Cathy Squires

A hard-hitting look at who should win the Norse Trophy this year. I breakdown all the candidates and examine the evidence.

Team USA has released their roster for the junior evaluation camp in Plymouth, Michigan in August. Jeremy Bracco is there, but another name is missing.

Mitch Marner adds the Hockey Canada development camp and the junior team evaluation tournament held by USA Hockey to his summer schedule.

Come and express your opinions.

At least for now, since the Nashville Predators have traded his rights for a third round pick.

The Toronto Maple Leafs will head to Halifax again this year with an even better roster of players and hot prospects than last year.

From Steve Simmons to Ray Ferraro: taking the temperature of the excitement level in today's NHL.

Buyouts can begin on June 15, so expect to see players put on waivers as early as noon on June 14 to begin the process.

The staff at PPP got together and had a love-in for Phil Kessel. Come and see what we love about him, miss about him and will never forget. Then tell us what you love about Phil!

In front of a record-setting crowd, nearly the largest ever for an AHL playoff game, the Lake Erie Monsters won the Calder Cup at home.

From Buffalo to San Jose and back again, Auston Matthews, Patrik Laine and a few friends went on a quest.

Summer time means moving on for a lot of AHL players. The Marlies have a group of free agents who were big factors in their success. That doesn't mean they'll all be back.

Sportsnet has a livestream available for the final day of the Combine from Buffalo. See Auston Matthews and Patrik Laine in action in the drills.

June isn't just for the draft, it's also the time to sign RFAs to extensions. There is just over three weeks to make offers, so take a quick refresher on how it all works and who the Leafs have pending.

The Leafs scouting staff are hard at work in Buffalo looking for new prospects who will hope to become part of the bright Maple Leaf future. They started at the top with an interview with Auston Matthews.

The Marlies playoffs came to a screeching halt on Sunday afternoon. While Sheldon Keefe presided over an amazing season as a rookie coach, the AHL isn't like other leagues. It isn't all about the Cup.

Toronto did a deal with the Sharks, and while the Leafs are anticipating the picks they got out of it, the Sharks have three former Leafs going to the Stanley Cup Final.

Three years into his career, Tyson Barrie is top of the list of trade rumours. But he is challenging for bottom of the list in Corsi. Is that a measure of the man or the team? Is this a deal the Leafs should try to make?

The World Cup of Hockey roster for Finland has some familiar names on it from the recent World Championships.

In the spring, the Russians named a lop-sided preliminary roster with only three defencemen. They've submitted the final 23-man version and as expected Maple Leafs defender Nikita Zaitsev is on the team.

Frank Corrado didn't just appear by chance; his arrival in Toronto was part of a whole series of events that all started when Vancouver chose a defenceman in the 2012 draft. The effects of that one event affected more players than just Corrado, and it hasn't stopped yet.

After the bronze medal and the all-star team at the World Championships, Nikita Zaitsev had one more award to win at the annual KHL awards ceremony.

The Leafs players have some metal to remember Russia, and while the hoped-for future of the team was shut out, he has a lot of bling in his future. The bad news is European hockey is over for another year!

The two final matches are set, and there is a Leafs player on three of the teams and one we expect to see drafted on the fourth. That's three medals coming into the Leafs dressing room next year, it's just a question of who gets which colour.

All four teams left in the World Championships have a Leaf player on the team. , if you stretch the definition to include Auston Matthews for the USA. So you can find someone to cheer for no matter what happens!