C'mon Leafs!

It's only been an hour, but I feel I need to post this rant.

The Leafs are on a 7 game losing streak. Lost every game since McCabe's been out, which kind of tells you how much the team needs him. What should be done? Well, a few players out with injuries should not lead to a whole team malfunction. Even if they are key players. The coach's job is to fill in the gaps with capable players and keep the team from breaking down.

Pat Quinn has this 'stick with experienced players' mentality and I think he's relying too much on them. Sure, experience is important and they are your better players most of the time. However, when you don't give ice time to the relatively inexperienced players, they'll never get on your list of "experienced players". When your key players get injured (which happens more when you give them more ice time) and your inexperienced players are the only ones you can depend on, how do you think they'll handle a surge in ice time?

Here's how he should be thinking: Only let players play if you'd normally let them play. Now before you start thinking about the issues with injuries and not enough men, read deeper. The key to solving the issues is to change your definition of normal. This means that he should plan on people being injured and regardless of the injury combinations, he should be able to go on as if nothing happened. Of course, you can't plan for all injury combinations.. but he should be able to at least get by when 3 key players are injured.

Another thing Pat Quinn likes to do is match up the opponent's best with his best. Unless you've got favourable match-ups in other lines, this is a bad approach. Sure, it sounds cowardly, but you should be getting more ice time than your opponent where your 5 men are better than theirs.

Right now, the Leafs are just lucky the No.8 team in the conference is doing as badly as them. The Thrashers have yet to pull away with it, staying just a point ahead, while the Leafs are in their biggest slump in a while.

The Raptor's GM recently got fired (probably undeserved [or deserved, but very late]). If you look at the records of the Raptors and the Leafs the past 8 weeks, you'll see that the Raptors have been doing a lot better. Will we see something done to this team by the MLSE? As a Leaf fan, I sure hope so.

Happy new year!

Yeah! I know it's late. I've been busy. Yes, it's been a long time since I've posted... not that anyone reads this.

The Conservative party won the election a few nights back... Feels odd since the Liberals have been in power since I came to Canada.

Did I vote? No. I'm with Hiko Seijuro when he says that a user of Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu shouldn't take sides in any political affair. It would cause a tragedy... (Yes, I am a master of the sword)

So what have I been doing if I wasn't voting? Well, first of all, voting takes less than a day so that wouldn't even begin to be a reason for not posting. I've been holding back on posting here and have been writing in a little book every now and then. I won't share what I write in there though.

I recently quit playing Team Fortress Classic. I used to play in the range of 40-60 hours a week. It was just a useless addiction that probably won't take me anywhere in life.

I just started a new school term and have been going to most of my classes. Here are stats for the period of Jan. 3 to Jan. 27:

• Gone to scheduled class: 55/57 (96.5%!)
• Total number of hours in class: 69.5
  
• Average number of hours in class per (5-day) week: 18.3 (look at the calendar before e-mailing me)
  
• Submitted assignments: 8/8 (100%!)
  

This is not so bad for someone who used to go to less than 10% of all classes and submitted less than 40% of all assignments in previous terms.

Add in the fact that I actually have to spend time working on the assignments and going to client and group meetings and you'd think I could wrap it and hurl it at your face as an excuse for not posting... but you're forgetting about December! Well I've been busy then with exams and not having an internet connection. So there.

Anyway, like I said, we have a new prime minister. Mr. Harper has been very public and just three days in as the big man, he's already standing up for Canada about the waters in the north.

An article predicts that Canada will be a bigger producer than Saudi Arabia one day. Look around you right now. You might be in the presence of an undercover American pretending to be Canadian, just ready to strike some major cities in the US once Canada finds those fields in an attempt to make Canada out to be a terrorist nation! Yes, you read that crazy long sentence correctly. Your mother or father or even little Billy could be a terrorist of tomorrow!