What do you even say about Travis Dermott? With good mobility, not much offensive flare, some questionable defensive instincts and not much else, he isn’t exactly lighting the NHL on fire. With this said, he does serve as good depth. The question is if you should pay $1.5M per season for good depth? According to … Read more
First off, I’d like to welcome back the Wayne Train!! I’d also like to explain the title of this (very short) article. Briefly. You all know what it means anyway, I assume. The Wayne Simmonds that start this season with the Toronto Maple Leafs would be a STEAL of a player at 900K per season. … Read more
Bruce Boudreau, former Toronto Maple Leaf player, former head coach of the Washington Capitals, Anaheim Ducks and Minnesota Wild and long time Leaf fan, is still on the open market. Just sitting there. Waiting. With the news today that Dave Hakstol, also a former head coach in the NHL, having spent parts of 4 seasons … Read more
The dust has sort of settled on another disappointing playoff performance by the Toronto Maple Leafs. But, there is certainly plenty of anger, bitterness and sadness still out there over this stinging playoff defeat at the hands of the Montreal Canadiens. However, there isn’t much that can be done about it now. The team lost, in … Read more
Jason Spezza signed a MASSIVE 1 year extension today, taking up a large percentage of the teams remaining cap space. It’s valued at $750,000. Spezza will enter his 3rd season with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He has suited up in 112 regular season games for the Leafs over the past 2 years, recording 19 goals … Read more
For the sake of passing some time and not having to hear about the playoffs, I thought I’d throw out some free agent names that might interest the Leafs this offseason. I won’t preface this with anything. We all know that simply signing bargarin free agents and running into next season won’t change much, but … Read more
I’m going to start this off by saying that I don’t believe Mitch Marner will be traded this offseason. In fact, I think he ends up having a long career as a Toronto Maple Leaf. I’d like to follow that up by saying if he figures out how to be successful in the playoffs, nothing … Read more
On April 11, 2014 the Toronto Maple Leafs hired Brendan Shanahan as the Toronto Maple Leafs President and associate governor, officially signaling the end of the Brian Burke/Dave Nonis truculence era. Within a few months Shanahan announced that young executive Kyle Dubas would be joining the organization as an Assistant General Manager to Dave Nonis, … Read more
Luck? I’m not sure we can attribute it to luck but there has to be something going on in Toronto. Game 7 to Washington, then Boston twice and now Montreal? What is the missing ingredient leading to continuous frustration year after year. Right from the 1st period of the 1st game in the playoffs the leafs lose their … Read more
With the complete collapse from the Leafs’ stars in their 1st round series against Montreal, the management team is now faced with a flurry of questions. While they backed their highly skilled and highly paid group of star players, they have to be asking themselves if this group has what it takes to take this … Read more