Toronto Maple Leafs
Leafs Officially Eliminated from Playoff Contention
The Toronto Maple Leafs were booed off the ice at the Air Canada Centre after Tuesday night’s loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. The loss meant that the Leafs were eliminated from playoff contention for the seventh straight season. It also meant that the Leafs have dropped 10 straight at home, a franchise low. In the [...]
Lupul Out Three to Four Weeks
The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without forward Joffrey Lupul for three to four weeks. He’s out with a separated shoulder. Lupul suffered the injury after a check by David Krecji of the Boston Bruins, taking the hit in Tuesday’s 5-4 loss. “It comes at a bad time for us as we’re trying to make [...]
Grabovski Signs Five-Year Extension
While news from T-Dot may drive some readers into fits of unadulterated (and confusing) rage, the Maple Leafs have signed Mikhail Grabovski to a five-year contract extension worth $27.5 million. Grabovski’s agent Gary Greenstin noted that the procedure had been a complicated one that started in October. The contract has an as-requested modified no-trade clause, incidentally. “They [...]
Maple Leafs Fire Ron Wilson
The Toronto Maple Leafs have fired Ron Wilson. The club relieved the former head coach of his duties on Friday evening. The team won only one out of their last 11 games and now sit in 12th place in the Eastern Conference. “This was not an easy decision for me to make,” general manager Brian [...]
2013 Winter Classic Set
The NHL has officially announced the 2013 Winter Classic and it should be a good one. The Toronto Maple Leafs will face off against the Detroit Red Wings at the Big House in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan Stadium is the largest of its kind in North America and drew a Guinness World Record crowd of 104,173 [...]
Leafs Sign Liles to Four Year Extension
The Toronto Maple Leafs have locked John-Michael Liles in for four more seasons, signing him to a contract extension worth $15.5 million. Liles would’ve been an unrestricted free agent come summer, but the deal keeps in T-Dot where he wanted to be all along. “Some guys choose to go the unrestricted route but it’s a [...]
Leafs Confirm Ron Wilson’s Contract Extension
With Christmas over, it’s time to attempt to get things back to some semblance of normal here at HockeyDraft.ca. On a personal level, I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and was able to get something out of the holiday season regardless of what, if anything, is celebrated. Ron Wilson is someone who was [...]
Content is King: BCE and Rogers Combine to Land Majority Share in MLSE
BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications have long been rivals in Canada’s telecommunications landscape, but they’ve joined forces to purchase 75 percent of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. The acquisition of the majority share in the company cost Bell and Rogers $1.32 billion. The deal gives Bell 37.5 percent and Rogers 37.5 percent. Kilmer Sports Inc., [...]
Is Brian Burke a Bully?
In an article titled “Burke’s becoming an embarrassment,” Toronto Sun sports writer Steve Simmons pulls no punches. “Brian Burke is out of control. He doesn’t just want to run the Toronto Maple Leafs. He wants to run the newspapers. He wants to tell editors what columnists and radio voices can and cannot write or say. He [...]
Reimer Out At Least Ten More Days
While Toronto Maple Leafs goalie James Reimer did practice with the team on Thursday, head coach Ron Wilson says that the 23-year-old won’t be ready for at least another ten days. “This is a process so let’s not rush it,” said Wilson. “When we want him to go in there we want him to be [...]
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