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Main Leafs Hockey Talk / Re: Liljegren re-signed [2 years, $1.4mil AAV]
« on: June 27, 2022, 11:14:39 AM »
Nice deal. Now sign Sandin to a similar deal, and sign a #1 Goalie...
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Alright, I have a confession to make. Everything since 2005 that has gone wrong with the Leafs is my fault. I figured it out, and I need to own up to it so that everyone here isn't questioning if it's their fault or not. Now I can't take ownership for the '80s, '90s, or early 2000s, that's on someone else, but I figure when the team I cheer for takes 2 high sticking calls in a game they are leading 3-2, with ten minutes left, in an elimination game, where the team I cheer for hasn't managed to win an elimination game in their last 8 tries since 2018 and hasn't won a playoff series since 2004, which is in part because that team only made the playoffs once in a 13-year span and on top of that, hasn't won the cup since 1967, I figure some outside force, or a presence or universal power is trying to tell me something.
So I started to rack my brain to figure out what I have done to cause the Leafs and their followers this kind of perpetual dismay. Then I remembered. In 2003, I made a promise that if the Leafs scored a goal in overtime for one of the playoff games they were in, I would name my firstborn after that player. The Leafs did score in overtime. It was Gary Roberts who scored. Unfortunately, my wife did not like the idea of naming my son Gary, so he is not named Gary, and obviously, I have broken a covenant with the hockey gods. So you see, the last 18 years have been my fault. I'm really sorry about that.
To try and make up for it, I have told my son, that tomorrow, his name is Gary, and that is what I will be calling him. I'm hoping it is enough to appease the hockey gods. I understand that it is not what we agreed upon for the aforementioned overtime goal, but I figured in lieu of time served, it should make us pretty close to even.
If that fails, and the Leafs are unable to win tomorrow night's game, I am not really sure what my next move is. Do I have to divorce my wife? That seems excessive. Do I legally change my son's name to Gary behind my family's back? That seems underhanded. Do I consult English Soccer fans, Cleveland Browns Fans, and Buffalo Bills fans on the latest on sports demon exorcism ideas? Do I reach out to Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs fans to see what tips and tricks they may have to appease those who oversee the unexplained blips and bumps that frustratingly occur at the most inopportune time of a critical game for the team that you cheer for? I mean barring collecting all six infinity stones through the use of a quantum time tunnel, I'm not sure what other options I have here. Again, I am really sorry that I have inflicted all this on you. I was drunk and desperate when I made that deal, and I made the deal without fully understanding the naming power dynamic of children that get born once you get married.
MotM: Tavaresx2. Tavares was a beast tonight.
HM: Nylander
Matthews had a good game too.
I think they should go with a 1st line of Nylander-Matthews-Marner. Just put out your absolute best.