The Official MERB 2010-2011 NHL Free For All Thread

[joelcairo]

So after the Leafs started the season with an amazing 4 wins, the world stopped taking LSD and things returned to normal: with tonight's overtime loss to the Caps, TO is back to its usual status as the laughingstock of professional hockey, with a miserable and pathetic ONE win in its last EIGHT starts! If the Leafs were a horse, it would have been shot long ago to put it out of its misery.

Give them credit though: without their "captain", as expected, they are an improved team, scoring FOUR (!!!) times and only losing in overtime.

As expected, with the pressure on, the Invisible Man couldn't cut the mustard, so justice was served in the form of a Washington win.

 

[JH Fan]

"Toronto Maple Leafs Skills Competition" (ha ha) : Is the word for that "oxymoron" (an apparent contradiction)? You know, like "jumbo shrimp" - when two things go together that are exact opposites - like "Leafs" and "Skills"!

That's why I said it will probably be sold out.
People will want to see this.

Here in Mtrl we had 50k people attending the celebration to make le Frere Andre a Saint.
And you know that there has to be witness to some sort of miracles made to become a saint.

So I imagine there will be at least that many attending this competition event.
Who knows, they might want to make Don Cheerios a saint ?

 

[joelcairo]

So after the Leafs started the season with an amazing 4 wins, the world stopped taking LSD and things returned to normal: with tonight's overtime loss to the Caps, TO is back to its usual status as the laughingstock of professional hockey, with a miserable and pathetic ONE win in its last EIGHT starts!

Mea culpa: I forgot to mention that the ONE win the Leafs have in their last EIGHT games should not have been a win. That was the game where Florida was robbed blind when Chief Thug Colton Orr should have been given a penalty for goalie interference and instead was INEXPLICABLY credited with a goal. Were the officials merely incompetent? Were they blind? Or was there something more nefarious at work (hint: think basketball).

 

[joelcairo]

So let's see: Tonight Toronto was at HOME against the WORST team in the NHL (at least statistically speaking, going into the evening).

Toronto was leading all game long...until the final 14 seconds when they allowed a NON-scorer to get his first goal of the year and tie the game.

In OT with a few seconds remaining, The Invisible Man - to no one's surprise - blew a chance to win the game. But give him credit for consistency: he also failed to score in the shootout. This guy is great at picking up meaningless goals to pad his personal stats but any time the team counts on him in a pressure situation he fails. No wonder the Bruins were so happy to kiss his sorry ass goodbye.

As was inevitable, the Leafs completed their CHOKE by losing in the shootout, thereby giving a first ever NHL victory to Buffalo goalie Enrot and thereby leaving the Leafs with a hopeless and pathetic ONE victory in their last NINE games! And let's not forget that that ONE lonely win was when the officials stole the game from the Panthers by giving Colton Orr an undeserved goal instead of the penalty he so richly deserved.

I am truly a lucky man: blessed with health, wealth (thank you Joe T.!), love and happiness... and also blessed by NOT being a fan of the most woeful franchise in NHL history, Canda's gutless, quivering national embarrassment: the stinking Toronto Maple Leafs. My sympathy to their fans (if any still remain).

 

[Jman47]

Jerry Jones puts Wade out of his misery

Looks like ole Jerry's had enough...was that a total embarrassment on Sunday night or what!?

http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/31147/jerry-puts-wade-out-of-his-misery

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

So let's see: Tonight Toronto was at HOME against the WORST team in the NHL (at least statistically speaking, going into the evening).

Toronto was leading all game long...until the final 14 seconds when they allowed a NON-scorer to get his first goal of the year and tie the game.

Wow, I'm not a hockey fan and I don't know much about the game, but I do recognize pathetic when I see it. (On a scale of 1-10, with the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS being 10, I'd give this a 6.5.)

 

[joelcairo]

Well well, another Toronto game, another Toronto HUMILIATING loss, this time a 4-0 blowout by Tampa Bay!

Isn't it great watching the Leafs suck the big one yet again?

And yet there were some total idiots bragging about the Leafs at the start of the season...just like at the start of EVERY season until as inevitably happens the hopeless pathetic douchebag Leafs once again show their true colors as Canada's National Embarrassment.

Hopeless GM, hopeless coach, perennially crappy team - it's not even funny anymore, just repulsive.

 

[Special K]

In OT with a few seconds remaining, The Invisible Man - to no one's surprise - blew a chance to win the game. But give him credit for consistency: he also failed to score in the shootout. This guy is great at picking up meaningless goals to pad his personal stats but any time the team counts on him in a pressure situation he fails. No wonder the Bruins were so happy to kiss his sorry ass goodbye.

You're referring to this invisible man JC? Hahaha, loved the chant from the B's fans against Toronto when Seguin scored a goal last week against them. Click the Youtube link.

 

[joelcairo]

You're referring to this invisible man JC? Hahaha, loved the chant from the B's fans against Toronto when Seguin scored a goal last week against them. Click the Youtube link.

Yep, that's our boy! Thanks for the link SK - great stuff!

Meanwhile the Invisible Man has zero points in TO's last six games - not just zero goals...but zero points! Funny, but I thought offensive players (because, Lord knows, Phil is sure not a defensive player!) were supposed to at least occasionally put up some numbers.

But hey let's be fair to the Invisible Man - even his entire team put up zero points in 3 of those 6 games!

