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Would that also mean the Leafs get to make a run to the Cup, only to have a Gretzky-like player ruin it all in the Conference finals?

I don't think the league needs to contract, as I think there are markets that can sustain a hockey team out there. I know Canada could have a few more teams, but that is a move that the League is resisting as they know that America is a bigger potential market and has more advertising revenue. Boston and Chicago are classic franchises, and they aren't going anywhere. Quebec and Winnipeg could probably support teams now with revenue sharing, the higher Canadian dollar, and the salary cap. Southern Ontario could easily support a team, although the Leafs and Sabres would not like to see a team move there. Any major US city that does not have a pro sports team already could be a potential market for a NHL franchise, depending on location and size. A team in Vegas could survive I think, as they have been clamboring for some sort of professional team there from any sport for a long time. My ideal NHL would be one where the Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup in 2007/08.

Toronto should put an offer sheet out for Lundqvist. Oh, and on TSN.ca, Darren Dreger says that if the Islanders cant keep Blake and/or Smyth, Toronto should try and convince the Islanders and Bryan McCabe into making a deal, with McCabe going to the Islanders mostly to free space for Toronto to make a big splash in free agency.

I'm looking at the list of unrestricted free agents for Toronto, and other then Nik Antropov (who they already signed) and Bates Battaglia, I don't see the Leafs keeping any of them. Paul Maurice is a big fan of Battaglia, and he was a hard worker no matter the minutes he was given. Mats Sundin isn't on the list because of the option year on his contract, and Carlo Colaiacovo and Jay Harrison are both RFAs and I think both will be resigned by the team soon. The list of UFAs not including the two above is: Travis Green Tyson Nash Jeff O'Neill Michael Peca Yanic Perreault Aleksander Suglobov (VI) Jean-Sebastien Aubin With the salary cap going up and with these players leaving, I think the Leafs will have $5 or 6 million to work with this off-season, barring any moves - and the only big money players without no-trade clauses are Kubina and Gill. I don't think there will be a lot of interest in Gill (and I think he played a role with the team, especially when the team was down two on the penalty kill), and Kubina showed his strength and was just starting to turn it up offensively when the season ended. His huge contract would keep teams away. Gill and Kubina were both in the top five among Leaf players in plus/minus, with Gill leading the team with a +11. The Canucks have a ton of free agents this year. Resigning Pyatt was a good move. I think Trevor Linden and Bryan Smolinski are guys that need to be kept among that group. Stephen Weiss is an unrestricted free agent that no one listed as someone to get. He is still developing as a player, scored twenty goals in as a secondary guy for Florida, and would be a good pick up at the right price for anyone. And OMG Nathan Horton is a player that, if he leaves Florida, will be highly coveted and rightly so. Only 22 years old, he scored 31 last season and is going to be a top power forward for years to come. If Toronto decides to spend a lot of their money this off-season on one dude, I think that Horton would be the way to go. I forgot that the Islanders have Jason Blake to resign as well as Smyth, Kozlov, Poti, and Trent Hunter (RFA).

I'll be happy if the Leafs pick up at least one of these players. But they'll probably go with Yashin and overpay him As for the two goalies, both are better than Raycrost, even though Aebischer isn't the best, he's still better than Raycroft. I keep on asking myself Maybe Raycroft had a bad year, and maybe we should let him grow with the Leafs and improve? I think I could give him one more season to at least improve.

NHL 08 has a release date of September 11th, 2007. It sounds like it's going to be an amazing game, just like the 07 game was.

Transformers is a blockbuster.... Knocked Up was a fun movie to go and see, I should have taken a date though. It would have been even better.

Did I mention that the Maple Leafs resigned Nik Antropov for 2 years, roughly $2,000,000 a year? Oh, and Manny Fernandez wants out of Minnesota. Backstrom just signed a big money deal for the next two years, but Wild managment have stated that they plan to keep both. Do you really think they will keep both? And if not, who do you see going for Fernandez?

I love playing the FIFA games, despite knowing little about the sport. And Winning Eleven is great to play, especially after playing FIFA for awhile. The amount of stuff you can do in Winning Eleven is awesome.

Fucking Blue Jays. They were picking up some momentum with some awesome come from behind wins, then they go and drop the last two to the D-Rays and lose the series.

Enter The Matrix was fun when I played it. The Star Wars games for the Super Nintender were good platformers, and the Lord Of The Rings games by EA for the PS2 and XBOX were fun as well. The Warriors was a lot of fun, especially playing with a friend. Jurrasic Park had some good games across a bunch of platforms. Goldeneye 007 was a classic game, one that sold a pile of N64's and was a catalyst for making multiplayer games as popular and huge as they are now. I thought The Godfather was also a good way of using the license for the classic movie. These are the exceptions in most cases, but it all depends on the developer. EA tends to put time and effort into their games based on movie licenses, while other developers are looking to simply cash in.

I thought they would win it, but I was hoping for seven. Series that go to seven mean a lot more, they are more memorable. If anything, this could be a good thing for teams in the area. I know it didn't for the Tampa Bay/Florida region, but it could be a spark to get people in LA and California interested in hockey. According to TSN, Jerry Bruckheimer has talked to Gary Bettman about a team going Las Vegas. Bettman has said that any sort of expansion or relocation would be at least 4-5 years away.

The episode where he takes some celebrities into a haunted hotel is awesome, just because Three Six Mafia kick a lot of ass.

1. Mario 2. Master Chief 3. Solid Snake 4. Ness 5. Tommy Vercetti 6. Scorpion 7. Luigi 8. Wario 9. Sonic 10. Spider-Man

Pulp Fiction vs Rear Window City Of God vs Sunset Blvd. Group B: Casablanca vs Seven Samurai Psycho vs Lawrence Of Arabia Group C: Godfather vs Star Wars Goodfellas vs Fight Club Group D: Schindler's List vs Raiders Of The Lost Ark Once Upon A Time In The West vs Amelie Group E: Empire Strikes Back vs One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Usual Suspects vs Memento Group F: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly vs 12 Angry Men North By Northwest vs Two Towers Group G: Shawshank Redemption vs Return Of The King Doctor Strangelove vs Silence Of The Lambs Group H: Godfather II vs Fellowship Of The Ring Citizen Kane vs It's A Wonderful Life

I don't think they can suspend Alfredsson for shooting at Niedermayer. The puck may have hit a bump in the ice and changed course, or Alfredsson could have just accidently turned his stick or something in the backswing. I think he did do it on purpose, but it is not a play I can see him being suspended for.

Alfie definitly tried to smoke Niedermayer with that shot. But I think it was a funny thing to do - you don't like the guy on the other side, so just fire a puck at him! It worked to take out Scott Stevens a couple of years ago (although Kubina says it was a mistake).

Anaheim has a chance to win it at home. I kind of hope that the Senators can win the next two and take the series to seven, but I also don't want to see the Senators have another chance to win this series.