Leafs Beat Lightning, Masks Fool Bowen Again

Leafs/Lightning tonight:  I missed the first period because of a hellish day at work.  I tweeted to my peeps that at the end of the workday, I basically felt as though I’d been paroled from the circus.  Reading through the Twitter messages on the game, though, it seemed to me that the Leafs likely played [...]

March 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: NHL | 2 comments

Welcome, Hope. We Thought You’d Never Get Here.

It was only one game.  One game in another lost season;  one game against a (recently) struggling Eastern Conference opponent and their backup goaltender.
Still, tonight’s 3-0 Leaf victory finally gave more than a little reason for hope to long-suffering Leaf fans.  There was a goaltender in our net who made saves and who seemed confident [...]

February 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: NHL | 4 comments

Introducing Happiness: Nikolai Kulemin

As I am currently disintegrating  into a small pile of trembling viscous goo under the combined pressures of a ridiculous workload at the office and the insanity of trying to make a Christmas in the paltry few minutes remaining to me afterwards, this is not going to be a long or particularly entertaining post.  Nevertheless, [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Hockey, NHL, Nikolai Kulemin, Toronto Maple Leafs | 7 comments