All Star Weekend Leaves the Leafs to Laugh At

Dear NHL All Star Weekend,

Thanks for providing me with a refreshing, amusing and completely unexpected source of entertainment these past few days. More reason to make fun of the Toronto Maple Leafs, what Habs fan doesn't love that.

Where should I begin...

Let's start with our good friend Phil Kessel. Selected last in the draft with Alex Ovechkin smiling like a kid in a candy store taking a picture of him as he sat there all by himself. He scored no goals in a game where his team scored 11 and was one of five players on Team Lidstrom to put up a big goose egg on the stats sheet. The NHL felt so bad for him that he was selected last that they gave him a new car. They should have given a car to every fan in Leafs nation because they really are the big losers in this whole situation... Way to go PK...oh wait, that's not right. Subban is actually a promising rookie and you are a daily reminder that the Leafs could have had an even more impressive rookie in Tyler Seguin or better yet Taylor Hall...

Ok what's next. Ron Wilson...voted the NHL coach that players would least like to play for....386 players voted. No kidding eh? I wouldn't want to meet him on the street. Enough said.

So in the aftermath of probably the most successful All Star Weekend, the Leafs organization has come out today to publicly "defend" their beleaguered head coach. 

Yes, ok, he has won over 600 games in the NHL. But he's also lost 582 times. If you look at the wins, losses and the 94 ties, he has a winning percentage of 46%. So he losses more than he wins and he has playoff winning percentage of 49.5%. Yes, his record and his coaching does speak for itself. It "speaks" like a losing coach.

And then the media goes and asks players in the leafs locker room today about playing for Ron Wilson. Cause Clarke MacArthur is really going to sit in his stall in front the press and say, "No actually, I don't like play for Ron Wilson, please bench me for the rest of the season". That would be equivalent to Brian Burke standing up at a podium and saying that trading his first and second round pick in 2010 and his first round pick in 2011 for Phil Kessel was a big mistake.  

Why don't you just take a gun a blow a hole in your foot.

The conclusion of the weekend, the Leafs have an "all star" the players don't think is an all star and a losing coach players in the NHL wouldn't like to play for.

All Star Slam Dunk. Do it again.