The OFFICIAL Toronto Maple Leafs DEATH WATCH THREAD.

[joelcairo]

This loss was particularly enjoyable to watch seeing as they did have a 3-0 lead. The downfall was led by Philly the 5.5 kid who disappeared after 5 minutes of the first period obviously feeling quite content with his performance. This most recent humiliation combined with Carolina's fourth win in a row drops the Leafs back to the 15th spot in the East where they belong.

6 down, 4 to go.

PS. Loved seeing Raycroft waving to the fans in the final minute, you just can't script something that good.

G1G, your post is so accurate that I felt compelled to quote it in its entirety. I agree with everything you wrote but I would add just one thing: the stinkin' leafs have also lost their hold on their coveted 28th place standing and have dropped to 29th. Go Canes Go! Go Oilers Go! 30th is still a possibility for Burkie's Bums.

 

[Hornee]

It won't help them now, but the sweep will help in the future.

 

[G1GBallday]

Devils win 4-3

All it took was a three minute effort.

7 down, 3 to go.

 

[gohabsgo]

Leafs quickly revert to old ways

Same pathetic script. allowing three New Jersey Devil goals in the final 3:04 of regulation, turning a 3-1 lead into a gutwrenching 4-3 loss

Coughing up leads is nothing new to this team.

Last Saturday, the Leafs belched up a 3-0 advantage to drop a 5-3 decision to the Vancouver Canucks.


http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/2010/02/05/12765296.html

 

[G1GBallday]

Sharks win 3-2

The blue and white colors of failure have already begun seeping into Giggy’s pores as he gave up 3 goals on only 26 shots last night. As a result the winning streak of Canada’s national embarrassment has ended at one.

Now with 49 points in 60 games they are on pace for an impressive 67 points this year. This accomplishment is due in no small part to Smilin’ Brian’s well placed 35 million dollar investment in goalies and defencemen that has resulted once again in the league’s worst goals against average.

The future however does look brighter for Toronto thanks to highly skilled players like Hanson, Bozak, Deveaux, Rosehill, Gunnarsson, and Wallin, all of whom have torn up the NHL since their arrival. With all these “merging” superstars, I have no doubt the Leafs will continue to live up to the same high standards set by the previous 42 glorious editions of this admirable franchise.

Equally encouraging for fans is their AHL farm team the Marlies. They too are dominating their league and currently sit in the 26th spot out of 29 teams with an impressive .452 winning percentage.

And last but not least, in June the Leafs will be able to count on landing a legitimate franchise player in Hall, Seguin, or Fowler with their first round pick in the 2010 entry draft. Oh wait a minute I forgot...........ehhh...........AWKWARD!

8 down, 2 to go.

 

[joelcairo]

The blue and white colors of failure have already begun seeping into Giggy’s pores as he gave up 3 goals on only 26 shots last night. As a result the winning streak of Canada’s national embarrassment has ended at one.

Excellent post G1G. I just quoted the opening, but the entire piece was both accurate and brilliant.

What a TRULY pathetic bunch of losers: Their "best" (ha ha) offensive player, a team cancer named Phil, committed an amateurish giveaway that resulted in a key Shark goal. Their "best" (ha ha) defensive player, a team cancer named Dion, committed a cowardly hit from behind on Jody Shelley and then got a facewash and was dumped on his butt when Shelley turned around. Their "toughest" (ha ha) fighter Colton Orr was totally demolished in a fight with the same Jody Shelley. Their "best" (ha ha) goalie is an Anaheim reject three years past his prime. Their GM and coach are two of a kind: loud blustering obnoxious bullies who - just like a couple of leaf FANS we all know on this board - avoid all logic and facts and just resort to immature insults when they are challenged.

It's been 43 years since Hogtown won - or, let's face it, even CHALLENGED - for a Cup, but it will probably be many more than another 43 before they even come close. Why doesn't the League send this sad-ass national embarrassment PACKING once and for all?

 

[Special K]

Why doesn't the League send this sad-ass national embarrassment PACKING once and for all?

But then who would you have to pick on? Lol. At least you have an easy target.

 

[joelcairo]

But then who would you have to pick on? Lol. At least you have an easy target.

Quite true. Sometimes I feel guilty picking on such a bunch of sitting ducks. Uhh, make that sitting LEAFS - I have nothing against Anaheim!

 

[G1GBallday]

Speaking of Giggy, anyone know if he'll be staying with the Disney theme on his mask once he gets rid of the mighty duck?

If so I wonder if he'll pay tribute to fans like Doc and Iggy by going with Goofy?

Or simply honor the organization in a proper manner?

 

[gohabsgo]

With all these “merging” superstars,

Ah yes, the "merging" superstar - now what dunce said that?

 

[gohabsgo]

Speaking of Giggy, anyone know if he'll be staying with the Disney theme on his mask once he gets rid of the mighty duck?

If so I wonder if he'll pay tribute to fans like Doc and Iggy by going with Goofy?

Giggy could pay tribute to our two village idiots by putting this on his mask ...

or just this ...

 

[gohabsgo]

Blues clobber Maple Leafs

Toronto coach Ron Wilson said. “I thought we made some bad mistakes. We made it pretty easy for them. We didn't play very well.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/blues-clobber-maple-leafs/article1467214/

 

[G1GBallday]

Blues win by shutout 4-0

Who you gonna call when you own the league’s worst home record with only 10 wins in front of your fans? The Toronto Maple Leafs of course. And as usual the Leafs did their best to take over one of the only negative records they don’t already own and were blown away 4 zip. My favorite goals were the two shorties, especially the first one where Giggy was down on his hands and knees facing backwards and looking more like a drunk David Hasselhoff eating a sandwich than an NHL goalie.

