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Anyone remembers that particular trade deadline when a blogger fooled us, as well as the rest of the hockey world, with made up trade rumors? He looked and sounded legit and had us discussing his trades for weeks. After the deadline he put up a post and told everyone what he'd done. His goal was to show that it's easy to pull this off and that we shouldn't listen to Eklunds of the world.

Now sure when that was, but it was a long time ago.
 
Habspatrol said:
He was a mod here for a bit and seemed very cool for a bit. Then one day he decided that he didn't like the way we ran the board and decided to take his ball and go home. He made his own site, spammed us and took a few people with him.

I have a hunch that he has a new handle and still posts or lurks here.
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Interesting...

OT - what ever happened to Habdul? (re: another person from the old scout days - don't think he ever migrated over to other boards) ?

Another fond memory from the old scout days....I remember when you could've been banned on SOME boards but it wasn't a "global ban" (where you could still post elsewhere on the board - just not on a specific team board). I remember Floyd getting banned from the Leafs board for a short-time; but you knew he was such a diehard fan - he had to vent about his beloved Leafs (so he did on a 'vacant' section of scout/fanhome)!
 
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Yeah he refused to come over if I recall correctly. Too bad, he was a great poster as far as I can remember.
 
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Habdul was here for a little while then "retired". He was older than most of us and simply said he wasn't going to post enough to remain a mod. Similar thing that Bayrider and Spotnik did.
 
trujaysfan said:
Been a few who are much less regular or have disappeared. Mike dumas, leafovic, rumple etc

Met a few of these bastards in real life as well, decent people and epic mutton chops.
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I still occasionally check the boards but more for the political discussion than Leafs content. I have close to 0% interest in hockey at this point. The years of losing wasn't the culprit directly but more indirectly. What the losing did was finally make me do a cost/benefit analysis, and let's just say that the investment of time and emotion didn't make much sense. In any case, I do still come back because I like the posters here, and as someone has mentioned, many of us grew up together and there are some awesome memories there. Great to see mbow, Mindz, and others having a lot of success, and if things go properly, we'll have a Psychologist Leafovic in a few years as well.
 
Leafovic said:
I still occasionally check the boards but more for the political discussion than Leafs content. I have close to 0% interest in hockey at this point. The years of losing wasn't the culprit directly but more indirectly. What the losing did was finally make me do a cost/benefit analysis, and let's just say that the investment of time and emotion didn't make much sense. In any case, I do still come back because I like the posters here, and as someone has mentioned, many of us grew up together and there are some awesome memories there. Great to see mbow, Mindz, and others having a lot of success, and if things go properly, we'll have a Psychologist Leafovic in a few years as well.
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Good to see you. Amd Oh we collectively need psych help. Stay and post.
 
Been posting with you all for almost a decade and I still feel like the new guy....
 
I find PTBNL's absence the strangest, as he was consistently posting, no real slowdown, and then he was suddenly gone. Hate to think negatively but if something tragic happened to him (ie car accident, etc), we would have no real way of knowing. Hopefully not.
 
Leafovic said:
I find PTBNL's absence the strangest, as he was consistently posting, no real slowdown, and then he was suddenly gone. Hate to think negatively but if something tragic happened to him (ie car accident, etc), we would have no real way of knowing. Hopefully not.
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Unfortunately that's the onyl explanation that makes any sense whatsoever.
 
I think that there were probably people on here that had PTBNL on Facebook though. It shouldn't be that difficult to reach out and see how he's doing in real-life, no?
 
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