Hockey comes back September 18...kind of

Here's another from the 'Most people don't give a shit' files - the 2007 pre-season schedule has been released. The Leafs will open the pre-season against Sheldon "Beatwife" Souray and the Edmonton Oilers. In reality though, players with any talent to speak of will not be playing in the game - it'll be the Toronto Marlies vs. the Hamilton Bulldogs with a couple of NHL-calibre players forced to show up. They, of course, mail it in.

The Leafs have an 8 game pre-season, with 4 games to be played at the ACC, 3 on the road, and 1 - against Phoenix - in Winnipeg. The people of Winnipeg will be thrilled to have the franchise that was ripped out of their city - despite great attendance - come back to tease them for a night. Nice prick job, Bettman.

The Blue & White would like to take this opportunity to give a nice, heartfelt 'Fuck You" to LeafsTV, the greasy bastards that will air the pre-season games. Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment, owner of both the Leafs and LeafsTV, are gradually but steadily allowing conventional cable stations to air fewer and fewer games, forcing Leaf die-hards to purchase LeafsTV to catch the games. Fer fucksakes LeafsTV, do you think it'd be possible to air anything worthwhile when you aren't showing a Leaf game? Anything at all! Fuckkkk. If ever there was a building that stood for quality television broadcasting, LeafsTV is the plane that crashed into it. I'd rather watch Waterworld back to back to back than have to put up with the shit that LeafsTV shoves down our throats.