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Grabbo Gets Extended
Posted on 6 Mar 2012 by Ben Fisher.
Not a bad few days for Mikhail Grabovski, who led the Leafs to victory with a goal and an assist against Montreal (where Grabovski is essentially Public Enemy No. 1) on Saturday, and then celebrated by signing a five-year contract extension to remain in Toronto through 2016-17. The deal, reportedly worth $27.5 million, represents a triumph for the Leafs as well, just weeks after Grabovski trade...
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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. 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
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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Leafs’ Season Preview: The D-Men
Posted on 28 Sep 2011 by Ben Fisher.
As with any training camp, the prominent story on the Leafs’ blue line this September has been one of the fringes. That is, who can hold on to a spot in time for next Thursday’s opener and who finds themselves suiting up down the street at Ricoh Coliseum. The problem with that focus is that it ignores the bigger picture: Toronto is chockfull of young, inexpensive blue line depth. Regardless...
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Two Picks and a Trade: Draft Day for Leafs Nation
Posted on 24 Jun 2011 by Ben Fisher.
The Kaberle Trade Keeps Giving A trade that already looked good for Toronto grew that much sweeter on Friday, as the Leafs used their 2012 second rounder acquired from Boston in the Tomas Kaberle deal to lure John-Michael Liles over from Colorado. Now, there’s no point in trying to provide even a semblance of analysis on a swap where the involved parties won’t even be fully revealed until n...
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Lack of Goals Costs Canes Again
Posted on 17 Mar 2011 by Brad Kurtzberg.
It's been the same old song for the Carolina Hurricanes lately: they just can't seem to score enough goals to win hockey games. The same problem reared it's ugly head again Wednesday night as the Canes fell to the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 in a crucial game in the race for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. While the playoff race enters the final 10 games, the Hurricanes are mire...
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Trade to Boston Wraps Up Kaberle Saga
Posted on 18 Feb 2011 by Ben Fisher.
Thirteen seasons, 878 games (all in blue and white), three head coaches and countless trade rumours later, and Tomas Kaberle is – finally – no longer a Maple Leaf. That isn’t to suggest that anyone was anxious to get rid of the 32-year old blue liner, but after over two years of failed trade attempts and far too much chatter, it was clear that Kaberle’s tenure was coming to a close. Unf...
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Olli Cow! The Leafs Stink!
Posted on 17 Dec 2010 by Shane Hoopfer.
The return of Dion Phaneuf was fairly anti-climatic, as he was booed mildly throughout the game, but to be honest he was highly ineffective for most of the Leafs 5-2 loss to the Flames. The thing which surprised me was the fact that Leafs head coach Ron Wilson seemingly was trying to keep Dion Phaneuf away from the Flames top line as much as being the road coach he could. It was a reminder to m...
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Leafs Nation: On to VAN City
Posted on 17 Dec 2010 by Mike De Petrillo.
Well, one and one on this trip through Alberta. Not terrible, but really if you expected the Leafs to come out on the positive side of .500 on this stretch of games, these were the two ripe for the taking. Watching Calgary last night really drives home Dion Phaneuf's point about the Leafs being too small and too soft in the forward corps. Watching the Flames out muscle the Leafs for pucks a...
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Steve Massey said: Don't worry about the vase, my friend; as I plan on living even longer (until my C...
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Steven Keys said: Yes, very "open" and very disdainful of the "run first QB." And since I won't hav...
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Steve Massey said: Elmer Fudd didn't land because "wabbiters" was my 'not so obvious' allusion to you...
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