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Can Carlyle Turn Things Around?
Posted on 3 Mar 2012 by Ben Fisher.
Look, I'll be the first to question the true impact of a coach in any sport. Fact is, your team is only as good as the players on it and those players shouldn't require a good coach to play hard, nor do they need a bad coach to coast if they should be so inclined. But something had to be done – and fast – for the free-falling Leafs and their 1-9-1 mark over the past 11 games. Withou...
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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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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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Toronto Maple Leafs’ Off-season Primer
Posted on 28 Jun 2011 by Ben Fisher.
The Toronto Maple Leafs arrive at the July 1 opening of the free agency period in an all-too-familiar position: as a team looking to be active, but with precious few appealing free agent options and even fewer coveted trade assets. GM Brian Burke has already demonstrated through his draft day acquisition of John-Michael Liles that he is firmly set in a win-now mentality. But, as the Leafs have ...
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2010-11 Breeds Disappointment, Hope for Future
Posted on 12 Apr 2011 by Ben Fisher.
In a season-ending interview with the Toronto Star, Leafs GM Brian Burke wrapped up his Buds’ campaign with his usual dose of frankness and bluster. “This season is a failure,” states Burke emphatically. And he’s right. As I pointed out in my off-season outlook, for all the positives emerging from Leafs Nation this season, they remain – for the sixth consecutive year – among the bot...
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The Playoff Push is Over, Now What?
Posted on 6 Apr 2011 by Ben Fisher.
It’s official: this Leafs’ season will now end just as the past five have before it – with the team on the outside of the playoff picture looking in. Yet there’s an optimism surrounding the club among even the most hardened of Buds’ supporters that has been lacking before. They see a star player (Phil Kessel) suddenly playing like a star player, several talented young wingers (Clarke ...
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Blackhawks Deliver A Beatdown
Posted on 6 Mar 2011 by Anna Santiago.
Even though they had just played the Hurricanes the night before, the Chicago Blackhawks exploded onto the ice in Toronto like a team with a purpose. Just over a minute into the 1st period, Marian Hossa snapped a wristshot past James Reimer and the Blackhawks took an early lead. Leafs fans barely got a chance to register the goal when Michael Frolik took a feed from Troy Brouwer and buried it i...
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Leafs’ Trade Deadline Game Plan
Posted on 19 Feb 2011 by Ben Fisher.
Brian Burke has long been a proponent of the “why wait until the last minute” mindset when it comes to the NHL trade deadline, and this year has been no different. Even as his Maple Leafs make a charge into play-off contention, the team’s GM had had a busy few weeks of working the phones and already has three significant deals under his belt to show for it. Whether or not the trades actua...
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