Déjà Vu for Leafs Nation? For the first time since the 1984 to 1985 National Hockey League (NHL) season when the Maple Leafs finished in last place, which gave them the right to select future Leaf captain Wendel Clark first overall, Toronto managed to finish in the basement of the NHL standing in the 2015 […]

If we look closely at the Toronto Maple Leafs, the hockey club boasts not one but two generational talent. Most people who follow the National Hockey League (NHL) associate generational talent in the expansion (post 1967) era with the likes of Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Sidney Crosby, and Connor McDavid. You will not find a […]

If I were newly-minted Leaf GM Lou Lamoriello, I would seriously consider pursuing Steven Stamkos when and if he becomes an unrestricted free agent (UFA) on July 1, 2016. Speculations on the Stamkos Home Coming Have Been Heating Up for Quite Some Time: To this date, we have already seen waves of debates surrounding three […]

I have always been a long-term planner even though this trait does not synchronize with the prototypical short-term view–typically defined as the win now at the expense of the hockey club’s future mentality–of Leafs Nation. This means that if I were hired by Brendan Shanahan to fill the current vacant GM position of the Toronto […]

The Post Boys of Negative Miscasts When the word ‘miscast’ is being tossed around in the ‘Centre of the Hockey Universe,’ Leafs Nation automatically think of the names Tyler Bozak and Dion Phaneuf in the post-NHL lockout era dating back to 2005.     In the fans’ and hockey analysts’ view, Bozak has been miscast […]

Time to forget about Connor McDavid Let me begin by stating the obvious, i.e., why Toronto needs a sensible post-2015 NHL Draft Lottery trade strategy. The reason is because the […]