All Entries in the "Toronto Maple Leafs" Category
Seguin Stars In B’s 6-2 Trouncing Of Toronto
Regardless of either player’s feelings for one another, 24-year old Maple Leafs’ winger Phil Kessel and 19-year old Bruins’ pivot Tyler Seguin will be linked and compared to one another throughout their entire careers. All of this thanks to a trade in the summer of 2009 that sent 3 top-end draft choices (the first [...]
Bruins GameDay Preview: Leafs & B’s Set To Square Off At The Garden
Tonight at TD Garden, the Boston Bruins (2-4-0 (4 Points)) will play host to the white-hot Toronto Maple Leafs (4-0-1 (9 Points)). The Bruins will look to rebound from an ordinarily ugly loss at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night in the Hub. Tonight also kicks off divisional play for the [...]
Leafs Make Final Cuts — Season Opens Thursday
With the season opener only a couple days away, The Toronto Maple Leafs made their final cuts, on Monday morning. Among those cuts, were defencemen Keith Aulie, and Matt Lashoff, and forwards Darryl Boyce, Mike Zigomanis, and Joey Crabb. With waivers in full effect, Lashoff, Boyce, and Crabb, are all up for grabs. Mike [...]
Toronto Maple Leafs Roster Battles, and What They Mean
With the season only two weeks away, and Ron Wilson saying that he hopes to get a full lineup into a few preseason games, it’s only a matter of time until we finally see the opening roster for The Toronto Maple Leafs. With the top six, and goaltenders virtually set, it will be interesting [...]
PAT LAFONTAINE AND STEVE WEBB TO RIDE 550 MILES FOR CHARITY
We here at HI support this effort by Pat LaFontaine and Steve Webb, and personally implore you to give just anything you can in support of this…. HOCKEY LEGENDS PAT LAFONTAINE AND STEVE WEBB TO RIDE 550 MILES FOR W20 FOUNDATION AND COMPANIONS IN COURAGE FOUNDATION NEW YORK (September 19, 2011) –NHL alumnus Steve Webb [...]
Leafs Prospects — Training Camp
The Toronto Maple Leafs concluded their annual rookie tournament Tuesday night. They finished with a record of 2-0-1, with their only loss coming in overtime, in a “Battle of Ontario” with the Ottawa Senators. The camp was a little taste of the future, for the Leafs. It was an early showing of top prospects [...]
Despite winless Rookie Tournament, Nasreddine, Samuelsson positive
The Pittsburgh Penguins lost all three games of the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament in Oshawa, Ontario, falling by a lopsided composite score of 13-2 in three games over four days. Today, the Penguins’ prospects fell 4-1 to Chicago’s prospect squad in a game that turned near the end of the second period when after Pittsburgh [...]
McKegg’s 1 goal, 2 assists lead Leafs over Pens at Rookie Tournament
Greg McKegg, a returnee from last year’s Rookie Tournament, scored a third period goal and added two assists as the Toronto Maple Leafs won their second straight game this weekend, 5-1 over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh fell to 0-2 in Oshawa. McKegg, 19, scored 49 goals and 92 points for the Erie Otters of the [...]
Brandon Saad making most of chances with Hawks at Rookie Tournament
Chicago and Toronto played a competitive, back-and-forth game on Saturday night at the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament with the Leafs’ propsects prevailing over Chicago’s youngsters 4-2 with Jake Gardiner scoring the game-winning and insurance goals in the third period. After Toronto took a 1-0 lead, the game featured two lead changes before Gardiner, a forward [...]
Cowick’s 2 goals help Sens shut out Penguins in opener of Rookie Tournament
The Ottawa Senators defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-0 for a shutout win in the opening game of the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament at General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario. Left wing Corey Cowick, a 2009 draft choice of the Senators, scored two goals while Robin Lehner, Sweden’s netminder at the 2011 World Junior Championship, made [...]
Rookie tournaments give prospects chance to make a statement
Hockey Independent will be on-site at General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario this weekend to report on the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament. Prospects from the Pittsburgh Penguins, Chicago Blackhawks, Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs will play each other once for a total of six games from Saturday until Tuesday.
What To Expect: Tim Connolly
The acquisition of Tim Connolly to the Toronto Maple Leafs’ top-six unit will, on the surface, add depth to the team’s forward ranks. But the hopes of playoff hockey in Toronto could well rest on the shoulders of the injury-prone centerman next season. Not because Connolly is capable of vaulting the Leafs to new heights [...]
Leafs’ Third Line Key to Success
Whether the Toronto Maple Leafs’ depth chart remains unchanged until the opening day of the regular season shouldn’t deter from the fact that, on paper, its third-line may be the best it’s been in years. While the need for a number-one center ultimately remains the Leafs’ target to solidify a berth in the post-season, the [...]
Are the Leafs a Playoff Team?
The Toronto Maple Leafs will not be acquiring any more assets in the off-season… at least for now. In an interview with the National Post’s Michael Traikos, general manager Brian Burke said his team is going to sit back and let the players compete for spots at training camp. This is good news for the [...]
What’s Next For The Leafs?
With general manager Brian Burke acquiring John-Michael Liles, Tim Connolly, Matthew Lombardi and Cody Franson this off-season, there’s little doubt the Toronto Maple Leafs have improved heading into the 2011-12 season. But with a logjam on defense and cap space left to improve some of the Leafs’ needs, it’s unlikely Burke is content with the [...]
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Puck-Moving Defenseman Off The Checklist
The Toronto Maple Leafs no longer require a puck-moving defenseman this off-season with the acquisition of John-Michael Liles for the second-round pick in 2012 the Leafs previously acquired from the Boston Bruins. The 30-year-old offensive defenseman has one year remaining on his contract with a cap-hit of $4.2-million. While he is a one-dimensional player, it’s worth [...]
Hockey Independent mock draft part 1
With the NHL Entry Draft looming I decided to organize a mock draft with several of HI’s writers to give you an idea of what tonight’s entry draft could look. Participants: Fred Poulin, Cris Cohen, Lawrence Duchenski, John Scott Moore, Jeremy Scriven, Alexander Monaghan, Jamie Fraser, Andre Garabedian, WB Philp, Al Cimaglia, Adrian Fung, Gordon [...]
Nick Giglia’s 2011 Mock Draft: The Swami Speaks
This year, once again with the assistance of my good friend Andrew R (and some Bitches Brew…..both the beer and the music), I sat down to do my NHL Mock Draft. As per usual, trades were considered, and by a phenomenal stroke of luck we called Carter to Columbus for Voracek and the [...]
Should the Leafs Target Stastny?
With the National Hockey League Entry Draft under 48 hours away, general manager Brian Burke’s cellphone bill will continue to feed small countries as he contemplates how to effectively use his first-round draft picks. Whether Burke decides to import two first-round prospects to the Toronto Maple Leafs or package them, along with other assets, for [...]
