The Official MERB 2010-2011 NHL Free For All Thread
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C parce k te suposer tirer dans l'net un ti peu...mon homme !?? surtout quand ye t'open !
Parce ca va mal a shop si tu score pas quand c l'temps ! iiiiiiii
Although... I wouldn't say thrash but 'blanked' could be the word.... used lately I believe
C parce k te suposer tirer dans l'net un ti peu...mon homme !?? surtout quand ye t'open !
Parce ca va mal a shop si tu score pas quand c l'temps ! iiiiiiii
Although... I wouldn't say thrash but 'blanked' could be the word.... used lately I believe
Sorry man, I don't read broken french.
Ain't broken french.... broken french is the language I use writing this !
Easy I'll translate for ya ! 'You're supposed to score once in while specially when her legs are opened !'
In the spirit of friendship and encouragement to our struggling friends in Toronto, here is some constructive advice for Leaf management:
Dear Mr. Burke and Mr. Wilson,
It has come to my attention that your team is one of the worst in hockey this year. I have done some research and discovered that your team was the second-worst in the NHL last year, has not been in the playoffs for over half a decade, and has not made it to the finals in an incredible 43 - soon to be 44! - years. Your team has not had a hint of success since pre-expansion days (!!!) and as we all know it has had its WORST years since you two geniuses were put in charge.
In the hope of ridding our great nation of Canada's National Embarrassment (aka your team), I offer some constructive advice: If you want your players to actually WIN the occasional game (I know, I know - this is NOT the traditional philosophy in Loser Nation but please hear me out), you might suggest to your players that they should actually try to SCORE at least once in a while. The number of times your Leafs have been shut out this season is quite amusing to the rest of the world.
And while we give full credit to non-fighter Mike Komisarek for setting up the insurance goal in last night's game, we would like to discreetly point out that it is better to set up insurance goals for your own team rather than the opposing one. Perhaps Mr. Komisarek is still having trouble concentrating since having his bell rung by Milan Lucic a couple of years ago, but what is Phil Kessel's excuse for trying to set up a couple of Montreal goals with giveaways of the puck?
Dear Mr. Burke and Mr. Wilson,
It has come to my attention that your team is one of the worst in hockey this year. I have done some research and discovered that your team was the second-worst in the NHL last year, has not been in the playoffs for over half a decade, and has not made it to the finals in an incredible 43 - soon to be 44! - years. Your team has not had a hint of success since pre-expansion days (!!!) and as we all know it has had its WORST years since you two geniuses were put in charge.
In the hope of ridding our great nation of Canada's National Embarrassment (aka your team), I offer some constructive advice: If you want your players to actually WIN the occasional game (I know, I know - this is NOT the traditional philosophy in Loser Nation but please hear me out), you might suggest to your players that they should actually try to SCORE at least once in a while. The number of times your Leafs have been shut out this season is quite amusing to the rest of the world.
And while we give full credit to non-fighter Mike Komisarek for setting up the insurance goal in last night's game, we would like to discreetly point out that it is better to set up insurance goals for your own team rather than the opposing one. Perhaps Mr. Komisarek is still having trouble concentrating since having his bell rung by Milan Lucic a couple of years ago, but what is Phil Kessel's excuse for trying to set up a couple of Montreal goals with giveaways of the puck?
And now, with all best wishes, a pep talk for the Leafs:
Guys, guys, what's going on? You've been losing far too many games in what should be the BEST part of your season!
Why should it be the best part? Simple: because your "captain" is out. Guys, I beg you to take advantage of the ABSENCE of the "player" (or should I say "the league's most overrated player, as officially voted on by all NHL players"?) who had the WORST plus-minus on your entire roster before he was injured.
When your "captain" comes back, you all KNOW that things will only get worse, so PLEASE take advantage of his absence and try to put a couple of entries in the "W" column.
Guys, guys, what's going on? You've been losing far too many games in what should be the BEST part of your season!
Why should it be the best part? Simple: because your "captain" is out. Guys, I beg you to take advantage of the ABSENCE of the "player" (or should I say "the league's most overrated player, as officially voted on by all NHL players"?) who had the WORST plus-minus on your entire roster before he was injured.
When your "captain" comes back, you all KNOW that things will only get worse, so PLEASE take advantage of his absence and try to put a couple of entries in the "W" column.
WOW! Holy shit...
Now...does he get an assist for that?! After all it was a perfect feed...
