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I caused a stir at the end of the week when I suggested that the side that is desperate to give Darryl Katz a free arena are a bunch of rubes being led by the nose by the complicit media who are playing the role of The Music Man. One

What better way to deal with the lockout than to give MLSE some of your money despite receiving an inferior product!

Our round up of Toronto Maple Leafs and NHL news focuses on Howard Berger's prediction of when the 2012-13 season will be cancelled.

Jay Rosehill may have left the Leafs for greener pastures but we will always have his amazing story.

The first day of Marlies' training camp brings us another scandal as Kadri's fitness tests were less than impressive.

Since Francois Allaire was not returned as the Maple Leafs' goaltending coach it has opened a door on the internal machinations of the team's front office and coaching staff and the view is not particularly encouraging. Perhaps in an effort to reduce speculation and diminish the questioning

Morgan Rielly will hopefully become many things for the Toronto Maple Leafs, most of them built around his offensive skill, but it is nice to know that he will be able to defend himself. Courtesy of Neate Sager of Buzz The Net comes an explanation of what prompted the donnybrook:

Sorry the FTB is so late because Chemmy and I were up negotiating late into the night. Unfortunately, it seems like things are quite intractable between the two of us. He is adamant that we give up using big text completely, reduce the amount of dancing GIFs, and a general

"All I've said is Sept. 15 is not a magic date unless someone wants to make it so," Fehr said. "There's nothing that happens on Sept. 15 if we don't have an agreement, provided nobody says we're going to

It's FRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY! and here are some links for you to read while you get through the last day before the weekend. Please toss any other good links in the comments. TJ Oshie Signs With St. Louis The Blues avoid arbitration with their young stud Dr. Recchi Talks CBA

Backstory: A reader, presumably the singer's friend, e-mailed me this this morning explaining that this is Andy Damelin who is competing to be on The Score as part of their Drafted show. You can follow him at @transition_d or vote for him here. Warning (or bonus maybe)

I didn't want Jason to have all of the fun of remembering Colby Armstrong as a player everyone knew was a bad signing without referencing some of his highlights in Toronto. You know things were getting off on the right foot when Armstrong mentioned that he was surprised

Yesterday, Mats Sundin was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. While it caused some consternation, anyone with a clue knows that he deserves the honour of being enshrined in the hall. It will be the final accolade to cap of a career where he was consistently the franchise'

On Sunday, Chemmy noticed that Damien Cox needed a quick refresher on the NHL's Collective Bargaining Agreement. One aspect that was not clear was what the 2012-13 NHL RFA compensation table would look like after it had been updated. Well, luckily friend of the blog and floating head

With their second round pick in the 2012 NHL Draft the Toronto Maple Leafs selected Matt Finn from the Guelph Storm of the OHL. It is a pick that no doubt had Don Cherry sacrificing new couches for a special celebration suit because not only does Finn play in the

With the fifth overall pick in the 2012 NHL Draft the Toronto Maple Leafs selected Morgan "I before E, except after C" Rielly from the Moose Jaw Warriors of the WHL. This pick adds another young defenceman to a stable that includes Jesse Blacker, Jake Gardiner, Carl Gunnarsson,

The ongoing game of brinkmanship between Brian Burke and Mike Gillis is apparently starting to wear on the mittenstringers that demand moves be made so that they can have something to write about rather than idle speculation. Today, in a shocking display of ignorance, Damien Cox suggested the Maple Leafs&

Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager (for now) Brian Burke gave the media some updates on drafting Morgan Rielly of the Moose Jaw Warriors fifth overall in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. For the benefit of those of you without video capabilities, I'll have a transcript after the jump.

The Entry Draft is 7 days away and Free Agency opens 9 days later. There are sure to be more painful times in the offing for the Leafs on both of these days whether it's a horrible draft day trade or a horrible draft day non-trade or a

Last week, we voted on who the Leafs should draft with their pick based on the assumption that a number of players - read: the best four - had already been picked. The dilemma was not extended into the hypothetical (moreso than already) in that we couldn't say

The Los Angeles Kings are the 2012 Stanley Cup Champions and that means that our "happy" club has lost another member. We will get to read a lot about how Brian Burke is a dummy for saying he didn't want to sneak into the eighth seed

The SBN Hockey community will be running a mock draft this year as we do every year. Once again I have no idea about the prospects beyond what a lot of other sources tell me and that Tyler Biggs is a shitty first round pick. Anyway, it's time

The lads over at Hockee Night have just celebrated four years of Jeppson's Malort, Irish Wakes, Pat Kane Adventures, charity ballroom dancing, and apparently blogging. Anyway, here's what we discussed: * Patrick Kane * Tim Thomas * Chemmy's dinner * Jamal Mayers' clothing line * Jonathan Toews'

I didn't want to give this rumour any gas but since Bob McKenzie is addressing it you might as well know where it came from. Yesterday, Tyler Dellow tweeted about a story that appeared on a site called Blue Toro which mentioned that Brian Burke's time

As some of you are aware, there is some playoff hockey being played in Toronto. The Toronto Marlies - led by the scintillating goaltending of Ben Scrivens (1.43GAA! .951Sv%!), the offence of Nazem Kadri, Jerry D`Amigo, and Matt Frattin, and the steel curtain of Jake Gardiner, Korbinian Holzer,