Anyone who knows anything about hockey, save for Florida GM Dale Tallon it seems, immediately thought ‘bad contract’ when they heard that the Florida Panthers had signed Tomas Kopecky to a 4 year contract at $3M/year. But how bad is that contract? Well, lets take a look. Goal based stats (i.e. any stats that requite [...]
Lance Hornby has an article this morning discussing a report from the New York Daily News that the Leafs are looking to make a trade for the rights to Brad Richards. Two problems with this: 1. Just last week Brian Burke said “it wasn’t something we are in the process of looking at” (right at [...]
As always, there is a lot of speculation as to what the Maple Leafs will do on July 1st when the NHL free agent season begins. Some are suggesting they should go big or go home and do whatever it takes to sign Ilya Kovalchuk as the answer to their offensive woes while others believe [...]
It seems that the majority of the Toronto hockey media seem to have the belief that the Maple Leafs are at least 3-4 years away from being a good team and that the best way to get there is to do nothing this summer and hope to get another high draft pick in next years [...]
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