Leafs News

Here are a few rumblings in Leaf Land :

Today, Mark Spector on Sportsnet posted the following. "Moreau, who can still be a useful third-line winger on a team like Los Angeles — where GM Dean Lombardi is wrestling with the decision of surrendering Wayne Simmonds for Tomas Kaberle — was no small decision." ( HockeyBuzz )

Kaberle Rumors are all over the internet. I do believe he will be moved for a top six forward. Names I have read are Jeff Carter, Mike Ribero , Jordan Stall , Dustin Brown, Brad Richards and the whole Chicago Blackhawk team.

Personally I believe the perfect trade partners would be Dallas, Pittsburgh , and Philly. Which would mean deals would be centered aroud Ribero / Richards , Stall, o Carter.

My Fav .... Pittsburgh, Stall is buried on the team as a third line center. This Kid could break out on Toronto and could be a Burke target. Like I mentioned in the last post, word is Burke is waiting for the dust to settle on the Gonchar , Hamhuis front.

Look for the leafs in the Savard race. Savard has lifted his no trade clause to be moved to the Leafs or Sens. If Toronto makes a deal for Savard, rumor has it that Grabovski or Kulemin and prospect would go the other way. This would be considered a soft deal for the superstar. If Burke aquires Savard, I would think that Burke would look to aquire a winger for Kaberle.

Kovalchuck..... every leafs fans dream. I think Burke is putting up smoke screens here. I cant imagine Brian not wanting to get in the Kovalchuck sweepstakes. A bonafide 50 goal scorer in his prime. Who wouldnt be interested.

Burke has stated his need to get tougher... Enter Mike Brown who burke aquired from the Ducks at the draft. And he wants some quality grinders, some bottom 6 players.

Armstrong, Torres and Malholtra are available tommorow.

Armstrong has been long rumored to the leafs, and Burke offered a contract to Malholtra last year.

Kulemin and the Leafs are moving closer towards getting a contract signed. It is believed that Kulemin is looking for a 3 mil plus contract, Burke is looking 2.5 range.

Mitchell was not qualified, but could be brought back as a UFA for a cheaper contract becasue of the way arbitration works.

I will keep things updated as they happen. Look for more news and rumors through out the day. There should be buy outs, waiver pick ups , and hopefully a trade or two!!

Meowt!!