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OAKVILLE— Canada’s World Junior hopefuls reached another checkpoint in the Selection Camp process. Now having completed the doubleheader of practices on Tuesday, the team is now ready to embark on actual games between U Sports on Wednesday and Thursday. A chance for the Canadian selectees to apply the skills and knowledge gained in practice into […] READ MORE
“I’m a big believer in if you do good things, good things happen.” Karma is something Mike Babcock carried with him under his first season as head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. If you ask any Leafs fan, karma hasn’t been kind to Toronto through recent years. Even when the rebuild started, Babcock made it clear that pain was on […] READ MORE
With overagers, Europeans, and size, a look at how the Leafs draft strategy could have been a bold stroke of genius from Mark Hunter and Kyle Dubas. READ MORE
But it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Toronto Maple Leafs Rebuild is Backwards Conventional hockey wisdom says that you build a hockey team down the “middle”, solidifying the goaltending, defense, and center positions before anything else. Particular emphasis is given to the back end, where elite-level defencemen and goalies aren’t exactly found growing on trees. […] READ MORE
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears for HOCKEY IS BACK. After a painful summer, our favorite sport is back on the ice. Across the league a number of rookie tournaments are taking place and as they conclude NHL training camps will open. The NHL returns, and LWOS is here to cover all the action. […] READ MORE
Through three games at the NHL Rookie Tournament in London, Ontario, the Toronto Maple Leafs prospects have given Mike Babcock and the front office staff a lot to think about when it comes to picking an NHL roster for October. The team went 1-1-1, losing despite dominating large stretches of both their first games against […] READ MORE
The Toronto Maple Leafs look like they are on to something after decades of losing and endless promises. The 18-wheeler went off the cliff and crashed and burned last season to the point where less people were coming to games and jerseys were tossed onto the ice. Team President Brendan Shanahan had seen enough and […] READ MORE
