Thoughts On Leafs Rebuild and What’s to Come James Tanner | August 27, 2015 While drafting Mitch Marner and William Nylander is enough to make even the most casual of Leafs fans excited, most of the people who seem to know what they’re talking…
Maple Leafs Mailbag: End of the Summer Version James Tanner | August 23, 2015 Usually when I write up a mailbag, I like to steal the questions from Kevin McGran’s mailbag because then we get to have two perspectives on the same question and…
Is Jake Gardiner A Top Pairing Defenseman? James Tanner | August 22, 2015 One player who seemingly exemplifies the dichotomy between regular fans and fans who are obsessed with statistics is Jake Gardiner. On one hand, the Leafs have been a terrible team…
The Top-Ten Defensemen In the NHL: Part Two James Tanner | August 21, 2015 Welcome to part two of the top-ten best defensemen in the NHL. Last week I published part one, and ranked players ten through six. You can read it here if…
The Top-Ten Defensemen In the NHL: Part One James Tanner | August 16, 2015 Because it’s summer and because it’s always fun to talk about, I present to you the top ten defensemen in the NHL. I have used stats to compile this list,…
How Do the Maple Leafs Get Better? James Tanner | August 15, 2015 When you talk about Nerd Culture, you usually think of Final Fantasy, Comic Books, Star Wars and stuff like that. But for my friend Scott and I, back in the…
Where Will the Oilers Finish in 2015-16? James Tanner | August 10, 2015 It has been nine full season since the Edmonton Oilers made the Playoffs. Since then, they’ve made an astounding eight top-ten picks, a number which includes an almost incomprehensible four…
The Leafs Should Sign Morgan Rielly to Max Extension James Tanner | August 7, 2015 As Morgan Rielly enters his third NHL season this October, and (hopefully) his first as the #1 Dman on the Leafs, he also enters the last season of his entry-level…
Basement Tapes: Who’s Finishing Last In the NHL in 2016 James Tanner | August 4, 2015 The 2014-15 NHL regular season was, in part, as much a race to the bottom as it was to the top. With Connor McDavid in the offing and Jack Eichel…
Flyers Good, Canucks Terrible: Reviewing the Weeks Moves James Tanner | July 30, 2015 This past week has seen quite a bit of action for the last week of July. A fairly big trade, a great contract extension and few more minor things –…
The Toronto Maple Leafs Top Prospects #6-10 James Tanner | July 28, 2015 A couple weeks back I updated my list of the Leafs top five prospects (you can read it here) and it was crazy how much interaction it prompted between myself…
8 Things the Leafs Should Do as Part of Their Rebuild James Tanner | July 27, 2015 If I’ve learned anything in the last few weeks, it’s that there is an incredible and surprising appetite for Leafs news in the middle of the summer. Were the Leafs…
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