trade Roberto Luongo for Brad Richards
The Waffle is a symbolic gesture for Leafs GM Brian Burke.
You see what the Leafs required was a complete rebuild, start from scratch approach.
But because of Burke's Ego they get the Super-Quick Retool.. in which they trade away prospects and draft picks for lazy, one-dimensional players..
Thus the Waffle = quick meal (retool)
Instead of patiently making a full meal and well balanced meal for the hungry Toronto fans - Burke opted for the Eggo approach - quick and unsatisfying and unfulfilling!
How is Howard inferior? His last 40 games before tonight he is 30-6-4. Maybe he was unheard of before but you have to start somewhere. Yes Luongo let in 2 softies oh sorry I forgot he is supposed to be god like and stop everything. Hey it's like they say a goalie makes a mistake and it usually ends up in the back of the net. Where was this gibberish the last ten games when he was 9-1-0 and had like a 1.7 GAA and a pretty high save % and the only goalie who was better in those stats was Tim Thomas. Or when he shut out Chicago in Chicago which rarely happens? Oh yeah I forgot 1 bad game eliminates all that. I don't see you ragging on Ehrhoff, is it because he's German?
Anyways he was bound to have a bad game at some point and give me a break they still got a chump point and they are 9-1-2 the last 12 games. They are starting to gel slowly and once they get Salo back and if his achilles heals properly the d will get better as well.
On another note notice that with the puck hog Raymond out of the line up that the Kesler line is clicking right along. Funny what replacing speed (Raymond) with speed with a brain (Hansen) does. Maybe use Raymond and Bieksa as trade bait when Salo comes back and get a 4th line center in return?
Here's a question for the TTP masses.
When was the last LOLuongo outplayed an "inferior" goalie????? He was simply shocking tonight and THE reason they lost. I'm not sure I can handle another ten years of this guy.