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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

JackBurton said:
Agreed. And he has to. He's earned so little for an NHL player.
Funny that's a story though in August: A Leaf player who's UFA next year.
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Great pick up by the Leafs

Plus he is the ideal UFA that gets a good contact

Ultra competitive , and can play anywhere in your top 9
 
LeafGm said:
There's plenty of appealing things about hockey for rednecks too, though. Out of all the major sporting leagues in North America, hockey is the whitest, has the most retrograde management and the least amount of involvement in progressive political causes. And there's also the fact that nobody kneels during anthems and no NHL championship team turned down an invitation to the Trump White House.
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And fighting is encouraged
 
LeafGm said:
I could give a shit what their gender is, I’d just like a pair of TV announcers that are actually unabashed Leaf fans.

Still the only team in all of professional sports that never gets a home TV broadcast for a single one of their games.
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Holy shit lol, koreaboy's eye just twitched involuntarily wherever he is.
 
LeafGm said:
The hilarious thing is that for all KB’s whining about Cole and Neale being Leaf homers, Cole is a lifelong Habs fan and Neale was likely a Sabres fan.
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The post hit me as funny because KB's main complaint was that Toronto was given too many national broadcasts.. and now you're saying that you wished the Leafs had more regional broadcasts with our own broadcast team.
 
BG said:
The post hit me as funny because KB's main complaint was that Toronto was given too many national broadcasts.. and now you're saying that you wished the Leafs had more regional broadcasts with our own broadcast team.
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Not exactly. My beef is that even on the Leaf regional broadcasts, Sportsnet & TSN won’t give us a “home” broadcast team.

At best we get announcers that are impartial. At worst we get guys that are actively cheering for the other team. But since Bowen & Ralph were taken off TV, we never get actual Leaf fans calling any of our games.
 
I think even on TSN/SN, Leafs broadcasts are national no?

I know people laughed at LEAFSTV, and that it's finally being put out to pasture - but it was the one place that carried a handful of games and broadcast them with a Leaf-centric focus, in it's early days anyway.
 
BG said:
I think even on TSN/SN, Leafs broadcasts are national no?
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Yeah, all Leaf broadcasts are by definition, national. But any of them where the main carrier is sportsnet east or whatever the fuck, functions contractually as a "regional" broadcast from a rights standpoint. It's those that piss a lot of us off. Other teams get their cheerleaders in the booth for those games. For TSN or HNIC national games, whatever. But give me Joe Bowen (or reasonable hand drawn facsimilie) for the other ~55 games a year.
 
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