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My first live Leaf game Keon was still a leaf. Eddie Shack still played too. Ron Ellis, Salming, Turnbull, Lanny - and I was at Rocky Saginuk's debut. He scored. The pain from the 70's and 80's is a distant memory. More recently, the Raycroft trade didn't bother me too much because I felt the...

Oh yeah - Juicer.

When I started mgro was a regular (maybe around 2000?). I started as Silverleaf, changed to Leaflifer, and now I'm Mostar (named after a road near me). We had some good flyer trolls back then. Anyone remember Salzy? I backed off the forum quite a bit because I loathed Burke (as a GM). and had...

No quit in these guys.

It's exhilarating being in the playoffs again. Man I miss this feeling. Tough luck meeting the caps in the first round, but this team is so damn likeable, I'm not gonna be heartbroken if we don't make it out of this round. I could easily see this team stealing a game or two in this series...

I couldn't be happier the leafs are playoff team. However they have next to zero experience, including vets. Caps in 5. The Leafs will be better next year.

The republicans have been responsible for this investigation all along. It seems to have been used as a weapon against the democrats as opposed to a chance to learn anything.

I suspected for quite some time now that the Western Empire was starting to deteriorate. Here she goes... I wonder who the new overlords will be?

I want back on the bandwagon.  :D

I don't think it would curb jersey sales in the long run. I see quite a few people who wear clothing because it has an ad on it.

I just do Game-in-6 these days and have for awhile. Far cry from the 82 games (plus watching the taped game a second time) I used to do. I'm patient though. I'll get back to watching once the team builds to an entertaining level. I'll never be a Leaf-a-holic again though. Ahhh, the temptress...

They do seem to be in full bottom out mode starting last year...so we seem to be on our way.

Just to add some contrast, this is a team that was once run by Harold Ballard.

I think if you have the "presence" all you have to be is mediocre in other aspects of the job.

Agreed on all points. One thing I may add (Re: point #2), and it's just speculation on my part, is that professional sports has a bit of what I call the "Max Power" effect. There are some people in management who are in their positions merely because of their A type personalities. They...

What's hogwash is the idea coaching/staff makes no difference. Nobody is saying here that coaching makes contenders. It has the ability to make any team better as opposed to the wrong coaching. And just because a team won a cup with 2 different coaches means zero. Some teams are just really...

My point was missed. The questions I posed are strictly hypothetical to illustrate different perceptions on whether this team will improve by coaching (or not). Firstly, it's not the same team...so there will be no outcome that we can measure. We can argue different points (like the examples I...

OK. All things being equal, then yes. You mentioned some factors that could sway the outcomes. As a side note, I thought RC was a pretty good coach with a pretty bad team, and he was all to painfully aware of that, even when they won. For the sake of discussion, if coaching was equal, are the...

Busta, I don't disagree with the perception that the Leafs will not be a threat next year, but it's not reasonable to suggest that 2 teams of equal talent, but one having good coaching, training, strategy would not out-perform the other. But somehow I doubt that's what your implying.

IMO, the problem for the last 2 seasons was playing hockey for 10 minutes a night.