Anytime you mention the San Jose Sharks this past month you hear people ask what happened to them. Even casual NHL fans know about the Sharks struggles, that’s when you know it’s getting bad. The Sharks powerplay has crashed and burned so bad that it has almost become as laughable as a Ron Wilson led ...
Toronto Maple Leafs have apparently fired Brian Burke as general manager. Working on official confirmations. — Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) January 9, 2013 Leave it to Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd. (MLSE) to upstage the NHL’s return with what was an unexpected and shocking shakeup. The Brian Burke era closed as the NHL executive with ...
Just days away from a 48-game season commencing, the timing of the firing is questionable. Why fire Burke now? Why fire him with the draft and free agency already behind him?
Expectation: Nazem Kadri is a three-part series. Part I is available here. Part III is available here. Nazem Kadri’s medial collateral ligament sprain during the 2011 Maple Leaf training camp had given the organization an out. The injury meant Kadri couldn’t start the season with the NHL club, regardless of his play. But the truth ...
The Toronto Maple Leafs may have the largest impact of all NHL teams on Twitter, something that this full list of Leafs-related accounts will show you.
Expectation: Nazem Kadri is a three-part series. Part II is available here. Part III is available here. It seems all peaks and valleys when it comes to the still-young career of Nazem Kadri. The now 22-year-old forward hasn’t played a full season with the Maple Leafs, and yet since being drafted June 26, 2009 ...
In a not so surprising move, hockey personalty and former NHL coach Don Cherry called out the Toronto Maple Leafs organization on Twitter Tuesday over the treatment of prospect Nazem Kadri. Kadri, 21, was drafted by the Maple Leafs in the first round (seventh overall) of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. At the time he ...
With his team sinking in the standings and rumors of unrest amongst his troops, Toronto Maple Leafs president and general manager Brian Burke made a tough decision when he fired close friend Ron Wilson in favor of hiring Randy Carlyle as the Maple Leafs head coach on March 3rd, 2012. For the most part it ...
They may not have a number one centre or an experienced goalie, but the Toronto Maple Leafs will make the NHL playoffs in 2013.
Brian Burke has never been the shy type. For some, that made him an ideal candidate for the general manager’s job with the Toronto Maple Leafs — a no-nonsense guy who could handle the media and the fans’ expectations. Being a Harvard-trained lawyer, former player agent, a general manager in Hartford, Vancouver and Anaheim, and former ...
