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GDT | Game 51 | VS Stars | Saturday, February 10 | 1:00PM EST

GGpX said:
I hope everyone here has gotten used to a team that will never be good enough to win and never be good enough to fail, because that's where this team's headed.
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If we can’t finish bottom 3 with this joke of a lineup, I don’t know how else we can do it. We have just a little too much of a competitive spirit. It is what it is.
 
Buffalo is better, for sure. They’ll likely finish ahead of us. Anaheim and Columbus are worse, I think.

Ottawa… better roster on paper. But what a awful, stupid franchise. Not surprised if the finish last in the division.
 
lecoqsportif said:
Buffalo is better, for sure. They’ll likely finish ahead of us. Anaheim and Columbus are worse, I think.

Ottawa… better roster on paper. But what a awful, stupid franchise. Not surprised if the finish last in the division.
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I will take either roster over ours right now with out coach
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
They never "fell" into it. It's the only culture that team has had since Gilbert Perreault retired.
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They were best during the mid Perrault years but still an ok middle of the pack team for most of a 20 years period from the mid eighties to 2006 or so. The Lafontaine, Hasek/Peca etc and Briere editions generally were competitive and had a shot. They looked good coming out of the lockout that first year, and seemed to be have adapted to the new game. Then the wheels came off.

I never much cared for them because they were for a long time (and may still be?) the only older franchise with a winning record against us. Shame though-management ruined a good hockey town.
 
east coast said:
They were best during the mid Perrault years but still an ok middle of the pack team for most of a 20 years period from the mid eighties to 2006 or so. The Lafontaine, Hasek/Peca etc and Briere editions generally were competitive and had a shot. They looked good coming out of the lockout that first year, and seemed to be have adapted to the new game. Then the wheels came off.

I never much cared for them because they were for a long time (and may still be?) the only older franchise with a winning record against us. Shame though-management ruined a good hockey town.
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I used to like them in the 70s and early 80s because half their games were carried on free, over the air TV that I could get in suburban Toronto. Many nights when Ballard had the Habs game blacked out in order to force feed the Leafs to viewers, I was saved by Channel 2 out of Buffalo that had a Sabres game I could watch instead. Sometimes it would be a game against the Habs that was blacked out in CBC Toronto.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I used to like them in the 70s and early 80s because half their games were carried on free, over the air TV that I could get in suburban Toronto. Many nights when Ballard had the Habs game blacked out in order to force feed the Leafs to viewers, I was saved by Channel 2 out of Buffalo that had a Sabres game I could watch instead. Sometimes it would be a game against the Habs that was blacked out in CBC Toronto.
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Harold had to protect his TV market which was from the Ottawa River to Van Island
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I used to like them in the 70s and early 80s because half their games were carried on free, over the air TV that I could get in suburban Toronto. Many nights when Ballard had the Habs game blacked out in order to force feed the Leafs to viewers, I was saved by Channel 2 out of Buffalo that had a Sabres game I could watch instead. Sometimes it would be a game against the Habs that was blacked out in CBC Toronto.
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I had a soft spot for them as a kid. Liked the French connection line.
 
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