“Your favourite Toronto Maple Leafs prospect you don’t know about yet.” That’s the tagline I led with each time I wrote about Ryan Tverberg in the 2021-22 season for our TLN Prospect Roundups, which occurred often given the success he had last year. Over the course of the 2021-22 season, Tverberg went from an intriguing…
Read More →After 15 years of playing professional hockey, Marlies captain Rich Clune has announced his retirement and that he will be joining the Maple Leafs player development staff. Toronto Marlies Captain Rich Clune has announced his retirement from professional hockey after 16 seasons. He will be joining the @MapleLeafs player development staff. — Toronto Marlies (@TorontoMarlies)…
Read More →This past season was the start of something new between the Maple Leafs and Semyon Der-Arguchintsev. Although the 21-year-old had one short stint of pro while on loan in the KHL, this would be his true taste of North American professional hockey. And it was a fascinating year to say the least. It didn’t feel…
Read More →The 2021-22 season was a historic one for the Leafs where they broke franchise records previously a season prior to John Tavares coming home. It was also the breakout campaign for Michael Bunting, who found immediate success when lined up with Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner. While they were unable to get the job done…
Read More →Few players in the Toronto Maple Leafs system have a career progression as enigmatic as Mikko Kokkonen. Kokkonen made his debut in the Finnish league at 15 years old and remains the youngest player in league history. By his draft year, he was a regular in the league, scoring the most points by a draft-eligible…
Read More →We are just over nine weeks away from the opening day of the 2022-23 NHL season. The once lengthy list of available players is getting thin, and teams are taking shape. Over the past week, two major and several depth free agents have been signed, four teams added to their respective coaching staffs, and it…
Read More →Welcome to the dead zone. The majority of free agents have been spoken for. Development camps are over, and presumably, every NHL GM is on vacation with some of them reemerging over the next couple of weeks for the World Junior tournament. It’s quiet this week. (I hope I’m jinxing stuff into actually happening.) In…
Read More →When Mikhail Abramov entered the Maple Leafs organization full time, there were plenty of question marks. The 21-year-old seemed like the perfect pick for Toronto in the fourth round back in 2019. A six-foot tall centreman who was able to be dominant with the Victoriaville Tigres in the QMJHL — he was someone the Maple…
Read More →With the current Leafs’ management regime having a reputation for capitalizing on market inefficiencies such as trading down at the draft to acquire more picks, it turned some heads when they traded up in the fifth round of the 2020 draft in order to secure Russian forward Dmitry Ovchinnikov. Ovchinnikov has continued to turn heads…
Read More →We have reached the point of the NHL offseason where the news is starting to dwindle. That said, there has still been a few interesting developments across the Atlantic division in the past seven days. Two teams have added to their coaching staffs, the Senators locked up a key depth player and several big-name players…
Read More →No organization in the NHL uses their affiliates quite like the Toronto Maple Leafs. Where some teams don’t even have an ECHL affiliate, the Maple Leafs use the Newfoundland Growlers as if it were a AA baseball team. Every year, numerous NCAA and CHL graduates are inked to contracts with the Toronto Marlies. While they…
Read More →NHL jerseys are some of the most coveted among the big four sports in North America. There’s been plenty of great jerseys throughout the years — some good, some bad — some even so interesting that it makes you tilt your head, in a good way. But now, after what I’d call a great run…
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