Auston Matthews was awarded the 2022 Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player on Tuesday, becoming the first Toronto Maple Leaf to win the award since Ted Kennedy did it back in 1955. The Scottsdale, Arizona native set career highs in assists (46) and points (106) this season and became the first NHL…
Read More →With 30 of the 32 NHL teams no longer playing hockey, we are beginning to enter the most exciting months of the year in terms of NHL news. Free agent rumours are in full swing, coaches are being hired and management teams are preparing for the NHL entry draft. That said, there has only been…
Read More →Is it time to move away from Hall and Oates? If so, what song would Toronto move to? When it comes to being a Maple Leafs fan, the most important part of attending a game is the experience that comes with it. Whether it be the goal song, the commercial break fun, or the intermission…
Read More →Over the course of this week, I’ll be looking back at each of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ four draft classes under the tenure of GM Kyle Dubas, reviewing how the selections were viewed at the time, how they have panned out to date, and noting what talent they missed out on (if any) in the…
Read More →Over the course of this week, I’ll be looking back at each of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ four draft classes under the tenure of GM Kyle Dubas, reviewing how the selections were viewed at the time, how they have panned out to date, and noting what talent they missed out on (if any) in the…
Read More →We are now two games into the Stanley Cup final and with the exception of the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Atlantic division is focussed on next season. The Leafs and Panthers had strong years but at this point all that matters is the 2022-23 season. Despite only one team in the division still playing hockey,…
Read More →We’ve looked at a number of UFAs, trade targets, and RFAs that the Maple Leafs should look into this summer, but another player has emerged from the darkness. The name — Jesper Bratt. Similar to Mackenzie Blackwood, Bratt entered Frank Seravalli’s trade targets list one day after the Shea Weber and Evgenii Dadonov on Thursday….
Read More →As we sit here watching another Stanley Cup final wondering why not the Leafs, or how the Leafs could be faring against the Avalanche, it feels necessary to splash a little cold water on the situation and explore the idea that there might be something that the Leafs can learn from the Lightning and Avalanche…
Read More →Many have discussed the Maple Leafs signing a free agent goaltender, but what about a trade that isn’t for John Gibson? Last week, DailyFaceoff’s Frank Seravalli released a Trade Targets list which featured a number of high-profile names. Players like J.T. Miller, Alex DeBrincat, and Kevin Fiala rounded out the top of the list, but…
Read More →Often when we talk about trades on this site we focus largely on who the Leafs are targeting. We’ve made some passing mention of players that it makes sense to dump, but never really factor in who other teams would be calling the Leafs for or asking in return. In the spirit of that, here’s…
Read More →For the first time since 2019, the NHL’s salary cap is officially rising. Prior to Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Colorado Avalanche, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly addressed the media. The two spoke on a number of topics, but never really mentioned how…
Read More →When NHL General Managers are tasked with opening up cap space during the offseason, the buyout is a unique accommodation. In many cases it allows a GM to shift much of the burden of a bad contract into the tenure of the next GM. If their job is on the line and they can immediately…
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