Jason Orach

People who know me know that I've always loved the NHL All StaR game. It's a fun weekend where lOts of great hockey is played and we get to see awesome concerts (I'm hoping for Journey or maybe the Black Eyed Peas this year!

Chris Botta, the former New York Islanders blogger who now writes for the NY Times' Slapshot blog, tweeted this earlier: @ChrisBottaNHL: Ron Wilson could be reunited with Nabokov. But will #Isles trade a quality G within East again for a draft pick or iffy prospect? Rumor is that the

The Leafs special teams are just horrendous but I wanted to see what sort of impact they have on the team. On average a team gets 290 PP opportunities and scores on 18% of them. How do the Leafs compare to that? How do the Leafs compare to the best

Joffrey Lupul. Wow.

Entering tonight's game Jonas Gustavsson has played 5 periods of hockey this season and let in nine goals (5.40 GAA). In his last 14 periods he's let in 23 (4.93 GAA). In his last 22 periods he's let in 33 goals (4.

Greetings West Coasters and people with access to plane tickets: how would you like to meet me and some other maniac Leafs fans (blurr1974, puckurgently, Greener, Connie Kim and more!)? You wouldn't? Oh. Well how would you like to sit near Leafs fans in the lower bowl on

This is your post-game pre-recap gif celebration station. Have at 'em.

7PM ET: CBC It's been a whole week without hockey and personally my thumbs are tired of twiddling. We watched the Senators get pumped by Colorado to become the odds on favorites to draft Nail Yakupov (20pts in 8GP in the OHL so far...) but remember that Daigle

There are a few keys to running a good prank. Normally, April Fools' pranks are terrible. This one was great.

I can attest to the fact that there are actually people dancing in the streets right now, as the Toronto Maple Leafs have defeated Montreal 2-0. Seriously, dancing in the streets. For their first win. Enjoy it while it lasts. - Kukla's Corner All of you dumb assholes

Opening night is finally here and despite our best intentions Tyler Bozak is still centering the first line. It's been a long summer as Leafs Nation twiddled their thumbs hoping for Brad Richards, hoping for not Brad Richards, and waiting for birky's insane Paul Stastny plan

By now you've probably already voted on how many points Nazem Kadri will get and how long Ron Wilson will last. Here's your chance to vote on how many times PPP will accidentally post articles he writes in advance on the same day. Friendly reminder: I

The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded a fourth round pick to New Jersey for David Steckel. One time David Steckel scored 19 points in a season (his career high) and another time he killed Sidney Crosby. But don't just believe me: check out his awesome skating in the

I'll spare you all from pointing out that dressing Jay Rosehill in no way prevented Chris Neil from cheapshotting one of our best players and instead will point out that if he's not suspended for their first matchup I hope Colton Orr caves his face in.

Grantland is a proposition that probably won't entice most people. A common reaction to the long form essay site started by Bill Simmons is to wonder why people would read a site glorifying Boston more than ESPN already does. It's even more confusing when you consider

Puck Drop: 7PM ET LeafsTV (CDN) NHL Network (US) Before we get into tonight's preview I'd like to point out that throwing a banana at a player is ridiculous. If you know who threw the banana or have any information get in touch with London'

Here at Pension Plan Puppets Union Heavy Lifting Services and Pornography Censoring Collective S.A. we sometimes need to take a break from talking about the Toronto Maple Leafs and helping charities to read bizarre emails. Take for example this email from PPP reader "Chaim Weisswasser": hi i

I saw @Leaferbyblood on Twitter yesterday urging people to go get their cheeks swabbed to help somebody out with their fight with leukemia. I'll let him take it from here, but go help somebody out this weekend instead of laying around drinking a case of beer and waiting

There was some confusion yesterday over the exact Bill Watters quote about Cody Franson being a "3rd of July parade guy". Here's the audio from that, unedited, for you to make up your own mind: Meanwhile a number of commenters on the site emailed AM640'

Last night the dumber of your two Chief Blogging Officers posted a four fourteen month old picture of someone's Transformers mask and claimed it was James Reimer's because he's not very attentive. This morning the bloodless coup has finished and as the new head

If you're a PPP reader you're probably well aware that the Leafs signed Tyler Bozak to a two year deal at $1.5M per season by now but I'm contractually obligated to put this post up. Bozak's sophomore campaign didn't

Last summer while at a lake house with SkinnyFish, Fergus30 and my wife among others I sarcastically broke the news that Brian Burke had picked up Clarke MacArthur. "We signed another stiff" I boldly proclaimed and how wrong I was. MacArthur erupted to the tune of 21 goals

Jeremy K. Gover runs the Predators blog "Section 303", self-described as the "loudest section in the loudest arena in the NHL". Jeremy was kind enough to write up his thoughts on Cody Franson for us so be sure to visit his blog and follow him on

BRIAN BURKE HAS MOVED BRETT LEBDA AND ROBERT SLANEY FOR CODY FRANSON AND MATTHEW LOMBARDI. BRETT LEBDA. TRADED. FOR WARM BODIES. WHO CAN PLAY HOCKEY. WHO'S A BAD GM NOW? Excuse me. I'm excited. Brett Lebda is obviously terrible and the last time I saw Robert

The Toronto Maple Leafs have finally waded into this year's UFA market and have added a center in Tim Connolly. Connolly should be familiar to Leafs fans as a frequent LTIR placeholder on the Buffalo Sabres but I think this is a good deal. Connolly comes to the