Originally posted by MBH:
Good luck trying to take out Daniel Alfredsonn. He is very fast and I don't know if those pricks on the Leafs can catch up to him. G-d knows the only way to win if you are the Leafs is to take out top-notched players(that's 2 years in a row now that the Leafs had to resort to these cheap tactics).
MBH i am quickly tiring of your baseless opinions. of course, opinions are personal, and thus can be as far gone as you like, but please allow me to add to our discourse.
you are correct daniel alfredsson is very fast. however you do not need to inform maple leafs fans of this fact since the maple leafs have adequately neutralized alfie and the sens for 2 consecutive years.
the only difference between then and now is the absencce of both sundin and yushkevich, admittedly a gaping hole if there ever was one.
the maple leafs missed both players against your isles but managed to fill the holes, just barely.
oh and the maple leafs did not take out any player with anything close to what even you would call ?cheap tactics? last year.
Originally posted by MBH:
But I'm sure that everyone in Toronto loves it b/c you won. Well, fuck that! Toronto strategically knew what they were doing when they "took out" the Isles 2 best players. You would not have won w/out those tactics, but I guess that doesn't matter now.
Here's to Toronto wallowing in another 35 years of Stanley Cup frustration!
two toronto maple leafs threw two large hits. one was most definitely illegal. the other one was most definitely legal, though it may have had the intent to injure. for all your discussion of my ignorance MBH and your own washing of your hands by admitting the obvious illegality of steve webb?s hits(which were not called, once in that series) you neglect the infractions of peca, hamrlik, parrish, cairns and cummins. in my opinion, the maple leafs were not the only ones playing dirty. peca was slashing like mad in the minutes leading up to his injury.
i am not condoning anyone?s actions or excusing anyone here. my only intention is to point out the fact that just as easily as peca and jonsson went down, a maple leaf could have fallen whether you like it or not, rough play is playoff hockey. the isles certainly know it, let me reassure you.
rather the islanders were, unfortunately for them, the team that suffered the most injuries. no one, yes even you or laviolette or milbury, can say what would have happened if peca and jonsson hadn?t gone out. the isles would have been stronger, yes, but we do not know what would have happened.
the fact is 1 game of this series was played cleanly by both teams and the maple leafs won it. the isles played well and pushed it to the very end, but the leafs came out on top.
thank you for your wishes by the way. i hope you can find a way to enjoy the rest of the playoffs but please don't expect no one to get injured.
[This message has been edited by kobayashi (edited 05-01-2002).]