The NEW 2011-2012 NHL Free For All thread.

[lgna69xxx]

After tonights win against Edmonton, The Leafs are now at a favorable 90% clip of making the playoffs while the lowly habitants drop even further (thanks to The Leafs) to the sum of a 6.2% chance of making it to postseason. Look at the positives, at least our fair city wont be torn to shreds in April and May this year and shop owners along St Cats will not have to worry about repairing store fronts. Also the golf courses will be thriving and it will be a great place for habs fans to get autographs of their heros! :thumb:

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PS. Montreal, MERCI BEAUCOUP for Grabo! (no rumps, that is not a style of poutine)

 

[Merlot]

After tonights win against Edmonton, The Leafs are now at a favorable 90% clip of making the playoffs...

...and once they make the playoffs...if so...their chances of winning the cup are still...

per usual,

Merlot

BTW...Happy 45th Anniversary...soon enough!!! :wave: :lol:

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

...and once they make the playoffs...if so...their chances of winning the cup are still...

per usual,

Merlot

Damn, you took the words right out of my mouth. Actually, I was going to say that the chances of them making it to the second round are somewhere around 7%, barely 7% higher than the chances of you-know-who actually posting his first ever review in this here forum.

 

[lgna69xxx]

Well lookie there, now the haters are up to betting the chances the Leafs will not make it to the second round of the playoffs and not talking about the Leafs not getting into them at all anymore. Hahaa,,I LOVE IT! Burke has done a great job in 3 short years of COMPLETE tear down and rebuild.

With that said, I could see a Leafs loss tonight because they are playing in the toughest building to get a win in, and are also playing their 3rd game in 4 nights, but hope they can pull out at least one point.

PS Merlot, anyone can win the cup once they get to the big dance, just look what happened last year. As i have said all along, for the Leafs... This year, we knock on the door and gain some very valuable experience for such a young team in the "second season", next year we kick the SOB in and make some noise. Possibly contending for a Cup as soon as next year and beyond.

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

Well lookie there, now the haters are up to betting the chances the Leafs will not make it to the second round of the playoffs and not talking about the Leafs not getting into them at all anymore. Hahaa,,I LOVE IT! Burke has done a great job in 3 short years of COMPLETE tear down and rebuild.

Four years, four years, to get to mediocre. Talk about low expectations. My Aunt Mabel could get Columbus to the playoffs in three.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Well lookie there, now the haters are up to betting the chances the Leafs will not make it to the second round of the playoffs and not talking about the Leafs not getting into them at all anymore. Hahaa,,I LOVE IT! Burke has done a great job in 3 short years of COMPLETE tear down and rebuild.

Well said once again, Iggy. However, may i remind you that Burke never could have done it without considerable help from Peter Chiarelli of the Bruins. He gave them one of the NHL's top scorers in Phil Kessel, and then sent them a first-round pick, a 2nd round pick, and highly-touted prospect (and former 1st round pick) Joe Colborne in return for the over-the-hill Tomas Kaberle. Burke, the genius that he is, then shipped that 2nd-round pick that he got from Boston over to the Colorado Avalanche & turned it into John-Michael Liles, who has been nothing but a stud & leader on Toronto's highly regarded defense.

Thank you, Mr. Chiarelli!! Leafs Nation owes you big time!

 

[Doc Holliday]

Four years, four years, to get to mediocre. Talk about low expectations. My Aunt Mabel could get Columbus to the playoffs in three.

Well, the Red Sox were mediocre for 86 years until they finally got lucky & won a championship, so there's still hope for the Leafs. Of course, the Red Sox won it with a bit of 'assistance'.

 

[Doc Holliday]

BTW...Happy 45th Anniversary...soon enough!!! :wave: :lol:

Strong words, coming from someone who cheers for a team that hadn't won a championship in 86 years!

 

[Doc Holliday]

Trivia question:

Until 2011, how long had it been since the Boston Bruins hadn't won the Stanley Cup?

 

[Merlot]

Hey Boyz,

PS Merlot, anyone can win the cup once they get to the big dance, just look what happened last year.

But obviously not the Leafs (I know I'm allowed to say "Laffs" in this thread and I'm still giving them name respect). The Leafs have made 26 playoff appearances since they won their last Cup, which was before expansion, 1968/69, 1970/71, 1971/72, 1973/74, 1974/75, 1975/76, 1976/77, 1977/78, 1978/79, 1979/80, 1980/81, 1982/83, 1985/86, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1989/90, 1992/93, 1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04 and they are a big 0-26 in Stanley Cups. That's an incredibly impressive run of perfect ineptitude...ie...Failure! Datsza lotta nombaas!!!

Well lookie there, now the haters are up to...

It's called saluting Leafs tradition. Anyone like you born after the 1966/1967 Cup season has no memory of having seen it. If you are taking pride in what you have seen then it means pride in 0-26, or 0-44, however you want to look at it.

been nothing but a stud & leader on Toronto's highly regarded defense.

Thank you, Mr. Chiarelli!! Leafs Nation owes you big time!

