So did he just get this permission, or has this been possible all season?

A few will have to clear waivers no?

who goes down? Are we gonna see Schenn finally go down? Is Blake due for a Marlies stint? Who knows?

We should call the major radio and tv stations so they aren’t alarmed by the gian hamster ball rolling down Lakeshore from the ACC to the Ricoh.

@DHSpeedwagon: I wonder what changes the Leafs won’t make but will talk about making tommorow.

Sorry, was this article from this week? Or was it from the pre-season, when he said the same thing? Or the summer… or last April… or when he took over…

you’d better enjoy Schenn while it lasts, because once Komisarek comes back, I have serious doubts Schenn will stay with the top club.

DUN DUN DUUUUUUN

Burke says in the article that he doesn’t pay attention to what is said in the media at all, that he is too concerned with running the team to listen to what the media is saying. I found that a little hard to swallow. Surely he keeps track of some of what the media is saying about the Leafs! Then a bit further down he talks about reading stories about he should be firing Ron Wilson by now. Ahhhhh there we go. He does read what the media has to say about the Leafs!

The interesting thing is the way the Islanders have rebuilt. They’ve iced terrible squads, kept their first rounders, signed “project” UFAs to short deals WITHOUT NMC/NTCs and traded those UFAs at the deadline for picks.

That has to be the only option available to us at this point.

didn’t Burke take the job only once he was assured he had complete autonomy from MLSE? He didn’t have to go to them for approval for these things?

And I really mean it when I say I don’t want to hear any more “we outplayed them and lost that’s a moral victory” bullshit. We’re not unlucky.

There’s that saying “The only thing all of your failures have in common is you”. This is like that. If it’s luck or bad bounces why do they always go against us? They go against us because our marginal players make stupid decisions constantly.

There are no moral victories.

When it was suggested that Jason Blake doesn’t exactly pay his own way with his meagre goal-scoring numbers and that he would be a candidate to be sent packing, Burke said: “Does anyone on this team work harder than Jason Blake? There has to be an element of fairness in this.”

My reaction to this quote is sort of like this dialogue from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation when Clark is trying to get the christmas lights to work to show his family.

- But he worked really hard, Grandpa.
- So do washing machines!

This is a wild story: Man thought to be in vegetative state for 23 years was conscious.

Start with Blake. I’m tired of watching him be terrible all the time. Presumably his backpack contains a limitless supply of suckitude.

He can bunk with Toskala while he’s there.

If we get lucky, someone will – literally – throw them under the bus before they get on it.

Vesa Toskala and John Mitchell placed on injured reserve.

I guess Vesa’s worse than we thought.

Jay Rosehill on waivers.

DarrenDreger Christian Hanson expected to be called up by Leafs.

according to dummy nuts on HC it was Kessels fault for the OT goal last night.

—-Hockey Leaks tweets that the Leafs will send Jiri Tlusty to Chicago for Sopel and a second-round pick — Chicago’s contributions to the deal were seconded by a report on Hockey Night in America (via the Daily Herald).

—-Also, the Hawks are talking to the Toronto Maple Leafs deal about dealing Brent Sopel, but the Leafs appear to be strong-arming the Hawks into giving up a higher draft pick than they want. So before a Barker deal [to the Sens] is struck, the Hawks might want to see how much they have to give up to dump Sopel.

—-The Leafs lost a first and second round pick in 2010 and a first rounder in 2011 when they traded for Phil Kessel, and since the Leafs can take on salary, they may be looking to trade take on big contracts to stockpile some draft picks, the Toronto Star writes.

So why does Burke want draft picks so badly? Well, if the Maple Leafs want to sign, say, Bobby Ryan to an offer sheet, they must have a first- and third-round pick to give away. So getting draft picks might be part of a bigger ploy to steal some restricted free agents from cash-strapped teams in the offseason.

haha…poopy pants

Assuming that Toskala can be placed on LTIR (even against his will), these might work

Look for Bad Contracts, and trade them for Picks. assuming the Leafs can dump about 3.6 mil, the Leafs could attempt to get Brian Rolston off the Devils. Sure, He’s not the same player he was when he was in minnesota, but i think the Leafs would be able to get the Devils 1st rounder (though maybe a late 20, but Burkie could trade up from there) if they send several rentals to the Devils. The Devils need to shed Salary, and Rolston’s their worst contract. The only problems with this are 1) Rolston has an NTC with the Devils, and will most likely exercise it and 2) Rolston’s cap hit is too much of a roadblock to work with ($5.062 mil/year with this year and 2 more)