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Going Gets Tough in Leafs’ Second Half
Posted on 13 Jan 2012 by Ben Fisher.
Brady Hoke, the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines football team, offered a great quote recently on the subject of gauging your club’s prospects by looking at rival teams when he told Dan Patrick, “If we’ve got to talk negatives about other schools, we don’t have enough positives to talk about with what we have.” That seems to be the general mentality of team coaches and executives...
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Leafs at the Break
Posted on 24 Dec 2011 by Ben Fisher.
Complain all you want, Leaf fans. Complain about how your club lacks secondary scoring, doesn’t have the grit or that you’d expect from a Brian Burke team and are more penalty pacifists than penalty killers. The bottom line, as we arrive at the Christmas break, is that the 2011-12 Leafs are significantly improved from the 2010-11 squad. The record is the easiest point of comparison. The Bud...
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The Leafs This Week – Dec. 1-8
Posted on 8 Dec 2011 by Ben Fisher.
What Happened The great misleading thing about the NHL standings in the shootout era is the extra category for the “OT loss” and what it says about the team that gets one on their record. The Leafs (15-10-3) are coming off a week in which they went 1-1-1, which resembles an even, “.500” record except for the fact that the team came out on the losing end of two of its three games. Theref...
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The Leafs This Week – Nov. 25 – Dec. 1
Posted on 1 Dec 2011 by Ben Fisher.
What Happened Anyone who witnessed the past week of Leafs (14-9-2) hockey would be hard-pressed to argue that the West remains the stronger conference. Toronto walked into Dallas and Anaheim last weekend and took all four points from the 14-9-1 Stars and the talented-but underperforming Ducks (now under the watch of Bruce Boudreau) to move to 5-1-2 against Western Conference teams. Then, after ...
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The Leafs This Week – Nov. 18-24
Posted on 24 Nov 2011 by Ben Fisher.
What Happened A 2-2 week is a 2-2 week however you slice it. That being said, there were plenty of positives for the Leafs (12-8-2) to take away from a pair of 7-1 wins over Washington and Tampa Bay, two of the league’s eight 100+ point teams from last season, counter-balanced by a 4-1 loss in Nashville and a 3-2 fatigue-fuelled defeat at the hands of Carolina. What’s Notable Strength Down ...
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The Leafs This Week – Nov. 11-17
Posted on 17 Nov 2011 by Ben Fisher.
What Happened It was a ‘one step forward, two steps back’ kind of week in more ways than one for the Leafs (10-6-2), who recorded precisely one win, one loss and one OT loss this week and are ready to welcome Tim Connolly back into the line-up just as Mikhail Grabovski and Clarke MacArthur find seats in the press box. In either case, you could call it one win and two losses. What’s Notabl...
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Time for a Second Line Shake-Up
Posted on 15 Nov 2011 by Ben Fisher.
Here are some harsh truths as the Leafs continue their abrupt awakening from the dream that was the first 13 games of their NHL season: the goaltenders can’t be relied upon, the club’s scoring depth is woefully lacking and the second forward unit that clicked so smoothly last season looks like a trio of players on the ice with one another for the first time. The first truth is troublesome, ...
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The Leafs This Week – Nov. 3-10
Posted on 10 Nov 2011 by Ben Fisher.
What Happened The Leafs (9-5-1) are probably asking themselves the very same question as is written in the above headline right now. The week started out encouragingly enough, with a win over Columbus that was by no means a masterpiece but did get the club its ninth win and gave Ben Scrivens his first. Then, the roof collapsed. In two home games, the Buds surrendered 12 goals while just scoring...
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The Leafs This Week
Posted on 3 Nov 2011 by Ben Fisher.
What Happened Any talk of a fluke start has to be thrown out the window at this point for the Leafs (8-3-1), who won three of their four games over the past seven days, including road victories over the Rangers and Devils and a thrilling ‘w’ over the Penguins in what looked like their first thorough, full, 60-minute effort of the season. The top line continued to shine and Jonas Gustavsson ...
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The Leafs This Week
Posted on 27 Oct 2011 by Ben Fisher.
What Happened The week could have gone a whole lot worse for the Leafs (5-2-1), who escaped much of a tough road stretch and some key injuries with a 2-2 mark and a still-impressive over-all record as they get some of their charges back. It certainly helped to cap off the home stand with a shootout victory over the Jets, making losses to Boston and Philadelphia more tolerable. Also serving as c...
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The Leafs This Week
Posted on 19 Oct 2011 by Ben Fisher.
What Happened The Leafs (3-0-1) will surely take the three of four available points they earned after visits this week from the Calgary Flames (3-2 comeback win) and Colorado Avalanche (3-2 OT loss) produced a pair of flat starts and highlighted some of the club’s inherent flaws. On the positive side of the ledger, Phil Kessel (six goals, three assists) continued his scorching hot start as pa...
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The Leafs This Week
Posted on 12 Oct 2011 by Ben Fisher.
Welcome to the first of a weekly series of recaps, previews and analyses of all things Leafs. I won’t be able to weigh in after every game but I want to give the boys in blue all the coverage they deserve, be it praise or rip jobs. Therefore, here is the new format. Enjoy! What Happened Despite a pair of uneven opening efforts, the Maple Leafs showed enough depth, skill and grit to secure a...
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