Toronto Maple Leafs 2013/14 Season
- Thread starter Ironhead
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Agreed. I don't remember the Leafs ever having bad attendance during long slumps. That is the basis of my intrigue.
I think it's also important to note that average prices for baseball tickets are about half what Leafs tickets are going for. Not completely an apples to apples comparison.
http://business.time.com/2012/04/04/average-ticket-prices-spike-for-baseballs-top-teams/
What are the chances now that Columbus lost tonight? Chicago scored the winner with 2.4 seconds left in the third. The Leafs have a golden opportunity handed to them.
Pretty much out for the whole season. Groin injuries are unpredictable and frustrating to recover from.
Oh boy!!! Do the Sens really suck! 3-0 lead and then allow 7 straight to lose. If the Leafs can't beat them on the last game of the season what does that tell you. :Eek:
I do not look at it that way.
The Leafs provide entertainment. One because I like hockey. Two because I like the Toronto Maple Leafs because I am a homer.
A third factor is, sometimes people bet on the games.
The story lines in sports is interesting.
For example, this man name Randy Carlyle.
A rookie defenseman with the Toronto Maple Leafs, a young man with long blonde hair, and a silly grin when he scored, he looked like a promising young defenseman for the Leafs.
They trade him after his rookie season, for a vetern name Dave Burrows.
Carlyle later on went on to win the Norris trophy in Pittsburgh, the team the Leafs traded him to. The Leafs won nothing in the meantime.
Carlyle's hockey career continues after his playing days are over, finding much success coaching culminating with a Stanley Cup as coach of Aanhiem Mighty Ducks.
As tradition holds, he gets the cup of a day. He takes it back home to Sudbury (some where there). In the autotorium displaying the cup, he points at the benches the people are sitting on and jokes that he put in those benches as a teenage working in a summer job.
Seems to me Randy Carlyle loves being the coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He just loves every second of this hockey atmosphere here in Toronto. But they traded him as a rookie, and they might fire him only after two years a coach.
Even Carlyle was saying after that Saturday night game against Detroit, where the puck bounced every single time right onto a Red Wing stick, he said "it wasn't meant to be for us right now."
Not the full circle he was expecting to go, but that's life.
:deadhorse:
Tonight's result in Columbus Ohio, Chicago Black Hawks 4 Columbus Blue Jackets 3.
Chicago scores winning goal with 3 seconds left in regulation from a scramble, actually 3.7 seconds.
Leafs playoffs chances still have a pulse!
Go Leafs Go!
Go Leafs Go!
Go Leafs Go!
Chicago scores winning goal with 3 seconds left in regulation from a scramble, actually 3.7 seconds.
Leafs playoffs chances still have a pulse!
Go Leafs Go!
Go Leafs Go!
Go Leafs Go!
I can live with that. Whatever it costs the Leafs (and should they make the playoffs) for however long they play this season, Bernier should not come back until next season.
Tonight's result in Columbus Ohio, Chicago Black Hawks 4 Columbus Blue Jackets 3.
Chicago scores winning goal with 3 seconds left in regulation from a scramble, actually 3.7 seconds.
Leafs playoffs chances still have a pulse!
Go Leafs Go!
Go Leafs Go!
Go Leafs Go!
Buy Ben Smith a beer ! :clap2:
He is the Black Hawk who scored with 0:04 remaining in regulation.
It may turnout to be one of the most important goals in the Leafs season on a night they were not even playing. :thumb:
I used to volunteer for the GTHL. I did the score sheet and a referee explained to me that you always round up 3.7 up to 4.0 because you cannot enter 0:00 as a time for a goal if it was scored in the final second .... 0:00.4 becomes 0:01 for the score sheet.
It is likely going to play out that way in any event. I have heard three weeks which would take care of this final week of the regular season and two weeks of playoffs.
Thanks for your insight...I don't get the part about people betting on games and how that has anything to do with being a Leafs fan? ie if you bet on them, you will lose more than you win...and if you bet against them, are you truly the team's fan?
A bookie friend of mine used to love sports fans who were addicted to betting because they could never separate their emotions from the logic of gambling. The ones he used to fear were the ones who didn't have any favourite teams, and just used their instincts to pick the winners.
Leafs fail to take advantage of the gift the Black Hawks gave.
A decent effort by several Leafs tonight and for awhile I though they might pull it out with a less then stellar effort but it was not to be.
There are still too many passenger types on the Leafs, NHLers who would be better off elsewhere instead of the fishbowl that is Toronto.
A couple of points;
I have absolutely no faith in the Islanders beating Columbus period, much less in regulation, on Sunday.
I will be disappointed if several certain players are still with the Leafs come Sept 2014.
That said, there is still a chance to make the playoffs.
Go Leafs Go !
A decent effort by several Leafs tonight and for awhile I though they might pull it out with a less then stellar effort but it was not to be.
There are still too many passenger types on the Leafs, NHLers who would be better off elsewhere instead of the fishbowl that is Toronto.
A couple of points;
I have absolutely no faith in the Islanders beating Columbus period, much less in regulation, on Sunday.
I will be disappointed if several certain players are still with the Leafs come Sept 2014.
That said, there is still a chance to make the playoffs.
Go Leafs Go !
Raptors too!Play out the season for a better draft position.
TFC and the Jays won today.
Raptors won on Friday. Well MLSE won't have problems booking playoff gigs at the ACC. No scheduling conflicts between the Raps and Leafs this April/May.
No worries, the Habs have been cursed and they will be setting their city on fire like they always do when lose big in the playoffs.
