2010-11 Toronto Maple Leafs Preview: It's All Coming Together

by A.J. PerezFiled under: Maple LeafsThe Toronto Maple Leafs are beginning to resemble something the club's general manager finally recognizes. "This team is looking more like a Brian Burke team," Burke told FanHouse. "We have our top six. We have our bottom six. We are building a team that cares about winning more than they did a year ago. We put the ones that didn't on airplanes." The exodus of players out of the epicenter of North American hockey has included Martin Skoula, Lee Stempniak, Ian White, Matt Stajan, Nick Hagman, Vesa Toskala and Jason Blake -- all players dealt midseason 2009-10. "If you want to focus on our team, you have to go back to Jan. 31," Burke says. "That's when we made the trades with Calgary, Anaheim and New Jersey. From that point on, we had the seventh-best team in the East. We have the same team coming back plus [Mike] Komisarek, [J.S.] Giguere and [Phil] Kessel are healthy." While not quite of t...