The Stanley Cup will be presented no later than Wednesday, September 30th which means the NHL’s silly season (a.k.a Free Agency) will soon be upon us come October 9th. With that comes increased chatter and rumour-mongering on social media as the intrigue of “where will they go?” builds into a fury of speculation. Free Agency…
Read More →The Leafs have a number of financial advantages. Unfortunately cap space isn’t one of them. While that means the Leafs will be limited in the extent of moves they can make, that doesn’t mean they don’t have different avenues they can explore, and one of them might be using salary they can bury on the…
Read More →With the Leafs cap crunch looming, particularly with the flat cap and the potential that they may be signing Alex Pietrangelo, cheap depth signings are going to be key to maintaining success, especially when it could make up our entire bottom six on forward. Enter Alexander Wennberg, a center for the Blue Jackets who may…
Read More →Just like we all expected, The Toronto Maple Leafs have hired Paul MacLean as their new assistant coach.
Read More →The Alex Pietrangelo sweepstakes are heating up with four teams reportedly in the mix to sign the 30-year-old. Toronto is a strong favourite because of the way they can structure his contract and the fact that it’s literally his home. But there’s been a lot that’s said about a possible sign and trade, which Pierre…
Read More →We’ve spent a lot of time over the past month talking about players who will come in and fix the Leafs. Either via trade, the draft, or free agency, I’m sure we’ve left many of you hoping we’d talk about anything but those topics on the site. Well consider this your palate cleanser. A brief…
Read More →IT’S BUYOUT DAY! The fun thing about the Kyle Dubas era is that we don’t seem to be discussing what Leafs players need to be bought out anymore. Part of that might be because all the deals are structured to be buyout proof, but we won’t concern ourselves with that for another couple of years…
Read More →Welcome to Pietrangeloctober If you haven’t heard, there’s a top-pairing right-handed defenceman with Stanley Cup-winning pedigree from just north of Toronto who seems destined to hit the open market 15 days from now. His name is Alex Pietrangelo, and he’s a wanted man around these parts. Make no mistakes about it, Leafs GM Kyle Dubas…
Read More →Welcome back to another edition of Throwback Thursday!
Read More →For my own amusement I decided to take a look at how the Leafs have been constructed. How many players have they acquired through free agency, how many via trade, and how many through the draft. And most importantly, what round were they drafted in. The result is the graph below… These are the 22…
Read More →At a time when the Leafs are potentially looking to spend $50M on 5 players, assuming Alex Pietrangelo is brought in, there probably needs to be some discussion about what the supporting cast looks like and honestly I don’t think the Leafs are in too bad of shape. The reality of the core isn’t really…
Read More →If there’s one thing I love about the NHL offseason, it has to be the immediate fallout of a big trade and watching both the fans of either team and neutral observers react to it. Trades are stupid fun and there’s nothing more enjoyable in sports than going over a recent transaction and trying to…
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