Posts About "Kasperi Kapanen"
Maple Leafs: Kapanen's Start Cause for Concern?
October 15th, 2019 It’s six games into the 2019-20 season and already there are theories and thoughts coming from all angles on what’s wrong with the Toronto Maple Leafs and how they could’ve had a better start to the season - even if their losses came against the St. Louis Blues, Tampa Bay Lightning and a speedy Montreal Canadiens. But one of...
Maple Leafs Problem: Is Kapanen Helping the Tavares Line?
October 9th, 2019 I start this post with a question I have considered since the Toronto Maple Leafs game against the Montreal Canadiens: Is John Tavares hurt? The Canadiens beat the Maple Leafs and losing is seldom good. However, did the team lose the effectiveness of its newly-named captain after he was pin-balled by Canadiens Jesperi Kotkaniemi and...
Are the Maple Leafs' Line Combinations Working?
October 9th, 2019 We're four games into the Toronto Maple Leafs 2019-20 campaign and there's already plenty to take about. After opening with two straight wins, the team has dropped back-to-back contests, although Monday's hard-fought loss to the St. Louis Blues represented a big bounce-back effort, result aside. There's not much room for moral...
Predicting Maple Leafs' Penalty Killers in 2019-20
September 28th, 2019 There's plenty of hype surrounding the 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs. There's a plethora of new, exciting faces on board, Auston Matthews could make the leap into a true top-five player in the NHL and the thought of a William Nylander bounce back to his right is mouth-watering. Frederik Andersen could take a charge at his first career...
Maple Leafs Training Camp News: Kapanen, Kerfoot, Mikheyev, Hyman
September 16th, 2019 The recent signing of Mitch Marner to a Toronto Maple Leafs contract has raised questions about whether the team’s salary structure can be sustained. However, there is finally a wealth of news emerging from the team’s training camp. In this post, I will explore some of the salary news as well as news emerging from the training...
Maple Leafs News: All-Decade Team, Kapanen, Marner, Matthews
September 13th, 2019 As I was finishing writing this post, my phone buzzed with a message that talks had picked up between Mitch Marner and the Toronto Maple Leafs since training camp opened on Friday, but that nothing has been completed yet. If that is the case, the next few days should be interesting. However, Maple Leafs fans have been teased before. Is...
