Combing The Desert For Good Young Players
Leafs Nation Podcast
March 26 2012 09:32PM
Through the rough times that have been these past seven years, fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs have been forced to grasp at the straws for some traces of hope in an otherwise disappointing season. If the team is absolutely horrible, it's only reasonable that we turn our focus from the failure of the group to a few individual successes that make the wait for the playoffs (at least somewhat) bearable.
This week, Danny Gray and I take a look at a few of the Leafs' younger players, Carter Ashton, Matt Frattin, Nazem Kadri, and Cody Franson, to name a few, and assess what we've seen of them so far under new coach Randy Carlyle.
Leafs Nation Podcast: Know Your Enemy
Leafs Nation Podcast
March 21 2012 10:03PM
This week, the Leafs Nation podcast features Ellen Etchingham alongside myself (JP Nikota) and Danny Gray. Ellen is a wonderful writer from The Score's Backhand Shelf who, unfortunately, has become a Habs fan.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that becoming a Habs fan midway through life is rather like a Spiderman backstory gone horribly wrong. A human is bitten by a radioactive spider, and, rather than gain super powers, a certain cerebral atrophy takes hold.
In all seriousness, if you haven't read any of her work on the history of the game, please educate yourself now. She is undoubtedly one of my favourite new hockey bloggers, and a pleasure to have on our show.
Leafs Nation Podcast 7
Leafs Nation Podcast
March 13 2012 12:35PM
Where do we go from here?
Leafs fans can only sit and stare with vacant expressions at the current standings. What the heck is Brian Burke going to do to right this ship? If this team is going to win a Stanley Cup before Phil Kessel's current contract expires, many things remain to be done, and Burke is running out of time to do them.
Mike Forbes (a.k.a. mf37 over at PPP) joins Danny Gray and I (JP Nikota) for this podcast to discuss the off-season future for the Leafs.
Leafs Nation Podcast 6: Milson Fired
Leafs Nation Podcast
March 04 2012 09:18PM
We could all tell it was coming, but that didn't make the news any less attention-grabbing when Ron Wilson was actually fired by Brian Burke. Almost all other potential podcast topics got somewhat "Milpool'd" as myself, Danny Gray, and PPP's BCapp all got together to chat Leafs on this, the sixth Leafs Nation Podcast.
Leafs Nation Podcast Number 5
Leafs Nation Podcast
February 29 2012 10:51PM
This week's podcast features Pension Plan Puppets leader and sometimes Leafs Nation contributor Chemmy. If you are looking for some feel-good trade deadline pump-uppery, this is not the place to find it. Danny Gray (affectionately known as Granny Day), Chemmy and myself have a pretty critical look at almost all angles of the Leafs' current predicament.