Have fun,
Jman
Question for the class: Which Toronto team did better this weekend?
Initial Analysis: The Leafs were shut out but not blown away (at least not on the scoreboard - although they were blown away on the ice, as is CLEARLY pointed out in the excellent article posted by GHG in the No Truth Allowed thread. The article, by the way, was written by a TORONTO FAN!)
Secondary Analysis: The Argos were blown away but not shut out.
So, class, the question remains: Which Toronto team did better?
Please give three reasons for your decision. The response will be worth 20% of your final grade as a Toronto Sports Analyst.
Initial Analysis: The Leafs were shut out but not blown away (at least not on the scoreboard - although they were blown away on the ice, as is CLEARLY pointed out in the excellent article posted by GHG in the No Truth Allowed thread. The article, by the way, was written by a TORONTO FAN!)
Secondary Analysis: The Argos were blown away but not shut out.
So, class, the question remains: Which Toronto team did better?
Please give three reasons for your decision. The response will be worth 20% of your final grade as a Toronto Sports Analyst.
Toronto Maple Leafs: Brian Burke Needs to be Fired
Hello jc,
It was a great post by GHG...the results of the poll are interesting tho...41% (as of this post) say he should work through his contract expiration in 2014?
Have fun,
Jman
PS I am taking the liberty of posting it here for those who don;t want to switch threads:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/523244-brian-burke-of-the-toronto-maple-leafs-needs-to-be-fired
Toronto Maple Leafs: Brian Burke Needs to be Fired
By Scott Weldon
Truculence and arrogance will apparently only take you so far.
Last night in Montreal, a Brian Burke-created team displayed a power play that made the Canadiens look like the mid-80 Oilers. Whatever you might think of this version of Les Glourieux, they are no 1980s Oilers. Their penalty kill doesn't feature Wayne Gretzky and Jarri Kurri or Mark Messier and Glenn Anderson. They are not on pace to score 36 short-handed tallies this year.
Against the Leafs, however, Montreal's penalty killers generated multiple chances, odd-man rushes and a short-handed goal. Jeff Halpern and Tomas Plekanec resembled modern-day Gretzkys and Lemieuxes.
A Montreal Canadiens team that has struggled around the 50 percent mark in the faceoff circle since the lockout won two-thirds of the faceoffs last night. Scott Gomez went an amazing 12 of 18, and Jeff Halpern won seven against Toronto. John Mitchell and Tyler Bozak, on the other hand, were a collective 5-of-17 for the Leafs.
Throw in defenseman Mike Komisarek's errant pass to Mike Cammalleri for the second Montreal goal and the game last night was almost a blanket condemnation of the moves Burke has made since he came to Toronto. Only Jonas Gustavsson, who played like a wall in net, looked like he was worth the money and time Brian Burke spent bringing him in.
I'm no Matt Stajan fan. He looks like a third-line checking center with some offensive skills. He was one of the players dealt for what Burke felt he had to have: yet another banger of a defenseman with a big point shot.
Stajan has not flourished in Calgary, but right now his 12 points in 16 games would have him looking like some sort of Davey Keon-Teeder Kennedy hybrid in Toronto. Mats Sundin was better at his worst than any of the three current Leaf centers.
When Burke became president and general manager of the Leafs back in November of 2008, no rational person expected rapid improvement in Toronto. This was obviously a case of needing to break the team down and rebuild it from the bottom up. This job was going to require patience from the organization, the fans and from the general manager himself.
While this was going on, the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup and saddled the Maple Leafs with the longest current Stanley Cup-less streak in the NHL. The Leafs last won the Cup in 1967. The two teams with the next longest streak are expansion teams who joined the league for the 1968-69 season: the LA Kings and the St. Louis Blues.
Both of those teams are better than the Leafs right now and closer to winning a Cup. Worse still is the fact that both of those teams have more young talent ready to join and improve their teams than the Leafs do.
Burke could have dumped veterans, collected draft picks and slowly start to rebuild the Leafs. Teams with almost no leadership have managed over time to do just that. The Florida Panthers, New York Islanders and Atlanta Thrashers come to mind.
These organizations have suffered from indifferent and or incompetent management for years and yet they all have managed to stockpile young hockey talent. They all appear to be on the cusp of becoming teams that are interesting to watch.
The Leafs, unfortunately, under Burke's leadership, have regressed. What's worse is they haven't been rewarded for failure with any stockpiling of fresh young talent.
