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I've seen this mentioned from fans and such a number of times and honestly I wouldn't really hate it. Risto has improved quite a bit since his Buffalo days and fits the archetype of a Rielly partner (plus he can actually skate which guys like Schenn and Lyubushkin couldn't). The price for that...

I was never too crazy about either Frederic or Evans. I don't know why but both players just feel like they'd forget how to score immediately coming here and that would limit them to more of a 4th line role. So wasn't too interested in either but them coming off the market a few days early is...

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Considering Jarnkrok's long lay-off I think it's fair to have him start on the 4th line, but barring some trades it shouldn't take him very long to start moving up. I mean Holmberg's been a nice story lately but him on L2 can't last much longer.

For whatever it's worth Tampa and Toronto have an almost identical 5-on-5 goals for and against numbers. Tampa is at 128-102 and 55.65%, 4th in the league. While Toronto is 124-101 and 55.11%, 5th in the league. Florida is right behind at 126-107, with their 54.08% GF% being 7th in the league...

Tanev was already back on the ice and skating again. Good sign that confirms his injury shouldn't be something that keeps him out much longer.

I'm betting this is mostly damage control considering Niemela is still of course under contract through the rest of the season and playing with the Marlies. Would be a pretty bizarre report to have absolutely zero truth to.

For Toronto's sake I was hoping Celebrini would be out, but I'm personally excited to see him play. Didn't pay a ton of attention to the draft last year and just kinda assumed he was a somewhat standard non-super elite 1st overall pick. But everything I've read and seen about him this season...

The Leafs own Prime games though. If Amazon took over full broadcasting rights we'd win the Cup every year.

I think cap and roster constraints will probably make it tough to go after Brandon Tanev at the deadline, but he's still someone I could certainly see the Leafs going after in the offseason.

That's too bad, but only really because I had hoped he still could have at least been some kind of trade chip. Although even that's probably a year too late at this point.

San Jose Sharks 15-37-9, 39 pts @ Toronto Maple Leafs 38-20-2, 78 pts Projected Line-ups Eklund-Celebrini-Toffoli Zetterlund-Wennberg-Smith Goodrow-Dellandrea-Kunin Graf-Sturm-Kostin Walman-Liljegren Ferraro-Mukhamadullin Vlasic-Thompson Georgiev Knies-Matthews-Marner...

There's a world where all 3 spend their entire careers in Toronto and finish 1-2-3 in franchise scoring. That'd be amazing, but also ultimately wouldn't matter in some way without that other thing.

I only hate Marchand when the Bruins are in the playoffs. Thankfully that might never be an issue again.

I really like this trade for Chicago, although I'm a bit of a Spencer Knight fan. Still like his potential. For this season it obviously makes Florida quite a bit stronger. But if it eventually leads to not having enough cap space to re-sign Ekblad it's ends up being pretty questionable (unless...

Pittsburgh Penguins 24-29-9, 57 pts vs. Toronto Maple Leafs 37-20-2, 76 pts Projected Line-ups Rakell-Crosby-Rust Beauvillier-Malkin-Glass Heinen-Hayes-Tomasino Bemstrom-Lizotte-Acciari Joseph-Letang Grzelcyk-Karlsson Shea-Desharnais Blomqvist Knies-Matthews-Marner...

I was hoping Murphy would be like a Jake McCabe 2.0 trade. Still might sorta be but important to note that Chicago has now used up all 3 of their retention spots for this season (Jones, Rantanen, and still McCabe)

He was ranked 16th in Corey Pronman's top NCAA/CHL/European free agents list this week:

6th best points percentage in the league since January 1st. Toronto is 7th.