Year of the Free Agents
The Toronto Maple Leafs will enter the 2009-10 season with 11 pending unrestricted free agents, and eight restricted free agents. Among the group of UFA’s: Alexei Ponikarovsky, Lee Stempniak, Matt...
View ArticleA Look At The Leafs’ Remaining FAs
Now that the Leafs‘ most important pending free agent — goaltender Jonas Gustavsson — has been signed to a two-year contract extension, it is time to take a look at their remaining free agent players....
View ArticleIn With The New… In With The Old?
Since Brian Burke has been at helm, the Toronto Maple Leafs organization has restocked its prospect cupboard and have instilled hope in a fanbase desperate to win. Leafs fans have witnessed both highs...
View ArticleBurke’s Focus Now Shifts to Tweaking Roster
While the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs are in full swing and continue to provide us with some fantastic moments of triumph, the fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs are now forced to once again shift their...
View ArticleThe Other Free Agent Market
During his first full year at the helm in Toronto, you could make the case that Brian Burke was the league’s most active general manager. There was the Kessel summer blockbuster with Boston and then...
View ArticleThe NHL gets it Right, Vindicates Me
Ilya Kovalchuk’s record breaking 17 year, $102 Million deal has been shot down by the NHL for reasons of cap circumvention (per TSN). To brass tacks the article, the NHL put the kybosh on Lou and...
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Leafs to Sign Prospect Leo Komarov
According to the Toronto Star’s Damien Cox, the Leafs are expected to sign 24 year old forward prospect Leo Komarov to an entry-level contract at some point in the near future. The Maple Leafs hold...
View ArticleCBA Scenarios for the Chronic Rosterbator
It’s 46 days until the draft, 55 until Free Agency, but it’s also 131 days from the expiration of the CBA. What a terrible summer to rebuild a bad team. An expiring Collective Bargaining Agreement...
View ArticleMorning Mashup: Quick Thoughts for a Lazy Monday
My apologies, I would have hoped that in the past week I could come up with an idea for a post. Instead, here are some quick thoughts for discussion at the beginning of the week. Of course there’s...
View ArticleGoodnight, Sweet Prince
Friends, we are gathered here today to honour the man and the legacy that is Jeff Finger. It’s hard to believe it’s been four years next Saturday, but Jeff Finger’s contract is finally coming to...
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Targets to be Acquired
NHL Free Agency was, originally, to be a major component of the Brian Burke ‘rebuild’ model – or ‘retool,’ whatever you want to call it – when the Maple Leafs‘ new GM arrived in Toronto. And despite...
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Burke doesn’t expect to be active in free agency
Brian Burke spoke to reporters out East at the P.E.I. Special Olympics Festival Luncheon on Wednesday. “With the salary cap and the new collective bargaining agreement that’s coming up, I don’t...
View ArticleGood Ontario Boy
Seriously, if a player from Kingston doesn’t shut up Don Cherry, the man can’t be pleased. Other than that, what do we need to know about McClement? He’s not overly big, he’s not overly physical,...
View ArticleLeafs Nation’s Collective Free Agency Freakout
A fairly big portion of Leafs Nation is freaking out about Burke doing “nothing†in free agency. First of all, this is an insult to Jay McClement and Mike Kostka because I don’t think they...
View ArticleLeafs re-sign Tyler Bozak for 5 years, $21 million (4.2 AAV); sign Clarkson...
The Leafs extended their relationship with center Tyler Bozak and signed winger David Clarkson from Free Agency. Bozak’s new deal is a 5-year, $21M deal while Clarkson comes in on a 7-year contract...
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