Burke himself said "it's a very high price"... Some believe it's too high because there are too many questionable aspects to Kessel as a player and as a person. So Mr Igna the groupie, lay off the friggin Burke bandwagon nonsense for once and just accept the fact that this is one of those "we HOPE it works out" type of deal.
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actually i am listening to it from mtl.....LOL........ and they just said 6-1 not 5-1, update, thanks Doc, i am now watching
If i am, then we're watching the Leafs/Flyers game online (free on Leafs TV) and just finished watching the Sens destroy the Habs 6-1. Way to go, Kovy!
(Yes indeed, the smurfs did play tonight for the Habs, but didn't accomplish much)
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Like i said earlier, we'll only know in 3-4 years if he overpaid for Kessel. I simply explained the reasoning behind the trade earlier. As for every negative comment in regards to Kessel, i've heard twice more that were positive & contradicted the negative ones. Since both Burke & Ron Wilson know Kessel better than most of his detractors, i'll side with those two.
o bobby stop it,. you only wish boring bob gainey was worthy of groupies 
.... after this season if he makes it w/o being fired, he will show he has passed his time in todays nhl...... time to retire and be happy and let the stress go in a young mans game
back to the thread.... of course Burke said its a high price to pay, but he pulled the trigger anyways, and why? cause he sees it as a risk worth taking and also understands the same thing leafs fans as a whole do and thats the weak draft and those pics we traded not being very high, GREAT Trade , if nothing else, its got the NHL talking good things about the leafs for once in a LONG time and thats Great for hockey in general,,,,,, now if we can just get some more teams in Canada and let those suffering clubs in the USA go by the wayside.....
.... after this season if he makes it w/o being fired, he will show he has passed his time in todays nhl...... time to retire and be happy and let the stress go in a young mans gameback to the thread.... of course Burke said its a high price to pay, but he pulled the trigger anyways, and why? cause he sees it as a risk worth taking and also understands the same thing leafs fans as a whole do and thats the weak draft and those pics we traded not being very high, GREAT Trade , if nothing else, its got the NHL talking good things about the leafs for once in a LONG time and thats Great for hockey in general,,,,,, now if we can just get some more teams in Canada and let those suffering clubs in the USA go by the wayside.....
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here we go again doc........ habs fans are really desparate these days..... bwhaahahaha!!
Kessel must take after his mom.
Phil Kessel
Phil Kessel comes from a very athletic family. His father was a Washington Redskins QB, his mother a track star in college, his sister Amanda the leading scorer on the gold medal winning USA women's hockey team, and a brother who was drafted by the Islanders now plays for the U of New Hampshire. The Kessel pedigree is a good one. It's like a Sutter pedigree or a Staal pedigree.
Phil Kessel comes from a very athletic family. His father was a Washington Redskins QB, his mother a track star in college, his sister Amanda the leading scorer on the gold medal winning USA women's hockey team, and a brother who was drafted by the Islanders now plays for the U of New Hampshire. The Kessel pedigree is a good one. It's like a Sutter pedigree or a Staal pedigree.
i dont agree with ppl who think the leafs didnt have any top six forwards before kessel ... Grabo is for sure, Stajan maybe but not sold on him just yet, what about Blake? especially now that he;s got more young talent who can fly like he does? what about Hagman? if Hags stays healthy , he is a bonafide 70 point guy on this new faster younger Leafs team,........ remember the name Viktar Stalberg boys and girls, remember
I agree with you. Stajan is coming into his own & looking better year after year. He's having a great pre-season so far. People seem to forget that Jason Blake discovered he had leukemia during training camp two years ago in his first season with the Leafs. That must be devastating news! To his credit, he didn't miss a game. He had the most shots on net for his team, and to his credit, he never gave up. He had a very good year last season, the kind of year the team expected him to have when the signed him.
Iggie, i just finished watching the Leafs-Flyers game, won by the Leafs in overtime, and Kadri looks great out there! He's starting to make me a believer that he might actually make this team. I absolutely love this Beauchemin guy.....he played the power play & has a cannon for a shot! He & Kaberle look like a great pairing. I don't know if they'll be paired up together throughout the season, though...i heard Kabby might be paired up with Komisarek. I can't remember the last time i've seen Kabby look this happy.....actually, i can't remember the last time i've been so upbeat about a Leafs team!
