It seems like the intervals on these reports has a logarithm pattern to it, but here we are anyway. Clearly this would have been a much more positive effort had it been a Leafs 42 game report. You know... fresh off a Winter Classic victory and a mild 3 game win streak there was a sense of greatness, like dane fortune finally came to the dance. Goalie stands on his head and they win the game... that was the formula, and when the formula fails there is a goal tending controversy.
That said i really don't know why Reimer didn't start in the Islanders game, i honestly thought that before the game... Now i didn't think Bernier would play badly, I just thought in terms of the idea of earning your spot in the line up, like they have been preaching all season, would have been a good opportunity to reinforce that value to the team. Who knows what happened, perhaps an injury, perhaps they might have been working on a trade and didn't play him on account of injury risk. I'm not saying that has any basis to it besides the fact it would explain a situation where an idea that looked like a gut decision might actually have been a decision that was made by another factor.
Alas, a few stories in the CBC understandably one was about a "goalie situation uncertain".
Soundbites, news creating news, trying to create interest... It's got to be weird... Hockey use to be real great when it was one team just hating the other.
There is a classic story of Montreal Canadian's great Rocket Richard who was on the train after a game vs. a loathed rival. Now apparently there was a screw up and both teams had to take the same train, and apparently the opponents were in between the Montreal Canadians car and the dining car. The Rocket would not eat because he hated the team so much and couldn't stand to even see them. Where was I... just Googled a fact and ended up watching this . Which is kind of odd linking a video of a hero of the loathed rivals in a blog apparently titled "Leafs 44 Game report..."
As my mother said many a time... "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all". Mine is more of a bastard version where the "don't say anything at all" gets mutated into go on a bizarre tangent.
I think the Lupul - Kadri - Raymond line has potential and started, near the end if the Islanders game, to create things more regularly. It's true Kadri has been in a fog for a while, and not the game changer we have seen glimpses of in the past. Poor kid trying to live up to the Toronto Media first line center trap. Truth be told Kadri and Lupul were great last year... kind of like a second first line. If they can keep playing together it could give the leafs a real nice one- two punch that is always good for winning games. Injuries, suspensions have forced situations where Kadri and Lupul haven't spent a lot of time playing together... i think there could be a loss there that might be worth investigating.
I play center and if i could mold a perfect winger it would be very much in Joffrey Lupul likeness. Big guy who can snipe, pass, dangle and play it rough in the hard areas... I think the leafs almost need Lupul mentoring Kadri and helping him bring out the inner Kadri.
I thought Phil Kessel was pretty hilarious in the 24/7 Road to the Winter Classic series. His keen understanding of what a moron he could look like depending on how they edit the footage and his plea to the camera crew to not make them look like fucking idiots was pretty good in my books.
Bottom line... the need Dave Bolland back... off all of the people to miss time he is the most versatile... he can play anywhere so when you have a hole in the team you plug it with Dave Bolland.
That said i really don't know why Reimer didn't start in the Islanders game, i honestly thought that before the game... Now i didn't think Bernier would play badly, I just thought in terms of the idea of earning your spot in the line up, like they have been preaching all season, would have been a good opportunity to reinforce that value to the team. Who knows what happened, perhaps an injury, perhaps they might have been working on a trade and didn't play him on account of injury risk. I'm not saying that has any basis to it besides the fact it would explain a situation where an idea that looked like a gut decision might actually have been a decision that was made by another factor.
Alas, a few stories in the CBC understandably one was about a "goalie situation uncertain".
There is a classic story of Montreal Canadian's great Rocket Richard who was on the train after a game vs. a loathed rival. Now apparently there was a screw up and both teams had to take the same train, and apparently the opponents were in between the Montreal Canadians car and the dining car. The Rocket would not eat because he hated the team so much and couldn't stand to even see them. Where was I... just Googled a fact and ended up watching this . Which is kind of odd linking a video of a hero of the loathed rivals in a blog apparently titled "Leafs 44 Game report..."
As my mother said many a time... "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all". Mine is more of a bastard version where the "don't say anything at all" gets mutated into go on a bizarre tangent.
I think the Lupul - Kadri - Raymond line has potential and started, near the end if the Islanders game, to create things more regularly. It's true Kadri has been in a fog for a while, and not the game changer we have seen glimpses of in the past. Poor kid trying to live up to the Toronto Media first line center trap. Truth be told Kadri and Lupul were great last year... kind of like a second first line. If they can keep playing together it could give the leafs a real nice one- two punch that is always good for winning games. Injuries, suspensions have forced situations where Kadri and Lupul haven't spent a lot of time playing together... i think there could be a loss there that might be worth investigating.
I play center and if i could mold a perfect winger it would be very much in Joffrey Lupul likeness. Big guy who can snipe, pass, dangle and play it rough in the hard areas... I think the leafs almost need Lupul mentoring Kadri and helping him bring out the inner Kadri.
I thought Phil Kessel was pretty hilarious in the 24/7 Road to the Winter Classic series. His keen understanding of what a moron he could look like depending on how they edit the footage and his plea to the camera crew to not make them look like fucking idiots was pretty good in my books.
Bottom line... the need Dave Bolland back... off all of the people to miss time he is the most versatile... he can play anywhere so when you have a hole in the team you plug it with Dave Bolland.
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