SB Nation User Blog: eyebleaf

PLAYOFFS!!!!1 (MARLIES) - LET'S DO THIS

eyebleaf — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:09:09 -0000

PLAYOFFS!!!!1 (MARLIES) - LET'S DO THIS

Anyone down for some Marlies playoffs!!!!1 action?

Tickets are as cheap as $17 (that includes your "convenience" charge).

Remember, these are the only PLAYOFFS!!!!1 we've got. Let's go watch Tlusty rip shit up.

Let me know if you're down. It can be a date (Mattblack?) ...

PLAYOFFS!!!!1

eyebleaf — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:09:32 -0000

PLAYOFFS!!!!1

We're only seven points out of 8th in the East. Tavares who?

I LOVE DAMIEN COX One final note. It continues to blow my mind that some insist Mats Sundin "owed"...

eyebleaf — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:40:53 -0000

I LOVE DAMIEN COX

One final note. It continues to blow my mind that some insist Mats Sundin "owed" the Leafs the chance to trade him last winter and get draft picks and prospects for him.

Here’s what he owed the Leafs.

He owed them a willingness to play hard under the terms of his contract, to play through injuries, to provide solid leadership, to put points on the board and to set an example for young players. His job was to fulfill his playing contract, period.

To wallow in these ill-conceived, illogical past grievances against the player who was the team’s best for more than a decade is to demean not only him, but the franchise and the sport.

http://thestar.blogs.com/thespin/2009/02/thursday-mail-bag-2.html

The End of an Era

eyebleaf — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:10:47 -0000

The End of an Era

Brad Wilkerson is no longer a Toronto Blue Jay. Huzzah!

For 40 years Leafs fans have waited for their own parade and only have come close, maybe once, in...

eyebleaf — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:04:45 -0000

For 40 years Leafs fans have waited for their own parade and only have come close, maybe once, in all that time. It is impossible to remember Gilmour without remembering 1993. He scored 127 points in the regular season, another 35 through three playoff rounds, and came up a game short of advancing to the Stanley Cup final. He had already won a Cup in Calgary in 1989, but this was Toronto. "My team," he calls it.

"If someone were to tell you, you could play Game 7 at home and all you had to do was win it to get to the Stanley Cup final, wouldn't you take that?" Gilmour said. "I would. We had it and then Wayne Gretzky played one of the greatest games of his life and took it away from us."

But there still is that part of Gilmour, ever the competitor, who holds on to the notion the Leafs were ever so slightly robbed. In Game 6, the bane of every Leafs fans' existence, Gilmour face to face with Gretzky atop the faceoff circle, was cut as Gretzky's follow through of his stick went into Gilmour's forehead. Gilmour clearly was cut and bleeding: The expression on Gretzky's face was that of fear. "Should have been five and a game misconduct," Gilmour said. "But Kerry Fraser didn't see it. I've always understood that. What I didn't understand was the linesmen. They had the ability to make the call. They had to have seen it, even if Fraser didn't? That's the only regret I have of that call. Somebody else should have said something -- and if that happens, who knows what's next?"

Sanford, anyone? Is it wrong that his 2.59 GAA and .906 save percentage make my nether regions...

eyebleaf — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:44:57 -0000

Sanford, anyone?

Is it wrong that his 2.59 GAA and .906 save percentage make my nether regions tingle?

Don't mind the Senators logo in the background, but is that not the best beer mug you have ever...

eyebleaf — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:41:36 -0000

Don't mind the Senators logo in the background, but is that not the best beer mug you have ever seen? In your life?

Props to Stoeten at TheScore.com blog for the image.

Kabby's an All-Star

eyebleaf — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:15:09 -0000

Kabby's an All-Star

Kabby's off to Montreal in a couple of weeks.

Big ups. He's being recognized, once again, for his ability to make a cross ice pass like you won't believe.

I love Tomas Kaberle.

IT HAPPENS TONIGHT. COLOUR ME EXCITED

eyebleaf — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:55:31 -0000

IT HAPPENS TONIGHT.

COLOUR ME EXCITED

Because of all the animosity being directed towards my boy Kaberle around here in the last few...

eyebleaf — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:02:21 -0000

Because of all the animosity being directed towards my boy Kaberle around here in the last few days.

And because I've never posted it as a fanshot.

Remember, "he make cross ice pass like you won't believe..."