Comedy Platinum out of Toronto - "Canada's Team" quest for the Cup

[BGDave]

You naughty little minx. . .

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

TOugh night for Liljegren in The rookie camp opener in London vs the Habs. -4.

Leafs Twitter was a mess last night lol

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Missed the Sens game but I've read Dermott was pretty great in it (he missed the opener) and Littlegrin was much improved. Be nice if Dermott somehow made Marincin disappearable.

Adam Brooks had mono over the summer, which sucks. Hopefully he can get to full strength and have a good learner year in the A.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

At least we'll have a mid-week mid-afternoon game to distract us, I guess. Go Aretnas!

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Also, they couldn't get a better opponent from the scheduling gurus than the fucking Canes?

 

[DragonfromTO]

Also, they couldn't get a better opponent from the scheduling gurus than the fucking Canes?

Never forget 2002! We're going smear the ice with those Carolina fuckers!

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Never forget 2002! We're going smear the ice with those Carolina fuckers!

Fuck Jeff O'Neill with a jagged antler.

 

[DragonfromTO]

Fuck Jeff O'Neill with a jagged antler.

I hated Arturs Irbe so much for so many years after that series.

 

[BGDave]

I went to Game 2 of that series. Loved the atmosphere at the arena in Raleigh. My ears were ringing for 2 hours after the game ended. Playoff hockey at its (almost) best. Wrong team won though.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

That series was just about the moment I accepted I’d never see a Leafs Cup win (or final appearance for that matter). After getting through so much of the playoffs without Sundin, just the agony of watching three games go to OT and outshooting them in each OT period but still losing each game, Mogilny disappearing for the series, seeing Sundin save them with 20 seconds left just to watch them score in OT…yeah, that was the moment.

At least the Canes embarrassed the shit out of the Habs in their barn in the series before. That 8-2 beat down is still one of my favourite moments ever.

 

[DragonfromTO]

I went to Game 2 of that series. Loved the atmosphere at the arena in Raleigh. My ears were ringing for 2 hours after the game ended. Playoff hockey at its (almost) best. Wrong team won though.

Yeah, that was the game I wanted to go to but I had a friend flying in to visit me that weekend and it seemed a little wrong to ask a guy who's excited about his first time in NYC to jump in a rental with me and drive down to Raleigh, no matter how big a Leaf fan he is. What a considerate friend I am

If there were smartphones and twitter you would have almost certainly seen footage of us somewhere jumping around, hugging and screaming like idiots right in front of the big screen at ESPN Zone when McCauley tied it up though. There was a big and excited crowd but I think a lot of people were still wondering what exactly the big deal was.

 

[DragonfromTO]

Found a picture of that day. I'm in the jersey. Lousy quality though.

And I mean the people, not the picture

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I went to Game 2 of that series. Loved the atmosphere at the arena in Raleigh. My ears were ringing for 2 hours after the game ended. Playoff hockey at its (almost) best. Wrong team won though.

Some friends and I went to a bar downtown to watch the game 7 clincher vs. Ottawa that year. The party on Front Street after that one was the craziest I had seen in Toronto until Italy won the World Cup in 2006 and the police were showing red cards to people climbing up to the roofs of buildings on St. Clair.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Phew.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Also, Auston Matthews will not be named captain this year so the Leafs will of course suffer from a major leadership deficiency without any player wearing the letter 'C' on their chest.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

So two teams in the NHL could conceivably pick up the phone and have a conversation. That is something they could do. They aren't, but they have each other's numbers and stuff.

This guy's such a shit.

 

[BGDave]

So two teams in the NHL could conceivably pick up the phone and have a conversation. That is something they could do. They aren't, but they have each other's numbers and stuff.

This guy's such a shit.

Wow. Is there an award for "dumbest tweet of the year"?

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Oops. I posted about this in the NHL thread. Is anyone surprised that a team with Lou at the helm would cheat?

Lupul, if serious, needs to make more noise or just plain STFU though.

 

[dash]

I saw another instagram post of Lupul and it looked like he was a devout follower of the Phil Kessel diet.