Saturday, January 19, 2008

Back-to-back games

I was going to just put a comment on the recent post, but nobody ever responds to them, so I will do a short post on tonight's game and tomorrow's game.

Tonight the Leafs face off against a team who was winless in 10 games going into last night, where they absolutely laid a beating on the Atlanta Thrashers and won 10-1. Tonight can be one of two things, it will be the Leafs win their 3rd straight game due to a tired Buffalo team who is coming off a bad losing streak, and we get to face Mr. Jocelyn Thibault. Or, Buffalo gets right back on their former President's Trophy pace from last year and hands it to the Leafs.

The rare Sunday game for the Leafs sees them heading down to New Jersey to play the Devils. My main question is this: Paul Maurice and JFJ have already spoken publicly about Raycroft's poor play, not being on his game, needing to improve, along with the rumours of him being put on waivers or being traded. THEN- They call up Justin Pogge to big club, who has yet to be sent down to the Marlies, and is sitting up in the press box every game while Raycroft is on the bench. So tomorrow, do they return back to the Raycroft they don't have confidence in, do they dress Pogge and put him between the pipes, or do they start Vesku* once again?

Either way, Leaf fans all around including myself are waiting for Raycroft to be shipped off, Pogge to play a game, or for fucking MLSE to make up their god damn mind.

* - See I wasn't making shit up, that's his actual nickname there Mr. Bone. It is mandatory in Leafs Nation to have a nickname for their goalie (ex. Felix the Cat, CuJo, Eddie the Eagle, Telly, Rayzor - or as we like to call him, Raysoft)


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