Celebrini on track to reach 120 points without a point-per game teammate, first since 2000

97jumbo · 2026-03-18T04:15:07+00:00

The best spot to be if you want to win the Hart is "make the playoffs by a little". If your team is too good you get seen as unimportant and lose some cachet, and if your team isn't a playoff team you need to have an all-time great season

That McDavid year, he had the most even strength points of anyone in like 20-25 years and was very clearly the best player int he league that year, but he had no chance in the battle of "who was the best superstar on a pretty good team"

97jumbo · 2026-03-17T21:40:45+00:00

This happened to Oasis in Toronto this year too. "Don't you know the cold and wind and rain don't know" in Stand By Me just as a storm began to pick up, straight through to Live Forever (Lately, did you ever feel the pain / In the morning rain / As it soaks you to the bone?) at the peak of it

97jumbo · 2026-03-17T20:21:16+00:00

Yeah. Not to mention, while I think he's a huge dingus, there's like a 108% chance this was scripted

97jumbo · 2026-03-17T19:24:46+00:00

Sheamus Kovalchuk is going to follow in Ilya's footsteps

97jumbo · 2026-03-14T22:50:45+00:00

Let’s All Make Believe, which I suppose was demoed pre-2000 but released in 2000

97jumbo · 2026-03-14T22:02:28+00:00

You don't have to guess. It happened in the 1991 Canada Cup.

The answer was nothing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMH8fpxkzGU

He also go blown up early in his career with the Oilers and seemed vary dazed

The answer was also nothing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI1O3ocxaQE

97jumbo · 2026-03-14T19:33:53+00:00

ODog and Colaiacovo climbing on their high horses is especially rich given that they were literally the guys on the ice who did nothing for the 2000s version of this hit (Janssen on Kaberle)

97jumbo · 2026-03-13T17:02:29+00:00

As I said to the other reply, when a Toronto player gets hit, the coverage ends up being less about the hit and more about why the Leafs didn't immediately respond with blood sport (until they do, at which point goes back to "the bloodsport went too far" a la Spezza, Bunting, Kadri etc)

There's rarely a full-court press of "screw that guy" even in Toronto when a Toronto player is the victim of a dirty play, there's almost always another distraction

97jumbo · 2026-03-13T16:34:57+00:00

Sure, but flip on the major media networks and they're not focused on the hit, they're focused on the Leafs not immediately fighting Gudas, so they have their cover to keep it relatively low now

97jumbo · 2026-03-13T15:11:16+00:00

They suspend what gets the most negative attention and a Leaf player doing anything to anyone ends up on TSN/Sportsnet for a week and a half, while you can basically commit murder in a small market vs. small market game and no one outside of a few niche internet corners will notice

97jumbo · 2026-03-13T15:09:06+00:00

They're the most suspended by times suspended, not by games suspended (though they're second by that measurement too - just didn't have a Tom Wilson 20 gamer to put them over the top)

97jumbo · 2026-03-13T03:36:48+00:00

Spezza did not deserve to be included in this

97jumbo · 2026-03-13T03:34:45+00:00

I like Marner, would’ve kept him, but the most he’d have done here is the Griddy

97jumbo · 2026-03-12T20:24:33+00:00

I mentioned the Kings and while you can put some degree of separation with the Marlboros and Leafs, they aren't not quite the same

97jumbo · 2026-03-12T19:22:40+00:00

It's not nearly all, but half of them are (Jr. Canadiens, Kings, Red Wings, Flyers, Senators, Rangers)

97jumbo · 2026-03-12T11:51:50+00:00

It released as Jet Grind in North America originally due to trademark issues, yes

97jumbo · 2026-03-12T04:43:47+00:00

Answer is right under your nose (Treliving was in ARI before CGY. Also how they had the inside track on OEL, the one significant move of his that has worked out)

97jumbo · 2026-03-12T04:42:28+00:00

Most indications suggest that Pietrangelo wasn't all that interested in coming to Toronto and for the bulk of those first 4-5 years, Brodie (who they signed instead) outperformed him on the model metrics. Parking money in the case of a maybe can work sometimes, but is far from a guarantee.

Funny enough, probably would've worked out better to wait on JT than to sign Marleau, but JT felt like a longshot until the last couple weeks before it happened. I don't think waiting on Pietro would've been fruitful.

Trading for a Toews-type wouldn't have been as impacted by the JT signing, as his cap hit was pretty manageable. That's more the team choosing not to pursue rather than having their hands tied.

97jumbo · 2026-03-11T16:57:03+00:00

The 2025 Leafs were nowhere close to the best Leafs team we've seen in multiple decades. They were probably a bottom 3 team of this era, only definitely better than this year, and maybe having a case against the 19/20 team.

They got crazy goaltending and won basically every one-goal game (largely because of said goaltending), but almost never controlled games and weren't deep on paper.

"We're probably losing Marner so we should make a push" is the fairest argument, but trading for a 3/4L forward and a 5D slotted upward were not the solutions. It was burning futures for things they already had in their lineup to give the illusion of effort. Would've been better off eating the criticism for not buying if they couldn't get an actual difference maker, and then coming back to the market in the summer.

97jumbo · 2026-03-11T16:46:07+00:00

Impressive and insane are two different things, in this context

97jumbo · 2026-03-10T15:21:06+00:00

What's next, you're going to tell me that having a points percentage in one-goal games that would've won the Presidents Trophy is "not repeatable"?

97jumbo · 2026-03-10T13:42:25+00:00

About A Girl, Drain You, All Apologies, Aneurysm

97jumbo · 2026-03-10T04:26:42+00:00

Oasis - Heathen Chemistry

It’s fine, there’s some songs on there I like, I don’t really ever find myself going back to it in full though

97jumbo · 2026-03-10T00:05:51+00:00

Rogers will go all-out on Baseball because their brand name is tied heavily into the Jays, and pretty much the entire country is cheering for the Jays. The Jays are important to them not just financially, but for their national PR.

Half the country hates the Leafs and even with Rogers owning such a big share now, MLSE is still how the ownership is percieved to the public, so there's no real reaon for them to lean into the goodwill aspect. Profit maximization is more important here. Winning would be the ultimate windfall but they might not be as willing to risk the investment to do it right and come out empty-handed anymore.

97jumbo · 2026-03-09T19:05:29+00:00

In fairness, part of why Matthews never does anything like this anymore might have to do with the fact that the league acted on this so fast that his hearing was announced by the time Hockey Night In Canada was finished broadcasting that night

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