Tomorrow is a rare occurrence on the hockey schedule: no Toronto Maple Leafs game on Saturday night.  The Leafs play the Florida Panthers tonight, and the Arizona Coyotes on Sunday, so there’s no game on Saturday.

What will you do to fill this void? Me? I want to go see the Niagara IceDogs beat down the Flint Firebirds - they beat the actually good Hamilton Bulldogs 10-0 last night, so imagine what they could do to a loser team like the Firebirds. I’ll probably end up watching Tivo’d episodes of Top Chef instead while the kids play Fortnite and yell too loud.

While you consider what you’ll do for those lost three hours, check out this news from around the NHL.

It’s trade time!

Flyers trade Taylor Leier to Buffalo Sabres for Justin Bailey
Hurricanes trade Victor Rask to Wild, acquire Nino Niederreiter

The Maple Leafs need to figure out who they are

Identity Crisis

What would a trade be like between the Leafs and Hurricanes

Virtual GM – Leafs/Canes Blockbuster Trade

Jarome Iginla and Rick Nash are retired. Oh boy, I’m feeling old.

Official: Jarome Iginla Jersey Retirement on March 2nd

Remember that time everything went wacky?

The time John Scott became the talk of the hockey world

I mean, is he really that important?

Just How Important is Jack Eichel?

Do you care about the Hurricanes?

Canes Country is hiring a staff writer

You don’t see wrap-around goals very often anymore!

Have a good day everyone!

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