i saw it also and what a finish,..,,, even tho its preseason, like burke said on 640am today, preseason wins dont mean much, but you want to win every game you can, thats what being a professional is about, and with the new character he is trying to install in a losing franchise , it is important..... about Francois B...... he is a great player, i have followed his career a little and he was one of those perfect pieces to burkes puzzle,,,,,, and yes Komi/Kabs are suppossed to start the season together...... Kadri? i think he could make the team from the get go but i doubt they will keep him right now....... if not for the 3 young guns from college (Bozak/Stalberg (remember that name people, remember) and hanson) he would most likely make it but not enuff room right now.... but look out if he stays healthy, he's puck smart, can fly and has soft hands, just needs to add some size and look out
Iggie, i just finished watching the Leafs-Flyers game, won by the Leafs in overtime,
I just read that he'll likely be sent back to the London Knights, his junior hockey team. I'd prefer they send him to the Marlies, since he has nothing else to prove in junior. I applaud Burke & Wilson if they have the patience to send him to either junior or to the AHL, but i'd be happy if he makes the team if he's good enough to make it right now. Matt Stajan played as an 18-year old, so did Phil Kessel. But i guess they might have the same dilemma as last season, when they had to figure whether to keep Luke Schenn or send him down. By keeping him, they were risking losing him to restricted free agency earlier & same thing with having to offer him salary arbitration. Maybe that's the real reason why Kadri might not make the team. But he's impressed me a lot, i must admit.
(Maybe the plan is to bring him back up at mid-season, like the Flyers did with Claude Giroux....and have his spot taken by the likes of Jason Allison or someone else until then.)
Leafs fans will love this team!!
Leafs bonding off the ice
From a Sunday football pot luck dinner to some planned wilderness bonding, the ‘new’ Maple Leafs want to be closer off the ice to stay closer on the scoreboard.
For all the obvious reasons the Leafs haven’t been in playoffs since 2004 or done anything of note in almost a decade, one of the threads can be traced to a poor team fabric.
But general manager Brian Burke and coach Ron Wilson are fanatic about team character, either in size or soul, and with their secure contracts and a clean sheet, they’ve set about re-constructing ‘Big Blue’ as Burke likes to call it.
The GM assembled the players he thought best exemplified his philosophy, defencemen Mike Komisarek, Francois Beauchemin and Garnet Exelby to name a few. Komisarek immediately befriended new partner Tomas Kaberle and Beauchemin hit it off with sophomore Luke Schenn. As the top four blueliners, all looked solid in their first game together on Saturday against the Flyers, a night with plenty of fights, power play and penalty killing duties.
“With Kabby, we’re always trying to build that chemistry,” ex-Montreal Canadien Komisarek said yesterday. “I spend a lot of time with him at the rink, but also grabbing lunch or dinner or having him over to my place.
“Ex lives right across the street and we’ve had a couple of dinners where the defencemen cook. Ex is quite the chef and made chili for us to watch the Jets and Patriots. I’ve tried to spend a lot of time with Schenn and Kabby. I’m the new guy, but unity and camaraderie is important.”
Just as it was to other Leaf teams who insisted they were like brothers, too - before ending the year a dysfunctional family.
There could be as many as 11 new faces on the 23-man roster next month, joining seven that Cliff Fletcher brought in last year.
The timing of the new arrivals was perfect, as the Leafs unveiled their new $45 million MasterCard Centre, a quantum leap among the best NHL training facilities. The new West End four pad has already enticed many Leafs to hang out well after business hours to work out or chat, while the envious Marlies must stay on their side of the glass, urged to earn their way across the hall.
Beauchemin is a rarity, a Leaf with a Stanley Cup ring, winning under Burke in Anaheim with a blueline group that included Scott Niedermayer and Chris Pronger.
“I learned a lot from watching them, not only playing, but working out and practising,” Beauchemin said. “I’ll try and bring that here. Usually it pays off in games.”
Hearing himself and Schenn mentioned as the Leafs’ potential shutdown pair was music to Beauchemin’s ears.
“I love the challenge to play against the other team’s top line,” he said. “Luke is solid, with a good body, makes a good pass, so we should do well together.”
Burke and Wilson want the whole team on the same page as the defencemen, with the coach planninng a trip in the Huntsville area somewhere between Sunday’s final exhibition game against the Buffalo Sabres and the Oct. 1 season opener against Montreal. Paintball and survivor games are being discussed around on-ice practices.
Wilson’s team brings a record of 3-1 into tonight’s exhibition game against the Penguins at the Air Canada Centre. From the fighting spirit to 15 goals for and just 10 against, Wilson is pleased, but far from satisfied.
“If I’d pencilled in a lineup on Sept. 1 of what I thought our team would be at the end, I’m pretty much right on target,” he said of his lines, defensive pairings, progress of youngsters and what Vesa Toskala has shown in net.
“We’ll have organizational decisions to make, based on all the young guys we have, whether we send them to the Marlies or send (first-round pick) Nazem Kadri back to junior at some point.”
They won’t be easy. As they shouldn’t be on a good team.
