Sheldon Keefe stated earlier today that the Leafs had a number of game time decisions they were planning to make on banged up players heading into tonight’s game with the Chicago Blackhawks. This is interesting for a few reasons. The main reason being that this is the Leafs final game before beginning their bye week…
by OddsShark (@OddsShark) – Sponsored Post The Toronto Maple Leafs are facing another team that tends to play high-chance games as they try to end a cycle of losing as a heavy home favourite. The Maple Leafs are the -210 home favourite while the Chicago Blackhawks are the +175 away underdog with a 6.5-goal total on…
Did you have too much of Darren Dreger’s Leafs-related thoughts during the entire Mitch Marner contract saga? Well, too bad. Here’s some more for you. Dreger said on Twitter yesterday that Kasperi Kapanen wouldn’t be enough to get the Leafs Alexandar Georgiev from the New York Rangers.
Andreas Johnsson and Kasperi Kapanen are both pretty good hockey players, but the Leafs have a lot of pretty good hockey players. It would not be wise to trade these guys for worse hockey players, but NHL general managers make bad decisions all the time. Instead of pushing for some hypothetical trades that the Leafs…
He’s (almost) back, baby! After suffering missing 15 games due to a shoulder injury suffered on November 15th, then returning on December 21st and immediately landing back on the shelf with a concussion, Trevor Moore has finally been activated from Injured Reserve this afternoon. In a corresponding move, the Maple Leafs assigned the 24-year-old winger…
If there was one thing that seemed to largely survive the transition from Lou Lamoriello to Kyle Dubas, it’s the decision to keep trade talks relatively quiet. Dots can still be connected, but it’s not so much the open book of the Burke and Nonis eras. It will surprise no one that the Leafs are…
Here’s the thing. The Leafs blueline, it’s not very good. In fact it’s pretty bad. If the Leafs get Rielly and Muzzin back, we’re a bit happier, but if you ask anyone what the biggest flaw on the team is they are probably answering defense, or possibly William Nylander, assuming you’ve asked your terrible uncle….
It seems as if the Leafs have been treated to three Tyson Barries so far this season. First, we had the Babcock Tyson Barrie. He was the one who was horribly miscast on a shutdown pairing with Jake Muzzin, saw too many defensive zone starts against tough competition and successfully dragged down Muzzin rather than…
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by OddsShark (@OddsShark) – Sponsored Post The Toronto Maple Leafs’ vulnerabilities from their own blueline in need to be balanced out against their next opponent’s sporadic offensive production.
The Leafs picked up a much needed win against noted win donors the New Jersey Devils the other night, but face a bit more a legitimate challenge tonight in the Calgary Flames. I mean, not really all that legitimate, they are decent by Pacific Division standards and Lucic in their lineup, but still the difficulty…
Yesterday on TSN’s Insider Trading segment, Bob McKenzie shared the beautiful news that the Leafs are beginning contract negotiations with Jake Muzzin. Normally the idea of the Leafs re-signing a 31 year old defenseman, as well as the idea of Kyle Dubas negotiating any kind of contract would be a cause for panic, but if…
