Jason Orach

Maybe the deepest position for Team Canada, what five cent(re/er)s do you take to Vancouver this year? Invitees include guys like Vincent Lecavalier and Eric Staal who haven't impressed this season but ignore players like Steven Stamkos (30pts in 30GP). In my mind there are

There are a bunch of pretty simple explanations for why the Leafs got smoked tonight. To start off the Boston Bruins have a more talented group of players than the Leafs do. Tuukka Rask took a shutout into the third but didn't have a lot of work because

Puck Drop: 7PM Leafs TV I got an email yesterday from a Bruins blogger asking if I'd contribute my thoughts on the Bruins - Leafs rivalry. My thoughts basically boil down to: what rivalry? Are we supposed to be rivals because of the Phil Kessel deal? According to

Yesterday we had a lively 700 comment discussion on the finer points of Jeff Schultz's advanced plus minus statistics. Today we can all argue about shot quality in a rousing discussion of who Team Canada's goalie should be. Of course Canada will bring three of these

Yesterday we wrote that Chris Pronger would bring a mean streak that Team Canada needs in the Olympics and last night Chris Pronger lived up to his billing by drilling Tavares into the glass from behind. Pronger received a two minute penalty and Tavares lost one of his front teeth

The question is simple; who are your seven guys to play defense for Team Canada at the Olympics? The defenders invited to the Canada camp are: Francois Beauchemin, Jay Bouwmeester, Dan Boyle, Brent Burns, Drew Doughty, Mike Green, Dan Hamhuis, Duncan Keith, Scott Niedermayer, Dion Phaneuf, Chris Pronger, Robyn Regehr,

Puck Drop: 7:00PM ET Sportsnet Ontario Leafs' coach Ron Wilson says he hopes former players Nik Antropov and Pavel Kubina won't be feted with a ceremony tonight. - Jonas Siegel Tonight marks the return of a player who wasn't fully appreciated in Toronto even

The best part about tonight's game was Phil Kessel pulling Russell's jersey over his head and dumping him, followed closely by Phil Kessel laughing when Orr came into the box shortly after. Kessel with a pair, Jason Blake (!!!) with a pair both set up on beautiful

According to TSN's Bob MacKenzie we've swapped Jiri Tlusty with Carolina for their 2009 first round pick Philippe Paradis. From Hockey's Future: A mixture of physical presence and scoring skill, Paradis is an attractive prospect. He possesses a hard shot and has the ability

Jared Boll gets dusted by Luke Schenn Puck Drop: 7:00 ET Leafs TV Fresh off of first shutout of the year we've lost starting goaltender Jonas Gustavsson to another catheter ablation and so Joey MacDonald gets the start. Ordinarily this would be a total disaster but at

The Toronto Maple Leafs, who play the Habs on Tuesday, haven’t won the Stanley Cup since 1967. - Dennis Kane Your loser team got blown out of the building by the basement dwelling Leafs. Carey Price was outduelled by a guy who had to leave the game with a

Puck Drop: 7:30PM TSN Friday is the actual date of the 100th anniversary of the Montreal Canadiens. Montreal has been celebrating this for the past 99 years so hopefully the next time we play them they'll have shut up about their anniversary. On this the week of

Puck Drop: 7:00PM ET - Sportsnet Ontario / Versus Tired of having Ontario born players tear up the team they grew up cheering for right in front of your very eyes? Had enough of ex-Leafs fans playing for other teams to our detriment? Well fear no more kids because with

Puck Drop: 7:30 ET Leafs-TV Next Game Toronto Maple Leafs @ Florida Panthers Friday, Nov 27, 2009, 7:30 PM EST BankAtlantic Center Complete Coverage > Tonight the Maple Leafs face the Panthers. The Leafs played really stifling D in the third period against Tampa and Ron Wilson is hoping

FINAL 1 2 3 Total Toronto Maple Leafs 2 2 0 4 Tampa Bay Lightning 2 1 0 3 Join the Game Thread Goals: Kulemin from Gunnarsson and Primeau, Hagman from Beauchemin and Gunnarsson, Hagman from Grabovski and Exelby, Stajan from Gunnarsson. The Leafs came out and scored a pair

Puck drop: 7PM ET TSN Now that Negative Tuesday is behind us it's time to realize that the Leafs have four points in their last three games which is pretty decent for them to be quite honest. With Toskala injured Gustavsson gets the start tonight. He looked solid

We heard Ron Wilson say yesterday that another player will be joining the Leafs but he neglected to specify who. Christian Hanson was called up and a lot of us were guessing that Ryan Hamilton, a power forward prospect we got in exchange for Robbie Earl, would be the other

Puck Drop: 7PM ET Sportsnet Ontario The future Brooklyn Islanders (8-8-7, 23 pts, 5th in the Atlantic) bring John Tavares to Toronto for his first audition to be a Leaf Killer. I firmly believe he'll score at least a hat trick tonight seeing as he'll have

Personally I can't believe we won a game where we only scored once in regulation. I also can't believe the Leafs won in a shootout and I can't believe they only gave up one goal. I also firmly believe as soon as I admit

Toskala gets the start against Semyon Varlamov tonight. I have dinner plans that I hastily made to avoid watching Alex Ovechkin score two hundred goals. Hopefully Phil "Bright Spot" Kessel continues his point getting ways but honestly I don't have too much hope. Maybe the boys

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7:30PM ET Sportsnet Ontario Greetings Leafs fans. Regular Chemmy has died and has been replaced with "Delirious H1N1 Chemmy". You probably won't notice any difference. The Senators haven't sold outtonight's game against the Leafs. It makes me wonder if fairweather Ottawa

7:00PM EST, CBC, NHLN-US After a surprising non-blowout loss to Chicago last night the Leafs return home to face another really good team from the west; the Calgary Flames. Here's Puck Daddy's Two Line Pass with a witty and informative blurb about the Flames: This

I don't know why Mattblack doesn't have an FTB up yet. I'm certainly not about to write one so in lieu of that: We haven't had an offensive threat like that in a long long time.