The Freshman

Canada, ON • Canada • 22 Years Old • Male

Toronto's Line Combinations

As of July 4, 2008, these are the players currently contracted by the leafs that have a shot at making the big club

Forwards

Nik Antropov
Mark Bell
Jason Blake
Darryl Boyce
Boyd Devereaux
Robert Earl
Alex Foster
Mikhail Grabovski
Niklas Hagman
Nikolai Kulemin
Jamal Mayers
Dominic Moore
Alexei Ponikarovsky
Matt Stajan (Not yet signed, but i hope is)
Alex Steen
Jiri Tlusty
Jeremy Williams

Defence

Tomas Kaberle
Bryan McCabe
Carlo Colaiacovo
Staffan Kronwall
Pavel Kubina
Jeff Finger
Ian White
Anton Stralman

These are the lines that I would like to see start the season. One thing that leaf fans can look forward to is a great training camp, with many player challenging for spots that have yet to be nailed down.

Left Wing Center Right Wing
Jason Blake Alex Steen Matt Stajan*** Potentially coming back
Mark Bell Nik Antropov Alexei Ponikarovsky
Nikolai Kulemin Jiri Tlusty Niklas Hagman
Boyd Devereaux Dominic Moore Jamal Mayers

Challenging for spots:

Darryl Boyce
Mikhail Grabovski
Jeremy Williams
Dale Mitchell
John Mitchell
Robert Earl


That gives the maple leafs with a first line that should put up some numbers (Matt Stajan should not be on the first line, but right now it fits and he played decently with Jason Blake last year), a second line that would dominate behind the net, a third skill line with lots of potential and a fourth energy line. Our defence, i believe is a little more solid.

Tomas Kaberle Pavel Kubina
Bryan McCabe Carlo Colaiacovo
Jeff Finger Anton Stralman

Challenging for spots:

Ian White
Staffan Kronwall
Dmitri Vorobiev

**White gets the call up when Calaiacovo gets injured. Just kidding, not this year!

Anyways, let me know what you all think.