into Sunday’s 5-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes with a minus-8.6 shot differential, and no team has ever made the playoffs in the post-1967 expansion era getting outshot so consistently. Perhaps it’s because they’re still prone to late-game cough-ups (they’ve surrendered six game-tying goals in the final five minutes of regulation this season, the most in the league). Perhaps it’s because that when they’ve faced elite teams, they’ve often been humiliated. “They’re playing hockey and we’re playing shinny,” was head coach Randy Carlyle’s 24/7 soundbite in the midst of one recent drubbing. “We suck!” was Carlyle’s synopsis in another.
If that’s the stuff of “progression” — if 20 wins in 41 games is “progress,” this when they had 23 at the same point last season and 21 the season before that — this is a franchise undergoing an awfully uncomfortable growth spurt.

That, and a rising salary cap freeing up some cash for more shopping in coming summers, amounts to the hope. But this what we know: The Leafs have locked up a core that was largely at the wheel when this team drove itself off the cliff two seasons ago. They’ve locked up a core that was on the ice for an epic Game 7 disintegration last spring. They’ve locked up a core, but they need more.
- Fruitcakenipple