Friday, September 14, 2007

Blake ain't no Gretzky

Leaf coach Paul Maurice said in an interview this morning that this year's Leaf team is "the most talented team I've ever coached". This is a guy that coached Carolina to the Stanley Cup final in 2001/02. Are Jason Blake and Vesa Toskala really that good? They are really the only changes to the team since last year, and last year, the Leafs didn't make the playoffs.

I realize he doesn't want to come out and say "this team won't suck quite as much as last year", but let's not stretch things too far.

Interesting note: I originally spelled Gretzky wrong in the title, and Firefox flagged it as a misspelling. Then I corrected it, and the flag went away. This tells me that the word "Gretzky" is in Firefox's dictionary.

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