Found September 17, 2009 on Bleacher Report:
Miracle2
Four full seasons (and one lockout) have passed since Jeremy Roenick's overtime goal eliminated the Toronto Maple Leafs from the playoffs, seemingly for good. With their captain gone, a new GM, a coach preaching accountability and a stable full of kids and bruisers, could this be the year the Buds finally make it back to the postseason? Here are the key questions heading into the new season. Is Vesa Toskala healthy? Is Jonas Gustavsson going to take his job anyway? Toskala battled injuries all through last season before finally shutting it down just before the trade deadline. If his surgery takes, we could see a return to the form that saw him pushing Evgeni Nabokov in San Jose hard enough to get himself traded. Gustavsson, the unproven Swede, will find himself in a backup role, though who's to say what will happen at the end of this season, when Toskala's a free agent and the Monster's had a year's tutelage under new goaltending coach Fran&cc...
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