Unthinkable
10-14-2003, 07:32 PM
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/Sports/2003/10/14/225409.html
Tue, October 14, 2003
Fans will take just so much
By MIKE ULMER, TORONTO SUN
A friend told me the problem with dating women over 30 is that they come already angry. Sort of like Maple Leafs fans.
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Players make lots of noise about the unrelenting pressure of playing in Toronto and while the media can be nasty, the local heroes always have been given a gentle ride by the paying customers.
The last player to invoke a measure of rage was defenceman Larry Murphy, who fled town in 1997 and found comfort in two Stanley Cups earned with the Red Wings.
When you consider that the Leafs, over the past few years, have employed the sleepy Robert Reichel, the combustible Darcy Tucker, the imminently questionable Jyrke Lumme, well let's just say there have been nights when there was plenty of fodder for booing.
Now, the Leafs sleepwalk through opening night and the place sounds like Philadelphia, where they'd boo kids at an Easter egg hunt.
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Tue, October 14, 2003
Fans will take just so much
By MIKE ULMER, TORONTO SUN
A friend told me the problem with dating women over 30 is that they come already angry. Sort of like Maple Leafs fans.
.
.
.
Players make lots of noise about the unrelenting pressure of playing in Toronto and while the media can be nasty, the local heroes always have been given a gentle ride by the paying customers.
The last player to invoke a measure of rage was defenceman Larry Murphy, who fled town in 1997 and found comfort in two Stanley Cups earned with the Red Wings.
When you consider that the Leafs, over the past few years, have employed the sleepy Robert Reichel, the combustible Darcy Tucker, the imminently questionable Jyrke Lumme, well let's just say there have been nights when there was plenty of fodder for booing.
Now, the Leafs sleepwalk through opening night and the place sounds like Philadelphia, where they'd boo kids at an Easter egg hunt.
.
.
.