Comments on: McCabe, McCabe, McCabe!!!

By: mojo19

mojo19 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:55:12 +0000

Its true reconstructive knee surgery on his left knee, and before it fully heeled a bad injury on the right knee would force reconstuctive surgery on that leg as well. Pat Quinn would go onto say: He'll be one of our top 3 forwards, but everytime he gets healthy he finds a way to get hurt again.

Paul Maurice while with the hurricanes would urge Jim Rutherford to make a deal for Antropov when he was involved in trade rumours, (according to Maurice) Rutherford would try but Quinn would not deal Antropov.

Ken Hitch***** called Antropov the leafs "best player" during the 2004 playoffs.

By: leafy

leafy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:50:22 +0000

Interesting. I remember that game he had in Florida at age 19 when he scored a hat trick (3 highlight reel goals) and the Leafs won 6-4. But then the knee injuries hit and it's taken a while for him to get healthy like when he started.

By: mojo19

mojo19 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:40:45 +0000

Its true. Good article in the Sun today as Lance Hornby had a recent interview with former GM Mike Smith, who said when they drafted Antropov that he would be a project and they would have to wait a while before he paid off, but it would be worth it. Mike was right.

Another former leaf employee who left and went back to Sweden (I want to say his name was something Hedin, and not Pierre, but maybe Pierre's father) Once warned Pat Quinn: "Never trade Antropov, no matter what the cost."

By: Hoondog2

Hoondog2 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:46:29 +0000

For sure, i feel your pain. These guys will pull out of it.

By: RealisticLeaf

RealisticLeaf — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:04:54 +0000

McCabe hasn't shown me that he has adjusted yet defensively to the new rules and speed of the game.

And i am sorry but kubina looks flat out lost out there. they try him on the PP and the PK and 5 on 5...how are they supose to utilize him?LOL

I apologize man but these two are awful and yes i know McCabe is not going anywhere...i know ALL about his contract. Who in their right mind would want his contract.....no one.

Sorry bud but Murphy yesterday made no sense to me and still does not.

Also i believe the fans are also angry with JFJ and his dumb contracts he gave out with these guys. I believe that is a lot of the backlash...not all the players fault as i believe it is also that people ... like myself are pissed with dumb management.

i think it is all the above.

By: leafy

leafy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:25:29 +0000

How times have changed. It seems like yesterday when Leaf fans were on this site proposing trades like Antropov + 2 draft picks for whomever.

By: mojo19

mojo19 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:13:57 +0000

Yeah, they had to do that, imagine how bad it would have looked if one of them called him out? Yikes.

Nik Kypreo's last night on Sportsnet, on Nik Antropov: "He's the closest thing the leafs have to an untouchable."

I think Nik meant just forwards because Kaberle is overall more valuable, but I agree with that statement otherwise.

By: Hoondog2

Hoondog2 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:47:39 +0000

relax, this is a good team that is a little lost. Booing WILL NOT help matters at all. McCabe is staying and that is that. I would like to see Kubina moved, and the only reason being is he can't be utilized on the Maple Leafs properly.

By: RealisticLeaf

RealisticLeaf — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:26:32 +0000

As I have stated before. McCabe is not only to blame. Kubina right now should also bear the brunt. They should hold this burden equally. The two of them are the main reason for the lack of D in their own end. When either of them are on the ice in their own end I suddenly hear circus music start playing.

Seriuosly....watch Kubina. I never seen someone so lost that plays D in my whole life. If he was a horse I would have had him put down!!

Larry Murphy...former Leaf whipping boy...was on the radio yesterday going on that if people were true Leaf fans they would not boo either of these guys. I got news for you Murphy....it is because we are Leaf fans that we boo them. They are booed cause we want Leaf management to take their head outta their @ss and do something about this mess they created!! We boo not fully because of the player...but the mess that management has created. Murphy was right off the mark here. When you get players who are massively overpaid and not playing up to their contracts then there is bound to be an outcry from fans. Against both the player and the management group who gave this to them.

I for one am going to boo every time that McCabe and Kubina are on the ice!! To protest what a crap is on the ice.

What was in JFJ's head to give McCabe this kind of contract? And for that fact Kubina's huge numbers. Any other GM in the NHL would have looked at the young quality defencemen that were coming through the system and thought to themselves....wow...we got some good young D comin up. I think I will spend the money to get some good young forwords on this team to go with the D. But no JFJ spent the money on the lousy D we see now. What an @ss. It is obvious to me he did not see the talent in Coli, White, Kronwall, Woz, Harrison , and the traded Bell. That is a lot of talent to underestimate. It is obvious to me that for this reason alone that JFJ can not judge talent. Take your pick right now and any of these guys would look better then McCabe or Kubina.

By: Rico420

Rico420 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:25:44 +0000

Hell I wouldn't even consider McCabe one of the top 20 d-men in the league you guys are lucky that you still have Kaberle or else things would look really bad in Toronto...I still can't get over the fact that Hal Gill has more points then McCabe this year thus far.

Gotta say it was nice to see all the Leafs come to his defense though.