Curtis Joseph News

The Toronto Maple Leafs offseason is always a busy time, this season they have brought in six new faces in the first week and lost a few.

If the Maple Leafs locker room ever was a country club, Brian Burke has torn up the membership cards.

Sure, NHL teams selected more than 200 players in the entry draft this weekend -- but who'd they miss? Chances are there's an 18- or 19-year-old out there who's been overlooked and who, starting today, is hell-bent on proving the scouts wrong.

With veteran goalie J-S Giguere having put the Maple Leafs on a short list of teams he would be willing to be traded to, the intrigue continues to mushroom concerning the situation between the pipes for Toronto.

Brian Burke is about to go fishing. The Toronto Maple Leafs have the seventh overall pick tonight, along with six other selections tomorrow at the NHL Entry Draft at the Bell Centre in Montreal.

Free agent goalie Jonas Gustavsson jetted into town yesterday, surrounded, apparently, by a cone of silence.

Anaheim Ducks goaltending coach Francois Allaire talks with goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere in a practice session during the 2007 Stanley Cup final.

Jonas Gustavsson, considered the best goaltender not playing in the National Hockey League, will be travelling next week to visit the four teams -- Toronto, Colorado, Dallas and San Jose--on his short list.

Brian Burke's broom continued sweeping all corners of the Maple Leafs organization the past few days with more changes on the way: - Three members of the training staff, including seven-year strength coach Matt Nichol and head athletic therapist Rudy Cantu, are out.

Former Maple Leafs captain Doug Gilmour has thrown his support behind Jim Balsillie's attempt to buy the Phoenix Coyotes and move them to Hamilton.

There is little question that the 2009-2010 Toronto Maple Leafs will look different than the group that was on ice this past year.

Brian Burke was unable to win gold or silver at the world hockey championship in Switzerland.

It's been a raging debate since Chris Osgood stopped future teammate Marian Hossa in the waning seconds during Game 6 of the finals last spring.

Everything was new about the Maple Leafs -- the general manager, the coach, the leading scorer, the captain -- but the result was the same.

The "Hockey Factory" churned out a come-from-behind tie here Monday afternoon. A decent start, but success is all part of the program for the Notre Dame Hounds.

John Tavares was thrilled when Brian Burke declared he would move heaven and earth to try to get him in a Toronto Maple Leafs uniform.

Flames goalie Curtis McElhinney earned his first career NHL victory in the last game of the 2008-09 regular season.

We've been a bit consumed by the Rangers' playoff quest and are overdue to peek in elsewhere around the entire N.H.L. and see what's what.

The Senators, Stanley Cup finalists just two years ago, think they can rejoin the ranks of the contenders even though they went from there to first-round playoff victims to joining the Leafs out of the playoffs this spring.

Few things in life are certain, but here is one: Play hockey long enough, and for enough bad teams, and you are going to lose a lot of games.