You can call this a 'troll blog' all you want but if you go back and watch the game or at least continue reading you can see that there was plenty of humour for fans of both teams. The game itself had emotion, some good play and and some strange play too but in the end it's a game neither coach probably wants to remember, at least for anything more than salvaging a point.
The Leafs opened the scoring when Joffrey Lupul, back from missing 25 games, took a soft back hand shot that went through the High Court Jester, Dustin Byfuglien's legs and over a screened Pavelec's glove hand Jets' fans had to wonder if this game was going to be redemption for the Leafs, losers of four straight.
It would stay a 1-0 lead through the first but the Jets pushed back and began to find space against a confused and somewhat disorganized Toronto defense.
By the time the Jets had tied it up, the first for James Wright at 5:29 of the second, the midget clown car, otherwise known as the Leafs defense, was now taking centre ring at the Toronto circus.
When my Twitter feed of Leafs writers starts tweeting photos of their defensive breakdowns along with national reporters making backhanded jokes towards the team perhaps it's more than a few people poking fun at the team.
Take the Mittinen goal, while lucky he was left alone as the two clown, err defenders moved away from him. Scrivens left alone to defend for him self could not stop the sword swing that came down to score the goal.
Then the Wheeler goal. On the shift where the Jets dumped it in two Leafs defenders were behind the goal line and had possession and the other two forwards had dropped low so when the clearing attempt, not up the boards but down the middle was deflected on to Wheeler's stick there was no chance for Scrivens.
Wheeler's next goal started from behind his own net as he took the outlet pass at his blue line, came down his off wing putting a shot on net what Holzer seemed unware how to play as the rebound came out. Wheeler went around the net and put a back hand on the ice in past Scrivens on the wrap around the clowns were in full force.
Clearly this is where Carlyle and Nonis have to address some very basic issues.
IT was not a bed of roses for the Jets either. Once they hit autopilot with a 4-1 lead it seemed everyone went to the bar cart to imbibe. The result was giving up 2 goals in the last two minutes of the period and ensuring the Leafs had life for the third.
That glimmer of hope was put to good use when Kessel got in alone and tied the game almost 6 minutes into the third.
What we saw after than was a see-saw battle of effort vs ineptitude and it was one Dustin Byfuglien how was serving pizzas to anyone with a hand out while he dressed as the high court jester. It was awful and you could see Pavelec was having more than a few words about his defender's play, choices and actions happening in front of him. In fact, Byfuglien should be buying the goalie more than a few meals.
Fast forward to the shootout- enough said. Bogosian wins it on his first ever attempt.
That is the first 'win' for the Jets when Pavelec has had a sub .900 save % performance. At least he showed up for the shootout.
Scrivens was worse but Reimer managed to close the door on his 7 shots he faced. Too bad about the shoot out.
If you think that win didn't matter look at this photo from Mark Chipman and David Thomson after Bogosian clinched it.
Moving onto Ottawa today.
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