Ignoring the basic tenant of diminishing marginal returns, Burke has insisted on adding defenseman after defenseman after defenseman. Would the Leafs really be that much worse than they are now if they had run for the last couple of years with a defense of Kaberle, Schenn, White, Stralman, Colaiacovo and Finger?
Unfortunately, doing nothing does not feed the Burke ego. Anyone can do nothing or conversely no one can do nothing. Burke was compelled to put his mark on this team—to its detriment.
Brian Burke has cap-strung the Leafs. This miserable hockey team is paying a league maximum $55 million in salary according to capgeek.com. This is with Jeff Finger and his $3.5 million hidden in the minors. Next year the Leafs have $37 million dedicated to 11 players if Finger and his $3.5 million stay hidden. Hopefully, Jerry D'Amigo, Nazim Kadri and Carl Gunnarsson will be making quality contributions to the Leafs next year.
The Leafs cannot begin the search for a much-needed first-line center until they get their cap problems under control. The organization is praying for a huge bump in the salary cap next year to help bail them out. That does not seem like a high probability occurrence.
Burke needs to pay the price for this.
He traded two first-round draft picks and a second-rounder for talented restricted free agent Phil Kessel when he could have simply signed him for a first-round pick and two second-rounders.
Apparently, Burke is still obsessed with making some obscure point to former Oilers GM Kevin Lowe. Burke has refused to sign another team's restricted free agent because he felt using the rules in place in the collective bargaining agreement is wrong. He felt Lowe signing away his young star in Anaheim, Dustin Penner, somehow violated the rules of man and God.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are paying for Burke's hubris with yet another year without a first-round pick in the NHL Entry Draft. This is another year when the Leafs can't even begin the rebuilding process they need to go through to become the team every Leaf fan wants to see.
The fans want a good, exciting team that can compete year after year with a reasonable chance of winning a Cup. Th
e Leafs can start the process of creating that team at the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Look for it to start to bear fruit around the 2016-17 season. This will probably be long after the LA Kings and the St. Louis Blues win their first Cups.
Brian Burke needs to be replaced long before that happens.
Hello jc,
It was a great post by GHG...the results of the poll are interesting tho...41% (as of this post) say he should work through his contract expiration in 2014?
Have fun,
Jman
PS I am taking the liberty of posting it here for those who don;t want to switch threads:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/523244-brian-burke-of-the-toronto-maple-leafs-needs-to-be-fired
Toronto Maple Leafs: Brian Burke Needs to be Fired
By Scott Weldon
Truculence and arrogance will apparently only take you so far.
Last night in Montreal, a Brian Burke-created team displayed a power play that made the Canadiens look like the mid-80 Oilers. Whatever you might think of this version of Les Glourieux, they are no 1980s Oilers. Their penalty kill doesn't feature Wayne Gretzky and Jarri Kurri or Mark Messier and Glenn Anderson. They are not on pace to score 36 short-handed tallies this year.
Against the Leafs, however, Montreal's penalty killers generated multiple chances, odd-man rushes and a short-handed goal. Jeff Halpern and Tomas Plekanec resembled modern-day Gretzkys and Lemieuxes.
A Montreal Canadiens team that has struggled around the 50 percent mark in the faceoff circle since the lockout won two-thirds of the faceoffs last night. Scott Gomez went an amazing 12 of 18, and Jeff Halpern won seven against Toronto. John Mitchell and Tyler Bozak, on the other hand, were a collective 5-of-17 for the Leafs.
Throw in defenseman Mike Komisarek's errant pass to Mike Cammalleri for the second Montreal goal and the game last night was almost a blanket condemnation of the moves Burke has made since he came to Toronto. Only Jonas Gustavsson, who played like a wall in net, looked like he was worth the money and time Brian Burke spent bringing him in.
I'm no Matt Stajan fan. He looks like a third-line checking center with some offensive skills. He was one of the players dealt for what Burke felt he had to have: yet another banger of a defenseman with a big point shot.
Stajan has not flourished in Calgary, but right now his 12 points in 16 games would have him looking like some sort of Davey Keon-Teeder Kennedy hybrid in Toronto. Mats Sundin was better at his worst than any of the three current Leaf centers.
When Burke became president and general manager of the Leafs back in November of 2008, no rational person expected rapid improvement in Toronto. This was obviously a case of needing to break the team down and rebuild it from the bottom up. This job was going to require patience from the organization, the fans and from the general manager himself.
