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I've been reading a lot of books on behavioural economics and decision making lately. Can't say I'm any smarter as a result, fac...

As I get older, I find it more and more difficult to take pleasure from the suffering of others. For some unknown reason, I don't find m...

The Leafs may be kicking-off a brand new season in Detroit tonight, but before we move on to the theme of renewal, blank slates and fresh st...

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth - that error and truth are ...

As the four or five of you who read this blog know, I took a quick holiday to the west coast for two weeks. I ended up without an internet ...

The Leafs 6-2 loss to the Snoozin' Bruins may help answer a question that has puzzled me since February 26: how many must-win games can...

I thought I was watching NHL Classics last night, a repeat from last January when the Leafs beat the Bruins 10-4 . (As an aside, I actually ...

Tonight on Coach's Corner (11/04/07) the man that picked Brian Bochenski to beat Crosby and Ovechkin as rookie of the year said Raycr...

Raycroft's stats (based on goalies who played 18+ games): 42nd best Save Percentage 37th best Goals Against Average 58th in Goals Agains...

Thoughts on this weekend's games... 1. Found it fascinating that the Penguins consistently dumped the puck in on the Leafs left D and se...

10. I realize Maurice has more hockey knowledge in just one of those deep dark circles under his eyes than I will ever hope to acquire no ma...

...add another item to the list of bad stats that leaves me cold when I think of Raycroft holding the Leafs' single season win record: R...

When the Perrault deal went down, I had two issues with it (discussed in detail here and here ) in short: It didn't address or fix any...

Posting may get a bit more sparse around here and the typos might become even more prevalent as I suffered an undisclosed upper body injury ...

Three somewhat related thoughts about the Leafs... 1. David Johnson over at Hockey Analysis has a must read post suggesting that the Leafs ...

When the Leafs resume play on January 27th there will be exactly one month until the NHL trade deadline. That’s one month for the Leafs to f...

Raycroft currently has a .901 save percentage, which puts him 27th in the NHL among goalies who've started 10 games or more. Here's ...

Harrison clears waivers, Telly goes to Phoenix for $600K in dead-weight salary that will be buried in the AHL and on MLSE’s books Tyson Nas...

I've written before about why the Leafs-Sens rivalry should just be left for dead. The fading flames of this alleged conflict are nothi...

I don't normally do the game notes/blog thing but I got a call around 5PM tonight from a friend asking if I was interested in going to t...