Colin Odneal

There's a lot to say about this year's Toronto Maple Leafs; much of it was said before the first game and too much of it was said between games.

Finding out why the reasons given for the Leafs' struggles were given.

Links Marlies Round 2 Schedule Marlies draw Chicago Wolves in round 2. The Broad Street Bullies Were Soft What, no hitting 2 seconds after the puck is gone? Steve Dangle Podcast Talking hockey. Your Favorite All-Time (and Present) Leafs Who you got? Salary Cap to Rise But not as high

Links Marlies Sweep Admirals in First Round Admirals beat Marlies in logo department Playoff LFR Watch the Throne Round 2 Bandwagoning Guide Brought to you by DGB.

Links The Tyler Bozak Post On-ice shooting percentage is no joke. Playoff LFR Can you believe what's happening? Carlyle on the Chopping Block? God willing. Does a Tought First Round Series Hurt a Stanley Cup Run? Nope.

Links Marlies Take 2-0 Series Lead Eat shit.........Milwaukee Admirals. Pyrrhic Faceoff Wins in Edmonton Dellow finds a prime example of cutting off your nose to spite your face. Can Leafs Fans Now Become Habs Fans? No. Never. Not under any circumstances.

Links Playoffs LFR: Ugly Dangle ain't go no alibi. Remembering a Surprise Maple Leaf Overtime Win Leafs win in an playoff OT? Impossible. Are the Habs for Real? DGB is unclean.

The Habs swept the Lightning last night (due in no small part to a terrible penalty call late in the 3rd period) and promptly lit every broom they had on fire. Probably. What's the French word for broom? Is it just le broom? Probably. "Le broom est

Links and stuff

Links Panthers Win Draft Lottery Leafs to pick eighth. End of a Slow Bleed Leafs finish one of the worst defensive seasons in NHL history. Dave Nonis on Leafs Lunch Lots of not goodness. First Round is the Best Hockey of the Year Agree or disagree? Randy Carlyle End of

Pick two teams, one from each Conference, who you'll either be cheering for, or wouldn't mind to see the win the Cup. For me it's San Jose and Boston. San Jose because that team deserves a win as does Joe Thornton. Boston because I&

Helpful links to get you going as a new era dawns

Links Stick a Fork in Them They're done. Thoughts on Thoughts Please Leafs, get Evander Kane. How Coaches Emotionally Manipulate Their Players And how it changes in the playoffs.

Links Toughness vs. Skill Looking at style of defensemen and how they're valued. Should they Stay or Should they Go? Good ones stay. Bad ones go. Open Response to Steve Simmons That's a sweet t-shirt. David Clarkson: The Contract from Hell Truth. Steve Dangle Podcast Now

Links (click them) He Fight. He (seldom) Scores. He Fight. He's a Drain on the Salary Cap. Yup, it's Clarkson. On Corsi% Rel, TOI, and Benoit Pouliot Kind of a good player. Real good. Ranking the Ten Most Likely First Round Matchups NYR-PHI gonna be good.

Links Mythbusters: Kessel's Disappearance There isn't one. Steve Dangle on the Radio Steve gets belligerent. Does a Leafs Win Change Your Views on the Playoff Race? Nope.

The reign of Dion Phaneuf as captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs will now feature long drawn out collapses in 2011-12 and 2013-14 and a quick strike heartbreaker in 2013. He clearly cannot be a good leader but who can replace him?

Links Heartless Where's all that supposed heart at? LFR7 - Game 76 I think Dangle is broken. Five Stages of TML Denial There aren't five stages of denial. Denial is one of the five stages of grief. Ok and then you have denial as one of

Listen to me! The Maple Leafs are not the truth. The Leafs are a goddamn amusement park. The Leafs are a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and hockey players. They're in the boredom-killing business. So if you

Links David Clarkson vs the Worst Contracts Clarkson wins. A Brief Defense of Dion Phaneuf Oh my word are the Leafs bad. What Does a Six Game Losing Streak Tell Us About the Leafs? They suck. The Maple Leafs Transition Game It sucks. MacIntyre Returns to the Marlies Not very

Links for you

There's no doubt that James Reimer is having a rough run of games. But what is behind this streak?

Things are getting dicey in Leafsville

Links TML Under Pressure Vanilla Ice likely to rip them off. An Introduction to On-Ice Percentages Read this and get educated. LFR7 - Game 71 Dangle masturbates a Cartman doll or something. I dunno. The 20 Worst Games of James Reimer's Career :( Spencer Abbott Sets Marlies Single Season

Face offs are one opportunity for the coaching staff to implement set plays. Unfortunately, in a crucial time in last night's game, the play didn't really seem up to snuff...