As an official Middle Age Guy now, I’m getting into long distance cycling so my social feeds are nothing but road bikes.
Hilarious to see all these FB marketplace groups that are nothing but other guys like me trying to sell their $12,000 bikes for like…$5,000 😛
The last time the Avalanche traded for Roy it went very well so this is a win-win for everyone
Wait what’s the 1
*refreshes TSN*
I’m not normally one for “things used to better” but this definitely tracks with my 40-something Canadian self
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0224cd1...
No but I would make for an amazing Lame duck President
Completely
Agree I’m just thinking aloud here.
With no retention anywhere
Great minds Leafer
As a thought exercise would you on Peterson for Rielly straight up?
11.6 for 6 more years (!!!!)
Vs
Mo at 7.5 for 4
Neither team is winning a cup there I suppose regardless
They’re going to spend $10m on a scoring C in July and I don’t see who is better and available
Not even lobbying for this but the org definitely needs to be doing something besides “resign bobby mcmann to keifer Sherwood money”
I think probably a little, also playing with 34 and 91 can’t not help.
Mostly I just don’t see who else is out there as UFA they can offer big money to who makes them better
He’s def overpaid but so will be anyone they give $9m+ to on July 1
I really don’t see the asset mix to make it happen but… does Elias Petterson make any sense for the leafs this offseason?
Now you’re talking
He’s had a predilection for big coke machines in skates that is hard to ignore when the don’t also have the speed and skill to make it work
I tried this when I saw it at a loblaws
Taste is nice but the let’s call it mouthfeel of chunks of raisin and stale pastry did not work at all
The lesson for Leaf fans is threefold: things can always be worse (the Wilson era) things can always get better (they did, pretty quickly) and things will always be weird (this insane jersey)
On this day 16 (!!!) years ago, I was in Montreal to watch two terrible teams play hockey: the Leafs and Habs.
It ended up being a fantastic game with Grabovski scoring the winner in OT as I recall
Also Ron Wilson got fired and I saw this Reimer/Carey Price Frankenjersey
Speaking of the Leafs, this excellent piece by Kloke in the Athletic is exactly what they should do. But I’m also confident they are absolutely not going to do that
www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...
Trust the process. Just because the Shanaplan failed doesn’t mean the Pelley-an is doomed
In short, we cheer for a well run organization that is not at all cursed or dysfunctional
This chart in the Financial Times sums up the AI hype perfectly
Basically either AI is going to solve all human problems OR it is going to kill us OR it will boost global GDP by 0.2%. Those are the three options :)
www.ft.com/content/60df...
The pro leagues outside of MLB are clearly getting better and better
It’s hard for me to tell how big the gap is. “Korean league MVP” still feels like “AHL all star”
Also im genuinely fascinated by what exactly Cody Ponce is. What does the a Cy Young of the Korean League mean in the MLB? Excited to find out
Sidebar: me rosterbating about the Blue Jays in February is a sure sign that I have in fact given up on caring about the Leafs any more this year.
Something like that yes. I’m just saying if you were penciling in a starter who could conceivably give you 6 good innings against a good opponent in a playoff game, it wouldn’t be crazy to think he could
Offensively you have downgraded from Bo to Okamoto and I’m not confident that all those Cinderella stories are for real as there was some magic secret sauce in that 2025 run.
But overall damn that’s a good looking roster
Injuries and bad luck will happen but with Sherzer back in the mix holy hell
The jays have pitching depth
1 and 1a in Cease and Gausman. yesavage has 1 potential. Ponce and Berrios wild cards. Then Bieber and Scherzer as aging savvy vets. That’s 7 guys I can theoretically see winning a playoff game
As someone who has been through this process a lot, the vibe and comments from all the realtors in this just gets my hackles up.
There’s a lot of $100k commission cheques happening because…. Reasons?
www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...
I guess I can’t figure out why it has to be now? Don’t teams normally do these things during offseasons for this exact reason?
Is there precedent?
Sens fans by a mile. That marriage was on the rocks pre Olympics.
Leafs and Matthews are in the “cordial and staying together until the kids go off to college” stage
