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Ahhh I'm sure only one or two people on these boards care but.. Leafs won again last night! That's two straight after the all star break.. I smell a very nice winning streak coming up.

The first game vs montreal was a beauty.. And we have dominated Montreal every game this season but the end score never resembles that.. Due to some unlucky bounces / some softies let in by Raycroft.. Was nice to see such a good win! Raycroft was solid too!

And vs Carolina! Great game, Cam Ward played great, It could have been 6~7-1 rather then 4-1... And another huge game for Raycroft! I think Ward played better but Raycroft definitly played good, if he plays that well for the rest of the season then I believe we can get that playoff spot!

Big game tommorow vs the Rangers, they are in 8th I think so it's 4 points at stake not 2!

Just some random ramblings, I should really join a hockey forum to get all my hockey talk out.. But I'm too lazy

Damn leafs tv and their exclusive games...didn't get to watch last night's game but I checked their site for the score.

Gonna have to check for the video

GO LEAFS GO! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Glad to see we could win against a team that's dominated us the last few games.

Hey Canadian Lover's:



I just want to wish you all good luck in all you do, even if you guy's can't bet on Bodog .


P.S. Also Pokernut, nice to see you rep the STL .


SHERMSTICK

Indeed! I've seen quite a few people from the Lou on these boards since I recently joined. I'm feeling right at home .

It's too bad our hockey team blew it last night. I was at the game and we should have been up about 3-1 after the 2nd. Instead they didn't take advantage and the Wild (what a stupid name) wins. Now they're 10 pts back of a playoff spot when they could have been 6. Dammit.

You know, my habs have been a better team all year then the leafs..... it devastates me every time we play you guys and end up playing like shit..... good game Sat by the leafs, habs deserved ot have thier asses handed to them

Oh well, still in a playoff spot at least

I'm not doubting that the hab's are a better team this year (At least statistically)... I am however saying the Leafs have outplayed them in every single game (Perhaps minus one so far).. The leafs seem to play well vs the habs....

When the Leafs are checking, playing smart defense and razor is on his game(Oh and healthy)... they are a contender for the playoffs... (Problem is that they havn't had a smart disciplined, uninjured team.. and Raycroft hasnt been good) I guess you can say the same with most teams tho..

I've been missing so much hockey b/c of work 3-10p.m. that I'm so glad you guys are here to keep me posted on how my leafs are doing. Sure it's easy to go look at the score at the end of the game but I like to here all your comments on game play etc. Are we going to make it to the playoffs?

Short answer - If Raycroft continues to play like he has the passed 3 games then yes. (Sorry that was as short as I could get it)

Another GREAT game tonight, SO happy to see us win by a 1 goal margin, Raycroft was unbelievable stopping 37 some odd shots... We did a great job defensivly (Despite all the shots against) Gill held Jagr down, and Coliacavo saved a goal after blocking a shot.

Played a nice rough game, and I've always said when we have that strong forchecking it is really hard for the other teams to play against us.. We have many huge guys that are just waiting to line you up and drive you into the boards. And I have to give a shout out to Battaglia Pohl and Kilger, These guys do so much work it is incredible.. We have been so lucky to have these guys available to be brought up..

We have moved up to a 3 way tie for 7th place in the Eastern conference, altho Pittsburgh still has 3 games on us. We have a nice 3 game winning streak going on here, and have won 5 of the last 6.


(Oh and P.S The 'goal' scored by Shanahan was NOT a goal.. He clearly kicked the puck into the net... It was so blatantly obvious to me, but perhaps that is why I am just a fan and the goal judges are goal judges...)

he clearly redirected the shot with his foot, there was no distinct kicking motion.

He turned his skate and kicked it in it seemed to me... I think the reason it counted was because he had just turned his skate and as you said it was deflected in...

I need to see the replay again but it sure as hell looked like a kicking motion to me.. I'll have to watch again when they show the game on leafs TV.

Usually when the Leafs strike a winning streak we stay in it for a while, lets hope they continue for a while to get us out of the tie situation, I can't make a comment on the deflection of puck, situations like that though I think we all see what we want to see in our teams favor.

Shannahan's redirect = NO GOAL. I'm trying my best to ignore my bias as a leafs fan, but I honestly saw a kicking move. Yes he turned his foot, which by itself would have been fine, but he also made a forward motion which = kick in my mind.

