Julian Sanchez

Last night is a good illustration of why the shootout is a stupid gimmick. The Leafs basically shut down the senators only three forwards. After a night of them showing off their latest trick (now disappearing in November!) they got three uncontested attempts at Vesa. Speaking of Toskala, he was

Are we happy or sad? Should we aportion blame and stick on the goat horns? orrrrrrrrrr Are we ready to deify someone for ending the slump? For a smile:

Is that what we are headed to tonight? Deveaux looks like a player and Schenn's back to top form. I am headed out. A post-game thread will go up around 1045. This is the last post that counts for the spam crown. Attack!

Are the sens done looking at their laces? If everything fine? Will Deveaux finally get to chuck knuckles in The Show? Will Giggles take another penalty? Those answers and more in the comments!

Have you noticed how hard they try to schedule these games during the week in order to prevent a full out invasion of the Corel Centre? Today it's just the vanguard that will see the battle (or handbags). Why the militaristic vocabulary? How better to remind people of

Pre-Game: 7:00 p.m., Leafs TV Broadcast: 7:30 p.m., Sportsnet, Leafs TV Interactive, AM640 Post-Game: 10:00 p.m. Leafs TV Post Video: mapleleafs.com Mmmmmm, Feisty! Previous Meetings Final - 10.25.2008 1 2 3 Total Ottawa Senators 0 1 1 2 Toronto Maple Leafs

The Leafs are increasingly seeing some promising efforts derailed by Vesa Toskala. As much as he says that he's been feeling fine it's clear that something is wrong with the little goalie that Leaf fans had hoped might be one of a handful of attractive assets

Hey Americans, enjoy your day off and the turkey and being thankful. We'll be up here trying to look busy and avoid getting dinged by the financial meltdown that you guys caused. We're just thankful that 53% of you smartened up. Not that your Thanksgiving date

You can never have too much good stuff on the site. Be sure to check out Chemmy and I weighing in on the Burke reports, Wendel's Moustache picking The Omen apart, and the latest addition to the SBN family. However, something amazing happened last night. The Omen got

A scant two weeks after Burke left the Ducks it looks like Brian Burke's tenure as the GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs is set to begin. Now, Damien Cox is jumping the gun and assuming that no problems will arise while the always responsible Bob McKenzie is

Welcome to town kid: Stempniak had his first brush with the Leafs madness when he arrived at Pearson International Airport last night. A few bystanders chanted “Go Leafs Go” as he waited for his luggage.As if he needed any proof as to what his buddy Mayers was telling him

Well, ho-lee smokes. Apparently there was some big move yesterday involving the Leafs. Looking at the trade and reading reactions I realized that something was happening that hadn't happened in a long time: the Leafs were being called winners in a trade. Even a reporter in St. Louis

You know when your head's so congested that you think it might explode? Yeah, that's how I feel. So here are some links before I spend all day trying to avoid talking to people. * Short and sweet: Burke'll be here this week as long

I try not to read the comments on articles in Canada's major dailies (headquartered in the centre of the universe) because they are poorly moderated and filled with trolls. I have been told that there is a lot of anti-Clark sentiment being expressed and I can only hope

Wendel's happy but are we happy in spite of the result? I don't know. I am at the game and can't comment.

Are the Leafs doing Wendel proud? I can't tell you. Honestly, I can't comment from the game suckers!

Because you can never see that video too many times. Chemmy and I are in our seats wearing our Wendel mustaches, playing with our Wendel bobbleheads and ready to tear the roof off the ACC. We won't be able to parse threads tonight so here's the

If only this picture could have included a wrist shot it would perfectly capture Wendel Clark Apparently some guy in Montreal is having his jersey retired today and that's all well and good. Every fanbase deserves to have their heroes. Both in the spotlight tonight are lucky to

So Phases I and II of SBN's roll-out of blog toys is outlined here and if you've been to the frontpage in the last 10 minutes you've probably seen some stuff jumping all over the place. These widgets (computer people make the nerdiest words)

All players must have bangs to go with this sweater Glove tap to Blurr for the design What do you think of this sweater? Hmmmm, I might buy it12Can the Leafs please wear this!9It makes me more emo but I could not care less14Burn it and delete the file54

"Every single day, you ask the same questions. You know the amazing thing? You've never asked me once about what we're doing in practice. 'What was that drill?' No one's ever asked that. It's always, 'What's

I got a digital recorder for my interview with Pat Quinn and of course I hooked it up incorrectly so I have nothing but my sweet sweet memories to remind me of the day he came my BFF. I should probably start carrying it around because I tend to see

Ok, things are coming to a head with Vesa Toskala. Last night he played like a diseased hooker. He spread his legs on Kessel's goal, fell to his knees in a blink of an eye on Ryder's, and screwed every fan in the building leaving them

Lots to read today! Game Recap later! Program trivia later! Negative Nancy later! Links Now! * Wendel Moment # 5. * Tim Thomas is the Pink Panther. * Eyebeleaf is a traitor but he does have one good point: play Alex Steen. * The General makes a funny and a sad at the same time.

PPP on his way home from the game Alright, I'll have a lot more tomorrow including some trivia from the program and some anecdotes from the game but let's just start off the post-post-game discussion with this thought: When Andrew Raycroft started his downward descent the