Churn, Churn, Churn: An Update on the Plan
Let’s get one thing straight: this year is a write-off. The rest of the games scheduled for the Maple Leafs are not happening, at least not in any meaningful sense. Instead, the events you will be watching on your large-screen TVs over the course of twenty-six evenings littered throughout the next two and a half months are best considered nought but a demonstration or experiment of sorts.
Brian Burke has opened up a chemistry lab; you better believe he’ll be looking at team chemistry very carefully for the rest of this year. In this post, I do a kind of preliminary update on the article I wrote for the Maple Leafs Annual last summer about Brian Burke and the Maple Leafs’ rebuild.
Good News! Luke Schenn Edition
Luke Schenn isn’t nearly as horrible as he once (ie. earlier this year) wasn’t, even though he looked like he was. But he wasn’t, and isn’t. Are we clear on that, ducky? In this installment of Good News! we consider some actual hockey-related information in addition to the jokes. But there are still jokes.
A Manifesto of Sorts: Road Trips and Owen’s Mistake
Why you need to know about a road trip I took to Washington D.C. in 1995 and how this knowledge will make you more attractive, lead to a higher paying job and contribute to your understanding of higher mathematics. Okay, it might not do all of those things, but it will (hopefully) explain why I’m going to write the things that you’re going to be seeing posted hereabouts. Sure, it’s long, but it can’t be any more boring than that game against the Lightning, can it?