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Should the Maple Leafs Have Drafted Konecny with 24th Pick?
It’s always disconcerting to see the prospect your team passed up in the draft getting all the attention shortly afterward. But it’s especially difficult for Toronto Maple Leafs fans, as they have come...
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Maple Leafs Could Be Sellers in Next Phase of Rebuild
The 2015-16 Toronto Maple Leafs were designed to be deconstructed. This particular version of the team was pieced together to be respectable, but not too good. They are looking for a high draft pick...
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Nazem Kadri Improving Under Babcock’s Tutelage
Approaching the final stretch of Mike Babcock’s first full season with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the results haven’t been great. The Leafs have earned the fewest wins of any team in the NHL thus far,...
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Breaking Down Toronto’s Goaltending Conundrum
The Toronto Maple Leafs are almost one year into their “scorched Earth” rebuild. In the middle of last February it was reported that MLSE had approved a top-to-bottom tear down of the team. Since then...
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Maple Leafs Finish ‘Scorching the Earth’ with Phaneuf Trade
For the last few months we’ve heard that the Winnipeg Jets held the first NHL trade market domino in their hands. The league was waiting to see what they were going to do with Dustin Byfuglien, Jacob...
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James van Riemsdyk Should Be Next To Go For Maple Leafs
In their enormous undertaking to rebuild a club that has failed to be truly competitive for over 10 years, the Toronto Maple Leafs have masterfully shed several enormous contracts signed by polarizing...
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Getting To Know New Leafs Prospect Tobias Lindberg
Toronto Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan was praised when he landed top prospect Kasperi Kapanen in the Phil Kessel trade over the summer, and rightly so. The recent World Junior Championship...
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Toronto Maple Leafs Prospects Getting Just A Taste of the NHL
Hockey fans everywhere were buzzing on Monday as the Toronto Maple Leafs called-up several of their future key core pieces, such as forwards William Nylander, Kasperi Kapanen, Zach Hyman, Nikita...
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Column: Nazem Kadri doesn’t need to prove himself
There are plenty of narratives surrounding the upcoming contract of 25-year-old Nazem Kadri. Some say he needs to grow up. Last season, the former seventh overall pick, drafted in the same summer as...
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Under-the-radar prospect Nikita Soshnikov shining on NHL stage
There isn’t much to like about the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 2015-16 campaign. The club’s ‘scorched earth’ brand of rebuild had the season doomed from the start, as the Leafs’ management team has set their...
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William Nylander adjusting to life in the NHL
It’s been about three weeks since William Nylander was recalled from the AHL’s Toronto Marlies to play for the Maple Leafs. In the first week-and-a-half of his NHL career, he played fairly well,...
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Maple Leafs get Rielly and Kadri deals exactly right
It can take perception a good bit of time to catch up with reality. Any NHL fans who still think of the Toronto Maple Leafs as a laughingstock haven’t been paying attention since Brendan Shanahan took...
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Babcock delivered on puck possession promises for Maple Leafs
Don’t be fooled by the Toronto Maple Leafs’ last-place finish this season — 2015-16 was an undeniable success for the organization. Not in the traditional sense of course, as the Leafs couldn’t be...
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Mitch Marner is ready for the NHL in 2016-17
This time last year, Toronto Maple Leafs fans hoped that they would win the draft lottery and the opportunity to select Toronto-area wunderkind Connor McDavid. Slated to draft fourth, they had the...
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Leafs could be perfect fit for Radulov’s return
After a long escape to the KHL, Alexander Radulov is returning to the NHL. Again. The oft maligned Russian star has caused a frenzy, as rumors swirled about his potential return to North America. That...
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How Auston Matthews will guide the Leafs’ return to relevancy
And so it begins. After finally committing to a genuine rebuild early last year – ‘scorched earth’ plan and all – and bottoming out this season with a 29-win performance (the fewest ever posted by the...
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