October 5th 2012 – Every day it seems like we are learning something new about the lockout whether it be from the NHLPA side or the Owners but a lot of people don’t fully understand every aspect of information that is thrown at them so here are a few confusing details explained. NHL’ers playing in the KHL aren’t taking money from KHLers just ice time “Our clubs have been granted the opportunity to enter into contracts and place on their main rosters no more than three NHL players, and the previo
September 18th 2012 - His arrival was one of the most highly anticipated and welcomed arrivals of any sports figure in recent Toronto memory. When Brian Burke took over as GM of the Maple Leafs it was seen as the end of incompetence in Leafs Nation. Burke arrived in November 2008 and assured Torontonians that there would be no need to wait for a 5 year rebuild, as he says “I'm not interested … in a five-year rebuild like some of these teams have done”. Well Burke we are onto year 4 and no result
Tuesday September 4th 2012 – If you played on the Toronto Maple Leafs last season chances are you either had an excellent season or a bad one, very few players were in between. Players like Kessel, Lupul, Phaneuf, Grabovski and Gardiner had excellent seasons. Players like Komisarek, Connolly, Kulemin, Liles, Reimer and Cody Franson all had bad years. There were some players who didn’t exactly disappoint (Macarthur,Bozak) but didn’t have a season to brag about either. Phil Kessel led the way for
Its late August, another lockout is threatening the start of the season and there is barely any hockey news going on. So here we are to give you my favorite 5 moments from Mad Mike Milburys life because I just don’t feel like being the 100th person to write a potential lockout article. If you don’t know who Mike Milbury is just Youtube him and sit back and enjoy. He played over 750 games for Boston in the NHL and coached for the Bruins and Islanders and also served as general manager of the Isla
August 19th 2012 – It can happen to any professional sports team, for one reason or the other a star player wants out of the city whether it is because of the team’s issues or personal ones it is one of the most common things to happen in professional sports. Enter the Toronto Maple Leafs, long cited as one of hockey’s most storied franchises seems to have trouble acquiring and hanging onto star players. When you scan over the roster for the upcoming (hopefully) 2012/13 season we see one true st
With Nicklas Lidstrom retired and Brad Stuart requesting a trade to the west coast, the Detroit Red Wings defence will look a lot different next season. In years past they could handle a defenseman leaving through trade or free agency by being patient and using what they had in their system the reason they could do that was because they had one of the best defenseman who ever played the game on their roster. Now that Lidstrom is retired they no longer have that calming presence he created every
