By junior on May 9, 2008, at 12:56 pm
TORONTO (JP) – Sources familiar with the inner workings of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment today confirmed that Alvin Fitzgibbons, 28, has been hired to replace recently fired Paul Maurice and interim G.M. Cliff Fletcher as Coach and General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Fitzgibbons – until recently the Assistant Manager of a McDonald’s […]
By junior on March 12, 2008, at 4:03 pm
Back in the mid-1970s, when I was about seven or eight years old, I built a crystal radio set. The radio came in a kit, and I got it as a gift, I think probably for my birthday. Building the radio was fun, and I learned a little bit about electronics and how radios work; […]
By junior on October 11, 2007, at 8:29 pm
7:30 – I tune in to Leafs TV and bemoan the fact that although the signal is being offered in HDTV this year, my local cable company has elected not to provide an HD feed. Learn that Andrew Raycroft is starting in goal. Reflect on the fact that as a Leaf fan, I may consequently […]
By junior on February 21, 2012, at 11:15 am
Republished from March 11th, 2011 because this piece was linked to once by the estimable Puck Daddy and the content is kind of timely; also because this place needs to look like it has new content and I haven’t blogged at all for a very long time because of the perpetual plague that has descended […]
By junior on March 1, 2011, at 12:33 am
Attention Mr. Cole: Eight birds might not actually be able to lift a whale out of the ocean.
Cam Cole wrote a ridiculous article today about social media and the National Hockey League trade deadline.
Cole mentions that during the intense discussions surrounding today’s NHL trade deadline, many people availed themselves of […]
By junior on October 11, 2010, at 8:56 pm
Another kind of Maple Leafs Hot Stove coverage. These are the jokes, folks, they don't get any better. Laugh now or miss your chance.
Alec Brownscombe, resident Padishah at Maple Leafs Hot Stove and editor of the Maple Leafs Annual, has been kind enough to me to hide a key to the front door […]
By junior on October 11, 2010, at 6:20 pm
Questions Will Become Answers: Tim Brent Edition ('shop lifted from a comment by loserdomi on PPP)
Who the fuck is Tim Brent? It’s a question that has circulated in the Barilkosphere – sometimes semi-seriously, mostly in jest – since some time after he signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs organization as a free agent […]
By junior on September 21, 2010, at 9:12 pm
A few days ago, tentative as a newborn horse, I took my first steps towards bashing together some statistical analysis of my own. I was trying to help address one specific issue that might be relevant to the upcoming Leafs’ season: against which statistical measuring geegaws, come the end of the season, should we assess […]
By junior on September 12, 2010, at 12:51 pm
Six Words of Truth
By now, I should probably have a whole category dedicated to “posts in which I apologize for being a lazy dilettante who wanders off from time to time, transfixed by something shiny”.
I don’t want to say I haven’t posted in a while, but there have been two – two! […]
By junior on March 25, 2010, at 1:38 am
Readers of this blog familiar with the extent of my corpulence, not to mention enemies of upchucking everywhere, will be relieved to hear that the above title refers to the end of my recent “consecutive days with a blog post” streak rather than the termination of any spirited au naturel sprint down the hiways and […]