Thoughts Recorded At the Conclusion of the Leafs/Kings Game James Tanner | January 13, 2015 It is 1:23 AM and I just finished watching the Los Angeles Kings defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-0 in what I thought was a very entertaining game. Here are…
Tanner Answers the Star’s Maple Leafs Mailbag James Tanner | January 10, 2015 One of my favorite sports writers is Andre Stoeten of AndrewStoeten.com (formerly of Drunk Jays Fan) and he does this thing where he answers the Mailbag of Jays Beat writer Richard Griffen.…
Leafs Can Be Cup Competitors Without Rebuilding James Tanner | January 9, 2015 The Leafs might look like a team in disarray right now, having lost a significant number of games recently and fired their coach. Beyond that, their best player is taking…
Thoughts on Horachek’s First Game As Leafs’ Coach James Tanner | January 9, 2015 The Leafs lost their first game with their new coach by a score of 6-2, prompting a ton of people to criticize the team and to feel as if nothing…
Leafs Fire Randy Carlyle; Kessel Is No Coach-Killer James Tanner | January 6, 2015 After a painfully long build-up, the Leafs have fired Randy Carlyle. Bizarrely extending the lame-duck coach in the summer, likely to give him a fair shot after turning over nearly…
Leafs Owe Fans a Defined Direction & a Plan James Tanner | January 5, 2015 I recently wrote that the Leafs should fire their coach and that they should trade Phil Kessel. Today I’ll settle for anything. The team is 3-7 in their last ten…
Leafs Look Done; Should Trade Kessel James Tanner | January 3, 2015 The Leafs are at a point in their history where they have made the Playoffs once in a decade. They are among the league’s worst possession teams and they allow…
Carlyle Is Done and It’s Time for Leafs to Move on James Tanner | December 31, 2014 There are so many people calling for Carlyle to be fired and it has been going on for so long that it’s become a running joke. There are even a…
Lou Lamoriello: A Unique Profile of Greatness James Tanner | December 29, 2014 When the Devils announced they had fired Peter DeBoer and replaced him with a strange coaching triangle of Adam Oates, Scott Stevens and Lou Lamoriello himself, back behind the bench…
The Leafs: A Statistical Analysis James Tanner | December 27, 2014 It’s almost New Years and the NHL is about to resume play after a three-day Christmas break, which makes this the perfect time to look beyond the win/loss record and…
Potential Destinations For David Clarkson James Tanner | December 22, 2014 As we all know, the Leafs are in a bit of salary cap pickle. They sit $1.2 million under the cap today, which makes it hard enough to add any…
The Leafs at Christmas: What’s Wrong and How to Fix James Tanner | December 21, 2014 The Leafs are a study of contradictions: They win when they should lose, they beat good teams and lose to bad ones, they re-sign their coach in the summer and…
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