Lupul to have knee surgery

So they're shutting him down for the year. You hate to be so callous when someone is hurt, but this isn't good for his trade value. The team probably should have dealt him at the deadline.

30 Thoughts

Lots of good stuff in there.

An embarrassing radio show

Ray Ferraro talks about the Leafs and is basically bang-on about everything. He so offends co-host Jeff O'Neill so much that O'Neill turned off his mic and didn't say anything for a long time. It's pretty funny.

Leafs not addressing flat performance vs. the Jets

What is there left to say?

The David Clarkson saga has played itself out in Leafland more than once

Michael Langlois has seen this story before.

LFR Video

From Steve Dangle.

Ilya Bryzgalov is Ilya Bryzgalov

I mean, I guess he won.

Paul MacLean and scoring chances

Dellow doesn't think it's possible the Sens have seen such an uptick in scoring chances against.

Rinaldo gets 4 games

Video and commentary from BSH.

Lightning extend Yzerman for 4 more years

Link from Puck Daddy.

Weekend Wrap from DGB

Link is to his site, but the full thing is at Grantland.

Canucks eliminated

Things are going to be interesting in Vancouver over the summer.

How politics makes us stupid

OK, so this is totally not a hockey article, but if you've ever read about the term 'cognitive dissonance', you'll see why this article has a lot to do with the Leafs' current situation. Glove tap to Draglikepull for this one.

Just read Hope Smoke's Twitter feed

I mean, these are the most of the relevant things said about the Leafs in a day.