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The Chicago Blackhawks have barely emptied the champagne from the Stanley Cup, but it's already time to take a look at the upcoming games in the 2010-2011 NHL season, as the official schedule was released on Tuesday. For the Toronto Maple Leafs, fans don't yet know what the team will look like on the ice when they open the season on Oct. 7, 2010, but before Brian Burke even begins ...

It's just a letter on a sweater. When Dion Phaneuf stepped up to the podium Monday afternoon to accept his new role on the Toronto Maple Leafs, as captain, not a whole lot changed for the 25-year-old stud or the team he plays for. The Maple Leafs didn't add any new talent or swap any personnel, and Dion is still the same player; surly and focused as ever. The team didn't get ...

If the Toronto Maple Leafs are deep at any position, it's certainly on defense. With the additions of Dion Phaneuf, Mike Komisarek, and Francois Beauchemin at various points last season, they'll start next season with a strong core of both offensive minded defenders and stay at home guys as well. That includes two young studs in Luke Schenn and Carl Gunnarsson, and the biggest question of all in Tomas Kaberle; ...

In sports these days stating the obvious is more common than oil covered ducks (too soon?), so in lue of that I will offer up yet another statement that need not even be said due to it's evident nature. The Toronto Maple Leafs need wingers. And one great way for a team to add some much needed depth along the left and right wings is through free agency. This offseason ...

So you're the GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs. You've got money to spend, players to trade, and a packed offseason to convince various free agents that your team is the best option for them. Oh, and you have an entire nation of diehard fans losing their minds with every move you make, while breathing down your neck to push this new generation of Leafs back into the playoffs —a place ...

If ever there were an example of a player doing a lot with just a little, it would be Carl Gunnarsson of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who had a strong rookie campaign on the blue line. Born in Orebro, Sweden, the 23-year-old stud used the limited time he had this season to show his team and the rest of the league that he has what it takes to have a permanent ...

It's becoming somewhat of a logjam up the middle for the Toronto Maple Leafs of late, and no I don't mean the middle of the net (though that's getting rather crammed as well). And if there's one thing that too many players at one position means, it's that someone has got to go. And soon. In the case of Mikhail Grabovski, the future is uncertain due to his frequent troubles ...

When Colton Orr joined the Toronto Maple Leafs last summer, after playing four years as a member of the New York Rangers, he was hoping to come into a rebuilding situation, add some experience, and toughness to a young team. Little did anyone know he would impact the team as much as he did. His toughness was never in question through the early years of his career, but after the season he had with the Leafs, ...

Coming off a rookie season in Toronto when he stood out as one of the team's best, Luke Schenn came into this year looking to prove that a sophomore slump would not be something he'd have any part of. But right off the bat it seemed that his season was doomed by the slump that plagues so many second-year players in the NHL. He was a healthy scratch three times and due ...

It certainly wasn't the kind of first season in Toronto that defenseman Mike Komisarek was hoping for. After signing with the Maple Leafs in the off-season, leaving the rival Montreal Canadiens, he was expected to bring in the toughness, tenacity and experience that the team was in need of on the blue line. Starting the first game of the season against his former team, Komisarek was paired up with Tomas Kaberle and ...