Toronto might be the most hockey-mad city in the world, but the hometown Maple Leafs haven’t made the playoffs in three seasons since the lockout and haven’t won the Stanley Cup since 1967. Now, they can’t even get a full house for a game that was free.
With even the club acknowledging that this might be another long year for Leafs fans, they decided to have what was dubbed the Fans First Game, with tickets being allocated for nothing to fans who went online and registered for seats. So why were there so many empty chairs?
Even though the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the New York Islanders 3-1 on Tuesday night, that one goal occurred in the first period when … when … aw, just watch.
That, my friends, is what you call a 176-foot stroke of luck. Rob Davison’s slapshot somehow confused goalie Vesa Toskala to give the Isles a 1-0 lead. Read more…
TORONTO NHLER FORGETS THE LEAF FOR FACEBOOK FOTOS: Like most in the lower-48, we’ve checked out of the NHL since the league made the grand decision to bolt ESPN for Versus. But the TORONTO SUN has something juicy this week about a Toronto Maple Leafs member:
Leafs Rookie Jiri Tlusty last year took nude photos of himself and had the good sense to post them on his Facebook account (of course!). Apparently eschewing CatholicDating.com, Tlusty also attempted to impress a woman online by sending a nude photo of himself to her.
Early this week a Canadian gossip (oxymoron) site got hold of the naked pics and did the sensible thing, posting them uncensored (while slapping the site’s URL on them - classy).
The nudes from the site have since been taken down, but of course now the photos are everywhere (read gay male blogs). And no, we won’t be posting or linking the pics.
The NEW YORK POST skates over the news that the Rangers winger denies making pre-game comments about a Maple Leafs player suffering from cancer.
Howard Berger of The FAN 590 reported that during warmups, Avery made remarks about Jason Blake’s battle with leukemia. Leafs teammate Darcy Tucker didn’t appreciate the words, and went after Avery. The two were separated but later fought it out in the 1st period.
The TORONTO STAR reports that Avery is meeting with the NHL front office about Saturday night’s skirmish, and could face possible fines. And it’s not the first time his mouth has managed to get the roughneck in trouble.Avery previously denied accusations that he called Georges Laraque, who is black, a “monkey” during a 2005 game.
