From The Branches
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From the Branches or FTB as it's known, is the daily links and chat post for Pension Plan Puppets.
Wednesday’s FTB: The preseason continues...
Things happen, games are played, does it matter?
Monday’s FTB: Preseason is for proving yourself
Ahead of a game against the Habs again, I set my bar for what I expect from this season.
FTB: Pre-season starts with a win
The Leafs started the NHL pre-season with a win last night while tonight the Kraken play their first game.
Saturday’s FTB: Ads are here, games are here, leave your cash at home
Good morning Toronto Maple Leafs fans!
Today is the first pre-season game, and you can feel a little tingle of hockey in the air. It’s going to be sloppy, it will probably mostly be guys who won’t make the team, there will only be 10,000 fans in
Friday’s FTB: a way-too-early look at the Leafs lineup
How about those defense pairings, eh?
Thursday’s FTB: All the training camp news
Kyle Dubas, Sheldon Keefe and the players met the media.
Monday’s FTB: Quick news and notes to start your week
Good morning Toronto Maple Leafs fans!
It's election day here in Canada and it's about time. Four weeks of this stuff and I'm done, thank goodness it wasn’t one of those grueling eight week elections. (Write an apology to the American readers here)
Weekend FTB: How do the Leafs rookies look?
Nick Robertson has always looked like the best one on the ice so far.
Friday’s FTB: high and low lights from Game 1 in Traverse City Prospect Tournament
Heritage Classic, Nikolai Kulemin, and more.
Thursday’s FTB: Traverse City and New Comments
You have a few hours to hat the nu formak in advance.
FTB: The Maple Leafs prospects get ready for Traverse City
The traditional NHL prospects tournament is the final event of the off-season calendar, and a make or break event for some prospects.
Tuesday’s FTB: News and notes and not much else
You want some development camp interviews?
FTB: The Leafs offseason winds up
The prospects are getting ready to play games later this week, and the rest of the team will start pre-season games in less than two weeks.
Weekend FTB: Nick, listen to Wick
Not every day one of the all-time athletes to ever play for her country tells you to dial it back a little.
Friday’s FTB: So how was that short week?
Prospects are developing and a lot of RFAs are unsigned.
Thursday’s FTB: Rumors about PK Subban, development camp starts today
Early September and still nothing much to talk about.
FTB: Everyone wants a piece of that NHL gambling money
The real money isn’t in more advertising, it’s in gambling, and the media folk know it.
Tuesday’s FTB: Marlies get a new coach, NWHL rebrands
Good morning to all of you fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Marlies, and beyond. We had some big-ish news drop on the weekend, so let’s get caught up:
Starting with the Maple Leafs and family news, the Toronto Marlies announced two new coaches joining the staff:
The Toronto
Labour Day FTB: Is there any hockey this month?
The short answer is yes, but it depends on how you define hockey.
FTB: Maple Leafs players are going to the Olympics in February
How many? Probably at least three.
Friday’s FTB: MLSE update mandatory vaccine policy
and the NHL is mandating vaccines for all players and staff.