i'm tellin ya, instead of the 1W1L pattern we saw last January, this January they want the 4W4L pattern.

Quote :

"Cole got a hat trick on washington tonight "

1/13/2009 11:26:19 PM

1/13/2009 11:37:52 PM

WE SUCK

1/15/2009 8:49:50 AM

Quote :

"TIM GLEASON BOBBLEHEAD"

1/15/2009 9:08:55 AM

Quote :

"ROADTRIPPIN' WITH TRIPP TRACY"

1/15/2009 9:09:33 AM

Quote :

"THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL WARNING... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM FRIDAY TO 12 NOON FRIDAY. WIND CHILLS ARE EXPECTED TO DIP TO 20 TO 25 BELOW ZERO FROM LATE TONIGHT INTO MIDDAY FRIDAY."

1/15/2009 9:12:21 AM

Quote :

"http://www.anchorbar.com/images/anchor_bar_dinner.pdf"

Oh yeah, I finally figured how to tether my blackberry to my lapop so expect road updates beginning sometime in the AM tomorrow.

[Edited on January 15, 2009 at 10:11 AM. Reason : WOO WOOOOO WOOOOOOOO]

1/15/2009 10:10:24 AM

FRIDAY

NIGHT

WINGS

1/15/2009 10:10:52 AM

if you're going to the game tonight note the start time. it's the only 7:30 home game of the year

1/15/2009 10:41:58 AM

1/15/2009 10:52:38 AM

only the staal one is sponsored by harris teeter?

1/15/2009 10:59:27 AM

GO LEAFS GO

1/15/2009 11:37:29 AM

GOLF LEAFS GOLF

1/15/2009 11:51:02 AM

old

1/15/2009 12:01:54 PM

Yeah, it's old...

Leafs, golfing since '67.

1/15/2009 12:02:47 PM

no team hates league expansion more than Toronto.

1/15/2009 12:12:48 PM

I dunno about that. Before expansion and the modern draft structure, the Habs had protection rights on two players per draft year from Quebec. If that had been in place after 1970, Montreal could've claimed (in addition to Guy Lafleur): Gilbert Perreault, Marcel Dionne, Denis Potvin, Mike Bossy, Ray Bourque, Denis Savard, and Mario Lemieux, all without having to use standard draft picks on them.

1/15/2009 12:28:04 PM

i meant more in terms of an overall lack of success since the league expanded. I wasn't referring to the territorial acquisition of players.

1/15/2009 1:38:28 PM

Right, but I'm saying that if Montreal still had rights to Quebec, they'd have at least 27 Cups right now.

1/15/2009 1:42:04 PM

alllllright... but that aside, don't they have ya know... um, at least ONE since expansion? and isn't that at least ONE more than Toronto?

1/15/2009 1:42:57 PM

Yes, but I'm bored at work and I want to type the words "Francophone" and "Anglo-Canadian."

1/15/2009 1:49:37 PM

For as long a Toronto Maple Leafs are owned by these "organizations" they will never win a cup.

I hope to high hell I'm wrong, I know I'm not. I will however, continue to live in hockey hell and pull for them...

GLG

1/15/2009 2:50:05 PM

Every person we talked to in Toronto at bars and such talked shit about how all the corporations owned everything dealing with the team, including the tickets to the game. Real fans in Toronto don't go to games because they can't. They sit at the bars and watch. People were asking us 1. You guys came here all the way from Carolina? and 2. You actually have tickets to the game?

Numerous folks buying us drinks and hoping that Carolina won because they were in the midst of a heavy losing streak and thought a few more losses might shake some shit up so they could make some changes. Needless to say they still managed to beat us.

Looking forward to a better experience in the ACC on Monday.

1/15/2009 3:24:48 PM

I've been to one game in the ACC. Was in Toronto last winter visiting friends and family and had tickets to a Tuesday night game. Everyone knows Saturday night games are the BEST in T.O. so we tried to get tickets.

Long story short, we had to give away our Tuesday tickets (decent seats) and pay another $400 for.....wait for it....standing room only. Yep, worst seat in the house??? We stood behind it.

That is what real Toronto fans have to do to get into a game.

Yeah, we got crushed

1/15/2009 3:30:10 PM

We had SRO tickets last year, still paid a decent amount for them during a midweek game. We've managed to snag some seats in 103 for the game Monday. I'm pretty pumped.

1/15/2009 3:32:44 PM

^^ You need to come on over to the light, baby.

1/15/2009 3:39:37 PM

Quote :

"^^ You need to come on over to the light, baby."

There is just no way in hell that would ever happen. Grew up in Toronto, have loved hockey because of Toronto, my dog is named after my favorite TML player (Dougie Gilmour FYI...), my family would totally disown me.

In my family, you don't swear on your mother, or to god...you swear on the TML jersey.

1/15/2009 3:45:57 PM

I went to a Canes-Leafs game a few years ago before I moved... Why are there so many Leafs fans in the RBC Center for games?

My girlfriend, who at the time knew next to NOTHING about hockey, asked me why such a shitty team from Canada had so many fans in North Carolina. I didn't know what to say. I mean, I could understand the Rangers having a ton of fans since half of North Raleigh is NYC-metro area natives anyway... but Toronto?

1/15/2009 3:51:01 PM

Quote :

"all the corporations owned everything dealing with the team, including the tickets to the game. Real fans in Toronto don't go to games because they can't. "

It's typically cheaper for Toronto fans (who live in the Toronto area) to fly down and get tickets here than it is for them to walk to the ACC and purchase tickets that typically aren't available.

