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Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
from Damien Cox of the Toronto Star, Luke Schenn is the club’s only “A” prospect at any level. Burke and David Nonis, likely to be named the club’s vice-president and director of player personnel, are taking on a mammoth job with few assets. Clearly, moves like acquiring winger Lee Stempniak for Colaiacovo and Alex Steen was born of the get-back-to-the-playoffs-as-soon-as-possible philosophy. Colaiacovo...
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Toronto Mike's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
The Lee Stempniak era is underway in Toronto. It was another dud and we've now lost twice as many games as we've won. The plan is coming together. What plan? you're likely wondering to yourself. The plan was to shed the veterans and overpaid (Sundin, McCabe, Tucker, Raycroft), lose the failed experiments and underachievers (Wellwood, Steen, Colaiacovo), get Brian Burke and have a shitty season resulting...
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Fantasy Hockey Scouts (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Daily Diarrhea - Early Edition - your morning fantasy fix Lee Stempniak debuted for the Buds last night. He had 17 minutes of ice time, an assist and four shots in the game. He started on the third line but...
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Pension Plan Puppets (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Final - 11.25.2008 1 2 3 Total Atlanta Thrashers 1 3 2 6 Toronto Maple Leafs 0 1 2 3 Complete Coverage > The good thing about this game is that Lee Stempniak is the real deal. He was all over the ice and probably stole Alexei Ponikarovsky's job skating next to Stajan and Antropov in a single period of play. Ian White getting under Kovalchuk's skin all night was somewhat amusing. The power play went...
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Pension Plan Puppets (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
GP G A P +/- PIM PPG SHG GWG GTG SOG PCT 2008 - Lee Stempniak 14 3 10 13 -3 2 0 0 1 0 43 7.0 Welcome to Toronto, Lee. Click through the jump for some Stempniak info! Photo from goshan . DOB : February 4, 1983 Hometown : West Seneca, NY . (109 miles from Toronto). Shoots : right. Career stats : Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM 2006-2007 St. Louis NHL 82 27 25 52 33 2007-2008 St. Louis NHL 80 13 25...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
The Maple Leafs will have a very different look tonight and that's not just because of the arrival of winger Lee Stempniak in a trade with St. Louis.
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From The Rink (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Lots of activity in Toronto on Monday, and there wasn't even any real news on Brian Burke. For one, the Leafs made an interesting deal with the Blues, acquiring Lee Stempniak in exchange for Alex Steen and Carlo Colaiacovo in a pretty nice trade for Toronto GM Cliff Fletcher. Here's some various Leafs-related items in the paper: Problems between the pipes [myself] Trade has Wilson's fingerprints all...
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budblog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
The trigger was pulled on a 3 player deal today that nobosy saw coming: defenceman Carlo Colaiacovo and forward Alex Steen were shipped to the Blues for forward Lee Stempniak, the Blues’ 148th overall pick in the 2003 entry draft. Cliff Fletcher called the move a “plain and simple” move to acquire someone a little [...]
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Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
from Jeff Gordon of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Winger Lee Stempniak was the rarest of commodities, a real offensive threat drafted and developed by the Blues. So his departure for underachieving Maple Leafs Alex Steen, a versatile forward, and Carlo Colaiacovo, a rangy defenseman, is a bit of a head scratcher.... How could the Blues give up on a home-grown shooter who scored 27 goals two years ago...
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Down Goes Brown (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Apparently Trader Cliff felt like getting in one for the road. Well, at least if you assume that Fletcher did this on his own, without consulting with Burke. Which seems like a foolish assumption to me, even though that's the angle the media seems to be running with. I don't know much about Stempniak so I'll resist the urge to annoyingly declare a "winner" in thie deal before any of the players even...
