March 25th, 2018Last season, one San Jose Sharks player led the team in goals, points and plus-minus. Another player led the team in assists. And a third player was the third-leading goal scorer. The players are, respectively, Brent Burns, Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau. Last season’s Norris Trophy winner, Burns, is tied for ninth on the team...
February 24th, 2018In a modest move, the San Jose Sharks acquired veteran forward Eric Fehr for a seventh-round draft pick in 2020. It is a modest move, and one I like. The move is not risk-free, but the upside exceeds the risk by a bunch.
Eric Fehr
Fehr’s history is pretty straightforward. He has played on good NHL teams throughout his career. The...
October 15th, 2017The Toronto Maple Leafs are almost through their first couple weeks of the 2017-18 season and The Hockey Writers’ round table is back at it. With an impressive 3-1-0 start to the season, there are a lot of discussion topics that we would like to get to, but for this edition of the round table, I’m joined by Anthony Fusco, Brett...
June 3rd, 2017The Toronto Maple Leafs are one of the most exciting young teams in the NHL. This season they reached the playoffs for just the second time in a decade and gave the top-seeded Washington Capitals all they could handle in a first-round thriller. The Maple Leafs bowed out after six games, but anyone who watched that series with the Caps...
March 9th, 2017Another game in Toronto and another matchup with playoff implications when the Toronto Maple Leafs host the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday. The Leafs will be looking to make it two wins in a row when the Flyers come into town after a big 3-2 victory of the Red Wings on Tuesday. Another must-win for the Leafs, they will have to get a...
March 4th, 2017It's hard to argue with Jim Rutherford's recent track record as Pittsburgh Penguins general manager. He transformed the Penguins on the fly last season into Stanley Cup champions. For his efforts, Rutherford won the General Manager of the Year Award in 2016. That team is mostly back, but Pittsburgh needed defensive depth this spring....
March 3rd, 2017For most teams in the NHL, there are 20 games remaining in the 2016-17 season. The Toronto Maple Leafs are one of the clubs who are in the fight for their playoff lives. They are desperately trying their hardest to accumulate as many points as they possibly can while hoping for the teams around them in the standings to lose. The...
March 2nd, 2017This season the trade deadline carried more implications due to the incoming Vegas Golden Knights and the 2017 Expansion Draft. The expansion draft added more depth to the trade deadline this season and expanded the significance, since acquiring and trading players may change the dynamic of management’s intentions of who to protect and...