Photo Credit: Winslow Townson/USA TODAY Sports Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly has always appeared cool, calm and collected when he’s handling the puck. The skilled 21-year-old hasn’t hit 30 points in a full season yet in his career, but that will come. His plus skating ability and high end offensive awareness is plain to see,…
Roman Polak, James Reimer, Brad Boyes, Mark Arcobello, P.A. Parenteau, Nick Spaling, Michael Grabner, Richard Panik, T.J. Brennan, and Shawn Matthias, these are the players many of us assumed would supply the Leafs with enough draft picks to make sure the only person making selections in the mid rounds of the 2016 draft would be…
In an attempt to put myself into prime game shape to write on all of the sites on this network (okay, mostly here and Canucks Army), I’ve altered my sleeping schedule over the past few months. I go to bed really late, and sleep in until the sun burns my hair. It works out pretty…
View image | gettyimages.com What the hell happened to the Coyotes? The usual laughing stock of the NHL has a winning record, a handful of exciting young players to watch, and these fancy new jerseys with black accents on the sleeves. They’re almost likeable! Whatever the case, the Leafs won’t be facing off against the usual…
Photo Credit: Matt Kartozian/USA TODAY Sports The injury news continues apace for the Toronto Maple Leafs with third-line centre Nick Spaling joining the growing list of walking wounded. He’ll be out of the lineup on Monday with an undisclosed injury. Though the the Maple Leafs are hurting, it wasn’t all bad news on the injury…
You’d think that a 1-4-2 start would be just what the doctor ordered for a team in desperate need of another lottery pick, but unfortunately even when the Leafs are awful they can’t crack the bottom five of the league. Anaheim and Calgary are showing us the impact that Nonis and Burke can have on…
Photo Credit: Brad Rempel/USA TODAY Sports The last time we saw John Tortorella behind an NHL bench, he was tuned out by a veteran Vancouver Canucks team as they faded down the stretch and missed the playoffs by a mile. Following the dismissal of a coach who was suspended for five games that season for basically…
Nikita Soshnikov doesn’t have the same hype attached to him as most of the young guns on the Toronto Marlies. He wasn’t a Toronto first-round draft pick, like a William Nylander, Frederik Gauthier, or Stuart Percy. He didn’t come as a big piece in a big trade, like a Brendan Leipsic or a Kasperi Kapanen….