While this was going on, the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup and saddled the Maple Leafs with the longest current Stanley Cup-less streak in the NHL. The Leafs last won the Cup in 1967. The two teams with the next longest streak are expansion teams who joined the league for the 1968-69 season: the LA Kings and the St. Louis Blues.
Both of those teams are better than the Leafs right now and closer to winning a Cup. Worse still is the fact that both of those teams have more young talent ready to join and improve their teams than the Leafs do.
Burke could have dumped veterans, collected draft picks and slowly start to rebuild the Leafs. Teams with almost no leadership have managed over time to do just that. The Florida Panthers, New York Islanders and Atlanta Thrashers come to mind.
These organizations have suffered from indifferent and or incompetent management for years and yet they all have managed to stockpile young hockey talent. They all appear to be on the cusp of becoming teams that are interesting to watch.
The Leafs, unfortunately, under Burke's leadership, have regressed. What's worse is they haven't been rewarded for failure with any stockpiling of fresh young talent.
Ignoring the basic tenant of diminishing marginal returns, Burke has insisted on adding defenseman after defenseman after defenseman. Would the Leafs really be that much worse than they are now if they had run for the last couple of years with a defense of Kaberle, Schenn, White, Stralman, Colaiacovo and Finger?
Unfortunately, doing nothing does not feed the Burke ego. Anyone can do nothing or conversely no one can do nothing. Burke was compelled to put his mark on this team—to its detriment.
Brian Burke has cap-strung the Leafs. This miserable hockey team is paying a league maximum $55 million in salary according to capgeek.com. This is with Jeff Finger and his $3.5 million hidden in the minors. Next year the Leafs have $37 million dedicated to 11 players if Finger and his $3.5 million stay hidden. Hopefully, Jerry D'Amigo, Nazim Kadri and Carl Gunnarsson will be making quality contributions to the Leafs next year.
The Leafs cannot begin the search for a much-needed first-line center until they get their cap problems under control. The organization is praying for a huge bump in the salary cap next year to help bail them out. That does not seem like a high probability occurrence.
Burke needs to pay the price for this.
He traded two first-round draft picks and a second-rounder for talented restricted free agent Phil Kessel when he could have simply signed him for a first-round pick and two second-rounders.
Apparently, Burke is still obsessed with making some obscure point to former Oilers GM Kevin Lowe. Burke has refused to sign another team's restricted free agent because he felt using the rules in place in the collective bargaining agreement is wrong. He felt Lowe signing away his young star in Anaheim, Dustin Penner, somehow violated the rules of man and God.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are paying for Burke's hubris with yet another year without a first-round pick in the NHL Entry Draft. This is another year when the Leafs can't even begin the rebuilding process they need to go through to become the team every Leaf fan wants to see.
The fans want a good, exciting team that can compete year after year with a reasonable chance of winning a Cup. Th
e Leafs can start the process of creating that team at the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Look for it to start to bear fruit around the 2016-17 season. This will probably be long after the LA Kings and the St. Louis Blues win their first Cups.
Brian Burke needs to be replaced long before that happens.
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Right now we have: 21.3% for fire him now; 10.3% for replace him at the end of the season; 6.5% for keep him until the 2012 draft; 42.6% for let him finish out his current contract;6.2% for it's time to sign him to an extension; and 13.1% for make him GM for life.
First, let's remember that the vast majority voting in this poll are Leaf fans. Of these Leaf fans, 1 in 5 (i.e. group 1) want to get rid of him NOW and 1 in 3 (i.e. groups 1 and 2) want him GONE by the end of the season at the latest. We will call these fans the realists.
At the other end of the spectrum are the group we will call either the hopeless dreamers (if we are being kind) or the lunatics (if we are being realistic). Incredibly, 1 in 8 Leaf fans (i.e group 6) feel that this complete failure of a GM,who has made a bad team into a WRETCHED team and has mortgaged its future for a prima donna one-dimensional invisible man of a "scorer" and a team cancer error-prone "defenceman" who were both ridden out of their previous towns in disgrace, should be GM for life!! 1 in 5 (i.e. groups 5 and 6) have enough faith in this failure to want to AT LEAST extend his contract immediately!
The 50% in the middle (i.e. groups 3 and 4) are not giving him a ringing endorsement but are just saying "take the ball and run with it a little longer and then we'll decide."