That would be the same defense that gave up about 25 goals to the Bruins in just 4 games, and until recently had given up as many as they got. :lol:

Oui, merci beaucoup Monsieur Chiarelli. Thanks for giving the Bruins the Cup and the Leafs mediocrity...AT BEST.

Well, the Red Sox were mediocre for 86 years until they finally got lucky & won a championship, so there's still hope for the Leafs. Of course, the Red Sox won it with a bit of 'assistance'.

Loser whining!

Strong words, coming from someone who cheers for a team that hadn't won a championship in 86 years!

Boston has 7 Championships in 11 years. How are your Toronto and Buffalo teams doing? Oh that's right...1993 wasn't it, and not hockey.

Trivia question:

Until 2011, how long had it been since the Boston Bruins hadn't won the Stanley Cup?

Yeah, 39 is less than 44, soon to be 45. Bringing the 39 or 86 years is a total joke. The Bruins have the Cup, literally right now. We all know you and Iggy would give your arms, legs, and at least ONE NUT to be able to say that. THERE'S NO WAY OF GETTING AROUND THIS EXCEPT WINNING THE CUP. See my signature...boyz. :thumb:

Doc, this is a CHAMPION holding the STANLEY CUP...He's a BRUIN...

...this is how it feels...he still has it! That's called a trump card...Doc.

Cheerio,

Merlot

 

[Doc Holliday]

Wow, the Red Sox, the Bruins, how about the Cubs? Instead of bolstering why one team is not as bad as suggested, the deflection becomes how other teams have been worse?? Stand for the Leafs, rather than pointing to the past failures of other teams.

And the Chicago Blackhawks....how long was it? 48 years i think?

Ah......1918!! The year the Great War came to an end. Of course, it was also the last time until 2004 that one of the biggest jokes & failures in the history of sports had won a championship!

And this season, with a clown like Bobby V running the Titanic, Red Sox Nation will conclude that the Great Collapse of September 2011 wasn't as bad as it seemed, after all.....LOL!!!!

 

[lgna69xxx]

I'd swear your talking about a poster in the NFL thread, something about injuries to one player is why a certain team LOST the superbowl, even tho the other team, WHO WON, had injuries also....Now who was that? Oh yea....

Loser whining!

Merlot

 

[Doc Holliday]

I'd swear your talking about a poster in the NFL thread, something about injuries to one player is why a certain team LOST the superbowl, even tho the other team, WHO WON, had injuries also....Now who was that? Oh yea....

LOL!!!! Yeah, i wonder who?

 

[Doc Holliday]

1918.........86 years...........should i say more? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

1918.........86 years...........should i say more? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

You are soooo stuck in a time warp, Doc. Say more? Sure. 2004. 2007. One of only two two-time champions in the 21st century.

 

[Doc Holliday]

You are soooo stuck in a time warp, Doc. Say more? Sure. 2004. 2007. One of only two two-time champions in the 21st century.

86 years.....1918.......unbelievable! LOL!!!!!!!!! :lol:

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

86 years.....1918.......unbelievable! LOL!!!!!!!!! :lol:

Yup, unbelievable that someone could be so hopeless in search of a diss that he'd have to resort to wheeling that obsolete canard out again. C'mon, Doc, you really aren't that desperate, are you?

 

[Doc Holliday]

Yup, unbelievable that someone could be so hopeless in search of a diss that he'd have to resort to wheeling that obsolete canard out again. C'mon, Doc, you really aren't that desperate, are you?

What IS unbelievable is the fact some die-hard fans of a franchise that hadn't won anything in 86 years would come here & make fun of a franchise (and its fans) that hadn't won a championship in 45 years.

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

What IS unbelievable is the fact some die-hard fans of a franchise that hadn't won anything in 86 years would come here & make fun of a franchise (and its fans) that hadn't won a championship in 45 years.

The problem, Doc, is with your tenses. The first "hadn't" is correct: the past tense. The second is incorrect; it should be the present tense, "hasn't".

The Red Sox hadn't won a championship; the Leafs haven't won...and won't for the foreseeable future.

Is that really the best you can do?

 

[Merlot]

What IS unbelievable is the fact some die-hard fans of a franchise that hadn't won anything in 86 years would come here & make fun of a franchise (and its fans) that hadn't won a championship in 45 years.

Pitiful,

What is PITIFUL is this is a hockey thread, and you have to ditch hockey to whine. Have it your way. I'll show you ours, if you show us yours.

BOSTON TEAMS:

Bruins 2011; Celtics 2008; Red Sox 2007, 2004; Patriots 2004, 2003, 2001.


DOC'S TEAMS:

Leafs 0-26/0-44

Bills 0-51 (4 straight Super Bowl busts and 0-Wins)

Jays 0-18

Raptors :lol:

0+0+0+0 = O

The Red Sox hadn't won a championship; the Leafs haven't won...and won't for the foreseeable future.

Is that really the best you can do?

Is there anything else!

Cheers,

Merlot