According to Sports Club Stats, the Leafs still have a 0.1% chance of making the playoffs this season. 0.1% doesn't sound like much, but it means everything to me.  It means our game against the Capitals tonight matters, and thanks for Ford Canada, I'll be watching it from

Remember that song "Friday" by Rebecca Black we've been yakking about for a couple of weeks?  That was soooo March 2011. This is April, and Rebecca Black's Friday has been supplanted by Ron Wilson's Reimer. Of course you want the MP3 for your iPod! Here it is. [via Down Goes

That was far more fun than I thought it would be.  We limped into the all-star break, with little hope and almost no reason to care, and have gone 15-7-5 since. I don't know about you, but I sure started to care again.  Leafs games became must-see-tv, scoreboard watching became

It's not the 4 points we're behind Buffalo that'll kill us, it's those 2 games the Sabres have in hand.  That combination means this realist isn't getting his hopes up. But that's okay. As commenter Ryan G. pointed out, we've been playing playoff hockey for the past few weeks. that

The Leafs beat the Sabres last night in a very intense game that felt awfully playoffy, but I'm not going to write a word about it. There will be no reference to the fact we're only four points back of 8th.  I'm not even going to mention the fact we're

On the heels of our "which baseball team to root for" flowchart is this handy "Which Leafs Jersey Should I Get" flowchart from Maple Leafs Hot Stove. Click the image below to see it full-sized. According to this, I should get a Joey Crabb #46.

I loved last night's Leafs game.  An overtime win against the Penguins got me out of my seat, screaming like it was a playoff game.  Tonight, when Boyce scored late in the third against the Flyers, I did it again.  Throw in a James Reimer game saving stop and it

On a quiet trade deadline day, the Leafs made one move, sending John Mitchell to the New York Rangers for a seventh-round pick in 2012. In 159 career NHL games, Michell has 20 goals and 55 points.  He's been playing for the Marlies this season, unable to crack our stellar

It's February in Toronto.  That can only mean one thing.  It's time for the Leafs to tease us by flirting with a playoff drive, only to come up a little short. I watched last night's game against the Habs and found myself cheering as if it was a playoff game.

The Tomas Kaberle era in Toronto is over.  We're calling it at 878 regular-season games.  He was the only Leaf remaining who actually suited up for the team in the 90s. My son still has his Tomas Kaberle bobblehead and I'll always have my Tomas Kaberle autograph. Kaberle is now

As you've likely heard by now, Brian Burke has traded Kris Versteeg to the Philadelphia Flyers for first and third round draft picks in 2011.  You can put a fork in Versteeg's Maple Leaf tenure at 53 games.  He just arrived via trade on July 1. Back then, Versteeg cost

Our Toronto Maple Leafs have sent defenceman Francois Beauchemin to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for forward Joffrey Lupul, defenceman Jake Gardiner and a conditional Ducks fourth-round pick in 2012. Lupul, 27, has five goals and eight assists in 26 games with the Ducks this season. The Alberta native was

James Reimer has played 9 games in his NHL career.  He's sporting a sweet .940 SV% and a fantastic 1.96 GAA.  You may have heard he recorded his first shutout the other night over Carolina. He's 5-3 for a pretty bad team, and that's earned him the nickname King

So... Stan Lee is creating superheroes for each team in the NHL.  According to the NHL, "these 30 Guardians will be unveiled together in a special presentation during the 2011 NHL All-Star Game on Jan. 30 in Raleigh, N.C." Pretty cool.  I can't wait to see what superhero my

I was really excited about Justin Pogge on January 6, 2006.  On that date, I wrote that I had seen the future of Maple Leaf hockey.  His name was Justin Pogge. Things seemed to be going fine for Pogge as a Maple Leaf until I interviewed him. That was the

The Leafs have won four in a row.  James Reimer was lights out last night as we came back against the Sharks.  All four wins have been pretty sweet, as most wins are, but I'm not gonna bite this time. The last time we won four in a row, I

If you follow this blog, you know I'm pro-waffle.  From the moment the first waffle hit the ACC ice, I saw it as the perfect symbol of our discontent.  It's become the waffle that unites us all. During our last game against the Thrashers, Joseph Robb hurled waffles during another

Not sure how I missed this, but the green men got us good on Saturday night. Did somebody say waffles? Thanks to Jensen for the clip.

The first time I heard of Bloge Salming was about a year ago when I watched Damien Cox and Howard Berger perform their version of Carol of the Bells for the first time. It's now an annual tradition. No final since '67.... no final since '67.

The Waffle That Unites Us All is sure to catch on.  It is the symbol of our discontent.  Puck Daddy just wrote about it and it just appeared on Deadspin.  This thing has gone well beyond the Barilkosphere and I'll be thoroughly disappointed if I don't see a few waffles

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Waffles.  Detroit can have their octopus, we have our waffles.  A week after I wrote this, following a couple of big losses against the Pens and Flyers, I finally have a symbol of our discontent. It's perfect.  Perfectly tragic and sad, but perfect nonetheless.