Maple Leafs Commentary: Does a Muzzin for Larsson Trade Work? The Old Prof | July 21, 2022 The Hockey Writers has a number of great writers who cover the Toronto Maple Leafs. Recently, THW colleague Shane Seney wrote a post titled “Maple Leafs’ 2022 Offseason Trade Targets:…
Maple Leafs Commentary: The Top 3 Trade Candidates The Old Prof | July 19, 2022 The Toronto Maple Leafs are in a position where they have to trade away salary. If they pare their present roster down to the minimum 20 players, it puts them…
Maple Leafs Commentary: Trade? No More If, But When and Who? The Old Prof | July 17, 2022 At the end of the 2021-2022 season, there were four areas of need we believed the Toronto Maple Leafs needed to address. First and foremost was the goaltending. Like it…
Maple Leafs Commentary: The Need To Avoid Age-Old Mistakes The Old Prof | July 6, 2022 The Old Prof and I have been collaborating on Toronto Maple Leafs’ articles for over a year now and I can’t adequately express how much fun it has been. We…
Maple Leafs Should Keep Rasmus Sandin & Trade Jake Muzzin Shane Seney | July 5, 2022 It may be easier said than done. Facilitating any trade in the hard salary cap era is not easy. However, Toronto Maple Leafs’ general manager (GM) Kyle Dubas should do…
Maple Leafs Commentary: Liljegren, Sandin, Engvall, Muzzin & Kase The Old Prof | June 30, 2022 It was announced earlier this week that the Toronto Maple Leafs signed 23-year-old Timothy Liljegren to a two-year bridge contract for $1.4 million per season. Related: The Maple Leafs’ Best…
Maple Leafs & Blackhawks Have Pieces to Produce Offseason Blockbuster Shaun Filippelli | June 24, 2022 At any given time, there will be two main subsections of teams in the NHL — those poised to contend and the rest. Case in point, the Toronto Maple Leafs…
Maple Leafs’ Commentary: Rasmus Sandin as a Hybrid Left-Winger? The Old Prof | June 22, 2022 Toronto Maple Leafs’ general manager Kyle Dubas made an excellent acquisition at the 2022 trade deadline when he traded a second-round pick in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, a third-round…
The Maple Leafs’ Defensemen Ranked for Overall Play – 2022 Playoffs The Old Prof | June 17, 2022 We recently published a series of three articles ranking the Offensive play of the Maple Leafs’ defensemen, the Defensive Play of the Maple Leafs’ defensemen, and the Overall ranking of…
Maple Leafs’ Defensemen Ranked for Overall Play – 2021-22 Season The Old Prof | June 16, 2022 We recently wrote two posts about how the Toronto Maple Leafs’ defensemen ranked for offensive and defensive play using five-on-five on-ice stats per 60 minutes played as tracked and recorded…
Maple Leafs Commentary: Trading Jake Muzzin, Why? and How? The Old Prof | June 9, 2022 On January 28, 2019, Kyle Dubas acquired defenseman Jake Muzzin from the Los Angeles Kings in return for the Maple Leafs’ first-round pick in the 2019 entry draft, forward Carl…
2 Potential Trade Destinations for Maple Leafs’ Jake Muzzin Shane Seney | June 7, 2022 Earlier this offseason, I mentioned a few Toronto Maple Leafs who could be traded in the coming weeks, and general manager (GM) Kyle Dubas will need to be creative to…