Leafs goon it up late, beat Flyers 4-0

Notice how they waited until they were comfortably ahead to fight. For a bunch of goons, I still question their manhood.

Carcillo’s goal was better the Bozak’s…just saying.

Ill go into work today (in Toronto) and folks will say “we got one, finally.”Especially after having just lost to the Canes. Real leaf fans aren’t going to have a parade down Yonge street. The die hard leaf fans who know Im a flyers fan aren’t going to ‘throw it in my face’ as some have been on various threads. Thats cause the Leafs have been in a ‘rebuilding’ phase for decades. They feel like the Flyers fans felt in November and December, like crap. The Flyers final turn it around. The Leafs won one game. I can’t believe some crazed people are claiming that the Leafs are a better team and that they are tougher than the Flyers. Grandiose delusions for sure. You won a game, you played well, good job, now have fun playing the Caps tonight!

Flyers fans complaining about goonery, how cute.

Well my other comment got deleted for “trolling”

I remember back in October when Captain leadership took a run at Marc-Andre Fleury late in the thrid period right before Scott Hartnell allegedly but Kris Letang’s finger in a game the Flyer’s had no hope of coming back in.

The idea that now the Flyers are complaining about late game goonery is ironic.

The difference is that Flyer’s fans are tired of their team being labeled as the NHL’s Goon squad when they are far from it. Sure, they had a history of goonery. The Broad Street Bullies is obviously one of the biggest goon squads to play the game. But that was a different game in a different time. This Flyers team is not a goon squad at all. Sure they have some guys who do stupid things from time to time…Carcillo, Hartnell, even Briere. But they aren’t goons. They aren’t Colton Orr, Chris Neil, Steve Downie etc. Some people say Pronger is a goon, and maybe he was. But let me tell you something, I have seen every game this season and so far Pronger has been more a p*ssy then a goon.

Case in point, last night Richards was getting roughed up behind the net, play was dead and Pronger just stood there and watched. Didn’t stick up for his captain, he did nothing.

Being a goon isn’t just about getting in fights for the sake of getting in fights. Being a goon is being a cheap shot artist, about hitting guys when no one is looking, it’s about taking a run at a guy when the play is dead, or when the game is already won, or lost. Such as what Colton Orr and Toronto’s new hero Jay Rosehill did at the end of the game last night. I wish I could find video of it but at the end of the game there was a scrum and Orr comes out of nowhere and just lays an elbow to the side of Richards face. I wish Richards would have stood up for himself better yet, I wish someone on the team would have stood up for their Captain. Orr would have destroyed Richards in a fight.

But you see thats the difference between the Flyers fans and other teams fans. We don’t want our players to be goons. We spent time and energy trying to defend them when other fans call them such and yet there are plenty of teams in the NHL who have goon players or pretty much pride themselves on being goons. Brian Burke is all about it. And that’s his right, but for the Leafs fans, or at least the ones who have come on here and act like what their players did last night was simply taking runs at guys is ridiculous and total homer bias. The Leafs have been goons for years. Which is probably why they can’t seem to win. They have more goons than actual hockey players.

For the record, this to me is one of the best things I have ever seen.

Pretty sure Ovie would have killed Downie but the simple fact that Bradley came in there to defend his Captain, his team’s best player…it’s something I wish the Flyers would actually do for once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Sq1Kwz-zc

Last night wasn’t the first time guys have gone after Richards and no one has done a thing about it. I would better money that if Hartnell had played last night, he would have gone after Orr or Rosehill. But everyone else, they all stood around and watched.

I’ve always looked at these things in a certain light. The Maple Leafs, despite their their historical roots in hockey and their importance to Canada and the NHL, have become a non-factor in the NHL. They are a team that is only around because of the support of their fan base. Their fan base isn’t around because of their winnings ways, or the all-star players that they don’t have, or their recent Stanley Cups, or their success. Their hockey team is around because of the loyalty of the fans, nothing more. If their fans want to go onto other hockey boards and spread their slop, that is completely fine with me. Hockey is a long season filled with numerous battles. They won a battle, but they haven’t even come close to the winning the war since the 92-93 season, where they went seven games in the Conference Final and lost to the LA Kings. Meanwhile, in that time span, the Flyers have gone seven games in the Conference Final 2 times and even went to a Stanley Cup Finals.
     The moral of the story is: let them eat their cake in their recent victory, but know that they haven’t been relevant to the NHL in 16 years. They exist because of their fans. But as an organization, their team is inadequate and and has been for some time.
     As for the cheap shots? They will get theirs. What separates the goons from the aggressive teams is that the aggressive teams will take their licks in stride, and show the team that the scoreboard is where the game matters. The Leafs don’t seem to understand that concept, as demonstrated by their whopping 41 points in 47 games. In fact, winning is a concept they haven’t understood in the last 4 years, where they’ve had one season at .500, and three others below.

I’m not worried about the leafs or their fans; neither should you