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	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS
1.Buff*	82	53	22	7	113
2.NJ*	82	49	24	9	107
3.Atl*	82	43	28	11	97
4.Ott	82	48	25	9	105
5.Pitts	82	47	24	11	105
6.NYR	82	42	30	10	94
7.TB	82	44	33	5	93
8. NYI	82	40	30	12	92
9. Tor	82	40	31	11	91
10.Mon	82	42	34	6	90
11.Car	82	40	34	8	88
12.Flor	82	35	31	16	86
13.Bos	82	35	41	6	76
14.Wash	82	28	40	14	70
15.Phi	82	22	48	12	56

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Another Controversy on a Slow Day?

Members of the media love to stir up rumors and controversies surrounding their home teams. It happens in all cities, especially in Toronto when it involves the Maple Leafs. With off-days or no player movements to report, the challenge of writing about the team becomes difficult. With attempting to write daily posts in here for the past couple months, I've come to the conclusion that it's not as easy as I thought it would be. Coming up with new stories or pieces of information involving only one team can be difficult. Avoiding the same topics can be hard, you can only make fun of Nik Antropov and Wade Belak or question the decision making process of management so many times. Writing positive aspects of a team that has been playing terrible is a challenge, negative things about players and teams play is fairly easy.

So on a slow media yesterday for the Leafs, there is another article attempting to stir the pot surrounding the Leafs goalie situation. This is not the first time this season that there has been an article written about who the number 1 goalie should be. If I do remember correctly, I think it fell on a slow news day. There should be no controversy as to who the number one goalie is on the team. Andrew Raycroft is the number one goalie. Sure, Raycroft's goals against average has been increasing lately, but the team has been playing bad in front of him, he can't stop everything. Your number one goalie should be able to win games that you should have lost; see the beginning of the season. He has held them in games, taken shutout leads into the third, only to see the team in front of him collapse. If players are standing around uncovered or allowed to repeatedly skate untouched to the net, get repeated whacks in close, goals are going to in no matter how good your goaltender is playing.

What has Aubin done to show that he should be the starting goalie? Nothing. He has played in 10 games this season, starting 6 of them. Only twice has his GAA for the game been under 3. His save percentage sits at .882, compared to Raycroft's .898.