Hockey Withdrawal

Garf, its been less than a week and I am dying for the NHL. I'm on hour 3 of the Golden Girls and I let my emotions get the best of me! LESS THAN A WEEEEEEEK!! Balls on chins. '

Anywhoo, slow NHL news day other than the "Dion Phaneuf is now the Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs (see, normally, I'd make a joke here, but thats joke enough) headlines. Not sure how I feel about this. As my prior, as in 3 years ago and I was a young fool, posts say I at some point loved Dion Phaneuf. The same way you love a good melon. Appreciate it when its ripe and sweet and juicy, but then it dates Sean Avery's ex girlfriend and Avery has the line of hockey douche history and all respect and juicy juicy innards has been lost. It doesnt help that his numbers have been on the decline and the once dominant defenseman plays like a skeleton of his old self.However, i dont feel like all hope is lost with this. Perhaps it goes back to that dirty intangibles word, however, it may not be a bad fit. I know little about the Toronto Maple Leafs, probably because they havent won a damn thing in god knows how long, but my most educated guess is that freaking anything would help that club right now. And, if it doesnt help, how much worse can it get?! In my humble opinion, you could have a captain as talented as Eric Staal, only to have it wasted by planning on not bringing anyone in at all to have that talent actually succeed. C'Mon man, even the Columbus Blue Jackets are trying! That aside, Toronto took a chance on a guy who no one really believes in but pretty much as no choice but to believe. I personally believe in the guy, but seems to me like this is a case of believing in a franchise instead of a guy. Its just easy to blame the guy when the franchise has let you down so much.

Granted, as a Rangers fan, I'm not facing the levels of despair Toronto might feel, however, having a waste of a captain, I can say one thing for sure: Its fun to blame someone!

Signing off. May someone somewhere be reading this.