All Entries Tagged With: "Jonas Gustavsson"
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 17-20-3 with 37 points through 40 games. After 40 games last season, the Bolts were 21-11-5 with 47 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eleven points. Tampa Bay is in 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, nine points out [...]
Red Wings Give One Away in Toronto 4-3
The Toronto Maple Leafs got a belated Christmas present from the visiting Detroit Red Wings—a 4-3 win at the Air Canada Centre. It was another Red Wings road loss where they didn’t play a full 60-minute game and it cost them. The first 12 minutes of the game was ugly for the Red Wings and [...]
Bruins GameDay: Reimer Returns As Leafs Visit Boston
Set to battle for the fourth time already in this young 2011-12 campaign, the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs will take to the ice of the TD Garden for a Northeast division showdown on Saturday night. Boston’s unfathomable November run came to a close after the B’s 6-3 win at the Air Canada Centre [...]
Bruins Down Leafs To Complete Historic November
On Wednesday night the Boston Bruins made organizational history. Capping off a 12-0-1 month of November with a 6-3 victory in Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, the B’s completed their first month without a loss (in regulation) since January of 1969. Leading the way for the B’s on Wednesday was their much-maligned (this season) top line [...]
Bruins GameDay: Seguin, B’s Set To Battle Leafs For First Place In The Northeast
On tap tonight at the Air Canada Centre is a battle for first place in the NHL’s NorthEast division. This of course between the visiting Boston Bruins (14-7-1 (29 Points)) and the host Toronto Maple Leafs (14-8-2 (30 Points)). Tonight is also the first half of a home-and-home series between these two squads, that will [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 11-9-2 with 24 points through 22 games. After 22 games last season, the Bolts were 13-7-2 with 28 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division four point behind the Florida Panthers and 10th in the Eastern Conference. After 22 games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team [...]
Sour Grapes: Cherry Defends Defenceless While Backing Bruins
Sour Grapes is a feature that will run weekly on Mondays to begin each week, offering a summary of another crazy week around the NHL from the perspective of none other than Donald S. Cherry, distilled and interpreted into plain English so NHL fans everywhere can come to appreciate the wisdom behind the ranting and [...]
Maple Leafs’ Game Day: Florida Panthers @ Toronto Maple Leafs 11/08/11
The Toronto Maple Leafs will once again turn to Jonas Gustavsson, who will start for the Maple Leafs tonight as they host the pesky Florida Panthers tonight. Although they aren’t viewed as a force in the Eastern Conference, the Florida Panthers seem to always give the Maple Leafs a run for their money. Last season, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Maple Leafs Send Gustavsson to AHL Marlies; Boyce’s Nose
The Toronto Maple Leafs accounced on Friday that they have loaned goaltender Jonas Gustavsson to the Toronto Marlies of the AHL on a conditioning stint. Gustavsson did not have to clear waivers and must be sent back to the Maple Leafs within two weeks. The 26-year-old native of Danderyd, Sweden is 6-13-2 with a goals [...]
Jonas Gustavsson Needs an AHL Conditioning Stint
There is no arguing that the Toronto Maple Leafs need a spark as they enter the unofficial second half of the 2010-2011 season. Where that spark were to come from, whether it would be from management, coaching, a trade, a signing or whatever else, doesn’t matter. With a very good young goalie, a mediocre goalie [...]
Toronto Maple Leafs Mid-Season Awards
With the All-Star break here, there is no better time for general managers and coaches to re-evaluate their teams during the season. Part of re-evaluating a National Hockey League team is looking at the team leaders in certain statistical categories and their act on and off the ice as a person. The Toronto Maple Leafs [...]
Toronto Maple Leafs Must Focus on Building Their Defence, Not Offence
Much has been made of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ inability to score this season. Reasons such as having such a young team, lack of experience and the most used one of all; no legitimate top-six forward, have been thrown around by fans. Although all of those reasons are true, adding another forward may not be [...]
Toronto Maple Leafs: Colton Orr placed on IR; James Reimer re-called
The Toronto Maple Leafs have re-called goalie James Reimer after placing Colton Orr on the IR.
Fantasy hockey: goaltending battles part 2
Two months into the season, let’s have a look at the goal tending battles raging on in the NHL. Some teams still don’t have a clear-cut starter like Roberto Luongo, Ryan Miller or Martin Brodeur. Goaltending battles: – Scorching: game-to-game musical chair – Blazing: no clear-cut starter – Moderate: mild battle going-on – Low: a [...]
Predators Stink Up the Joint in a 5-4 Loss to Toronto
There are losses and then there are losses. Tonight, the Nashville Predators stunk up a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs with their worst period of hockey in the history of the franchise, giving up four- count ‘em FOUR- power play goals to blow a game in a 5-4 loss. The Predators jumped all over [...]
Fantasy hockey: goaltending battles
One week into the season, it’s time to look at some of the goal tending battles going on in the NHL. Some teams don’t have a clear-cut starter like Roberto Luongo, Ryan Miller or Martin Brodeur. Goaltending battles: – Scorching: game-to-game musical chair – Blazing: no clear-cut starter – Moderate: mild battle going-on – Low: [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Lyle Addresses Wild Trade Rumors This Week That Will Likely Not Happen
We at HockeyIndependent.com want to be your resource and filter for what is going on in the NHL. We try to disseminate the noise in the blogosphere. We don’t look to to attack those sources, but to question the veracity of the rumor with cold logic, hockey smarts and knowledge. To do that… we have [...]