PLAYERS:
Tomas Kaberle,
John-Michael Liles,
Nikolai Kulemin,
Matt Frattin,
Keith Aulie,
Cody Franson,
Mikhail Grabovski,
Joe Colborne,
Jake Gardiner,
Tim Connolly,
Francois Beauchemin,
Jesse Blacker,
Ryan Getzlaf
TEAMS: Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Anaheim Ducks
TEAMS: Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Anaheim Ducks
Within the past calendar year, Tomas Kaberle has played for four teams and six coaches. After leaving Toronto, he was generally pretty ineffective in Boston, failing to ignite their powerplay. But he still managed to help the Bruins win a Stanley Cup (however non-consequential his contribution may have been). This season he continued his disappointing play in Carolina before finding himself in Montreal. It has been as rough as any year highlighted by a championship ring could be.
There has definitely been no seller’s regret in Toronto.
Kaberle’s replacement in Toronto, John-Michael Liles, a player who in a way was a part of the initial trade with Boston (the conditional second rounder Boston sent the Leafs was shipped to Colorado for Liles) has integrated into the Leafs lineup and filled the role vacated by Kaberle seamlessly before.
Liles forms the first defensive pairing on the Leafs’ powerplay and has helped ignite a once dormant unit that was 22nd in the lea...
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