Oh well, we win either way

I love shanny anyways, he's always been one of my favourite players so I got nothin against him.

Great game by the leafs; some great forechecking from the young guns and call-ups, a couple of flukey goals from shannahan and poni and of course Mats' beauty glove side from a feed from white

Gotta love it.

Yes I have to agree with you chuck, But perhaps as biased leafs fan's we were imagining the forward kicking motion lol...


And I love shanahan as well.. Good Canadian player!

OMG you Leaf fans kill me. Shanny's goal was good. His foot was moving forward because his body was moving towards the net. He did not kick at the puck though. From knee to shin stayed at the same angle to the ice the whole time, there is noo way he kicked it. He lifted his skate, turned his foot to purposely deflect the puck towards the net and put his foot down. I don't like either team and not a big Shanahan fan (too much of a frickin' whiner, but I have to admit, the guy has termendous skill) but that was clearly a goal. It could have been Iginla scoring that goal on the Oilers in game 7 of quadruple overtime in the Western Conference championships and I call it a goal.

I saw Shannahans goal and to be honest (not trying to be biased as a leaf hater) I thought it was good. I've seen several goals allowed that looked more like kicks than that over the years. It is really hard to tell if a player actually kicked the puck or not, especially when they are tied up with other players.
Incidentally the goal was ruled a goal by the official on the ice. So the only way that it can be disallowed is if there is INDISPUTABLE evidence that it was kicked. Such was not the case.
Oh well, you guys won the game anyway.

A question to the leaf fans out there, Tie Domi was a pretty popular player with the leafs.... what do you think of his abilities as an analyst (if you can call him that). I never minded him as a player myself, but man is he horrible on TV.

Yes, horrible indeed...


And I watched the goal again on TV.. and it still looks like a kicking motion to me.. We need a youtube of it and then we can make a poll lol.

But as you said it doesn't matter it probably only ended up helping the leafs lol. Had some pretty active shifts after the goal, and got er back.

This was a publicity stunt gone WAY wrong. I applaud TSN for jumping on him since he was very popular when he was play - use him while he's hot. There was the possiblity that he may add value to their programming. That obviously didn't pan out. He isn't a part of the discussion panels anymore (that I noticed) because he is isn't smart enough to participate and add value. OMG end the experiment!!!! Domi has nothing intelligent or interesting to say and I just change the channel when I see his ugly mug now.

I am not even going to go into the retarded mess revolving around his divorce as to why I think he is a knob.

Hey Leafs fans----I told my team last night to take it easy on you guys . It looks like it worked. Now you're only 1 pt back. Seriously though, what an ugly game. I couldn't watch it but looking at the box score there were only 36 combined shots, 16 of those by your Leafs. Mckee must have been blocking them all.

I don't know how that game wasn't like 10-10...

Wait, yes I do. Raycroft played superbly, as did your goalpost

But seriously the score didn't justify the amount of chances that should have gone in for both teams...

Pretty dull game apart from the FREAKEN AMAZING save by Raycroft..

Not many shots on net... was pretty boring if you ask me... Leafs offensivly were no where near their best, Which is great news.. It's good to have the Leafs finally win a game when the team was not playing so great.. I think if the team played their best it would easily have been 4-1 or 5-1.. Raycroft is the exception of course..

What sucks is that even tho the Leafs have won 5 straight and 8 of their last 10... They have barely moved up in the standings... It really pisses me off to see two eastern teams that are contending for playoff's go into OT... And why is it whenever the Leafs are in a playoff push, and playing well.. The rest of the damn east starts winning games.. This happend last year, the only difference is the Leafs are starting their push a bit earlier..(Which obv is good)

Anyways, I predict montreal will drop to 7th~10th in the east come playoff time, and Toronto will move into anywhere from 5th~8th really..

Tough game on thurs... Nashville sure is hot, but they won't stop the leafs win streak!

Goddammit Xife, ya gone and jinxed us now

That is gonna be a deusy of a game though....

Another thing.. I shaved this morning... And I hadn't shaved at all during the win streak (Coincidence?! I THINK NOT)...

Hmmm, Is the no shaving thing only for playoffs?! I sure hope it is.... If the Leafs lose vs Nashville I take full responsibility.

No, I think you're good with the shaving. I'm pretty sure that jinx is only a playoff thing.

