What a crazy draft weekend that turned out to be, we had the Patrick Marleau trade, contracts to Kapanen and Johnsson in essence agreed to, more insight into the Marner negotiations and oh yeah those six draft picks the Maple Leafs made as well. In one of those moments in sports where the business of... Continue Reading →
The Mitch Marner contract negotiations took a turn to crisis levels after Darren Dreger reported that Marner wouldn't be putting pen to paper before Canada Day and could be visiting rival teams as of June 26th. Truly this shouldn't be a surprise, the seeds to this contract impasse started all the way back when the... Continue Reading →
Lucas did an amazing job in his most recent blog offering his thoughts as to what went wrong in the playoff series against the Boston Bruins. He also correctly highlighted a lot of structural issues that haunted the Maple Leafs right from the regular season all the way through to the series loss to the... Continue Reading →
I had planned to write a blog on the first two games of the playoffs but it was all overshadowed by the poor officiating in both games more specifically in last night’s game two. Last night’s game was a disgrace, not because of the result for the Maple Leafs but because the referees allowed the... Continue Reading →
The Maple Leafs slump has brought to slaughter our latest scapegoat. Last season it was Zach Hyman, earlier this year brought the silliness that was the “Nylander Curse” and over the last couple of weeks fans and some in the media have focused their reasons (excuses) for the Maple Leafs slump to Mike Babcock. The... Continue Reading →
