The Maple Leafs have four games against the Panthers and Lightning coming up in the next two weeks, along with games against Canadian rivals Ottawa and Vancouver, in a six game in 12 days stretch. From there GM Dave Nonis will have three weeks to consider the state of the team during the Olympic break, after which the team will play just three games before the March 5 trade deadline. Interesting decisions lie ahead.
Petrielli’s Notebook will arrive in time to consume your entire afternoon. Until then, some links…
A compilation of Kessel’s 27 goals so far this season
A lot more where that came from.
JvR about to eclipse career marks
Sounds weird to read his 41st point will be his career high, but that’s due to the lockout shortened season. JvR has 38 goals and 72 points in his last 100 games.
What’s the one ingredient the Leafs are missing?
From Michael Langlois at VLM.
Leafs need more secondary scoring
With Bodie and Gleason chipping in, the problem on Saturday was more to do with letting in five.
Marlies wrap up three games in three days with a shootout win yesterday at Ricoh
They went 2-2 this week overall. MLHS will have a more in depth weekly review coming up from Daniel Kovalevsky.
Connor Brown shows no mercy
NINETEEN three-plus point nights from Connor Brown this season through 47 games. A hat trick + an assist on Sunday puts him at 98 points on the season. Brown leads the 2nd highest scorer in the OHL (Dane Fox) by 14 points and the third highest scorer (Nikolay Goldobin) by 25 points.
