Good morning Toronto Maple Leafs fans!

A couple weeks ago I thought of a nice alliterative title for a Wednesday FTB and took a brief look at former Leafs prospect Robbie Earl.

FTB: Where’d he go Wednesday
Let’s remember a Leaf.

This week I opened one of my favourite hockey websites, Quant Hockey, and it opened to the Newfoundland page so I decided to find a player from our east to look at and finalized on:

Colin Greening!

A 2005 seventh round draft pick of the Ottawa Senators, Greening played out his NCAA career at Cornell, never missing a single game and being inducted into the exclusive "Quill and Dagger" society. A formerly secret club founded by author EB White, whose membership includes 24 Olympians (including former Maple Leaf Ben Scrivens), the Coors family, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Ken Dryden.

He made his professional debut in the 2010-11 season, splitting the season evenly between Ottawa and Binghamton at 24 games each about would win his first Calder Cup in Binghamton.

He would be in the Senators system until 2016 when on February 9th he would be part of the big Dion Phaneuf trade and become a Toronto Maple Leaf.

Leafs trade Dion Phaneuf to Senators in 9-player deal
Dion Phaneuf traded to Ottawa in nine-player blockbuster

Briefly. He would finish the season in the NHL with Toronto, but spend three more seasons with the Toronto Marlies, where he would win his second Calder Cup in 2018.

One more professional season and he would retire from hockey, and return to university, pursuing an MBA at Harvard University. There is no word if he was a member of The Hasty Pudding Club.

According to his LinkedIn, he has been working in finance, was a Trustee with the NHL Players’ Retirement Benefits Plan for several year, and is currently working in Portland, Maine. Hope he's enjoying some Maine Mariners games out there.

Now, some news.

There was a PWHL trade yesterday:

Easton Cowan will never stop scoring, no matter what you want.

#Leafs prospect Easton Cowan with the secondary assist, extends his regular season point streak to 61 games.

Nikita GREAT-byonkin (@brigstew.bsky.social) 2025-01-22T01:29:07.756Z

Connor McDavid was suspended three games for his cross check:

Did the NHL get Connor McDavid’s suspension right?
The Oilers captain was suspended three games for cross-checking Vancouver’s Conor Garland.

Oilers fans are mad about him facing punishment for his actions and are reaching out to blame others.

The NHL refuses to protect its stars like Connor McDavid and many more
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It seems like all eyes were on Matthew Knies after the Lighting game.

Eyes widened by Lightning, Maple Leafs’ Matthew Knies takes centre stage in win
Over his young career, Leafs forward Matthew Knies has quickly come to enjoy playing against the Lightning. On Monday, he struck again with two goals in a Toronto victory.

What do the Leafs need most at the deadline?

Is the Maple Leafs’ biggest trade deadline need at center or defense? An early look at their needs and possible targets
With the Four Nations tournament under three weeks away, trade talks are starting to pick up around the NHL. Seven trades were completed in December ahead of the Christmas break and trade freeze. A few GMs and insiders have speculated that we could see a similar flurry before the Four Nations break, which could act […]

The Leafs are very lucky to have a superstar like Hailey Wickenheiser on staff.

Adam Laskaris at the Daily Hive spoke with her about this.

“You get a chance to talk to the players, work with them every single day, try to help them get better, whether it’s on the ice, off the ice, and in a variety of different areas. You get a chance to watch these guys come in as 17- or 18-year-old kids and grow into men in the NHL,” Wickenheiser said.

While we're not hearing any big smack talk between Canada and the US over the Four Nations Face Off (probably because they know this is just a meaningless money grab), the dislike between Finland and Sweden knows no bounds.

Laine says Finland players ‘hate’ Sweden ahead of rivalry game at 4 Nations Face-Off in Montreal | NHL.com
Swedish defenseman Hedman of Lightning says game will be ‘big brother against little brother’

Utah Hockey Club is still in search of a mascot and name, and they're running into legal trouble.

Utah Hockey Club facing trademark hurdles in finding permanent name
Earlier this month, the trademark for Utah Yetis was refused by the United States Patent and Trademark Office due to a

Canada is leading the Rivalry Series between Canada and the US women's teams 2-1 and as we head out east for the final two games the roster has been set.

Canadian women’s hockey team roster named to close out Rivalry Series with U.S.
The 25 Canadian women tasked with closing out hockey’s Rivalry Series with the United States were announced Tuesday. Canada carries a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series into Halifax on Feb. 6 and Summerside, Prince Edward Island on Feb. 8.

Finally, Patrik Laine had struggles that almost made him quit hockey. He used his status and ability to garner attention to speak out about the experience.

Laine wanted to give up hockey: he has taken care of himself and he is right to share his experience - Dose.ca
Professional athletes are human. They are also capable of feeling emotions (contrary to what some think) and they are not immune to personal problems, even if some of them earn a lot of money. They say money brings happiness… But that’s not always true either. Patrik Laine experienced a situation like this. He had to […]

Enjoy your day everyone!