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What a Day for the Leafs: Now 100% Vesa Toskala Free!

A huge day for the Toronto Maple Leafs today: they traded Matt Stajan, Nik Hagman, Ian White and Jamal Mayers to Calgary for Dion Phaneuf, Fredrik Sjostrom and Keith Aulie. Stajan, White and Mayers are all on expiring contracts, so they are essentially rentals. Hagman has two years to go on an economical 3 million […]

Meeting Brian Burke: Hope for Haiti at the Kings Game

I went down to the Leafs/Kings game at the Air Canada Centre last night with my Dad.

I’ll wait a moment or two while you make whatever derogatory, insulting and completely justified remarks about the woeful performance of the Blue and White.

(taps foot. scratches ear. coughs. looks at watch. scratches ear again. yawns. checks […]

Round 2:More at Maple Leafs Hot Stove

My career as a semi-dedicated Leafs blogger is off to a scintillating start: a second post in as many days is up over at Maple Leafs Hot Stove, and has been summarily decreed to be prolix and pointless (though not in those precise terms), except for the part where I mention how awesome Luke Schenn […]

Getting out of the House

If you’re looking for me here today, you won’t find me at home. Instead, I’m over at Maple Leafs Hot Stove (in a virtual and metaphorical sense only – in real life, I’ve gone to work, honest, boss).

Alec Brownscombe has asked me to contribute my thoughts occasionally over at MLHS, and I’ve agreed to […]

Introducing Manchester City

I have very little time, at the moment, to indulge in any new pastimes. Recently, however, I declared an intention to begin rooting for a team in the English Premiereship – I’ve felt I’m missing something in not following the beautiful game more closely – and I felt the best route towards a greater knowledge […]

Deal With That, Tinfoil Hat Brigade

Sign on Elevator Panel in Hamilton Office Building

The above picture was taken in an elevator in the building where I work. The thing that makes me laugh about this sign is that it just so happens that quite a few people suffering from various mental illnesses have occasion to come in to the […]

There’s a Joke in Here Somewhere About Bobby Orr and Letting the Cat Out of the Bag

Spouse and I have had four straight days of nearly uninterrupted bliss: with Friday and Monday away from work, we have been enjoying an uncharacteristic surfeit of leisure time. Spouse was bold and adventurous; on Saturday, she headed off to do some volunteer work with some horses and disabled children.

As for myself, in order […]

3 Not Only Wise, But Security-Conscious, Men

On New Year’s Eve, the coffee shop that we usually go to near the office was closed. Despite the impending festivities, it was a crazy busy day for Spouse and I, and at some point it became necessary to make a caffeine run. I headed out the door, a little off the routes that I […]

Pierre McGuire: If I Told You Once, I Only Have Six Thousand More Times to Go

Canada’s leading non-medical cause of tinnitus, Pierre McGuire, was in peak aneurysm-inducing form earlier tonight during the Canada/Switzerland World Junior Hockey Championship semi-final. Those of you who have had your ears assaulted by Mr. McGuire’s work in the past will know that he is in fact a knowledgeable hockey person. The problem is that he unfortunately is apparently predisposed to sharing his every thought with all the variety and nuance of an eight-year old in the backseat inquiring of the family vehicle’s progress toward Disneyland. […]