From this we can conclude: 1. 3 out of 10 Leaf fans are at least bright enough to see a total disaster when it stares them in the face. 2. 2 out of 10 Leaf fans are either blind, stupid, on hallucinogenic drugs, or in total denial. 3. 5 out of 10 Leaf fans are so used to total failure that it doesn't matter WHAT they think, say, or do!
The Leafs figured out how to win on Monday night. Here was their two-pronged plan:
1. Have the "captain" out with an extended injury.
2. Bench Phil Kessel.
Two GREAT ideas - and the strategy paid off with a 4-1 victory.
Good thinking by the Leafs!
BUT...uhh gee...wouldn't it have been BETTER thinking not to have brought Celine and The Invisible Man to TO in the first place? (And that's not even taking into account the lost high draft picks...just the NEGATIVE impact of the two prima donna losers).
1. Have the "captain" out with an extended injury.
2. Bench Phil Kessel.
Two GREAT ideas - and the strategy paid off with a 4-1 victory.
Good thinking by the Leafs!
BUT...uhh gee...wouldn't it have been BETTER thinking not to have brought Celine and The Invisible Man to TO in the first place? (And that's not even taking into account the lost high draft picks...just the NEGATIVE impact of the two prima donna losers).
Sorry JC but I think it's giving way too much credit to those two posters out here...because after all they are trying hard to keep the spirit high !
Always a good night when the Habs win and the shitty Leafs lose again
Monday marks the second anniversary of Brian Burke’s official hiring as general manager/coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Here’s betting he’s not doing a lot of celebrating these days, given the train wreck that is his team right now.
what is he going to do about this team’s pathetic offence? This team has been shut out five times thus far, a pace that would see them blanked about 18 times over the entire season.
A year ago, they finished dead last in penalty killing and power play. They came into Saturday’s game ranked 29th in penalty killing. Their power play is brutal again.
http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/2010/11/27/16346606.html
Monday marks the second anniversary of Brian Burke’s official hiring as general manager/coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Here’s betting he’s not doing a lot of celebrating these days, given the train wreck that is his team right now.
what is he going to do about this team’s pathetic offence? This team has been shut out five times thus far, a pace that would see them blanked about 18 times over the entire season.
A year ago, they finished dead last in penalty killing and power play. They came into Saturday’s game ranked 29th in penalty killing. Their power play is brutal again.
http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/2010/11/27/16346606.html
That is why they are ... http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/yahoocan...onto_the_most_miserable_city_in_canada__study
Great article as usual GHG. I especially liked the line about how Grabovski "looks more like a figure skater than a hockey player." That might explain why Leaf fans are so loyal - after all, the Leaf fans that WE hear from are self-admitted lovers of figure skating.
Of course, humorous lines aside, this article is tremendously accurate in every way.
As good as this article was, GHG, the one you posted in the No Truth Allowed thread was even better. Unfortunately Doc is again howling for a suspension, since you broke the rules of the No Truth Allowed thread by actually posting truth.
The fact that it does not contain any insulting comments by you, the fact that it is a legitimate article that says nothing but accurate facts - these are, to Doc, irrelevant: you have dared to imply that the Leafs are less than perfect, so for exposing the fact that the emperor has no clothes, you must be punished. It's probably only a matter of time before Mod 8 comes riding in on his white horse to do Doc's bidding, as usual.
Thus, I suggest that you continue to post these excellent articles, but in THIS thread rather than the No Truth Allowed thread. That way the Leaf-lovers can continue to relax happily in their own world blissfully unaware of all the true facts concerning their embarrassing team, while the REAL hockey fans can continue to read the excellent factual articles that you post.
The fact that it does not contain any insulting comments by you, the fact that it is a legitimate article that says nothing but accurate facts - these are, to Doc, irrelevant: you have dared to imply that the Leafs are less than perfect, so for exposing the fact that the emperor has no clothes, you must be punished. It's probably only a matter of time before Mod 8 comes riding in on his white horse to do Doc's bidding, as usual.
Thus, I suggest that you continue to post these excellent articles, but in THIS thread rather than the No Truth Allowed thread. That way the Leaf-lovers can continue to relax happily in their own world blissfully unaware of all the true facts concerning their embarrassing team, while the REAL hockey fans can continue to read the excellent factual articles that you post.
A portrait of the Leafs after 22 games:
27th of 30 teams in the league.
48 goals for, 61 against for a balance of negative 13.
