Kaberle: A Case To Stay
Everyone is talking about what Burke will do next. A lot of this discussion is surrounding Tomas Kaberle, and his future with the Leafs. But is Burke even considering trading him? Should he be? Maybe the best thing to do is retain the Leaf's best defenceman.
WHO IS NEXT?
TERRY KOSHAN - TorontoSun.com Now that Brian Burke has started to clean house, who could be next to go from the Maple Leafs? Tomas Kaberle? Alexei Ponikarovsky? Lee Stempniak?
Kaberle said there was nothing new on his front, and would have to waive his no-trade clause.
Leafs Turn AroundAfter everyone has been doubting Brian Burke saying that it was useless bringing him in and that he did nothing for this team, and yes they traded their 1st round & 2nd round picks of this year & 1st round pick next year to the boston bruins for young sniper phil kessel, which can potentially be tyler seguin, taylor hall or cam fowler, but hold on. Yesterday Burke did the unexpected, after a horrible loss to the Vancouver Canucks the night before, which they were winning and gave up a 3 goal lead, he knew they had to make a change. Burke yesterday stated that he is now open for business.
Phaneuf is enough Toronto GM Brian Burke can claim long-term victory in Sunday's mega-trade day as the Leafs obtained the most talented player with the most potential upside
By MIKE ZEISBERGER, TORONTO SUN
Finding a way to unload Jason Blake's albatross contract probably won't net Brian Burke the NHL's executive of the year honours when all is said and done.
Whats Next in Leafland
Burkie has yet again managed to bring i a high level player and took nobody in the organization under the age of 25 and no draft picks to do it.
I find that and the fact the Dion is 24 and Aullie will also be an NHL d man is only 20, make the trade very positive for the leafs moving forward. The fact is on a team with legitimate offensive players, Stajan Hagman and White will produce like the third line centre, second line winger and 4-6 D man that they are. Somebody HAD to score some goals for the leafs, and so the guys getting PP minutes and getting first line and top pairing ice time were the guys to do it. I am not saying these players cannot be useful parts of a winning team, but their stats are greatly inflated playing on such a poor offensive team.
Leafs Land Phaneuf!The Leafs have acquired Keith Aulie, Dion Phaneuf and Fred Sjostrom from Calgary for Matt Stajan, Ian White, Jamal Mayers and Nik Hagman.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=308469 There is another deal pending with another team as per Brian Burke during his press conference.
Maple Leafs RewindI have seen this type of article done before, and it served a very important purpose. Making Leaf fans miserable. I will now look back until 05/06 and see what could have been....
Starting with the 05/06 trade deadline: The Leafs were virtually hopeless at this point, so rather than trying to sign McCabe they deal.
Burke stuck playing the waiting gameSTEVE SIMMONS, Toronto Sun
Who will be the first to go?
Brian Burke, victim of unmovable contracts, questionable signings, the Phil Kessel trade, his own reputation, and a hockey team gone bad is poised to do something.
Exactly what that is, when that is, who it involves — and clearly, it’s something more significant than the laughable trade request from Jamal Mayers — is on the horizon.
Trade Deadline: LeafsIts about that time again. The leafs are going to be missing the post season (again) and are now "sellers" at the trade deadline. So...let's have a look at who is available this year...
