I love the TRUCULENCE!!!

(sung to the tune of Boom De Ya Da-Discovery Channel)

I love the Burkie,

I love Ron Wilson,

I love Beauchemin,

I love O-L-A-S


I love the Maple Leafs and
All their TRUCULENCE

BOOM-de-ah-da, BOOM-de-ah-da, BOOM-de-ah-da, BOOM-de-ah-da

I love to watch hits
I love the dirty plays
I love the body checks
I love Komisarek!



I love the Maple Leafs and
All their TRUCULENCE

BOOM-de-ah-da, BOOM-de-ah-da, BOOM-de-ah-da, BOOM-de-ah-da

I love to see pain
I love the blue line
I love the scared looks
I love when our D smashes things

I love the Maple Leafs and
All their TRUCULENCE

BOOM-de-ah-da, BOOM-de-ah-da, BOOM-de-ah-da, BOOM-de-ah-da

Allons-y!

Woohoo! I'm heading to Montreal on Thursday to spend some time with the good people at Pension Plan Puppets and expect to have fun cheering on the Leafs pick in Round 1 and possibly stumbling out of bed with a massive hangover for Day 2. Some people would have some concern over spending a weekend with random people they've never met before who's only known commonality is a love for the Leafs but I feel no such fear. After all I have Wendel watching over me and OLAS on my side.

As for the actual draft I'm holding out hope that Burkie can pull off a miracle and move up into the top 5 by snagging Atlanta or L.A.'s pick. That way he can get Brayden Schenn, aka the brother of God Jr. or Evander Kane, aka the other guy. I'm not hoping for a top 3 pick because I think it would cost far more than what would be acceptable for a rebuilding franchise. I think he will make some sort of big move, because after all that's what he's known for but even if Burke doesn't manage to move up the Leafs could still pick up a great player in Jared Cowen at 7th. If that happens I expect to head to a karaoke bar to sing "I am Cow" by the Arrogant Worms for the remainder of the night. The only player ranked in the top 10 that I do not want the Leafs to draft is Magnus long last name. The Leafs in all honesty need an influx of toughness and MSP is not going to provide that as much as Schenn or even the lower rated Kassian would.

Any way it goes it should be fun and if it doesn't go well we can always burn the city to the ground.

Dominic Moore

I have to be honest. The most pleasure I got this season was not from any Leafs victory or loss (during my hope for tanking phase) but from watching Dominic Moore struggle after being traded to Buffalo. Moore and his agent somehow decided that magic fairy dust had made Moore into a decent first or second line player and that he deserved first or second line money. No longer was Moore a third or fourth line grinder. No, he was a player that could help propel a team to the next level. That's why he rejected a contract worth a reported $5 million over 3 years thinking he could get $2.5-3 million on the open market. I guess he didn't take economics classes in Harvard ie. buy low, sell high.

Anytime a player thinks he's worth more than he's getting paid makes me want to take a highstick to their face. Worse still, some GMs are stupid enough to reward these players overinflated contracts such as Glen Sather's contracts to Drury and Gomez in New York and JFJ's contract to McCabe. Luckily for the Leafs, Brian Burke is smarter than other GMs and way, way, way smarter than Harvard Boy Moore. He had a player that was having a career year that he will never likely repeat and was at his highest possible trade value. Shipping him off to the Sabres for a second round pick was daylight robbery.

In Buffalo, Moore had 4 points in 18 games, 1 goal and 3 assists and got his face punched a few times by the Saviour, Luke Schenn. They gave up a second rounder for that? Glen Sather paid the same price to get Antropov to the Rangers and he had 13 points in 18 games. Dominic Moore has done the impossible. He has made Glen Sather look smart.