Bob McKenzie on Winnik trade, what’s next for Leafs
Bob McKenzie on TSN Drive: Winnik trade: [Zach] Sill is obviously a component where the contact had to come back the other way. The Penguins not only needed the Leafs to eat half of Winnik’s salary for...
View ArticleLeafs Notebook – March 4
A deadline of selling rentals and stockpiling depth picks was expected, until the Columbus Blue Jackets came calling with an offer too good to be true. Somehow, Toronto got out of the David Clarkson...
View ArticleLeafs Notebook – March 10
On trade deadline day, it was revealed the Leafs and Red Wings were making a push to get a deal done that would send Dion Phaneuf to the Detroit Red Wings. In the aftermath, the potential deal, or at...
View ArticleGame 69 Scoring Chances: Flames 6 vs. Maple Leafs 3
Toronto have had some horrible starts this year, but this was one of the worst. They didn’t generate a single even strength chance in the first period, and managed to give up two goals on a five minute...
View ArticleLeafs Notebook – March 17
When the Maple Leafs fired Randy Carlyle 40 games into the season, their record stood at 21-16-3. They are 6-22-3 since then. On the surface, that is nothing but ugly and it has led to some...
View ArticleLeafs Notebook – March 25
One of the main questions in Toronto down the stretch has been whether or not Dave Nonis will be General Manager of the team moving forward. It is a reasonable question, but perhaps it is not the right...
View ArticleGame 76 Scoring Chances: Maple Leafs 4 vs. Senators 3 (OT)
This was a tight game in chances through two periods, with neither team doing much. A ninety second flurry early in the second featured six chances and two Ottawa Senator goals, putting the Toronto...
View ArticleLeafs Notebook – April 1
The old saying goes that one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure, but perhaps sometimes the opposite is true. This season the Leafs conducted a fire sale because they had no other choice; the team...
View ArticleGame 79 Scoring Chances: Bruins 2 vs. Maple Leafs 1 (SO)
This was the type of game we have seen quite often from the Leafs over the last couple of years, but not much during this recent slide. They were out-chanced 5-1 at even strength by the Bruins in the...
View ArticleGame 82 Scoring Chances: Canadiens 4 vs. Maple Leafs 3 (SO)
The Leafs’ disappointing season finished with one of their stronger performances of 2015, against a playoff-bound Montreal team. The Leafs out-chanced Montreal in the first period, and despite blowing...
View ArticleLeafs Notebook Season Finale – April 20
If you watched Brendan Shanahan’s end of season press conference and began wondering who the next GM will be, you missed the forest for the trees. It was pretty clear last season, and abundantly clear...
View ArticleTuesday Mashup: Sheldon Keefe ‘very likely’ to join Leafs organization for...
This would seem to be one of Leafland’s worst kept secrets, but Darren Dreger reported yesterday that Soo Greyhounds head coach Sheldon Keefe will likely join his former GM Kyle Dubas in Toronto next...
View ArticleFriday Mashup: Leafs ‘very interested’ in Ryan O’Reilly, Red Wings out on...
Friedman: Leafs still hot on O’Reilly Elliotte Friedman suggested today that the Leafs are still “very interested” in 24-year-old centerman and 2016-UFA-to be Ryan O’Reilly, with Joe Sakic starting to...
View ArticleFirst Thoughts on the Dion Phaneuf trade
Being a hardcore hockey fan in the cap era can do funny things to one’s head. For one, I haven’t once caught myself caring about the result of a Leafs game this year – for someone who used to miss...
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