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Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: I take Joel for walks around the block, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Aug 2 @ 1:05 PM ET
Who made the goalie change?
- Santo_44

Shut up.
joel878
Joined: 06.13.2009

Aug 2 @ 1:07 PM ET
Question for the parents here:

Have you made a decision on your kids' upcoming hockey season?

I'm starting to lean towards taking the season off and skiing instead.

I can't see the season starting before New Years, and there will be a constant threat of shutdown.

Our league still hasn't announced plans yet (which is understandable).

- Atomic Wedgie


There are a couple teams in the boys league who will be opening camp on the 15th. League insists it's going to be playing. Having to come from 4 provinces away... It would be nice if they just put out a freaking plan...

As a parent... How do you say no to the kid playing junior hockey? Tell him he's skipping the year and 25 years later we will still be the reason he never made the bigs. 🤦‍♂️
Canada Cup
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: This world is just a veil and the face you wear is not your own., ON
Joined: 07.06.2007

Aug 2 @ 1:09 PM ET
Guitar solo of the week;


- winsix


Love watching young white guys playing with the old masters. Mayer holds his own.

I was going to throw some Cuban jazz back at you but I’m cooking gumbo so here’s some Dr. John for you. Our cat by the same name woke up enough to lift his head when I put it on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWvdO3l4_P8
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: I take Joel for walks around the block, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Aug 2 @ 1:16 PM ET
There are a couple teams in the boys league who will be opening camp on the 15th. League insists it's going to be playing. Having to come from 4 provinces away... It would be nice if they just put out a freaking plan...

As a parent... How do you say no to the kid playing junior hockey? Tell him he's skipping the year and 25 years later we will still be the reason he never made the bigs. 🤦‍♂️

- joel878

Hey kid, ur not playing competitive hockey this year. There’s too many uncertainties around covid, and it’s good for you to try other activities.
Santo_44
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 10.20.2014

Aug 2 @ 1:20 PM ET
Shut up.
- Arctic_AARDVARK

Brings me back to my angry days

It’ll get better
winsix
Season Ticket Holder
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Henry Hudson's Fairchild 24 South Porcupine
Joined: 04.03.2016

Aug 2 @ 1:25 PM ET
Love watching young white guys playing with the old masters. Mayer holds his own.

I was going to throw some Cuban jazz back at you but I’m cooking gumbo so here’s some Dr. John for you. Our cat by the same name woke up enough to lift his head when I put it on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWvdO3l4_P8

- Canada Cup


Luv me some Dr. John. I was lucky enough to see him a few times including once with Ringo Starr's All Star band. His version of Iko Iko is great, one of the few originals from New Orleans. The New Orleans Dixieland jazz sound from the 20's made famous by Louis Armstrong inspired me to post this piece. Not well known much anymore but it was a huge pop hit back in the day.






joel878
Joined: 06.13.2009

Aug 2 @ 1:25 PM ET
Hey kid, ur not playing competitive hockey this year. There’s too many uncertainties around covid, and it’s good for you to try other activities.
- Arctic_AARDVARK


You don't have teenage kids do you. Haha.

Sure is easy with the other two when it comes to activities and schools. But when you've got one who has absolutely worked his ass off for hockey, goes to the gym every day, is so devoted to hockey he's chucked all his friends because he refuses to get around people who drink and do drugs... And managed to get signed by a junior team and then carded, it's just a little bit more difficult to say what you just said when the league is going forward and everyone is playing.
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: I take Joel for walks around the block, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Aug 2 @ 1:27 PM ET
Brings me back to my angry days

It’ll get better

- Santo_44

Lmao, I’d hate to know how that went if you’re “healthy” now.

Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: I take Joel for walks around the block, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Aug 2 @ 1:29 PM ET
You don't have teenage kids do you. Haha.

Sure is easy with the other two when it comes to activities and schools. But when you've got one who has absolutely worked his ass off for hockey, goes to the gym every day, is so devoted to hockey he's chucked all his friends because he refuses to get around people who drink and do drugs... And managed to get signed by a junior team and then carded, it's just a little bit more difficult to say what you just said when the league is going forward and everyone is playing.

