With the NHL currently on pause for COVID and the holidays, now’s as good of a time as ever to take a look at some of the Leafs that have surprised fans so far this season. Some people came in with low expectations and have far surpassed them, some came with high expectations and haven’t…
Happy Festivus everyone! I realize that we’ve reached the point where 95% of the people on the internet are too young to care about specific Seinfeld episodes, but here we are, beating the Festivus schtick into the ground anyway with the traditional airing of grievances. The things we do for content. The rules this year…
As the NHL looks inward on decisions for postponed games, I thought I’d look into the idea of whether or not they should bring back the North Division. The Leafs have ten games remaining against Canadian teams. Three vs. Montreal and two against Ottawa and Vancouver. Only one against each of Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Calgary….
When we were coming up with roundtable questions for our year end series, one of the suggestions was that we each provide our MVP for the year. The immediate follow up was did anyone anticipate selecting someone other than Jack Campbell. While there were assurances that cases could be made for a number of other…
The Leafs have added more players and staff to the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol list, just a day after two members of the Leafs’ support staff were added. The Maple Leafs have placed forward David Kämpf, forward Ilya Mikheyev, goaltender Petr Mrázek, defenceman Rasmus Sandin, goaltending coach Steve Briere and an additional member of the team’s…
Okay, no team is signing five European free agents in one offseason. There are still at least five forwards worthy of signing in my opinion, defence is a story for another day. I follow six European leagues, the Russian KHL, Swedish SHL, Finnish Liiga, Swiss NLA, German DEL, and Czech Extraliga. I look at u27…
Running a professional hockey team on the island of Newfoundland brings some interesting and unique challenges, especially during a pandemic. There’s no situation where that is more apparent than when the team needs players on short notice just to ice a complete roster. That was the situation the Newfoundland Growlers management group found themselves in…
Regrets, the Leafs have had a few. Of course the Montreal series is the big one, but no one here wants to talk about that yet. So if we skip the specifics of the playoff series, here are some of the things we’d change about the Leafs in 2021. Nick Barden I don’t really have…
Episode 15 of TLN Radio is available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube! This week, Caroline Szwed, Kyle Cushman, Nick Barden, and Scott Maxwell discuss the Toronto Maple Leafs COVID pause, the upcoming World Juniors, and the status of NHLers at the Olympics. We also dive into Spider-Man: No Way Home so *major* spoiler warnings once we get…
“In junior, it’s more only about hockey. But now it’s about life.” When the name Curtis Douglas comes up in conversation, it’s usually someone raving about his height. The Dallas Stars drafted the Oakville native in the fourth round of the 2018 NHL draft. During that time, he was playing with the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires….
It was a slow week of games for Toronto Maple Leafs prospects as teams reach their holiday break, but there was plenty of news to go around. Before we dive into the roundup, be sure to check out my full Leafs prospect rankings from last Thursday. I ranked every prospect in the organization, from #1…
So it looks like the Leafs are on Christmas Vacation, such as a COVID Christmas Vacation exists. The @NHLPA and @NHL have agreed to postpone cross-border games through Dec. 23. A full list of NHL postponements to date can be found here: https://t.co/PfY1NKP3ZR pic.twitter.com/oePGmBLpKo — NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) December 19, 2021 The NHL is…
