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James Vanriemsdyk

What to Expect from James van Riemsdyk

In a Leaf era fraught with frustration and mistrust, nobody brought forth these feelings in fans more than Luke Schenn over the past couple...

How Do You Like Them Apples?

Here—s the shake. It—s the end of August, it—s been a couple of months since we—ve seen an NHL game played, and four months...

This is nowhere

Another round of CBA talks, and another week void of good NHL news in terms of trades, signings, or anything of the sort. We're now...

Tracking Penalties

I plead guilty to writing far too many CBA posts in the past few weeks. This week I—m happily returning to a Leafs topic...

What to Expect from Jay McClement

When Brian Burke took over the GM job in Toronto, there was nothing but talk about building from the net out. A defence first...

Mock CBA with J. Reinhold

Heading into a season with the potential for a lockout, it seems like mock trade proposals and mock line combinations are less relevant than...

What would a luxury tax mean for the Leafs?

With NHLPA representatives set to make their counter-proposal to the NHL today, a lot of talk in the last 24 hours has centered...

Morning Mashup: Who Benefits from a Lockout?

So the possibility of a lockout certainly seems more like a real possibility now than maybe it did a couple of weeks ago, but...

Morning Mashup: Goalies, Tourneys, and Alumni

It—s another slow weekend in Leafs land. Maybe not as slow as last week, as the Friday signing of Morgan Rielly is actual, factual...

Goals for Randy

Over the past week I have been hard at work on a piece that examines what needs to be done to transform the Leafs...

It—s Not All Bad

It seems that a large percentage of Leafs Nation is completely convinced that the team they saw in February and March of the 2011-12...

Mashup: Thoughts on a Player’s Perspective

Saturday morning, CBC Sports ran an opinion piece on the CBA written by an anonymous player. The article is incredibly honest, and brings to...

More contract craziness

Get ready to hear about nothing but Shea Weber for the next six days. And rightfully so. After inking what will be the biggest...

NHL lockout imminent? No. We all just need more meds

Editor's Note: We're pleased to welcome Ian Dudgeon to the MLHS blogging team. Ian was one of the co-founders of McKeen's Hockey.com. He's been...

Patience, Believing, and Plan Bs

At this point we are two weeks past the opening of NHL Free Agency, three weeks from the draft, and five weeks from when...

It begins…

With the rumoured initial offer from the NHL owners to the NHLPA hitting the internet last night, we have seen no shortage of freak...

Kulemin is goin’ for Arbys

So, Nik Kulemin is up for Club Elected Arbitration. Seems interesting, and given Burke—s statements in the past about arbitration I—d assume they—ll actually go...

Morning Mashup: Questions after an uneventful weekend

The Leafs certainly didn—t give us much to talk about over the weekend, nor did any team for that matter, so I have very...

Centers of Attention

We need a number one center. - Every Leafs Fan While it may not be seen as the organizations top priority, it is safe to assume...

More changes on the way

Though we've endured a pretty boring free agency period so far, it looks like we may still be treated to some substantial roster movement...

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