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Subject: Ah...The Good Old Maple Leafs


> Ah...the good old maple leafs
>
> Question: What do the Leafs and the Titanic have in common?
> Answer: They both look good until they hit the ice!
>
> Question: What do you call $37 million spent on mannequins?
> Answer: The Toronto Maple Leafs.
>
> Question: Why doesn't Hamilton have an NHL team?
> Answer: Because, then Toronto would want one too.
>
> Question: How many Leaf's fans does it take to change a light bulb?
> Answer: Six. One to change the bulb and five to tell everyone else
>how good the old bulb used to be.
>
> A Canadian peacekeeper is on patrol in the Middle East when he
>stumbles across a lantern half-buried in the sand. He picks the lantern
up,
>rubs it and out comes a genie. The genie tells the peacekeeper he can
grant
>him one wish - anything he wants. Thinking, the peacekeeper pulls a map
of
>the region out of his back pocket and says he wants nothing more than
peace
>in the region - no more fighting.
> "Wow," the genie says, "that's a tough one. Do you have anything
>else?"
> The peacekeeper thinks a moment and says: "How about the Leafs
>winning the Stanley Cup?" to which the genie replies: "Let me see that
map
>again."
>
> Question: Do you know how many Leafs players it takes to win the
>Stanley Cup?
> Answer: No? Me neither!
>
> A man dies and he goes up to the Pearly Gates and meets St. Peter.
>After they go through the usual business, the man asks him a question:
"St.
>Peter, all my life I've wondered what Hell actually looks like. Would it
>be possible for me to just get a look at it?"
> St. Peter thinks about this and finally replies: "Well, I'm not
>really supposed to do this, but you've lived a good life, why not just
one
>little look? See that elevator over there? Take it down to the very
>bottom. When you get there, the doors will open. Whatever you do, don't
>get out! Then, the doors will close and you'll be brought right back
>here."
> So the man jumps into the elevator and takes it down as far as it
>will go. When it stops and the doors open, the man is greeted not by the
>fire and brimstone that he'd expected, but rather a blinding snowstorm.
The
>doors then shut and he's brought back up to St. Peter.
> "St. Peter," the man says. "That wasn't at all what I was
expecting!
> I always thought hell would be fire and brimstone, but instead it's
just
>ice and snow!"
> "Well," St. Peter replies. "The Leafs must have finally won the
>Cup."
>
> A guy buys a big-screen TV and invites a friend over to watch a
>hockey game one Saturday night. They're watching the game and the Leafs
>score the first goal. The guy's dog starts barking, jumping up and down
and
>wagging its tail like crazy. This lasts for five minutes. The friend
says:
>"What's that all about?"
> "Ah, he always does that whenever the Leafs score a goal," the
dog's
>owner responds.
> "Wow, that's amazing! What does the dog do when the Leafs win a
>game?"
> "Oh, we don't know. We've only owned him for two years."
>
> Question: What is blue and white and lives in the basement?
> Answer: The Toronto Maple Leafs.
>
> Question: Why is the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto?
> Answer: It's the only way the Stanley Cup will ever be in Toronto.

>Yesterday in Toronto it was reported that the hockey club would begin
>wearing brown uniforms next year. Apparently, Leafs do change colours
when
>they fall.
>
> Pat Quinn took $100 million worth of hockey players to the Turin
>Olympics and in just two weeks turned them into the Toronto Maple Leafs.
>
> Question: Why don't the Maple Leafs drink tea?
> Answer: Because the Canadiens have all the Cups!
>
> Little David was in his Grade 5 class when the teacher asked the
>children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers
came
>up: doctor, fireman, policeman, salesman, etc. David was being
>uncharacteristically quiet, so the teacher asked him about his father.
> "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay bar and takes off all his
>clothes in front of other men. Sometimes, if the offer's really good,
he'll
>go out to the alley with some guy and make love with him for money."
> The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the
>other children to work on some colouring and took David aside. "Is that
>really true about your father?" the teacher asked him.
> "No," David replied. "He plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but I
>was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids."
>
> Question: What's the difference between the Toronto Maple Leafs
and
>a cigarette machine?
> Answer: The cigarette machine has PLAYER'S.
>
> Question: When is the only time the Stanley Cup is paraded in
>Toronto?
> Answer: When the Leafs change buildings.
>
> A 7-year-old boy from Toronto was at the centre of a courtroom
drama
>in an Ontario courthouse this morning when he challenged a court ruling
>over who should have legal custody of him.
> The boy has a history of being beaten repeatedly by both parents
and
>the judge had previously awarded custody to the boy's aunt. The boy
>confirmed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he refused to
> live there. When the judge then suggested that he be placed with
his
>grandparents, the boy cried out that they beat him more severely than
>anyone. The judge, in an unprecedented ruling, dramatically allowed the
>boy, in spite of his youth and obvious inexperience, to make his own
choice
>as to who should have legal guardianship over him.
> In front of a packed and cheering courtroom this morning, custody
>was subsequently granted to the Toronto Maple Leafs as the boy stated his
>firm belief that they aren't capable of beating anyone.
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Well from what I here on NHL live is that Winnepeg's new arena is actually too small to put an NHL team in. KC took a poll before they began building the new arena and it was "which would you prefer Hoodlum ball or hockey and Hockey won somthing like 80% of the votes! Hartford gets into this because one of the guys ready to buy the penguins is from there and owns a huge lot of land where he would build an arena.

Yes I hate all the penalities called now and can really feel for these guys!!! I played 1st division in France and in my first game served 20 min. in the sin bin by myself!!!!!!!!! I have never played dirty just very physical!!!! The more noise the hit made the more min they would add on to my penalty. We used to joke and call it the N. american penalty and box min. were at the refs discression. I knew the only French player to ever make it to the NHL and after 2 months with the wings he ran back to France to play with these kind of rules cause it was too rough in the NHL for him.... go figure on that one