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Toronto/2009/09/21/11038096-sun.html
Leafs bonding off the ice
From a Sunday football pot luck dinner to some planned wilderness bonding, the ‘new’ Maple Leafs want to be closer off the ice to stay closer on the scoreboard.
For all the obvious reasons the Leafs haven’t been in playoffs since 2004 or done anything of note in almost a decade, one of the threads can be traced to a poor team fabric.
But general manager Brian Burke and coach Ron Wilson are fanatic about team character, either in size or soul, and with their secure contracts and a clean sheet, they’ve set about re-constructing ‘Big Blue’ as Burke likes to call it.
The GM assembled the players he thought best exemplified his philosophy, defencemen Mike Komisarek, Francois Beauchemin and Garnet Exelby to name a few. Komisarek immediately befriended new partner Tomas Kaberle and Beauchemin hit it off with sophomore Luke Schenn. As the top four blueliners, all looked solid in their first game together on Saturday against the Flyers, a night with plenty of fights, power play and penalty killing duties.
“With Kabby, we’re always trying to build that chemistry,” ex-Montreal Canadien Komisarek said yesterday. “I spend a lot of time with him at the rink, but also grabbing lunch or dinner or having him over to my place.
“Ex lives right across the street and we’ve had a couple of dinners where the defencemen cook. Ex is quite the chef and made chili for us to watch the Jets and Patriots. I’ve tried to spend a lot of time with Schenn and Kabby. I’m the new guy, but unity and camaraderie is important.”
Just as it was to other Leaf teams who insisted they were like brothers, too - before ending the year a dysfunctional family.
There could be as many as 11 new faces on the 23-man roster next month, joining seven that Cliff Fletcher brought in last year.
The timing of the new arrivals was perfect, as the Leafs unveiled their new $45 million MasterCard Centre, a quantum leap among the best NHL training facilities. The new West End four pad has already enticed many Leafs to hang out well after business hours to work out or chat, while the envious Marlies must stay on their side of the glass, urged to earn their way across the hall.
Beauchemin is a rarity, a Leaf with a Stanley Cup ring, winning under Burke in Anaheim with a blueline group that included Scott Niedermayer and Chris Pronger.
“I learned a lot from watching them, not only playing, but working out and practising,” Beauchemin said. “I’ll try and bring that here. Usually it pays off in games.”
Hearing himself and Schenn mentioned as the Leafs’ potential shutdown pair was music to Beauchemin’s ears.
“I love the challenge to play against the other team’s top line,” he said. “Luke is solid, with a good body, makes a good pass, so we should do well together.”
Burke and Wilson want the whole team on the same page as the defencemen, with the coach planninng a trip in the Huntsville area somewhere between Sunday’s final exhibition game against the Buffalo Sabres and the Oct. 1 season opener against Montreal. Paintball and survivor games are being discussed around on-ice practices.
Wilson’s team brings a record of 3-1 into tonight’s exhibition game against the Penguins at the Air Canada Centre. From the fighting spirit to 15 goals for and just 10 against, Wilson is pleased, but far from satisfied.
“If I’d pencilled in a lineup on Sept. 1 of what I thought our team would be at the end, I’m pretty much right on target,” he said of his lines, defensive pairings, progress of youngsters and what Vesa Toskala has shown in net.
“We’ll have organizational decisions to make, based on all the young guys we have, whether we send them to the Marlies or send (first-round pick) Nazem Kadri back to junior at some point.”
They won’t be easy. As they shouldn’t be on a good team.
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Toronto/2009/09/21/11038096-sun.html
Habs game vs. Pitt
i must say the electricity in the bell centre was pretty good for a preseason game,.,,,,,
The "habs" (lol) won but were not very impressive against a Stanley Cup Pitt team who seemed more about trying new lines and seeing new players than about winning the game
Price looked sharp but other than that, the habs looked like a deer in the headlights
GO LEAFS GO!!!!!!!!!!!
PS the highlight of the night was my date and not the scabs. ........
i must say the electricity in the bell centre was pretty good for a preseason game,.,,,,,
The "habs" (lol) won but were not very impressive against a Stanley Cup Pitt team who seemed more about trying new lines and seeing new players than about winning the game
Price looked sharp but other than that, the habs looked like a deer in the headlights
GO LEAFS GO!!!!!!!!!!!
PS the highlight of the night was my date and not the scabs. ........
Glad to see someone finally helped you get rid of that uncontrollable boner you've had since Kessel was signed.
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Would anyone be interested in joining a Merb Fantasy Hockey League, set up on Yahoo? Would be great to get some of you guys into this league and have a lot of fun with it. I set something up so post if you're interested.
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You should have spent less time fondling her boobs and more time watching the actual game...
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