1/15/2009 3:55:05 PM

well i guess that and don't some northern cities send a lot of jobs down here or something?

[Edited on January 15, 2009 at 4:06 PM. Reason : JBOS]

1/15/2009 4:05:55 PM

not from canada they don't

1/15/2009 4:06:39 PM

Just found out I'm going to the game tonight. Will be sitting in the Progress booth.

1/15/2009 4:18:27 PM

Quote :

"not from canada they don't"

Nortel...even though they are now going bankrupt

1/15/2009 4:29:05 PM

So......

http://www.850thebuzz.com/blog/?p=7176

1/15/2009 6:41:47 PM

haha, right after Walker gets the penalty, Gleason tries to start some shit. this might be a fun game.

1/15/2009 7:57:07 PM

gg cam

[Edited on January 15, 2009 at 8:33 PM. Reason : ]

1/15/2009 8:33:07 PM

Please tell me this isnt going to be another 5-1 loss

1/15/2009 8:57:21 PM

canes would have to score, so it looks unlikely

[Edited on January 15, 2009 at 9:02 PM. Reason : welp, there's one]

1/15/2009 8:59:15 PM

We love to come back against Toronto.



shit, 2 bad goals let in by cam tonight

[Edited on January 15, 2009 at 9:54 PM. Reason : .]

1/15/2009 9:40:11 PM

I predict a PISSED performance in Buffalo Saturday night and a WIN.

A win for

Vulcan91
steviewonder
Sweden

1/15/2009 10:42:25 PM

Canes played a solid first 11 minutes of the 3rd.... other than that, typical Paul Maurice hockey.

1/15/2009 10:49:57 PM

Well, on the positive side.

Creepy faced Tim Gleason bobblehead

1/15/2009 11:06:27 PM

gettin up at 630 am to head to NIAGARA and BUFFALO.

ready for some fucking WINGS

1/16/2009 12:04:43 AM

at first i was like
then i was like
then i was like


also i called it exactly how maurice called the 2nd period, live on the radio during the postgame, lol
[08:57:19pm] <%ncsu1|RBC> this is horseshit


Attendance 18,037 at RBC Center
finally a (more or less) sellout. too bad none of those people will want to come back now.

1/16/2009 12:25:51 AM

i was there, and it had the potential to be the greatest canes game i've ever been to, but it just wasn't to be.

why can't we play all the time like we did the third.....it blows my mind

1/16/2009 1:24:36 AM

dude, screw gleason. He is always injured, never consistent, and his bullshit high stick penalty cost us the game tonight. the only thing he is good for is the occasional roughing up.

1/16/2009 1:28:16 AM

En Route. Almost to Greensboro.

Temp: 16
Outlook: Strangely positive after last night.

1/16/2009 8:22:16 AM

Just entered Virginia, no snow on the ground or anything. 9 miles from Fancy Gap, VA

Temp: 9

[Edited on January 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM. Reason : 9 degrees]

1/16/2009 9:40:01 AM

Quote :

"After more than a year and half of sitting empty and dark, it looks as if the Damon's Grill by the RBC Center in Raleigh will finally get new life. Lance Wheeler, a pharmacist who owns the Medicap pharmacy in Garner, is hoping to reopen it in a few months as The Backyard Bistro. The restaurant will maintain the sports theme that Damon's had, which makes sense given its proximity to the home arena of the Carolina Hurricanes."

1/16/2009 9:40:18 AM

Quote :

"I dunno about that. Before expansion and the modern draft structure, the Habs had protection rights on two players per draft year from Quebec. If that had been in place after 1970, Montreal could've claimed (in addition to Guy Lafleur): Gilbert Perreault, Marcel Dionne, Denis Potvin, Mike Bossy, Ray Bourque, Denis Savard, and Mario Lemieux, all without having to use standard draft picks on them."

yes - but the Leafs got the first two pics from Ontario. I think the Leafs uck cause of Karma:

In 1997, allegations began to emerge that some employees of the Gardens had sexually abused young boys in the 1970s and 1980s. Martin Kruze was the first victim to come forward—contacting the new owners of Maple Leaf Gardens in 1993, and going public in February 1997. His story of abuses beginning in 1975 prompted dozens of other victims to come forward. In October 1997, Gordon Stuckless pleaded guilty to sexually abusing 24 boys dating back to 1969 and was sentenced to a jail term of two years less a day.[15] Three days later, Kruze committed suicide.[16] An appeals court later increased Stuckless's sentence to five years. He was paroled in 2001. In 1999, former usher John Paul Roby was convicted of sexually molesting 26 boys and one girl.[17] He was subsequently declared a dangerous offender and could have been kept in prison for the rest of his life. Roby died in Kingston Penitentiary from an apparent heart attack in 2001.[18] In 2002, former Gardens security guard Dennis Morin was found guilty of sexual assault, indecent assault and gross indecency for incidents involving teenage boys.[19] Allegations—unproven in court—were also made against other Gardens employees, including Ballard.[20] Several civil suits were settled out of court for undisclosed amounts. In January 2006, the Ontario government filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., seeking repayment of the medical costs to the province of treating the sex abuse victims.

[Edited on January 16, 2009 at 10:30 AM. Reason : more]

1/16/2009 10:26:10 AM