It’s time that we all had a Justin Holl conversation. It’s not a pleasant one, but one that needs to be had. As of this moment, there’s a case to be made that he’s the 4th best right handed shot defenseman in the organization, and with developing Timothy Liljegren being somewhat of a good idea,…
This week we kicked off the TLN Top Prospect Rankings, where we do our darnedest to give you the best look at the Leafs you can get for the price you paid to get them. Anyway, in putting together the rankings, our keen observation skills made us notice that not all the kids were prospects…
Here’s the thing about August. It’s a great time to talk about prospects. Why just earlier today, that wonderfully handsome Ryan Fancey gave us a look at some of the honourable mentions from our TLN Top Prospect Rankings. That’s pretty fun. You can also find a series on the Leafs top young’uns over at Pension…
Yesterday our fearless (or fearful, I can’t remember which) leader kicked off the start of TLN prospect season. This is undoubtedly the highlight of all your summers and it’s a service we happily provide to you free of charge. Though every year when completing our top prospect rankings there are a handful of players who…
Oh, hey! I didn’t see you over there. It’s just your ol’ pal Yakov, sitting around TLN thinking about how much depth the Leafs seem to have with their forward group, especially on the wing. Let’s rap for a minute. There are a lot of people out there who will tell that great teams have…
Let’s start off by saying there isn’t a whole lot left for the Leafs to do this off-season, so figuring out what the hold up in the Connor Brown signing is one of the few things left to passionately debate (or begrudgingly discuss.) We’ve put it to our panel of experts to tell us what…
Patrick Marleau has been one of my favourite players over the past two decades of hockey, so I have to admit I was pretty excited last month to see one of my favourite players join one of my favourite teams. That was my completely emotional reaction to the signing. Giving the deal marginally more thought,…
