Since the Leafers made a huge splash in the free agent market yesterday signing Tie Domi, I deem this the perfect opportunity to revisit this moment, this moment and this moment. Hell, lets just revisit the entire "Tie and I" page.

Are you a Leafs fan?  Are you in the mood for supreme disappointment?  If you answered yes to these two questions, tab on over to this 2005 Transaction Log. Big names were signed today.  Forsberg is with Philadelphia, Edmonton traded for Peca, the Islanders scored Satan, Vancouver held on to

Fellow Leaf fans, it's time for a reality check.  With Mats Sundin, Ed Belfour and Bryan McCabe eating a good chunk of the salary cap, there's little coin left to add skill or even replace the skill we're losing.  As of this moment, here are the players under contract with

This is going to be a busy week in the NHL.  If you want one page you can visit for a good update on all the action, bookmark this 2005 Transaction Log from TSN. The Leafs are in desperate need of some skilled players, preferably under the age of 35.

Joe Nieuwendyk and Gary Roberts have signed with the Florida Panthers.  The Maple Leafs lose a lot of grit and heart but get younger, which is a good thing. Without Nieuwendyk, Roberts, Owen Nolan and Alexander Mogilny in our lineup next season, it's going to be a very different team.

At yesterday's NHL draft, our Toronto Maple Leafs acquired Jeff O'Neill from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for a conditional draft pick and quickly signed him to a two-year, $3 million deal.  The former 41 goal scoring O'Neill is my kind of player and he's a very welcome addition to

The Leafs will host the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday, October 5, the opening night of the 2005-06 season. In anticipation of this event, I'm bringing back my Maple Leaf Countdown Clock.  Visit that link for real-time updates as to how much longer we'll have to wait for regular season Maple

It's official.  The NHL is back and we survived to hear about it. Tomorrow at 16:00 EST, we'll learn who won the Sidney Crosby lottery.  There's a 2.08% I'll be as happy as a pig in shit shortly thereafter.

We're in store for some pretty serious changes to NHL hockey this season.  The competition committee will recommended rule changes for the NHL board of governors to approve.  Bob McKenzie speculates in his latest column as to what these changes will be, so I'll list them and share my thoughts

It's June 2006.  Gary Bettman is there, it's the ACC, the crowd is ecstatic, I'm crying.  Gary speaks into the microphone.  "Mats...come to center and claim what the Leafs and its fans have been waiting 39 years for!" I think it's going to happen.  This is the year.

It looks as if every NHL team will have to adhere to a hard salary cap of $39 million next season.  Our beloved Toronto Maple Leafs currently have 8 players under contract for next season.  They are Mats Sundin, Owen Nolan, Ed Belfour, Bryan McCabe, Tomas Kaberle, Ken Klee, Darcy

Things are coming together nicely.  First we learn that the NHL and NHL Players' Association have finally reached an agreement on a new six-year collective bargaining agreement and now we learn that Don Cherry will return to CBC's Hockey Night In Canada, once the agreement between the NHL and NHLPA

I saw this moment coming, and now that it's here I'm even happier than I thought I'd be.  The NHL and NHL Players' Association have finally reached an agreement on a new six-year collective bargaining agreement.  Assuming this deal gets ratified, the NHL will start back up again on July

It's been way too long since we've been able to talk Maple Leaf hockey.  Sure, we've talked about the NHL, but it's been all about labour negotiations and lock outs and season cancellations.  I want to be able to talk about Belfour's edge and Sundin's scoring streak.  I want to

Ruslan Fedotenko's goal for the Tampa Bay Lightning exactly one year ago today won the Stanley Cup.  There hasn't been an NHL game since. We have managed to survive an entire calendar year without NHL hockey.  It's been more than a year since we've seen the Toronto Maple Leafs play.

On February 16, the day this NHL season was officially cancelled, I wrote an open letter to Gary Bettman.  At the time I was furious because there was a reasonable salary cap offer of $49-million on the table from the NHLPA that Bettman should have accepted.  The NHL and NHLPA

British anthropologists have conducted a study that helps explain why we haven't won a Stanley Cup in my lifetime.  They realized that across a range of sports, wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning. There's a variety of reasons for this, including the association with aggression

If Gary Bettman and the NHL board of governors adopt the proposed lockout draft plan, the Toronto Maple Leafs will have a 1.92% chance of getting Sidney Crosby.  One of the 52 bingo balls would be ours! A 1.92% chance the next one plays in the hockey center

The St. John's Maple Leafs fourteen year history is officially over.  They were ousted from the AHL playoffs last night and will never return to St. John's.  They will change uniforms and play out of the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto as the Marlies next season. Covering these AHL games was

Lee Goren's power-play goal at 2:35 of overtime helped the Manitoba Moose to a 3-2 victory over the St. John's Maple Leafs in Winnipeg last night and a 3-1 lead in the AHL's North Division semifinal.  We're on the brink.  With the NHL Leafs in this position, I'm left

Manitoba went up 5-1 early in the second and it was lights out for the Maple Leafs.  Brad Leeb scored the lone goal for the blue and white who will try and tie up the series tomorrow night. Manitoba leads series 2-1

The Maple Leafs stormed back to tie up the series last night.   Matt Stajan scored twice and defenceman Joel Kwiatkowski had three assists to lead the charge.  As an interesting foot note, this series now goes to Manitoba for three games and if a game six or seven is necessary,