- joel878

What team?

And obviously if he has a legit shot, you don’t deny him that opportunity. But for the 95% of the other hockey parents out there, it shouldn’t be that difficult of a discussion.
joel878
Joined: 06.13.2009

Aug 2 @ 1:36 PM ET
What team?

And obviously if he has a legit shot, you don’t deny him that opportunity. But for the 95% of the other hockey parents out there, it shouldn’t be that difficult of a discussion.

- Arctic_AARDVARK


Blind River. We have been pretty reserved parents through all of this, our kids haven't been in a retail store since March. We have decided the other two will be doing schooling from home again as Alberta's schooling plan is a joke.

Tougher when this is a kids life, and there's nothing to base the information off of. He would consider a missed year to have destroyed his 'career', because of course he's a teenage kid who doesn't want to hear anything that isn't about playing hockey for a living.

As far as I'm concerned, these leagues shouldn't be telling their players (the ones who are minors and have someone else making decisions) that their seasons are a go, unless they're issuing a plan to back it up at the same time. Actual information to look at would really help the parents here.

Not that hockey parents aren't used to being held hostage by minor hockey, etc., to this point I guess. 🤷‍♂️
Canada Cup
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: This world is just a veil and the face you wear is not your own., ON
Joined: 07.06.2007

Aug 2 @ 1:43 PM ET
Luv me some Dr. John. I was lucky enough to see him a few times including once with Ringo Starr's All Star band. His version of Iko Iko is great, one of the few originals from New Orleans. The New Orleans Dixieland jazz sound from the 20's made famous by Louis Armstrong inspired me to post this piece. Not well known much anymore but it was a huge pop hit back in the day.


- winsix


That’s an amazing song, thanks. This kind of music adds such sophistication on top of these traditional tunes. My son had a chance to see Trombone Shorty and his band just marching through the crowds at some festival in Delaware.

Some guys besides Armstrong kind of broke through and made it a bit popularly. Al Hirt and Alan Toussain (who played at Koerner Hall with David Bromberg) and Aaron Neville were all known to one degree or another.

Oh, if you get a chance check out Dr. John and Etta James doing I’d Rather Go Blind
Canada Cup
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: This world is just a veil and the face you wear is not your own., ON
Joined: 07.06.2007

Aug 2 @ 1:46 PM ET
Lmao, I’d hate to know how that went if you’re “healthy” now.
- Arctic_AARDVARK


There has been amazing progress in the development of psychotropic drugs.










Or so I’ve heard.
winsix
Season Ticket Holder
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Henry Hudson's Fairchild 24 South Porcupine
Joined: 04.03.2016

Aug 2 @ 1:52 PM ET
That’s an amazing song, thanks. This kind of music adds such sophistication on top of these traditional tunes. My son had a chance to see Trombone Shorty and his band just marching through the crowds at some festival in Delaware.

Some guys besides Armstrong kind of broke through and made it a bit popularly. Al Hirt and Alan Toussain (who played at Koerner Hall with David Bromberg) and Aaron Neville were all known to one degree or another.

Oh, if you get a chance check out Dr. John and Etta James doing I’d Rather Go Blind

- Canada Cup


Trombone Shorty is fantastic.
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: I take Joel for walks around the block, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Aug 2 @ 1:58 PM ET
Blind River. We have been pretty reserved parents through all of this, our kids haven't been in a retail store since March. We have decided the other two will be doing schooling from home again as Alberta's schooling plan is a joke.

Tougher when this is a kids life, and there's nothing to base the information off of. He would consider a missed year to have destroyed his 'career', because of course he's a teenage kid who doesn't want to hear anything that isn't about playing hockey for a living.

As far as I'm concerned, these leagues shouldn't be telling their players (the ones who are minors and have someone else making decisions) that their seasons are a go, unless they're issuing a plan to back it up at the same time. Actual information to look at would really help the parents here.

