CrashingTheGoalie

After awhile, you get tired of the Toronto Maple Leafs jokes. The following were sent to me – in Thailand – from someone in Ottawa:

Q. What do you call 30 millionaires around a TV watching the  Stanley Cup Playoffs?
A. The  Toronto Maple Leafs
Q. What do the  Toronto Maple Leafs and Billy Graham have in common?
A. They both can make 20,000 [...]

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by Ron Spence
The Conn Smythe Trophy is usually awarded to the best player from the Stanley Cup champions. 
On five occasions, the best players in the post-season were voted from a team that lost. Who were they?
Name the only player to win both the Conn Smythe and Hart Memorial Trophies during the same season – twice?

Detroit [...]

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by desertdawg
Lots of people figured the Avalanche would fall off this year. No one realized how far they would fall. They have a better than decent chance of drafting either John Tavares or Victor Hedman. So who do you re-build with? A kid who broke Wayne Gretzky’s rookie scoring record or a bigger and meaner [...]

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by desertdawg
When we missed the playoffs last year, there was a fair bit of shock and confusion. After all, we started the season with Roberto talking openly about competing for the Stanley Cup. And I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only fan buying into the pre-season hype. The chat boards were full of commentary about [...]

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by Ron Spence
Few NHLers suffer from Stockholm Syndrome – they don’t identify and sympathize with their martinette coaches.
And when their tyrant taskmasters are fired, they don’t shed many tears, or make comments to the media.
 MICHEL THERRIEN
“I didn’t like … the direction the team was headed,” Pittsburgh GM Ray Shero said after he had fired Therrien. [...]

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by desertdawg

So here we go, folks. The final half dozen. And we know we control our own destiny in terms of the Division. We also control our own destiny in terms of the playoffs. And the fans are saying this about the Sedins: if they lead us in the playoffs; if they produce; if they [...]

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from the Star-Ledger Staff
April 1, 2009
Devils GM Lou Lamoriello has done it before — fired a coach just before the end of the regular season to spark the team.
It happened to Robbie Ftorek. It happened to Claude Julien.
With the team mired in a six-game losing streak, including Wednesday night’s 6-1 loss to Pittsburgh, will it [...]

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MORE-TALENTED OILERS LACK WILL OF YEARS PAST
by Jim Matheson, Calgary Herald
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TOCCHET SEETHES, WANTS TEAM TO COMPETE
by Damian Cristodero, Saint Petersburg Times

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by Ron Spence
Many hockey fans will remember Guy Charron. He’s one of the guys – along with Mickey Redmond and Bill Collins – who went the other way to Detroit when Frank Mahovlich, was traded to the Habs on January 13, 1971. Charron would have won a Cup that spring with Montreal, but started his career [...]

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Some players and hockey management don’t like the media and sometimes the media deserves to be slagged.
One writer who deserves a good bollocking is columnist Mike Imrem of Chicago’s Daily Herald.
He obviously doesn’t understand the game – people are trying to stop fights that follow legitimate body checks.
Yet Imrem condones them.
He wrote:
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“I’m just getting back [...]

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