But you just might have to own up to any loss we take for that last post. :/

You know you touch on one of the big problems with the NHL nowadays. If a team wins a game in regulation time it is worth 2 points to the winner, 0 to the loser for a total of 2 points. Then it goes to overtime and all of a sudden it is 2 points to the winner and 1 to the loser for a total of 3 points.
As an example of how this is affecting thins, right now Pittsburg has 63 points, Carolina has 61 and Toronto has 60. However if you get rid of the 3 point games and just give the winner 2 points and the loser 0 then all three teams are tied at 60 points. So it punishes teams that aren't good at shootouts, which is no more than a silly skill contest.

Incidentally, the leafs will finish in 9th-10th and Montreal will finish in 6th-8th. The leafs will hit another slump and the habs won't slump forever, however I do think that Montreal was playing a little above thier level earlier in the year... oh well.

You make a great point Shoestring regarding the points theory, but you don't want me getting into all that b/c I remember the day when they changed the whole concept and it was overwhelming discussed and argued in my house for weeks. Oh and by the way I think you miss printed your last post! hehehe I know you meant to say the leafs will finsh 6th-8th and Montreal 9th-10th.

Hmm that reminds me...don't we have a bet going, Lo-Dog?

By the way things are going for the oil, we're gonna need to see a pic of your naked ass running down your equivalent of yonge street

...plenty of hockey to go though...

Not a misprint at all actually.... however when the standings at the end of the year show me to be right, I'll gladly quote my above prediction in approximately 1000 consecutive replies

I'm going to hold you to that!!

Yes I hate how it works out too... Teams are playing safe deliberately
just to get at least 1 point, then go for the extra point after they have secured one.. Not good for the game imo.

I still think leafs will finish top 7, our team this year is a 4 line team rather then previous years where it's been a one line team.. We have scoring coming from every line, Our defense is among the top defenses in the league offensivly.. And definitly isnt the worst defensivly.

Toronto has done pretty good this year considering the situation.. A new goaltender, a new coach... And a whole crapload of injuries.. for a good chunk of the time we ahd 4 of our top forwards out.. We are just starting to get healthy (Even tho we are missing two of our top forwards, being Wellwood and Tucker.. Their return will be a nice boost to our pp.. As well as missing Peca which will obviously increase our PK dramatically)

I don't think the leafs will fall into a slump.. The earlier slump was just Raycroft not being in his groove, and obviously all the injuries. If Raycroft can keep playing how he is there is no doubt in my mind we will make the top 8.

Predictions -

1) New Jersey
2) Buffalo
3) Pittsburgh
4) Atlanta
5) Ottawa
6) Toronto
7) Montreal
8) Tampa

Will be interesting to see how close these predictions are (Altho it's a toss up really... so tight )

Impossible - Pitt can't finish 3rd with Jersey in 1st. Top 3 spots are for division leaders. According to your predictions, the Thrashers would be 3rd. Buffalo won't give up the lead in the Eastern conference. Carolina will get hot and they will also make the playoffs.

1) Sabres
2) Devils
3) Thrashers
4) Senators
5) Penguins
6) Lightning
7) Canadiens
8) Hurricanes

Sorry Leaf fans, but your team probably won't make the playoffs this year. Raycroft just isn't that consistant. I know how you feel though, the Oilers aren't going to make it this year either.

Woops didnt realize I did that... anyways just switch thrashers to third and pburgh to 4th

And I'm staying faithful to my team! The only questionable thing on the team is Goaltending (Which unfortunatly is a huge part of being a playoff team) as I said as long as Raycroft stays hot for the rest of the season we are good..... And maybe our slow defense, but Gill and Kubina can dive and poke the puck away from someone that is like freaken 10 feet away..

That game vs Islanders pretty much sum's up the reason why I DESPISE shootouts.

Leafs were CLEARLY the better team... Islanders played 5 minutes decently in the whole game.. and the rest was purely Toronto.. Yet because of the grand idea of adding shootouts, the undeserving team wins.

AGH. Words cannot describe my frustration with that game.

ATCHECHETHCHEH fvckin dipietro won that game for them.

I approve of this post 100%... Dipietro and the goal post won the game...

Anyways great to see Bataglia Devereaux and Kilger really romping.... Which makes me wonder why Bataglia wasn't picked as one of our 3 shooters.. I would have picked Bataglia, Sundin and Kaberle.. just because kaberle saved a few goals and was probably feeling pumped


I miss Wellwood