Time to Start Hoping For Injuries or Illness?
The Leafs go into Long Island tonight, the same place where Dubie struck the final blow to seal the Leafs out of 8th place. Now the Leafs are again on a “playoff run”, but as most of us understand, it’s less of a run for the playoffs and more of a run from a good draft pick.
However, with Sundin on the bench, and now Antropov out as well, things are starting to look up for the Leafs possible draft hopes for this summer. The fact of the matter is, the Leafs are still well within a very good finishing place if they can seriously screw up the remaining 9 games. So the question now is, is it wrong to hope that the fate of Mats and Nik strikes some other key players?
The most obvious would be Vesa Toskala. If Toskala were unable to play, the Leafs would more of less have 9 guaranteed losses. Is it wrong to hope that for some reason Toskala can’t take the ice? No one is hoping for a career ender or anything, but lets say he was to hurt his foot or twist his ankle. Something insignificant overall, but significant enough in the time being to keep him out of the net.
Personally, I’m undecided. I don’t like the idea of enjoying someone else’s pain, but at the same time, it could be the only hope we have left of drafting one of the big names in the upcoming draft.
The real question though is not if it’s alright to hope Toskala can’t play, but who has a crowbar and is willing to do the dirty work?
Stumble it!
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
at this point in time i think its safe to say the leafs wont be going down easy. if they finish 9th again i stil think the season will be a waste.
March 27th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I agree with “Fraser”, again.. anything outside of the playoffs OR a good draft pick will validate that fact that this was a waste of a season.