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Leafs at Rangers tonight. Be there or be square. * Steve @ Hockeyanalysis thinks that one of the Leafs' defenders is on the chopping block. Personally, I think Mike Van Ryn and Ian White to Pittsburgh would net us something tasty. * Norte likes midgets. * Repressed Optimism hates Marian Hossa. Anyone reading

What's with no games between Monday afternoon and Friday night? Also, my streak of "games I've watched in a row that the team I'm rooting for has looked terrible and lost" now stands at six. Sadly, the team I think that'

From The Star's Paul Hunter: The Maple Leafs acquired pesky Ryan Hollweg during the off-season to be an energizing momentum changer. But it was supposed to work for them, not against them. You know, Paul Hunter makes a good point. The Leafs were out there, kicking ass and

Here are the top six Leafs fans in the SPG: Player Name Points Total Chemmy 6 points floridaLEAF 5 points DarrylKeeping 5 points loserdomi 2 points RepressedOptimism 2 points GoddTill 2 points And here are the top six players globally in the SPG contest: Chemmy 6 points floridaLEAF 5 points

Toronto (1-1-0. 2pts, 4GF 8 GA) hosts St. Louis (1-1-0, 2pts, 7GF 7GA) at the Air Canada Centre starting now. This is your gameday open thread, go Leafs go!

Remember Luke Schenn's beauty of a shootout goal? Well it doesn't mean shit, that was the preseason and this is the big show. The Leafs are looking to avenge their absolute manhandling by the Canadiens and win one in the ACC today shortly after lunch. Remember

Folks, today's game is at 1PM, so be sure to get your SPG picks in on time! * Torontosportsmedia points out that Luke Schenn was an even player in Saturday night's blowout loss to Montreal, and still hasn't been on the ice for an even

With the Leafs now on pace for only 41 wins and 82 points, the season has taken a darker turn. * Koopa Kid thinks the media is ready to devour Frogren and Schenn already. This is why Schenn needs to play in the WHL. This season is going to be ugly

Well, no bones about it, the Leafs got smoked last night. I sauntered into my house in time to see the Habs score a pair in two minutes to make it 4-0. In a way it's sort of liberating. The Leafs are not a playoff team, they'

Stralman buries it. Winkle, I give you full permission to spam this post with comments starting now!

Fresh off a brutal loss last night in Buffalo, the Habs are going to be looking for blood. Hopefully they're just a bad team, and not a good team that played a single bad game and is ready to avenge their shootout loss by beating the cornbread muffins

Scoring Summary: * 1st TOR Kubina PPG 19:34 from Osgood * 2nd TOR Moore 15:04, from Steen and Frogren, beautiful shot up where momma hides the cookie jar * 2nd DET Holmstrom 16:28, from Stuart and Datsyuk, garbage goal * 3rd TOR Kulemin 07:25, Kulemin snatches that gravy up * 3rd

The first game of this rebuilding season is going to be painful, but remember that the end goal isn't short term success now, it's ending up where Detroit is now. The Red Wings haven't always been a fantastic team, their cup drought was 42

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Here's a quick roundup of Leafs season previews from the "major players" in sports. If there are any missing, link them in the comments and I'll take credit for finding them. TSN.ca: Parting Shot: Even in rebuilding mode, the direction of this Leaf

The season is almost here. We'll be running season previews all day long, so check back often because this place is literally going to be exploding with content today. Chock full o' links this morning: * loser domi's Eric Lindros bobblehead (courtesy of Scott Stevens) is

Ah yes, the beautiful thing that is being able to look at the standings page and see a big fat "0" in the loss column. Enjoy it my friends, because just like the autumn leaves as soon as you get used to it, it'll be gone.

* Let's all celebrate Steven Spielberg's birthday! * Godd Till of Cox Bloc watched creepy commercials when he was younger. Yikes. * Steve@Hockeyanalysis wants to conduct an experiment. * MF37 wants us to keep an eye on the Cujo storyline. With so much cap space could the Leafs use

The Wings took the lead early in the second on a shot Leafs goalie Curtis Joseph would like to have back. - The Star Lest we be accused of being overwhelmingly pro Leaf, today's NNN posits that perhaps today the Star isn't negative enough. Curtis Joseph

Pre-Game: 7:00 PM, Leafs TV Broadcast: 7:30 PM, Leafs TV, AM640, Leafs TV Interactive Post-Game: 10 PM, Leafs TV Post Video: mapleleafs.com Up yours Tim Cheveldae Red Wings: Franzen-Zetterberg-Hudler Helm-Filppula-Samuelsson Kopecky-Draper-McCarty Leino-Emmerton-Maltby Lidstrom-Rafalski Lilja-Lebda Ericsson-Meech Conklin should play whole game. Here are the Leafs' forward lines

Wendel Clark burst into my house last night, leaving most of it in ruins, and glued this to my hands, which is his way of saying "hello". I tried to tell him that I already signed up and I do comment at Pension Plan Puppets, but he didn&

Pre-Game: 8 p.m., Leafs TV Game Time: 8:30 p.m., Leafs TV, AM640, Leafs TV Interactive Post-Game:  10:30 p.m., Leafs TV Post Video: mapleleafs.com And from the Blues camp, a fire alarm accidentally went off at the Scott Trade Center just as the team went

Holy beanbag kids, does anyone not think Schenn is the real deal? Good gravy. without further ado, I declare today: The First Annual PensionPlanPuppets.com Luke Schenn Day Sponsored by Luke Schenn. * Koopa Kid thinks the media Schenn-sationalizes things to get more readers, and that some readers at Puck Daddy

Pre-Game: 6:30 p.m., Leafs TV Game Time: 7:30 p.m., Leafs TV, AM640, Leafs TV Interactive Post-Game: 10 p.m., Leafs TV Post Video: mapleleafs.com Will the Leafs be able to squander a lead at the end of third? Toskala gets the start in net, from

I don't normally get too worked up about old celebrities going to the shinny game in the sky, but to me, and I think to a lot of hockey fans, Paul Newman was a pretty important guy. It's literally impossible to hang out with your buddies