A PALTRY 4 wins (!) in their last 18 (!!) games (following their stupefyingly unimaginable 4 and 0 start to the season). And 1 of those meager 4 wins - lest we forget - was the undeserved one against Florida, where the officials (whether due to incompetence or other reasons?) unjustly gave a goal (rather than a well-deserved obvious penalty to chief Leaf goon Colton Orr) thereby robbing the Panthers of a chance at victory.
The second worst penalty kill in the entire league, and a "brutal" power play (as excellently described in a recent article).
The captain: who else but the most overrated player in the entire NHL, as voted by NHL players themselves!
The captain: out of action due to injury - probably a blessing for the Leafs, since at the time of his injury the "captain" had the worst plus-minus on his entire hopeless team.
The coach: the most despised in the entire NHL, and a man who has never made it to the big dance even when he coached good teams.
The GM: an arrogant, abrasive, pushy, rude individual who lobbied for the creation of a Best GM Award to be given out each year - delusionally thinking that he would be the winner. Sadly for him however the award is given to the GM with the best results, not the one with the biggest ego.
The GM: a guy who has been with the Leafs for two years and who has managed to turn them into an even WORSE team than they were before his arrival, which is saying a lot, since they already stank! This hero however "managed" his team into 29th place last year and has them in 27th this year...with NO hope for the future. Together with his buddy Wilson he decided that Kadri wasn't ready for the NHL and then changed his mind when the team couldn't score. How's that for sticking to your guns with keen decision making? Oh and in case anyone's interested, now that Kadri is up with the big boys: the Leafs STILL can't score.
The GM: someone who picks coaches and players who share his characteristics. That's why his coach and his captain are also arrogant, abrasive, pushy and rude. It's also why he loads his team with players who like to fight rather than players who like to score, which is why....
His team has been shut out five times already in only 22 games.
The future: bleak, since the GM has traded it away for a one-dimensional player - the offensive "star" (chuckle) of the team, who - despite being the "offensive star" - cannot manage to break into the top 70 scorers in the league.
27th of 30 teams in the league.
48 goals for, 61 against for a balance of negative 13.
A PALTRY 4 wins (!) in their last 18 (!!) games (following their stupefyingly unimaginable 4 and 0 start to the season). And 1 of those meager 4 wins - lest we forget - was the undeserved one against Florida, where the officials (whether due to incompetence or other reasons?) unjustly gave a goal (rather than a well-deserved obvious penalty to chief Leaf goon Colton Orr) thereby robbing the Panthers of a chance at victory.
The second worst penalty kill in the entire league, and a "brutal" power play (as excellently described in a recent article).
The captain: who else but the most overrated player in the entire NHL, as voted by NHL players themselves!
The captain: out of action due to injury - probably a blessing for the Leafs, since at the time of his injury the "captain" had the worst plus-minus on his entire hopeless team.
The coach: the most despised in the entire NHL, and a man who has never made it to the big dance even when he coached good teams.
The GM: an arrogant, abrasive, pushy, rude individual who lobbied for the creation of a Best GM Award to be given out each year - delusionally thinking that he would be the winner. Sadly for him however the award is given to the GM with the best results, not the one with the biggest ego.
The GM: a guy who has been with the Leafs for two years and who has managed to turn them into an even WORSE team than they were before his arrival, which is saying a lot, since they already stank! This hero however "managed" his team into 29th place last year and has them in 27th this year...with NO hope for the future. Together with his buddy Wilson he decided that Kadri wasn't ready for the NHL and then changed his mind when the team couldn't score. How's that for sticking to your guns with keen decision making? Oh and in case anyone's interested, now that Kadri is up with the big boys: the Leafs STILL can't score.
The GM: someone who picks coaches and players who share his characteristics. That's why his coach and his captain are also arrogant, abrasive, pushy and rude. It's also why he loads his team with players who like to fight rather than players who like to score, which is why....
His team has been shut out five times already in only 22 games.
The future: bleak, since the GM has traded it away for a one-dimensional player - the offensive "star" (chuckle) of the team, who - despite being the "offensive star" - cannot manage to break into the top 70 scorers in the league.
I gotta agree with you on this one joel, this guy is the most arrogant guy in sports and the coach is a mirror image of him, even if the Leafs were successful I would still hate the guy, off the top of my head I can't think of a more arrogant prick than this guy and to think that the Leafs are paying him $5 million a season makes me wanna puke.
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Here's a video of a sound ass kicking that occurred last night in LA. Lol. John Scott pummels Kevin Westgarth!
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