From the latest book to slag the Maple Laffs - by Michael Grange and Dave Feschuk, Leafs Abomination: The Dismayed Fan’s Handbook to Why the Leafs Stink and How They Can Rise Again is an "illogical roadmap that pinpoints how the once-proud Leafs got lost in the sporting hinterlands, who’s to blame for stranding them there, and how they might extract themselves from this historic mire."
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“Playing for the Leafs was the funnest time of my life so far,” says Wellwood over the phone from Vancouver one afternoon in the winter of 2008. “Every day it was exciting to come to the rink. It was always exciting to put on that uniform on Saturday night.
“People came up to you every day and wanted to talk about your hockey game. Every day felt special.”
Win or lose, Wellwood was out on Saturday night, hitting any number of downtown clubs where bouncers were more than happy to whisk some Leafs and their friends past the velvet ropes and straight to the VIP areas. “The minute you show up at the club you cut the line, get a table, get a few drinks,” he says. “As a young kid it was a lot of fun, I definitely miss it. If Tie [Domi] was bringing you out, you got a lot of attention, but it was nice. It was tough for the guys who were married or had a girlfriend. There’s always some one who wants a cell- phone picture taken and next thing you know you’re on someone’s Facebook page and there’s a girl kissing you on the cheek. You have to be careful. But if you wanted attention from the girls, you could definitely get it. I just think it’s fun for them to hang out with an NHL player in Toronto. And if they’d had a few drinks it was even more fun.”
That Wellwood could miss the playoffs all three years in Toronto, undergo three surgeries and get waived and still say it was the “funnest time of my life” makes a pretty strong case about the ancillary benefits of citizenship in Leafland.
When the Philadelphia Flyers were in town right before New Years, my buddies girlfriend ran into Mike Richards, Jeff Carter, Glen Metropolit, and Claude Giroux at a club downtown... It's not uncommon and it doesn't mean they're party animals.
(Richards) (Carter)
Also, if anyone's curious, Richards was a really nice guy, Carter was a dick, Metropolit tried to take one of the girls to the hotel room (I'm pretty sure he's married?) and Giroux was very, very quiet.
Well--next time I am drunk on this board I will give you details of the players who came to the Marble Arch strip club and the fun they had there until 6am somedays
Every NHL city in Canada the players get treated like GODS--even fat 3rd liners
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Joy of being an oiler fan--watching the team play worse then AHL teams. Guess the oiler brass is already on the golf course
No wonder the Leafs last cup win in 1967 was with the vast majority of players over 25 and nine over 30 years of age.
Well hopefully after our playoff run last year. That will be his new "Funnest" time. Judging by how he played in the playoffs I can't really question his character. I think Kyle has turned over a new "Leaf" so to speak.
When the Philadelphia Flyers were in town right before New Years, my buddies girlfriend ran into Mike Richards, Jeff Carter, Glen Metropolit, and Claude Giroux at a club downtown... It's not uncommon and it doesn't mean they're party animals.
The old Broad street Bullies were infamous.
Gil Stein (last NHL President) got his start as counsel with the expansion Philly Flyers. He has written a book chronicling his life in the game and there is some great stuff in it about how he was continually being called out at all hours of the night to bail the Flyers out of trouble. http://www.amazon.ca/Power-Play-Insi...2279359&sr=1-4
Well--next time I am drunk on this board I will give you details of the players who came to the Marble Arch strip club and the fun they had there until 6am somedays
Every NHL city in Canada the players get treated like GODS--even fat 3rd liners
So why do you have to be drunk?
Do you type better
Well, I don't know about funnest not being a word axiomatically (since I don't know what axiomatically means), but I do know fun is a word. And fun is an adjective. And all one syllable adjectives can be inflected using the -er and -est suffixes. And if you accept that fun is an adjective, then you should accept that it can be inflected with the -er and -est suffixes. Thus, you should accept funnest as a word.
And if you don't accept that funnest is a word, then you are not fun.
(Richards)
(Carter)
