The Toronto star does a little metareporting today, listing the Canadian CDs that have scored 80 or better on Metacritic this year. No surprises, really.

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Forgot to mention this last night when writing about the Habs-Leafs game. Darcy Tucker was dirty when he played for Montreal, but I think he now holds the unofficial title of dirtiest player in the NHL. The Leafs, as a whole, pretty much have the title locked up as a team as well — having cheap-shot hacks like Tie Domi and Luke Richardson on your team and whining about the refs after every game will do that — but Tucker may be the worst. Last night, as they were getting pounded, Tucker decided to throw an elbow at Alexei Kovalev and clipped him in the forehead. Kovalev isn’t a fighter by any means, but rather is the Canadiens’ most talented offensive player. He isn’t, however, small or week (unlike Mike Ribeiro, who Tucker had decided to jump earlier in the game) so two minutes later as he skated toward the corner — being lined up by Tucker for another hit — he skated into Tucker…elbow first.

I don’t normally like such plays, but the refs hadn’t called Tucker’s elbow attempt, and the little shit was determined to hurt somebody…so Kovalev did something about it. Tucker wasn’t hurt — he got up started punching Kovalev — so there was little harm done, but I honestly think thatbacked the Leafs down enough that the game didn’t spiral completely out of control. That loss practically eliminated them from the playoffs, and they seemed hell-bent on taking out the their frustration on the Canadiens.

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I’m off to my course in about an hour. Posting will probably be sporadic, or at least limited mainly to whining about how the week is going. These courses are usually a little better in that you don’t work until midnight or 1 AM every night, and I haven’t seen my classmates in four months now, so I’m kind of looking forward to this one a bit. That said, by Tuesday I’ll be more than ready to come home. 🙂