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Toronto Maple Leafs call up goaltender Dennis Hildeby from AHL

This is Hildeby’s first call-up to the NHL.

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Published: 1 year ago

Ilya Lyubushkin Is the Missing Piece the Maple Leafs Need

The Toronto Maple Leafs managed to dip into the trade market late Thursday night by trading for Anaheim Ducks defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin in a three-team deal. The Ducks got a…

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Published: 1 year ago

Revisiting the NHL's 1940s gambling scandal and the young star at its center

If things went right for Don Gallinger, he might have been remembered by history as a 17-year-old star who leapfrogged from Junior B to the NHL and became good enough to lead the Boston Bruins in scoring following World War II. But it's not how he en

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Published: 1 year ago

Scouting Report: Toronto Maple Leafs’ Nikita Grebyonkin is a low-risk, high-reward prospect

Few Toronto Maple Leafs prospects get the diehards as excited as Nikita Grebyonkin gets them. And it’s understandable. Drafted 135th overall in 2022 as an overager, Grebyonkin has emerged as a youngster with a bright future – and it’s looking a

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Published: 1 year ago

Maple Leafs’ Untouchables at 2024 Trade Deadline

The Toronto Maple Leafs were quiet until recently when they chose to acquire Ilya Lyubushkin from the Anaheim Ducks in a three-team deal involving the Carolina Hurricanes, who helped facilitate…

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Published: 1 year ago

Maple Leafs secondary needs, a patient deadline strategy, and Toronto’s trade bait: Leaflets

The Leafs made a trade. It wasn’t the trade you wanted but in many ways it is a typical Brad Treliving deadline type of tweak. He’s not someone to make moves that rock the boat and require the Leafs to get used to a new player. He brings in playe

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Published: 1 year ago

NHL style power rankings: Connor Bedard, Auston Matthews and several blue suits

Some of the NHL's most stylish players are featured in this week's rankings — but who was considered the best dressed?

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Published: 1 year ago

Maple Leafs’ Treliving still looking to add after Lyubushkin trade

After addressing a glaring need on his blue line, the Maple Leafs general manager still has a long list of areas he would like to touch on ahead of the NHL’s March 8 trade deadline.

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Published: 1 year ago

2 Defencemen with Size the Maple Leafs Should Target in a Trade

There are only six days left until the 2024 NHL Trade Deadline, which means the trade action is about to ramp up. The Vancouver Canucks got ahead of it when…

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Published: 1 year ago

What the Lyubushkin acquisition hints at for Maple Leafs’ total deadline plans

My understanding is that post-Tanev, the Leafs biggest concern wasn’t just how thin the market was for the type of player they were looking for, but also how many teams were coveting players like that, and so there was some fear of missing out on a

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Published: 1 year ago

Maple Leafs Notes: Trade Deadline, Giordano, Lyubushkin, Liljegren, Järnkrok

The Maple Leafs are willing to part with a first-round pick at the trade deadline for the right deal, GM Brad Treliving said Friday (via Jonas Siegel of The Athletic). That deal won’t take the form of a rental acquisition, as Treliving preached bei

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Published: 1 year ago

NHL Trade: How Ilya Lyubushkin Got Traded To Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs always were looking to add defense but once Chris Tanev got traded shifted to Ilya Lyubushkin.

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Published: 1 year ago

Treliving on potentially trading 1st-round pick: ‘You have to look at every option’

Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving met with reporters Friday to address myriad issues as the NHL trade deadline speeds towards the horizon. Treliving addressed the notion of the Maple Leafs potentially trading their 2024 first-round s

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Published: 1 year ago