Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn is set to have a court hearing on Wednesday for cross-checking Vegas’ Mark Stone in Tuesday’s Game 3 loss, NHL Player Safety announced Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know: Benn received a five-minute major and a game misconduct for cross-checking less than two minutes into the game. Vegas was … Read more
Brad Treliving is someone who is obviously interested in the Maple Leafs looking for a new general manager right now, and while no one wanted to confirm that on Monday afternoon, I’d be surprised if Toronto president Brendan Shanahan , has not interviewed the former Flames general manager by the end of this week. The … Read more
Matthew Tkachuk had five strides, four seconds and zero eye contact as he left the rink on Saturday night. The Florida Panthers superstar — yes, it’s fair and wise to call him that — had been there before. A few days ago, in fact. Much, much later in the evening. For the second game in … Read more
“You just saw how ruthless Brendan Shanahan can be.” It was a view from inside the Maple Leafs’ home on Friday night, hours after the team president walked away from his five-year-old general manager, Kyle Dubas, and delivered an eerily detailed account, day by day, almost hour by hour. of a failed negotiation on a … Read more
There it is again, that funny feeling. If you’re an old enough Toronto Maple Leafs fan, you got it when Punch Imlach was doing Harold Ballard’s dirty work, running Lanny McDonald out of town and antagonizing Darryl Sittler. You had it intermittently, but mostly under Gerry McNamara, Gord Stellick and Floyd Smith. He disappeared when … Read more
The Toronto Maple Leafs have parted ways with general manager Kyle Dubas, the team announced Friday. Here’s what you need to know: Dubas was the 17th general manager in Leafs franchise history. The Maple Leafs named Dubas general manager on May 11, 2018. With Dubas as general manager, the Leafs signed William Nylander, Auston Matthews … Read more
