Might as well pick up the 2013 season here, since it is one of my better topic titles. Leafs lost last night, snapping a 6 to 1 winning streak, and. there was a general sigh of relief. No, not by the other teams, here in Toronto itself. The coach has been whining that the team is sloppy and can't expect to keep winning with such poor performances. The players have been slinking around apologizing for not playing better. The sportsmedia have been rehashing the bad choices of the management over the last three years. Hockey business as usual here. Talk about tearing down the good for not being good enough. Among last night's highights, our goalie was mown down by his own teammate in the first minute of play, and the backup came in. There was no backup for him, occasioning much speculation that Leafs legend Johnny Bower, age 80, who was in attendance at the game, would be pressed into service. Fortunately he was spared, as heroic efforts produced the U of T Varsity Blues goalie from a noodle house nearby and got him dressed in time for the third period. He was kept in the skate sharpening room and not called upon to play, but kept company by expensive David Clarkson, who started the preseason by leaping off the bench and joining a brawl for no discernible reason and got a ten game suspension. |Now Leafs are on a road trip against the best teams in the league and I do not feel good about it. Those Minnesota Tax |Rapers in especial, are not into sportsmanlike conduct. Those weird scythes and rainbows on their jerseys are enough to freak anybody out. As always, I'm just saying.