1) Leafs fans go to Buffalo (and a lot of other road games) because it is impossible to get tickets here in Toronto. Buffalo is a favourite destination for travelling Leafs fans, since its only a two-hour drive south of here. Even before our dollar hit the roof, the Sabres (much like the Bills) actively courted Ontario hockey fans by offering “Par Nights” and stuff like that. They’ve always been a big part of the audience.

Now, why Leafs fans are actually willing to travel to watch their team play crap hockey is a bit beyond me, but such is the nature of the Leafs fans.

2) To my point above about crap hockey: the Leafs fans who did travel to Buffalo last night had the privilege of seeing Bryan McCabe score the winning goal–on his own net.

If you haven’t seen it, this is a thing of beauty: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=220709&hubname=nhl (be sure to check out the video).

This would be the same Bryan McCabe who tripped over his own net last week in North Carolina. He gets paid $7 mil a year, with a no-trade, no-move contract.

As a Sens fan, I think I may be loving this just a bit too much. :-)

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 3:08 pm | Permalink
  • OrderedChaos wrote:

    I have McCabe on my fantasy team… too bad the own-goal doesn’t count in his (an my) favor, eh? Feh.

    Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

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