Leaf Game Blog....3rd Period

TSN Panel debating what would they get in a trade for Grabovski that would be a fair deal....Carter? No. Van Riemsdyk? No. Getzlaf? All the panel jumps at that one. They were actually saying Grabo is a #1 type of center on the Leafs.....interesting premise but is he really worth $4-4.5 million a year? Don't know about that. If he cracks the 80-90 point range then maybe...

Interesting point made during the 1st intermission about Nashville and what they would want IF they were to ever deal Ryan Suter. An NHL regular, 2 top Prospects AND a 1st round pick....FOR RYAN SUTER?!?!?! Wow they are nuts....

Can someone please beat the crap out of those pesky Senators? WTF?!?! They just keep going. They leas the Big Bad Bruins 3-2 heading into the 3rd. Just shocking.

3rd period is underway....Grabo is still the best player on the ice, dangerous whenever he has the puck.

Malkin really has disappeared in this game. Other then that late 2nd period flurry of activity in the Leafs zone, it looks like Malkin has taken the night off for the most part. Both he and James Neal are MIA today.

Typical Matt Cooke....takes a stupid penalty and of course it results in a power play goal. A top corner blast by Tyler Bozak to make it 3-1. Funny that Lupol, as reported by Ferraro, said to Cooke "Why would you do that?" about tripping him...

And even as I wrote THAT, the Leafs score again and Grabo gets his 7th point in his last 2 games....MacArthur nets his 14th. Pretty good 2nd line production in Grabo and Clarkie.....4-1 now...halfway through the 3rd....looks like the Leafs will jump back into the playoffs with Washington losing tonight to Tampa and New Jersey down to the Rangers by identical 2-1 scores....Boston has woken up now and are up 4-3 now...

Gardiner takes a spill and gives Stevie Sullivan (who is shorter then I am by the way) a partial breakway and he blows a slapper, top cheese to make it 4-2.

It really speaks volumes that in this game, Grabovski's line is playing head to head with Malkin's line and they have outplayed them pretty much from the drop of the puck.


After the longest streak of going without a penalty for the Leafs since the 1940's, Lombardi gets called for hooking on Malkin. This comes after he couldn't lift a shot over a sprawled out Kris Letang, who was all that stood betwen Lombardi and a 5-2 Leaf lead.

Pens looking dangerous on the powerplay but the Leafs kill it. 17 straight Penalty kills in January.

Right after they kill the penalty, a dumb turnover results in a Penguin goal...4-3 now....5 minutes left and now the Pens feel they are in it....

Really starting to hate Rogers......How is it possible that TSN, The Score and even Sportsnet Ontario (their own LOCAL station) are always having issues with my HD receiver. I get perfect reception for Sportsnet West, East and Central....People at Rogers TV, get you act together already....JEEES...


Just over 3 minutes left and Big 'Mo is on the Pens side....the Leafs need a couple of strong shifts to stem the Penguin tide a bit....of course, in this game that means the Grabo line....

Unbelievable finish as the Pens kept pressing in the final minute and it finally paid off with a game tying goal scored with 6.5 seconds left that looked like it banked in off Malkin's leg....he did absolutely nothing all game then gets a fluke goal with barely any time left to tie the game....ridiculous

Off to OT we go.....