Now the Leafs are off on a well deserved vacation until March 2 when they will meet the Carolina Hurricanes who are now four points ahead in the East. Will the Canes finally put them out of their misery? Stay tuned.

9 down, 1 to go.

 

[Octavian]

Idiot gasbag Burke adds another piece to his mess of a jigsaw puzzle. What next to complete this puzzle, a gay hockey player.



Looking to bolster their forward depth, the Toronto Maple Leafs have added Jamie Lundmark on waivers from the Calgary Flames.

Lundmark, 29, has bounced back and forth between the American Hockey League and National Hockey League over the last couple of seasons, scoring nine points and posting a minus-6 rating in 21 games with Calgary this season. He also has 21 points and a plus-4 rating in 32 games with the Abbotsford Heat in the AHL.

Lundmark will join a Maple Leafs team that recently sent three forwards -- Matt Stajan, Niklas Hagman and Jamal Mayers -- to Calgary in the trade that brought Dion Phaneuf to Toronto. The Leafs also traded Jason Blake to Anaheim, leaving them shorthanded up front, with only five of the Maple Leafs' remaining forwards having scored more than Lundmark's four goals this season.

In 286 career games with Calgary, Los Angeles, Phoenix and the New York Rangers, Lundmark has tallied a total of 90 points in his NHL career.

 

[joelcairo]

Gee you almost have to feel sorry for the laffs (I said "almost"): Here they are in the BEST part of their season and Grabovski goes and gets himself arrested.

It WAS the best part of their season because for the first time all year they weren't falling behind every other team in the league (well, okay, every other team except the Oilers, led by former Toronto boss Pat Quinn)...but NOW with Grabovski's arrest, they've AGAIN done worse than every other team in the league - even when none of the teams are playing!

An amazing non-achievement (even by the pitiful leaf "standards")! What a woeful inept bunch of losers!

I also like the way that crybaby Burke whines about the US having played two games at noon and then says he and team USA, and the leafs don't complain!

 

[gohabsgo]

Now that Laurel & Hardy (a.k.a the Bobbsey Twins: Burke and Wilson) have been eliminated from the Olympics, they can return to their day jobs to oversee the elimination of the putrid Leafs - this marks that sad sack franchise's fifth straight season without making the playoffs.

At the next Toronto home game, MLSE chairman Larry Tanenboob and his sidekick Dick Peddiephile can preside in a medal ceremony for all current Leafs – a medal made of compressed cowpies to honour that pathetic organization's last 43 years of futility.

 

[joelcairo]

Let's face it: it's 43 years and counting - and the counting will probably never end for such a hopeless sack of shit organization.

 

[gohabsgo]

Leafs still on vacation

Team looks like some beach bums, ’Canes skate circles around T.O.

In a word, the Leafs were horse$%^& in their first game after the Winter Games, losing 5-1 to the Hurricanes at the Air Canada Centre.

http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/2010/03/02/13089751.html

 

[gohabsgo]

the natives are getting restless in Leaf land

Kessel deal will go down as one of the most one-sided worst trades in sports history.

The Blowhard Buffoon will have ended up exchanging TWO lottery picks & a high second rounder for one of the softest peripheral players to ever lace up a pair of figure skates. As evidenced by his astounding 2 assist performance at the Olympics, the higher the stakes the more invisible he becomes.

Doubtful he could have cracked the US Women's squad due to lack of stones.

Fortunately the Loafs will never be involved in any meaningful hockey (i.e. playoffs) over the course of his 5 yr. 27,000,000 contract so we'll never have to witness the true magnitude of this fleecing.

Nice Job Burkie! Wake me up in 4 or 5 years when the Anemic Duo (Burke et Wilson) have finally been run out of town.







Only MLSE can hire a blowhard so incompetent that it can make one pine for poor old JFJ.

The deals this guy makes are incomprehensible. First he trades our first overall picks for the next two years for a grossly overpaid, softie unidimensional player who was completely invisible at the Olympics.

Then he signs stiffs and pylons like Komisarek, Exelby and Orr to fat contracts in the name of adding "grit". The only grit he added has been between Leafs fans' teeth.

Think other teams are more afraid to play the Leafs now? Only if they don't like putting the puck in our net. Now he trades one of the Leafs' only decent players for former first and second rounders who are now proven underperformers. In the immortal words of Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now, "I don't see any...method...at all, sir."

The two Leaf trades I would most like to see at the deadline at this point: Burke to anywhere for hockey tape; Wilson and his whiny plethora of excuses to Detroit Compuware for a large pizza.

 

[gohabsgo]

Congratulations Leafs and Leaf fans for getting a 20th victory in a season where so many narrow-minded haters and doubters never "beleafed" that you could muster 20 wins in 64 games!

It only took until the end of the first week of March, a full six months after the first game of the season, and the Leafs were the very last team in the league to manage this amazing feat, eventhough your 20th win in 64 games did come in a shoot-out against a team that was depleted with flu ridden players, but it's a big victory nonetheless!

So congrats on getting to forty points in the W column. All Leaf fans can wear their jerseys with pride today ...