D-Day Wrap Up
Final Deadline Trades:
Alexei Ponikarovsky to Pittsburgh for Luca Caputi and Martin Skoula
Martin Skoula to New Jersey for a fifth round draft selection.
Lee Stempniak to PHX for 4th and 7th rounders.
Joey MacDonald to ANA for a 7th rounder in 2011.
Wrap-Up: That looks to be a wrap on Brian Burke’s trade activity for the 2009-10 season. [...]
Burke on new acquistions
Prospect defenceman Keith Aulie:
“Aulie is a 6′6 defenceman playing for Abbotsford of the AHL. Our plans for Keith are for him to stay at the AHL level for the present, so he will report to the Marlies. This is a player who played on the national junior team and won a gold medal. Excellent skater [...]
The Poni Debate
On the heels of Saturday night’s rumour from the Hockey Night in Canada Hot Stove panel that the dealing of pending free agents Matt Stajan and Alexei Ponikarovsky is a virtual certainty, TSN’s Darren Dreger has listed the pair as the fourth and fifth most-likely trade candidates this trade deadline (Stajan followed by Ponikarovsky) as [...]
Post-Game: Penalty Kill or Suicide?
Drop the penalty kill from the equation and the Leafs win this one 2-0; there’s something, right?
GFWE Game #16 Predictions
You know the score: Predict the result and first scorer for tonight’s divisional match-up in Buffalo, be sure it’s right to win a ticket, and then read my blog “The Blame Game.”
EDIT: Includes current contest standings.
The Blame Game
Submit your GFWE predictions here.
It’s no secret that the Leafs’ biggest disappointment amid a conference-second-worst 15-20-9 first half of the schedule is a total lack of progress in the area of goals against and special teams, where Brian Burke focused much of his off-season efforts.
MLHS Forums (Re) Launched
Some of you may have observed the emergence of a Forum link on our menu bar above; well, it’s finally of some use.
After some slight technical hiccups, they are up and functional and require no extra work on your part. Your current account on the main site will be the username under which you post [...]
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
To all in the MLHS and Barilkosphere community. Thanks for your continued support, and I look forward to what we can accomplish together in the new year.
On a Leaf-related note this afternoon, sixth round draft pick in 2009 Jerry D’Amigo has been named to the WJC Team USA team. The winger has started off his [...]
Game Thread – Leafs @ C-Bus
Also: Details and analysis of the Jiri Tlusty departure and Phillipe Paradis arrival can be found here and here. Be sure to check out the latest edition of Stick Work with Fab and Kats for an in-depth Marlies roundup, discussion of the Leafs’ triumph in Montreal with Ryan Dixon of The Hockey News and some [...]
We’re Back
Our sincerest apologies for complications of the last 24 hours in which we experienced an outage followed by a comments freeze. We should be back to normal now.
It’s unfortunate we couldn’t have suffered through another one together last night. This is the best I can do to sum up what could have been: