So we are a month or so away from the start of the 2008-2009 NHL season. Training camp will open with, as promised, a lot of new faces in Maple Leaf land. The questions still loom though: Will Mats Sundin be there? Will Brian McCabe be there? Who will be the Captain? As far as Mats is concerned, I am done caring. I was hoping he would come back but then I realized that even though he is a good and likeable captain, he has provided the city of Toronto zero in the form of success. No Cups, No conference finals, squat! So if he decides to come back, great. If he doesn’t or goes to play for another team? Who cares.
Brian McCabe on the other hand seems to be on his way out. All the published reports have him going to Florida in exchange for Sean Van Ryan. I used to like McCabe, but like everyone else turned on him. He signed a huge deal and his play went to crap. Maybe he will get a fresh start in the Panthers organization.
Who’s going to be the Leafs captain? Who knows. I think it should be Thomas Kaberle. But then again it could be any of them. Hopefully new coach Ron Wilson has a better idea than the rest of us. Let the countdown to traing camp begin.
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Holy Crap! Remember when gas in America was about $11 a barrel instead of the $144 it is now? Remember when Titanic was the movie of the year at the Oscars? Remember when George Michael got caught going down on a cop in a public bathroom? Remember everyone was afraid of computers turning off with Y2K? Remember when Google was in Beta?
Well all those things happened in 1998 as well as……. Remember when old guys didn’t get nearly as much young tail as they do now? That’s right 10 years ago Viagra was given the go ahead by the FDA. Now try and remember what spam was like in 1998. I know I can’t 
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I know that many have forgotten the sheer terror that one muppet can inflict. I wanted to remind the kind folks out in the land of the internet that true fear is all around us. This story broke many years ago and just like most headlines was swept away to the back of most people’s minds. But before you sit your children down in front of the “virtual babysitter,” remember that Seasame Street’s Bert is EVIL!
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With Bryan McCabe about to get the boot, Cliff Fletcher paid dearly to give the Maple Leafs defence the Finger.
But the general manager is convinced free agent Jeff Finger is part of the answer for his blue line, at $14 million US for four years, with at least one more defenceman and forward to be added by free agency or trade.
Finger and Finnish-born left winger Niklas Hagman (four years, $12 million) topped yesterday’s opening of shopping for the Leafs, who also brought home Curtis Joseph to play out his last days as a backup goalie for $700,000.
Read the rest of the article from the Toronto Sun’s Lance Hornby
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4:27PM Ottawa signs UFA goaltender Alex Auld to a 2 year deal worth $2-million
4:14PM Tampa Bay signs UFA goaltender Olaf Kolzig to a 1 year deal worth $1.5-million (plus bonuses).
4:02PM Colorado signs UFA forward Darcy Tucker to a 2 year deal worth $4.5-million
3:49PM Vancouver signs RFA forward David Backes to an offer sheet, 3 years $7.5-million.
3:43PM Chicago signs UFA goaltender Cristobal Huet (undisclosed)
3:41PM Florida signs UFA forward Cory Stillman to a 3 year deal worth $10.6-million
3:40PM NY Rangers sign UFA forward Aaron Voros (undisclosed)
3:40PM Pittsburgh signs UFA forward Eric Godard to a 3 year deal (undisclosed)
3:38PM Tampa Bay signs UFA forward Adam Hall to a 3 year deal worth $1.8-million
3:24PM Toronto signs UFA goaltender Curtis Joseph to a 1 year deal worth $700,000
3:24PM Toronto signs UFA defenceman Jeff Finger to a 4 year deal worth $3.5-million a season
3:09PM Phoenix signs UFA forward Todd Fedoruk to a 3 year deal (undisclosed)
3:07PM Detroit signs UFA goaltender Ty Conklin to a 1 year deal worth $750,000
3:07PM Montreal re-signs RFA forward Andrei Kostitsyn to a 3 year deal worth $3.25-million a season
3:03PM Colorado signs UFA goaltender Andrew Raycroft to a 1 year deal worth $800,000
2:53PM Washington signs UFA goaltender Jose Theodore to a 2 year deal (undisclosed)
2:50PM Phoenix signs UFA defenceman Kurt Sauer to a 4 year deal worth an average of $1.75-million a year
2:02PM Pittsburgh Penguins re-sign UFA defenceman Mark Eaton to a 2 year deal worth $2-million
1:58PM Minnesota Wild sign UFA forward Andrew Brunette to 3 year deal worth $7-million.
1:33PM Vancouver signs RFA forward Kyle Wellwood to a 1 year deal worth $997,500.
12:55PM Boston signs UFA forward Blake Wheeler to an entry-level contract.
12:52PM Lightning sign UFA forward Radim Vrbata to a $9-million, three-year contract.
12:04PM Anaheim re-sign forward Corey Perry to a five-year deal worth $26.625-million
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