Jason Orach

Today is September 1st. There are thirty days left until the Leafs play their season opener at the ACC. Between now and then we'll see preseason hockey and find out what numbers our new acquisitions will wear. We'll watch video of training camp to see how

In the face of a protracted civil war the fledgling PPP government has joined forces with the rebel Chemmy Coalition to bring martial law and tyranny to the masses. Starting today oppression and unfairness will once again reign supreme. Some of you voted incorrectly: Not to worry though, your votes

I got an email this morning from Mikhail Grabovski who had some concerns he wanted to air on the blog. Without further ado; take it away Mickey! - Chemmy Today I read sporting article and not believe the eyes! Mr. Ronguillet wonder if Mikhail could be number one center for

On behalf of blog favorite Luke Schenn, Pension Plan Puppets is proud to present this public service announcement. This announcement is brought to you thanks to our proud sponsor PPP Amalgamated Heavy Industries and Puppy Sitting Service LLC. Being the saviour of an original six franchise isn't all

Jerry D'Amigo, Toronto's sixth round selection (#158 overall), scored two power play goals and added an assist on a Jordan Schroeder tally in a Team USA 6-0 win over Russia at the 2009 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp. He finished the camp with four points

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The Leafs have signed ex Peterborough Petes goaltender Joey MacDonald [HockeyDB stats] to a one year deal at a yet to be determined salary. This is a solid move to give the Marlies some competent goaltending with the departure of franchise savior a horrible goalie who we always hated Justin

PPP Update:The magazine will hits news stands September 8th. It will also be available at all 'evil' Indigo Chapters stores in Canada as well as wherever magazines are sold in the greater Toronto area, including 'super evil' Wal-Mart, grocery stores, drug stores, and other places

The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded Anton Stralman and Colin Stuart to Calgary for Wayne Primeau UPDATE: The Leafs also get a 2nd rounder in 2011 to make this trade slightly more palatable and they give up a 7th rounder in 2012 to make it less palatable. I always thought

Michael Traikos of the National Post wrote a lovely article last week; "Pogge Unable to Handle Centre Stage". It has been five years since he was drafted 90th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs, and more than three years since he backstopped Canada to a gold medal victory

This is an article that if it were written swapping Toronto and Dallas we would have an absolute field day on. I'm not sure it's a fair assessment of the situation as it developed but here are some choice quotes: Yet in today’s Dallas Morning

Jonas Gustavsson, shown attacking a merchant vessel. The Toronto Maple Leafs have announced the signing of Jonas Gustavsson to a one year $900,000 deal. As confirmed in our comments, Gustavsson will be an RFA in 2010. Gustavsson is a 24 year old native of Danderyd, Sweden who played with

This Gustavsson waffling reminds me a lot of three things. First it reminds me of another Swedish player who couldn't make up his mind whose name escapes me. Second it reminds me of the time I saw a woman give birth at a Waffle House without even slowing

Sometimes being a horrible shyster like me pays off in a big way. I sort of feel bad about lying to the obviously nice Montreal Canadiens ticket office but I felt that my team allegiance wouldn't help me attend the draft and so here we are. My crazy

This is the first sentence, unedited, of the Montreal Gazette's article on NHL free agency and how no one has any loyalty anymore: The comments on Habs Inside/Out began Wednesday morning when word was published on our website that the Toronto Maple Leafs were in the running

In: Colton Orr, Garnet Exelby, Mike Komisarek Out: Pavel Kubina, Tim Stapleton Still Hoping For: Francois Beauchemin We're getting bigger. Hope you guys are ready for next summer, we're getting better. (Full player profiles to come, honest.) How much destruction, on a scale of 1-10 will

Gomez to Montreal, Heatley to a private island for the next James Bond movie, the Sedins stay put in Vancouver because they didn't want to move their bicycles. What will happen next? Who will be moved? Who will sign someone terrible? Who will sign someone awesome? Who underpays?

Toronto's third round pick is shown above punching the hell out of Buffalo draft pick Zack Kassian. I think Burke's philosophy on drafting some big boys is a little bit clearer having watched our man speed bag the Sabres' newest player. He's not

The Itinerary: Friday, 4pm - Delta Centre-ville Hotel Lobby Our hotel is pretty close to the Bell Centre, and will hopefully be less crowded than the exterior of the arena which should allow us to say hello and whatnot without a lot of false positives. I'll make PPP

This is a map of the northeast corner of North America: That circle is centered on Montreal and is a circle meaning all points on the thick black line are equidistant from Montreal. To include Toronto and part of the golden horseshoe inside that circle, we need to extend its

Here at SBNation we're doing a 2009 NHL mock draft, and since we've been voting on players to put on the draft board it's time to finalize things up a little bit. : Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson (3.73) Brayden Schenn (3.65) Jared Cowen (3.60)

Yesterday the Maple Leafs announced the hiring of goaltender coach Francois Allaire. First, a bit of backstory on Allaire. Francois Allaire, for all intents and purposes, invented the butterfly. He found a worthy disciple in a young Quebecois and became Montreal's first full time goaltending coach in 1986.

In preparation for the NHL Draft, we're going to run down the top 15 players as ranked by the ISS and have our users vote for how good they think each player is to help us prepare our draft board. Since PPP doesn't write features for

In preparation for the NHL Draft, we're going to run down the top 15 players as ranked by the ISS and have our users vote for how good they think each player is to help us prepare our draft board. Up first, the ISS #1, John Tavares. Described

With Luke Schenn last summer the big question was whether or not the Leafs should have returned him to his junior club or kept him up with the big team. If Schenner was returned to juniors he would not have forfeited a year of RFA eligibility, but he also wouldn&