February 25, 2011
October 20, 2010
Beauty
Posted by 25th Hour under Sports | Tags: Maple Leafs, NHL, Stanley Cup, Vesa Toskala, Xbox 360 |1 Comment
Now that picture right there is a thing of beauty. I know what you’re thinking. Another delusional Maple Leafs fan over reacting to a hot start. Nope. That’s not it.
It’s early in a long season. The Maple Leafs will not go undefeated, unless I’m playing NHL 09 for Xbox 360 on the rookie level. That hasn’t happened since December 2008, the rookie level I mean. The Maple Leafs will not win the Stanley Cup. I do expect the Maple Leafs to make the playoffs, for one simple reason. NO TOSKALA.
Truth is, I don’t know how the rest of this season will unfold. Right now I just want to live in the moment, and appreciate that picture above.
March 4, 2009
Deadline Day
Posted by 25th Hour under Sports | Tags: Ales Kotalik, Buffalo Sabres, Dominic Moore, Ducks, Eric Cole, Flames, Hurricanes, Iginla, Justin Williams, Kings, Maple Leafs, Martin Gerber, NHL, Nik Antropov, Oilers, Olli Jokinen, Patrick O'Sullivan, Pavel Kubina, Rangers, Sports And The City, Tomas Kaberle |[2] Comments
This is one of my favorite days in the hockey season. The NHL trade deadline day. The excitement, the intrigue, the surprises. First I’d like to take a minute to bid a fond farewell to Nik Antropov and Dominic Moore. You guys wore the Maple Leaf sweater proudly. Played with heart. Sports And The City said it perfectly, I suggest you check him out.
On the bright side, Tomas Kaberle and Pavel Kubina are still Maple Leafs.
Every year there are a ton of deals and usually one or two star players changing teams along with draft picks. What’s amazing about this year is that ONLY ONE first round pick was traded, I can’t remember the last time that only one first round pick was dealt on deadline day. It seems like GM’s are really clinging to their first rounders.
Seems like the Rangers stocked up, Antro & Derrick Morris. However, in my mind, so far the Flames have made the best move landing Olli Jokinen. Imagine a line with Jokinen and Iginla.
It seems like the Ducks are slowly heading towards rebuilding based on the trades they made.
UPDATE – It was just reported, Patrick O’ Sullivan was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes. I honestly don’t understand why the Kings would give up such a promising young player. But when does anything the L.A. Kings do make sense. Then the Canes have turned around and traded O’Sullivan to the Edmonton Oilers for Eric Cole. Apparently Buffalo is also involved in the deal with Kotalik also going to
On another note, WHY THE HELL ARE THE LEAFS PICKING UP MARTIN “SOFT AS A BABY” GERBER OFF WAIVERS? And why the hell is Ottawa trading for a goalie? Do they not realize they are out of the playoffs? Seriously, it’s over.
I wonder what other trades will trickle in as the day moves along…
October 20, 2008
Starting Over
Posted by 25th Hour under Sports | Tags: Celtics, Jays, Kobe, Maple Leafs, Patriots, Raptors, Red Sox, Sports And The City, Yankee Stadium |[4] Comments
After spending a long time contemplating starting a blog I finally decided to go ahead and do it. First and foremost I would like to give a lot of thanks to my friend over at Sports And The City for the encouragement. He pushed me for some time to get on this. Well eyebeleaf, it has begun and i’m excited.
After a painstaking two weeks searching for a title, I had another dilemna. What should be my first post? I had a few ideas, but what would be worthy of my first ever post. My first post to the world. While driving home the other night it hit me. Oddly enough my most provocative thought process takes place while i’m driving. I live in Mississauga, I do a lot of god damn lot of driving.
Anyways, back to the subject of the post. Well, it’s sports. What about sports? Everything. I lived overseas last year without any sort of cable and well… I didn’t catch a single hockey, baseball, basketball, football game for the whole year. Of course I did follow sports online, but I wasn’t able to watch a single game for an entire year. It was most definitely the hardest thing i’ve ever had to do. I’m a sports junkie. I’m addicted. I’m a sportsaholic and proud of it.
What’s worse, I might have possibly missed one of the greatest sports years in history. The remarkable undefeated season by the Patriots, who went on to be involved in one of the greatest Super Bowl finishes in recent memory. The dominating season of the Celtics. I can’t believe I missed watching them destroy Kobe in the Finals. It really hurt that I wasn’t able to watch Kobe get dominated. I missed watching the Boston Red Sox come back from being 3 – 1 down in the ALCS. Then again, maybe it’s better that I missed that. I have a bitter dislike for the Red Sox and Sox Nation. I also missed every single game of my beloved Toronto Maple Leafs. Many friends said to me that it was a blessing I missed the Leafs painful season last year. I disagree, win or lose, to miss every game last year was actually very depressing.
What I missed the most however, was the boys getting together to watch the game. With everyones busy lives, sports always remained our common denominator. Sports would bring us together. I missed the sports road trips, two of them in fact. One of which was to hallowed Yankee Stadium. I’ll never get to watch a game in that historical ball park, which is something I always wanted to do. I missed out on a full year of ball hockey. Playing between the pipes every Sunday kept me in shape and was something I looked forward to every week.
Since i’ve been back I’ve been in sports heaven. The radio is set to Fan 590 on a daily basis. I’ve made a concious effort to catch every Jays, Leafs, Raps and NFL game possible. My homepage is yahoo sports. I’ll be starting ball hockey in about 3 weeks.
I missed out on sports for a year, but now that i’m home, maybe we can start again.