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Editor's Note: The SBN tech team has endowed us with an amazing site platform with a lot of great features that help foster a strong community. Over the summer we'll be highlighting them as a refresher for older commenters and as an introduction to the tonnes

There is a serious dearth of postings this fine morning so I'll leave it up to you fine folks to ferret out some more. Toss them in the comments and I'll update them after I have watched Liverpool kick off their 20th pursuit of number 19.

This is what happens when you spend the entire day trying to crack Project Mayhem's code. You forget to get someone to write the weekend FTBs so I am back on duty for a limited engagement. If you have any links this weekend e-mail them to me. If

The Fan 590 is reporting that Teeder Kennedy has passed away: Toronto Maple Leafs legend Theodore Samuel "Teeder" Kennedy passed away early Friday morning. He was 83 years-old. The cause of death was heart failure. Kennedy served 14 years with the Leafs in the 1940's and

All we are is dust in the wind. - Kansas It has to come to the attention of the tech team at PPP Almagamated Heavy Industries that our corner of the website has no favicon. What is a favicon? It's that little site logo you see on the

Editor's Note: Sometimes timing can be a funny thing. This post was meant to run last week and it likely would have been duly forgotten amidst the blockbuster Justin Pogge trade. Of course, that was before Patrick "20 Cent" Kane showed that you can take the

In the past, when an article like Aaron Portzline's preview of the Leafs' upcoming season was written we'd whip out the Cox Bloc sign and 24 hours later we'd be laughing at their ability to relate everything to classic 80s WWF storylines and

Editor's Note: I still have some NHL Draft stuff to work through including the nights out with the travelling support, meeting Alyn McCauley, and chatting with Damien Cox. Since we are in the dog days of summer there's really no need to hurry so it'

The Toronto Maple Leafs have have finally hired a new head coach for the Toronto Marlies and, as TSM's rumour posited, it will be Dallas Eakins. David Shoalts and Paul Hunter reported the news last night. I'll have to leave the judgments on Eakins' suitability

Just saw this via Illegal Curve and Brad Elliott Schlossman's blog where there seems to be some argument over the punishment meted out by the University of North Dakota's coach Dave Hakstol: UND came down on junior forward Matt Frattin on Wednesday, announcing a minimum two-game

The General noted it in the comments but the Toronto Maple Leafs have finally released their pre-season schedule. It has the usual games with Buffalo and Detroit but no senators this year. The Leafs will also be taking on the state of Pennsylvannia for four games. Wednesday September 16 vs.

The NHL has finally released the schedule for the 2009-2010 schedule and here's a first look at the Toronto Maple Leafs' schedule. Home Highlights * Home Opener - Thursday October 1st 2009 against the Montreal Canadiens and the Lollipop Guild * Ovechkin Visits Toronto - Saturday December 12th 2009

It's no secret that the internet is made up largely of porn, games, and anonymous idiots. Kidkawartha has so far highlighted the latter in what could be termed Exhibits A and B in the case of Light v. Darkness. One thing that Godd Till noticed in those posts

After a few days of speculation and with almost a week to spare before the July 15th deadline the Toronto Maple Leafs have signed Rickard Wallinfrom Farjestads BK of the Swedish Elite League. This signing adds a 14th forward that would expect to play in the NHL which creates the

Mobile Commenting In the brilliant tech team's quest to ensure that you are never without your fix of sports news SBN has finally released mobile commenting. There's actually almost always been a mobile site (mobile.pensionplanpuppets.com) but all you could do was read the post

Yesterday Brian Burke and the Toronto Maple Leafs continued his assault on unrestricted free agent defencemen by signing sought-after Francois Beauchemin to a three year, $11.4M contract. What does Beauchemin bring to the table? Aside from being one of the most likely players to snuff out the Lollipop Guild

The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed Mike Komisarek to an awful contract that they will instantly regret.

The Toronto Maple Leafs' first free agent signing of the day was Colton Orr who received a four year contract worth $4 million. Colton Orr signing with the Leafs signalled, just as much as Burke's draft day haul, that he was dead serious about making the opposition&

The Toronto Maple Leafs have re-signed their restricted free agent centre Mikhail Grabovski before he could make his way to arbitration. For those that only hear when Brian Burke says that he wants to get tougher this signing is already coming as a shock (read the tsn.ca comments at

Yesterday the Toronto Maple Leafs traded defenceman Pavel Kubina and minor leaguer Tim Stapleton to the Atlanta Thrashers for defenceman Garnet Exelby and forward Colin Stuart. The Leafs do free up some cap space this season as all of the contracts save for Stapleton's expire at the end

On July 1st the Toronto Maple Leafs were not only looking to sign players to make the big club more truculent, pugnacious, and other words that are fun to say. Brian Burke, despite jetting over to Sweden, was able to get Richard Greenop's signature on a contract in

CT and Forklift from the great Chicago Blackhawks blog HOCKEENIGHT invited me on to their podcast last night mostly because I assume Down Goes Brown wasn't allowed to use the phone. Note: That's not the last dig I get in on DGB. You might be familiar

Someday I'll have to shake the hand of the guy that decided that it made sense to schedule the draft three days before the start of free agency. It's not like this day is so important that it's a national holiday in Canada. As

With the 158th selection in the 2009 NHL Draft the Toronto Maple Leafs picked Jerry D'Amigo from the US National Team Development Program's Under-18 team based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was previously ranked 67th among North American skaters by the International Scouting Service. Position:

Position: Defence Shoots: Right Height: 6.05 Weight: 205 Birthdate: 1991-04-02 Hometown: Hinsdale, IL Barron Smith closed out the Toronto Maple Leafs picks' at the 2009 NHL Draft and he was described by Brian Burke and his father, former Oiler Steve Smith, as a project. He played a season