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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Tanenbaum completes MLSE stake buy

Tanenbaum completes MLSE stake buy
DAVID SHOALTS
Globe and Mail Update
February 19, 2009 at 1:41 PM EST

TORONTO — Larry Tanenbaum is now officially the second-largest shareholder of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.

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New arena could bring hockey up to full power

New arena could bring hockey up to full power
The Hearn is Toronto's top site for long-awaited four-pad ice complex
February 27, 2009
Mary Ormsby
Sports Reporter

This may be hockey's biggest power play.

The decommissioned Hearn power plant is the city's top site to build a long-overdue, four-pad arena to anchor a planned sports complex on the eastern portlands, Toronto Mayor David Miller said yesterday.

"It's an extraordinary possibility," Miller said. "The Hearn is unused and it's a huge opportunity to put a sports node there to create a real centrepiece. It's massive and it's a way to re-use that really interesting building."

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GTHL's $520 fee plan draws mixed reviews

GTHL's $520 fee plan draws mixed reviews
February 28, 2009
Lois Kalchman
Special to the Star

The reaction ranged from outrage to acceptance as parents and club executives absorbed the news of the Greater Toronto Hockey League's new annual $520 "player registration fee" that replaces gate fees.

The fee, announced Thursday, requires parents to pay a maximum $520 for each child on rep teams. That would replace the $5 per game that parents, spectators and some 8,000 players are now charged to enter the rinks.

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Ex-NHLer gets ring 55 years after the Cup

Goalie who played three games stunned to get package from Detroit
February 28, 2009
Ross Brewitt
Special to The Star

It's time for one of those feel-good anecdotes, the kind that doesn't come out of the cynical world of professional sport very often. It's about a goaltender named Dave Gatherum and how his mercurial hockey story finally came full circle.

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NHLPA takes a cautious look to economics

February 4, 2009
NHLPA takes a cautious look to economics
By Shi Davidi, THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO - Paul Kelly thinks the National Hockey League should look to Canada first if the current economic downturn forces one of the existing 30 franchises to find a new home.

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Fighting is on the way out: Former NHL ref.

Fighting is on the way out: Former NHL ref.
By Jim Kernaghan, THE CANADIAN PRESS

LONDON, Ont. - Former NHL referee-in-chief Bryan Lewis says fighting in hockey is on the way out.

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NHL agents trying to figure out the economy

February 26, 2009
NHL agents trying to figure out the economy
By Chris Johnston, THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO - Paul Kelly is finding out that there's no precise weather report for an economic storm.

The executive director of the NHL Players' Association still isn't sure exactly how much impact the crumbling economy will have on the league beyond next season.

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Big league dreams, big league odds

Big league dreams, big league odds
The good, the bad and the ugly about minor hockey in Manitoba
By PAUL FRIESEN, SUN MEDIA

It's easily the most controversial issue on the Winnipeg sports scene.

Ask a parent, coach or ref what's wrong with minor hockey, and you'll get an earful that'll last 30 minutes.

We're stretching it to three full days, with an in-depth look at the grassroots of Canada's game.

Today, we drop the puck and Just Let 'Em Play.

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NHL players raising money for Right To Play

NHL players raising money for Right To Play
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO - They're doing it in honour of their parents, deceased friends and former hockey coaches. But above all, NHL players are choosing to give back in support of the international humanitarian organization Right To Play.

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Monday, September 22, 2008

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Random Q & A

Will Ron Wilson's defense-first system work?

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Friday, September 19, 2008

Tackling the Training Camp: The Goalies

Alright well lets get right back into it with the Goalies. It seems pretty straight forward what Leaf Management are doing with their goaltenders this season. There are 6 goaltenders in camp with the biggest competition coming in the lower ranks of the organization

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Tackling the Training Camp Roster: The Defence

Today I continue my preview of the Leafs training camp with a look at the group of defencemen the Leafs have invited to camp. The Leafs have a significant group of defencemen capable of playing a regular shift in the NHL. The biggest task for the Leafs brass this pre-season is to loosen that log jam on defence.

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Tackling the Training Camp Roster: The Forwards

The Leafs have announced their 2008-09 training camp roster which is set to gather Friday for team medicals. The group will join the Leaf Coaching staff on ice at Ricoh Colliseum on Saturday and Sunday for their only workouts prior to the Coca Cola Zero Fans First Game against the Buffalo Sabres on Monday. In the next 3 days I'll be breaking down the Leafs training camp roster by position, providing my very own prognostications (as my friend Billy says) on how camp will break down and what the post-camp Leaf and Marlie rosters will look like. Today we start with the Forwards.

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Leaf Rookie Camp

Leaf Rookie Camp Archive

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