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Impending Doom Through the Looking Glass
Jul 18th
If the fact that the Toronto Maple Leafs have under two-million in cap space currently isn’t scary enough for a team that just finished 29th in the league this past season, perhaps the fact that it only gets worse from here once the team actually truly hopes to be competitive should scare off some of you.
What I mean when I say it only gets worse is that the Leafs are gonna be entering a bit of a logjam at the end of the 2011-2012 season. At this point in time the Maple Leafs will be forced to deal with inking new contracts for old players, being forced to resign the likes of potentially key free agents Kris Versteeg, Nikolai Kulemin, Jonas Gustavsson, Francois Beauchemin, Keith Aulie, Korbinian Holzer, Jussia Rynnas and Marcel Mueller among others.
Kaberle traded for State of Minnesota
Jun 25th
Tomas Kaberle, the only player on the Toronto Maple Leafs with more than two years spent playing for the team, has been traded to the United States of America for the entire State of Minnesota.
Kaberle, along with throw-in and Toronto Marlies team Captain Ben Ondrus, are heading to the North American nation in exchange for Minnesota, the thirty second state in the United States Union. The twelfth largest by area, and twenty first by population, Minnesota is most well known to Canadians for being a border state of Manitoba and Ontario, and for their hockey teams – the Minnesota North Stars of 1967 to 1993, and the Wild of 2001 to present.
Nikolai Kulemin Leaving: (Maybe) Not the Worst Thing
Jun 8th
Let me start off by saying that, as Jeff pointed out just yesterday, you have nothing to worry about when it comes to Nikolai Kulemin. All this hype about contract disputes and the KHL being a factor and everything like that is pretty much covered in the article he wrote yesterday (check it out, awesome read), and all the hype is probably for nothing. All that the lack of a new contract and money/term disputes means is that we’re probably gonna see the negotiations grind out in the summer, but one way or another it still looks like Kulemin wants to stay, Burke wants to keep him and one way or another he should still be dawning the blue and white next October.
But that’s not what I’m here to talk about. I’m here to talk about the hypothetical, the “okay, so what if Kulemin doesn’t resign?” factor of the whole ordeal. Well, I’ve been thinking about it more and more, and the way I see it it doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing. More >
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