 

[gohabsgo]

Leaf collapse

Incredibly, Leafs Have Equalled Last Year's Mark

Though I wasn’t completely sold on the Maple Leafs after four games this season, I’ll tell you right now I never would have predicted this level of collapse. After losing in Sunrise, Fla. tonight to the Panthers, the Leafs have matched their record in the first 11 games of last season. The club was 1-7-3 back then; it is 1-7-3 in its past 11 starts of the current schedule. Who would have considered such a dreadful, potentially season-killing plunge

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?blogger_id=3

 

[joelcairo]

Incredibly, Leafs Have Equalled Last Year's Mark

Though I wasn’t completely sold on the Maple Leafs after four games this season, I’ll tell you right now I never would have predicted this level of collapse. After losing in Sunrise, Fla. tonight to the Panthers, the Leafs have matched their record in the first 11 games of last season. The club was 1-7-3 back then; it is 1-7-3 in its past 11 starts of the current schedule. Who would have considered such a dreadful, potentially season-killing plunge

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?blogger_id=3

So the new and improved Leafs now have the same record as last year's miserably inept squad that finished 29th - gotta LOVE it!

Gee, I wonder if losing their last 7 games in a row had anything to do with this? Or, is it possible that by producing
only one win in their last 11 games they have put themselves in this position?

By the way, for some great laughs people should check out the Leafs Nation thread - especially the first 5 pages or so...before the Leafs' roof caved in!

 

[joelcairo]

Congratulations to Phil Kessel on setting a new personal record in his NHL career!

What record? Glad you asked: seven games without a single point.

But you know what? I have FAITH in Phil and I think he has what it takes to extend this record even further.

Boston fans to Brian Burke: "Thank you Brian, thank you, thank you a million times!"

 

[gohabsgo]

Congratulations to Phil Kessel on setting a new personal record in his NHL career!

What record? Glad you asked: seven games without a single point.

But you know what? I have FAITH in Phil and I think he has what it takes to extend this record even further.

Boston fans to Brian Burke: "Thank you Brian, thank you, thank you a million times!"

Blowhard Burke is a idiot. He actually thought the Laffs were a player like Kessel (the "merging superstar") away from making the playoffs and traded away any chance of being successful in the future for it.

What difference did that trade make, the Maple Losers finished 29th last season and are heading to the bottom again this year.

Remember our two resident Leaf blowhards, boasting about what a great G.M. Burke is?

Burke buys way too much into his own hype and idiot Leaf fans buy into the false hope. He explained trading the draft picks away as being acceptable because the Laffs replaced the draft picks with bottom 6 players and AHLers like Bozak and Hanson (and of course poaching players from the German beer league!)

 

[JH Fan]

... seven games without a single point.

Yup ! They even managed to f*ck up the odds. I sure stopped betting on them cuze this team is way too unstable.
One day = a lost, the next = another lost, the day after = another lost... Can't do any money when it's that UNpredictable !

 

[gohabsgo]

even Leaf fans realize their team sucks ass and blows chunks

This year's Leafs are terrible.

http://fans.mapleleafs.nhl.com/topic/56070/t/This-year-s-Leafs-are-terrible.html

The title of this topic says it all. Last years Leafs were terrible, this years leafs are terrible...and guess what, next years Leafs will be terrible to.

 

[JH Fan]

Now lets see if we can take the racist magazine remarks of Maclean on soccer last summer and put it into a hockey perspective :
Maclean July 22 2010
"What could be more perfectly french than this footballing disaster combining equal parts revolution and farce".

and you get....

"What could be more perfectly federalist than this hockey disaster combining equal parts arrogance and farce".
And they have the culot to call this "Canada's team".

Bwahahahahaha

Cheers with une Brahma dans l'cul !

 

[joelcairo]

This year's Leafs are terrible.

http://fans.mapleleafs.nhl.com/topic/56070/t/This-year-s-Leafs-are-terrible.html

The title of this topic says it all. Last years Leafs were terrible, this years leafs are terrible...and guess what, next years Leafs will be terrible to.

Good link GHG but the two you recently posted in the Leafs Nation thread (also known as the no truth allowed thread) are even better.

 

[joelcairo]

I can't take credit for this but I think it's great:

The Leafs - the ZERO OFFENSE Leafs, that is - are calling up Kadri for Saturday's game and a hockey observer (obviously a highly intelligent hockey observer!) referred to it as a "demotion" for Kadri.

Amusing? Very!...and also VERY accurate!

 

[gohabsgo]

I can't take credit for this but I think it's great:

The Leafs - the ZERO OFFENSE Leafs, that is - are calling up Kadri for Saturday's game and a hockey observer (obviously a highly intelligent hockey observer!) referred to it as a "demotion" for Kadri.

Amusing? Very!...and also VERY accurate!

Blowhard Burke is panicking - he knows Boston is going to get another very high pick next June.

Leafs show signs of desperation with Kadri

http://sports.nationalpost.com/2010/11/12/leafs-show-signs-of-desperation-with-kadri/


it doesn’t say good things about the state of the organization, which has a long history of dangerous impatience.

This is an organization in trouble, and it’s not just the fact that the team has all but stopped functioning, with one win in its last 11 games.

 

[gohabsgo]

"He's not ready to play in the top six (forwards) right just yet." -- Brian Burke, Toronto Maple Leafs GM, Oct. 5

I guess he's ready now?