Leafs Top 10 Prospect Update 2012
This is who I believe are the top ten Leaf prospects, which do not include ready to graduate soon to the NHL, Joe Colborne, Carter Ashton, Nazem Kadri & Korbinian Holzer
Here is my top 10 Maple Leaf Prospects list not including the above listed.
1. Brad Ross – Forward, Portland Winterhawks WHL – 2nd round pick #43 2010
Brad has learned & developed an all-around game this year; he has picked his spots but is still a hard nose pain in the ass agitator to play against. His point totals are way up this year and still has the penalty minutes. He is still unsigned at this time, must be signed before the 2012 draft or they risk losing him. At this time he has, 39g, 39a, 78pts with 156 penalty minutes in 65 games.
2. Greg Mckegg – Forward, London OHL – 3rd round pick #62 overall 2010
Once he got traded from an absolute terrible team in Erie to London, he has been on fire. It will be interesting to see if he can keep this pace as he leads London into the playoffs. He will be with Marlies come next year. At this time he has, 31g, 44a, 75pts in 61 games with both the Knights and Otters.
Trade Deadline 2012
This will be a summary of trades that go down today & on Feb 27th, click the link below for complete trade listing.
http://www.tsn.ca/tradecentre/feature/?id=11986
Toronto Needs;
- New Coach
- Top six centreman
- Power Forward
- Grit and agitator Forward
| # | Player/Picks | To | From | For Player/Picks |
| 1 | D Marek Zidlicky | New Jersey | Minnesota | D Kurtis Foster F Nick Palmieri F Stephane Veilleux 2nd-Round Pick (2012) 3rd-Round Pick (2013-conditional) |
| 2 | F Wojtek Wolski | Florida | New York | D – Mike Vernace 3rd-Round Pick (2013) |
| 3 | G Ben Bishop | Ottawa | St. Louis | 2nd-Round Pick (2013) |
| 4 | F Andrei Kostitsyn | Nashville | Montreal | 2nd rd pick in 2013, plus MTL’s own conditional 5th rd pickacquired in Hal Gill trade |
| 5 | D Mike Commodore | Tampa | Detroit | Conditional 7th rd pick |
| 6 | D Tom Gilbert | Minny | Edmonton | D Nick Schultz. |
| 7 | D Keith Aulie | Tampa | Toronto | Carter Ashton |
| 8 | F Daniel Winnik F T.J. Galiardi |
San Jose | Colorado | Jamie McGinn, F Two prospecs 2013 seventh-round pick |
| 9 | D Johnny Oduya | Chicago | Winnipeg | 2013 second-round pick 2013 third-round pick |
| 10 | D Matt Gilroy | Ottawa | Tampa | D Brian Lee |
| 11 | C Sami Pahlsson | Vancouver | Colorado | Two fourth-round picks |
| 12 | C Paul Gaustad+ 4th round pick | Nashville | Buffalo | 1st round pick 2012 |
| 13 | D Greg Zanon | Boston | Minnesota | Steve Kampfer. |
| 14 | D John Scott | Rangers | Chicago | 5th round pick 2012 |
| 15 | F Brian Rolston, D Mike Mottau, |
Boston | NYI | D Marc Cantin F Yannick Riendeau |
| 16 | F Dale Mitchell | Anaheim | Toronto | D Mark Fraser |
| 17 | F Zach Kassian
D Marc Gragnani |
Vancouver | Buffalo | C Cody Hodgson
D Alexander Sulzer |
| 18 | F Andrew Gordon | Vancouver | Anaheim | D Sebastien Erixon |
-LeafMan-
The Importance of Mikhail Grabovski
When the Maple Leafs re-signed John-Michael Liles, the prevailing thought was that Mikhail Grabovski was about to become a cap casualty. Liles took less than $4 million to stay in Toronto, putting next year’s cap space at slightly over $11 million. The problem was that Keith Aulie, Cody Franson, and Nikolai Kulemin become restricted free agents in line for raises, and Jonas Gustavsson becomes an unrestricted free agent.
Grabovski will likely make close to $5 million, so to keep Grabovski in the fold the Leafs need some creative cap management, especially if they hope to make other improvements to the squad.
Because of the shrinking cap space and Grabovski’s soon-to-be free agent status, his name has inevitably popped up in trade rumours. And unless there’s some unlikely fantasy scenario where Ryan Getzlaf comes back the other way, in no way does a Grabovski deal help the Leafs.
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Leafs at the All-Star Break
The Leafs entered the all-star break with two straight wins against the Islanders, they sit in 9th in the east tied with both Florida and New Jersey in points but those two teams sit ahead of the Leafs in 7th & 8th for the moment. The Leafs exit the break with back to back games against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Two crucial games to try and stay within the hunt for that playoff spot.
Let’s breakdown some stats, with some positives and negatives.
The Leafs sit in 24th in goals against, a stat that must be improved, the long stretches being hemmed in their own zone has to be corrected along with those giveaways at the their own blue line, if and when these are addressed and fixed, then those goals against will come down, consistent goaltending will also help the cause. I don’t think I even have to mention the penalty kill, we all know, right?. The power play has dried up as well, with Liles coming back soon that may improve it and get it back to where it was before his concussion.
What Will Happen With This Site
I left Hockeybuzz as a ref and a poster last week because I found the conversations so repetitive, the same fights over and over again, I needed to get away. I couldn’t join in the conversations as hard as I tried to get in them. I started to feel like an outsider at times. I took so much abuse in Personal Messages from people that were banned that it wasn’t worth it any more. I did however meet a lot of great people and I’m glad I can call them friends on that site. Some posters from HB came here from time to time to comment on the blogs, but I knew it was time to move on. I shared some good stories and I will miss those. So what does that have to do with this site?
Working from home, taking care of my daughter and being on HB had really limited my time that I could be on Leafs 4 Life. I started L4L for you guys, I have incurred all the expenses to host and maintain this site mainly because of my love for hockey and the Leafs. I will keep this site going but I need some help, not in the monetary sense but in the blogger and participation way. We need to grow this just a little more. So I need you guys to start writing some blogs or helping me attract some people who would like to contribute some content. I basically need you guys to help do some recruiting.
I will update all new additions to the Leafs organization, stats, etc… to this site and keep that part current. Please help me out with the rest, I would really appreciate it.
As some of you may know I have a new addition to my family who needs some extra attention right now, she is my main priority as my wife and I are trying to get her acclimated to her new life with us. It’s been two of the greatest weeks of my life with Kaitlyn mixed in with a bad week at HB. To all the regulars here, I thank you for sticking with the site, to all others who may be passing by, please let me know if you would like to blog or even to just join the site and leave a comment. In time we can build a solid community of great posters and bloggers. Thanks for reading.
-LeafMan-
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