I don't understand why so many people are so in favour of this YOUNG Leafs team tanking it this season! We have a young team. So if this young team can make the playoffs, that's awesome! It means that we are AHEAD of schedule in the re-build. Philly did it, why can't we? I think too many people have the mind set that it takes years and years of being horrible to effectively re-build! This is just not the case! In the new, fast NHL it is entirely feasible to re-build quickly. Keep a few veterans (Kubina, Kaberle, Mayers, Antropov), get rid of some dead weight (Tucker, Kilger, Belak, Wellwood(yes wellwood), Bell, etc etc) and add some new youth! Stempniak (or as I like to now call him Wayne Gretzky), Grabovski, Hagman, and you've got something with an upside! So screw those who think we should just finish last! If we can make the playoffs with this team, then let's do it!
The 2006 Oilers were an example of a team very similar to these Leafs. And through simple work ethic made the finals. Their forecheck was outstanding. Goal tending outstanding, and sprinkle in a few wiley veterans, and voila!! Finals! Yah! Kick ass!
The Leafs take on the Howling Stinky Coyotes tonight! They are 11-11-2. Wayne Gretzky is the coach. This will be the first time he will have had to coach against the newly nick-named (stempniak) Wayne Gretzky! I look for the Leaf version of Wayne Gretzky to get a hat-trick! Not just because he's awesome, but because he's in my pool! So is Toskala, so he will get a shutout!
Leafs 9 Stinky Coyotes 0 It's gonna be swwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!!!
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