Comments on: Toronto Maple Leafs Post Mortem (and observations from the final weekend of the 2006-07 NHL Season) http://miltonsearch.com/blog/2007/05/01/toronto-maple-leafs-post-mortem-and-observations-from-the-final-weekend-of-the-2006-07-nhl-season/ Commentary on happenings, events, development and life in Milton, Ontario Canada Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:59:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Capper http://miltonsearch.com/blog/2007/05/01/toronto-maple-leafs-post-mortem-and-observations-from-the-final-weekend-of-the-2006-07-nhl-season/#comment-17 Capper Tue, 01 May 2007 13:35:36 +0000 http://miltonsearch.com/blog/2007/05/01/toronto-maple-leafs-post-mortem-and-observations-from-the-final-weekend-of-the-2006-07-nhl-season/#comment-17 Saturday’s Leafs/Habs was worse than a pee-wee game. Get used to it Leaf fans. Your core of McCabe, Kaberle, Kubina, Sundin, Tucker, and Raycroft ain’t going anywhere. Can you say out of the playoffs for the next 5 years?? I also love the whole “controversy” over Brodeur not playing on Sunday. As if they’re going to risk losing their meal ticket in a nothing game. Of course the Leaf nation thinks they’re being duped. Saturday’s Leafs/Habs was worse than a pee-wee game. Get used to it Leaf fans. Your core of McCabe, Kaberle, Kubina, Sundin, Tucker, and Raycroft ain’t going anywhere. Can you say out of the playoffs for the next 5 years?? I also love the whole “controversy” over Brodeur not playing on Sunday. As if they’re going to risk losing their meal ticket in a nothing game. Of course the Leaf nation thinks they’re being duped.

]]> By: steve http://miltonsearch.com/blog/2007/05/01/toronto-maple-leafs-post-mortem-and-observations-from-the-final-weekend-of-the-2006-07-nhl-season/#comment-16 steve Tue, 01 May 2007 13:31:40 +0000 http://miltonsearch.com/blog/2007/05/01/toronto-maple-leafs-post-mortem-and-observations-from-the-final-weekend-of-the-2006-07-nhl-season/#comment-16 Commitment and loyalty David, that is why Leaf fans keep coming back after 40 years of failure - commitment to the team, commitment to Toronto's hockey team. Any failing team that loses its' fans is simply a team with unloyal fans. If your dear wife (who just so happens to also be a loyal Leaf fan) did not poses these traits do you truly think she would have even gone on a second date with you (or do you even think she would have roughed out the entire first date with you!?). We Leaf fans put up with our dead-beat team, with year after year of being married to a slob of a team - a team that never says "I love you", a team that hides in the basement (whether speaking of the Leafs in the basement of league standings, or a hypothetical husband who finishes the basement of their home to hide away to avoid daily interactions with his family, cats and teddy bears). The Leafs are indeed the dead weight in the Leaf-to-Fan relationship, but a true Leaf fan can never give up on them, I cannot utter the words "perhaps I need to start seeing other teams." To death do us part - with fans dying in the stands becoming more and more of a threat! good day sirs, Steve Commitment and loyalty David, that is why Leaf fans keep coming back after 40 years of failure - commitment to the team, commitment to Toronto’s hockey team. Any failing team that loses its’ fans is simply a team with unloyal fans. If your dear wife (who just so happens to also be a loyal Leaf fan) did not poses these traits do you truly think she would have even gone on a second date with you (or do you even think she would have roughed out the entire first date with you!?). We Leaf fans put up with our dead-beat team, with year after year of being married to a slob of a team - a team that never says “I love you”, a team that hides in the basement (whether speaking of the Leafs in the basement of league standings, or a hypothetical husband who finishes the basement of their home to hide away to avoid daily interactions with his family, cats and teddy bears). The Leafs are indeed the dead weight in the Leaf-to-Fan relationship, but a true Leaf fan can never give up on them, I cannot utter the words “perhaps I need to start seeing other teams.” To death do us part - with fans dying in the stands becoming more and more of a threat!

good day sirs,
Steve

]]> By: John David, P. Eng http://miltonsearch.com/blog/2007/05/01/toronto-maple-leafs-post-mortem-and-observations-from-the-final-weekend-of-the-2006-07-nhl-season/#comment-15 John David, P. Eng Tue, 01 May 2007 13:30:46 +0000 http://miltonsearch.com/blog/2007/05/01/toronto-maple-leafs-post-mortem-and-observations-from-the-final-weekend-of-the-2006-07-nhl-season/#comment-15 Gotta love the day after the leafs miss yet another post-season. The airwaves and print media is full of excellent chatter. It's true though, the leafs are in a horrible position and there appears to be no end in site to the mediocrity and poor decision-making down on Bay St. I don't see a white night (Colangelo) riding into town to save this mess. Everyone will be hoping for big changes this summer in leaf-land, but the truth of the matter is that nothing will change, other than some minor tinkering with the line up prior to the next season. There is no-one with the guts to completely gut this team and rebuild from a fresh start, which is really what's needed. This is one of the main reasons why I can't stand the leafs. One day, I wish, people in this town will wake up to this madness and do what all fans in other cities do when their teams go down the drain - stay away from the games and stop lining these peoples' pockets. Next year, I predict the Flyers will pass the leafs in the standings and make the playoffs again. They're a couple free agents away from rebuilding a successful team. Gotta love the day after the leafs miss yet another post-season. The airwaves and print media is full of excellent chatter.

It’s true though, the leafs are in a horrible position and there appears to be no end in site to the mediocrity and poor decision-making down on Bay St. I don’t see a white night (Colangelo) riding into town to save this mess. Everyone will be hoping for big changes this summer in leaf-land, but the truth of the matter is that nothing will change, other than some minor tinkering with the line up prior to the next season. There is no-one with the guts to completely gut this team and rebuild from a fresh start, which is really what’s needed. This is one of the main reasons why I can’t stand the leafs. One day, I wish, people in this town will wake up to this madness and do what all fans in other cities do when their teams go down the drain - stay away from the games and stop lining these peoples’ pockets.

Next year, I predict the Flyers will pass the leafs in the standings and make the playoffs again. They’re a couple free agents away from rebuilding a successful team.

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