The Toronto hockey media is quite amusing. Prior to the season starting the Leafs were old, injury prone, had horrible defense, wouldn’t score enough goals to win, Ed Belfour was a huge question mark and the Leafs would be fighting for their lives for a playoff spot. Eighteen games into the season the Leafs have [...]
I watched all of the Leafs-Sens game last night as well as some portions of several other games. Here are my random thoughts from what I saw. Leafs Overall they looked very good and only some weak defensive play resulting in Alfredsson’s second goal put a damper on an otherwise good night. If they can [...]
There seems to be a common thread when discussing the Leafs chances this upcoming season. That thread is that the Leafs will struggle to make the playoffs. I seriously disagree with that claim. The basis for that claim is that they lost way too much talent and the guys they brought in are just way [...]
In today’s Toronto Sun regular columnist Steve Simmons wonders what Pat Quinn sees in Nik Antropov and Alex Ponikarovsky and whether they deserve another chance with the Leafs. You see, most of the hockey world looks at Nik Antropov and sees this large, gangly, marginally accomplished hockey player and they have to wonder what happened [...]
The Leafs-Sens rivalry might be becoming the biggest rivalry in the NHL these days and I found it interesting that during a call-in show on Team 1200 this afternoon that revolved around the Hossa-Heatley trade a large portion of Senator fans analyzed the deal with the Leafs in mind, either comparing the new Sens to [...]
Pos Name 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 C Mats Sundin $6,840,000 $6,840,000 G Ed Belfour 4,560,000 D Bryan McCabe 3,458,000 D Tomas Kaberle 2,280,000 D Ken Klee 1,900,000 LW Darcy Tucker 1,596,000 C Eric Lindros 1,550,000 C Jason Allison 1,500,000 RW Jeff O’Neill 1,500,000 1,500,000 D Alexander Khavanov 1,250,000 RW Tie Domi 1,250,000 1,250,000 D [...]
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