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| Getty Photo/ Clarke "The Rocket" MacArthur strikes again |
The Leafs take two points the hard way, and while Giguere might not have been the unstoppable force he was in the previous pair of starts, he delivered once again in the clutch.
Kessel returned to form with an important pair of goals, which is exactly the reaction you want after having his ice time cut in the previous game.
Komisarek seems to be doing everything he can to get Lebda into the lineup, but it will likely be Gunnarsson that sits first.
MacArthur seems to be heading into a slump, as his one goal performance is unexceptable after showing us he can score two a night.
Brunnstrom Waived:
With the extra roster spot opened up by Finger's departure, I was happy to see Burke didn't fill it with Brunnstrom. While offense needs to be added to the Leafs at some point, the Leafs can afford to be a bit more picky and get an established player instead of bringing in the next in the series of Leafs Swedish busts (see: Hoglund, Jonas & Wallin, Rickard)
HNIC:
Even if the Leafs sucked to start the season, it seems awfully early in the year to be pulling them off of Hockey Night In Canada. Other fanbases be damned, the CBC should be trying to make money not trying to appease Senators fans who won't even by tickets to see their team play. The Habs are a non-factor since anyone who wants to watch them can flip the channel to RDS anytime they want. Most of us mute Jim Hughson and Glenn Healy anyway, so why does the language matter. Hopefully the Leafs do well enough this year all my saturdays from October to June can be booked with Leafs hockey next season.
Marlies Game Tomorrow:
A rare treat for those of us on the otherside of the country. Since those of you in Toronto can't be bothered to go to games, the rest of us scattered around Canada will pick up the slack and get our first glimpse of the farm this season. Kudos to CBC for doing this, but it's a shame Lehner got called up to Ottawa. I would have loved to see Kadri light him up.
What Can Brown Do For You?:
Mike Brown is quickly becoming one of my favourite Leafs, and as such I've made a brief, and highly amateurish tribute video. Please Enjoy. (Song is Hit Me! by The Sounds)
Site News:
I'll make a bigger deal about this as it gets closer to happening, but the ball is rolling on making this site bigger, better, faster, and of course more truculent. Since I'm expanding, I'm going to pull a Jerry Maguire and see who's coming with me. I'm hoping to add a PodCast into the mix, as well as I could use a few additional writers who want to contribute so instead of posts 5 times a week, it can be a few couple of posts a day at least. If you're interested contact me via e-mail at besterwregget@yahoo.com or on Twitter.
4 comments:
Don't appreciate the dig at hockey fans in TO regarding the Marlies. Comes off sounding whiny, as if you'd be going to every Marlies game you could despite all the other things going on in this city. Maybe where you live AHL hockey would be the number one priority b/c it's a small town or city with not much else going on. But there are 1001 things to do in TO and alot of them are cheaper than pro hockey.
That being said, I fully intend to go to some Marlies games this season, but haven't found the time yet. And when I do go, I hope there's a good crowd there. But if you don't live here, don't take shots at those who do.
I'm well aware of what there is to do in Toronto, and that most people don't make it everygame. I'm also not trying to come off as whiny or preachy.
It is more shock on my part that for all the Kadri hype there is little to no interest in seeing him play.
Obviously you are interested in the Marlies and I hope you have a great time when you go.
Okay, thanks for clarifying your intent with that remark, and you do raise a valid point regarding all the Kadri hype. Unfortunately there was a post on PPP discussing how the game was a bit of a dud, with not much physical play and casual effort on both sides. I definitely hope their play will have picked up when I get down to a game, as the number one thing I expect to see from these players is effort and hard work.
Keep up the good work, yours is one of the blogs I typically read from the FTB.
Casual Effort Summarizes it perfectly, and I can't help but think that if the Marlies didn't go all out saturday for their first win, they would have had more in the tank sunday.
When I lived in Winnipeg the thing I enjoyed most about Moose games was watching the effort of guys trying to make the NHL. I didn't see much of that today, but I think todays performance was a rarity for the AHL.
Thanks for reading!
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