Hi everyone well the leafs were back to their old ways last night at the ACC. They played a very lethargic game and seemed totally disinterested in taking two points from the New York Islanders. They started the game one point behind New York and needed the win to move ahead of one team in the pack. With the loss Toronto is now dead last in the east, which could be good for the lottery on the Steve Stamkos, who by the way has always dreamed of playing for the ‘Blue and White”. He is a home grown product (Unionville) and as far as I am concerned is something the leafs lack which is more Canadian talent. The two teams that played for the prize last year, namely Anaheim and Ottawa had one thing in common, a very high percentage of Canadian’s who know how to play in the tuff sledding, something a lot of Europeans just don’t understand. The Stanley Cup playoffs are the toughest grind in professional sport, so you better have game every second night if you want to go anywhere.
This is the leafs biggest problem, they have no team toughness and although they have one of the biggest teams in the league, they play like a bunch of figure skaters with an egg in each pocket that they don’t want to break. Look at the likes of Alexi Ponickerofski (sp). Here is a guy who is six feet 4 inches and over 200 pounds but plays like he is 5’ 4” and 130lb soaking wet. Get rid of the guy as you will never win anything with the likes of that patrolling your wing. He sure does not instill any fear into opposing defensemen that are clearing the puck. Last night was a prime example of him doing his invisible man routine. Hell if I played on Mats Sundin’s wing I could score 20 goals a year. Just a note here, guys like Sundin, Forsberg, and Lidstrom are great players in any league and do play with a Canadian take no prisoners attitude.
Anyway enough for now and these are purely my opinions
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