Not that hockey parents aren't used to being held hostage by minor hockey, etc., to this point I guess. 🤷‍♂️

- joel878

Long may he run.


joel878
Joined: 06.13.2009

Aug 2 @ 2:00 PM ET
Long may he run.
- Arctic_AARDVARK


Is it a poop hole?! He had a few offers, one in Manitoba and another in Ontario. They seemed to have the best plan for him in Blind River so he picked them.
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: I take Joel for walks around the block, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Aug 2 @ 2:06 PM ET
Is it a poop hole?! He had a few offers, one in Manitoba and another in Ontario. They seemed to have the best plan for him in Blind River so he picked them.
- joel878

Just passed through a bunch of times.. never really explored it. There’s a timmies 🤷‍♂️

But being from a small town in North Ontario, it’s sorta depressing in the winter.
systemtool
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Real men always have to poo, ON
Joined: 09.12.2007

Aug 2 @ 2:12 PM ET
Coaches have an impact, sure. If they didnt, their position wouldnt exist.
As for the blues, ummm im sure the goalie change had a much bigger impact on the change from last to cul winners.

- Fakepartofme



Again the coach change could have been what resulted in the goalie change. Ya know what I mean now?
joel878
Joined: 06.13.2009

Aug 2 @ 2:13 PM ET
Just passed through a bunch of times.. never really explored it. There’s a timmies 🤷‍♂️

But being from a small town in North Ontario, it’s sorta depressing in the winter.

- Arctic_AARDVARK


Yeah I lived in Ontario as a teenager, it's all depressing in winter. He's in for a reality check there coming from southern Alberta. He's never had to experience real snow, cold with humidity involved, really a lack of sun in general... At any point during his life.
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: I take Joel for walks around the block, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Aug 2 @ 2:19 PM ET
Yeah I lived in Ontario as a teenager, it's all depressing in winter. He's in for a reality check there coming from southern Alberta. He's never had to experience real snow, cold with humidity involved, really a lack of sun in general... At any point during his life.
- joel878

Lol so true.

I think he’ll feel a little claustrophobic in Ontario. Alberta is so open and spacious. In Ontario it’s all trees and rock everywhere. Blind River is a highway town, lots of traffic passing through.
joel878
Joined: 06.13.2009

Aug 2 @ 2:33 PM ET
Lol so true.

I think he’ll feel a little claustrophobic in Ontario. Alberta is so open and spacious. In Ontario it’s all trees and rock everywhere. Blind River is a highway town, lots of traffic passing through.

- Arctic_AARDVARK


I get you there, I grew up in Nova Scotia and after 15 years in Alberta I feel claustrophobic when I visit the east coast. It feels like visiting another planet, even the sun seems different.

I hate northern Ontario, (frank)ing endless stretches of nothing but wilderness and OPP. Its the worst place in Canada to drive through.
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: I take Joel for walks around the block, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Aug 2 @ 2:37 PM ET
I get you there, I grew up in Nova Scotia and after 15 years in Alberta I feel claustrophobic when I visit the east coast. It feels like visiting another planet, even the sun seems different.

I hate northern Ontario, (frank)ing endless stretches of nothing but wilderness and OPP. Its the worst place in Canada to drive through.

- joel878



Canada Cup
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: This world is just a veil and the face you wear is not your own., ON
Joined: 07.06.2007

Aug 2 @ 3:20 PM ET
I hope the Bruins don’t leave a mess in the dressing room when they’re done today
joel878
Joined: 06.13.2009

Aug 2 @ 3:39 PM ET
I hope the Bruins don’t leave a mess in the dressing room when they’re done today
- Canada Cup


Marchand should have to dress in his own personalized bubble, before he decides to start licking stalls.
Canada Cup
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: This world is just a veil and the face you wear is not your own., ON
Joined: 07.06.2007

Aug 2 @ 3:48 PM ET
Marchand should have to dress in his own personalized bubble, before he decides to start licking stalls.
- joel878



Here’s hoping they beat the crap out of each other
Mike Augello
Commissioner
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Buffalo, NY
Joined: 06.25.2006

Aug 2 @ 3:51 PM ET
new blog everyone
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