Toronto Maple Leafs Thread

even flow?

Well game one of all the series have started and I wonder how the Leaf nation are enjoying watching some real hockey.

kenshunt

All hockey is real, i do wish the Leafs were involved, but im still enjoying the action

Red Lukin

Thoughts on Blake, or missing out on any FA's?

I'm not too familar with Blake, but his numbers look good - guess we'll see. I don't mind picking up a vetern, since our young guns should be ready to go this year. Can't wait to see how guys like Welly, Pohl, Devereaux, Stajan, Steen and White will come to play this year - with another year under their belt.

kenshunt

Jail time tolls for new Leaf Bell
August 14, 2007


Sportsnet.ca -- Newly acquired Toronto Maple Leaf Mark Bell is headed to jail, Sportsnet has learned.

Bell pleaded guilty in a San Jose courtroom Tuesday to charges of drunk driving causing injury and hit and run.

The Leaf forward, picked up in the Vesa Toskala trade with San Jose in June, will be sentenced to six months in a Santa Clara ,California county jail to be served at the end of this upcoming season.

Official sentencing will be in October.

The charges stem from an incident in San Jose on Labour Day last year when Bell's vehicle rear-ended a pickup truck in the early morning hours, leaving the driver of the truck with head injuries.

Bell fled the scene only to be found a short distance away by San Jose police.

Leafs' GM John Ferguson had little to say when reached by Sportsnet.

"I will reserve comment until I can more fully review the situation," he said.

Bell started his NHL career in Chicago in 2000 after a successful junior career in Ottawa. He was subsequently dealt to the Sharks last summer and then became part of the Leafs organization after John Ferguson made the trade to acquire Toskala at this year's NHL draft.

Bell has two years remaining on a three-year $6.5 million dollar contract.

NY PJ1

kenshunt wrote:

Jail time tolls for new Leaf Bell
August 14, 2007


Sportsnet.ca -- Newly acquired Toronto Maple Leaf Mark Bell is headed to jail, Sportsnet has learned.

Bell pleaded guilty in a San Jose courtroom Tuesday to charges of drunk driving causing injury and hit and run.

The Leaf forward, picked up in the Vesa Toskala trade with San Jose in June, will be sentenced to six months in a Santa Clara ,California county jail to be served at the end of this upcoming season.

Official sentencing will be in October.

The charges stem from an incident in San Jose on Labour Day last year when Bell's vehicle rear-ended a pickup truck in the early morning hours, leaving the driver of the truck with head injuries.

Bell fled the scene only to be found a short distance away by San Jose police.

Leafs' GM John Ferguson had little to say when reached by Sportsnet.

"I will reserve comment until I can more fully review the situation," he said.

Bell started his NHL career in Chicago in 2000 after a successful junior career in Ottawa. He was subsequently dealt to the Sharks last summer and then became part of the Leafs organization after John Ferguson made the trade to acquire Toskala at this year's NHL draft.

Bell has two years remaining on a three-year $6.5 million dollar contract.

what a shame ,,seemed so promising w/ the hawks a few years back

kenshunt

The Leaf forward, picked up in the Vesa Toskala trade with San Jose in June, will be sentenced to six months in a Santa Clara ,California county jail to be served at the end of this upcoming season.


So why do hockey players and athletes get special treatment, if i did this i'd be in jail right away lol.

Bathgate66

kenshunt wrote:

The Leaf forward, picked up in the Vesa Toskala trade with San Jose in June, will be sentenced to six months in a Santa Clara ,California county jail to be served at the end of this upcoming season.


So why do hockey players and athletes get special treatment, if i did this i'd be in jail right away lol.

it could be worse

they could be NBA players.
:rolleyes:

kenshunt

Or NFL players, i just don't get how athletes who serve jail time can wait till the season ends, but don't get me wrong i'd still love to see Bell return to a 25-30 goal scorer this season.

Boomer

Bell was a throw-in to get Toskala. I don't think they are/were counting on much from Bell.

kenshunt

August 31, 2007
A case of Salmelainen

Tony Salmelainen, a one-time Toronto Roadrunner, is trying to return to the Big Smoke as a member of the Maple Leafs.

The 26-year-old winger is in negotiations with the Maple Leafs and, if he can get his name on a contract, he'll be in camp next month at the Ricoh Coliseum -- the former home of the Oilers' short-lived Toronto farm club.

Salmelainen played that campaign for the Toronto Roadrunners, Edmonton's ill-fated AHL farm team, and showed the promise that made him a second-round pick of the Oilers in 1999.

The speedy, 5' 9 forward had 19 goals and 44 points in 58 games for Toronto in 2003/04, good enough for a 13-game NHL call-up. He went with the Roadrunners to Edmonton, then home to Finland where he was the top scorer and top player in that country's elite league in 2005-06.

Salmelainen was traded to Montreal with Jassen Cullimore for one-time hotshot Sergei Samsonov earlier this summer. The Habs then bought out both players, making them unrestricted free agents.

Rygar

kenshunt wrote:

August 31, 2007
A case of Salmelainen

Tony Salmelainen, a one-time Toronto Roadrunner, is trying to return to the Big Smoke as a member of the Maple Leafs.

The 26-year-old winger is in negotiations with the Maple Leafs and, if he can get his name on a contract, he'll be in camp next month at the Ricoh Coliseum -- the former home of the Oilers' short-lived Toronto farm club.

Salmelainen played that campaign for the Toronto Roadrunners, Edmonton's ill-fated AHL farm team, and showed the promise that made him a second-round pick of the Oilers in 1999.

The speedy, 5' 9 forward had 19 goals and 44 points in 58 games for Toronto in 2003/04, good enough for a 13-game NHL call-up. He went with the Roadrunners to Edmonton, then home to Finland where he was the top scorer and top player in that country's elite league in 2005-06.

Salmelainen was traded to Montreal with Jassen Cullimore for one-time hotshot Sergei Samsonov earlier this summer. The Habs then bought out both players, making them unrestricted free agents.

Most likely not, but you never know.

kenshunt

i know i was being sarcastic, but i haven't posted in this thread in awhile, so thought i'd put some news in here.

Rygar

kenshunt wrote:

i know i was being sarcastic, but i haven't posted in this thread in awhile, so thought i'd put some news in here.

Wait'll NYPJ comes on to yell at you for reviving your own thread.
And I'm glad you were being sarcastic. I was trying not to be mean :P

even flow?

What ever happened to Lonny Bohonus?

The guy looked super in carrying the Laughs on his back during another of TO's very brief playoff runs and then never appeared in a Laugh shirt again.

kenshunt

even flow? wrote:

What ever happened to Lonny Bohonus?

The guy looked super in carrying the Laughs on his back during another of TO's very brief playoff runs and then never appeared in a Laugh shirt again.

I really don't know what happened to him, but every once in awhile Grapes still mentions him.

kenshunt

Lonny Bohonos Center
Born May 20 1973 -- Winnipeg, MAN
Height 5.11 -- Weight 190 -- Shoots R


Regular Season Playoffs
Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1991-92 Moose Jaw Warriors WHL 8 1 1 2 0 -- -- -- -- --
1992-93 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 46 13 13 26 27 -- -- -- -- --
1992-93 Portland Winter Hawks WHL 27 20 17 37 16 15 8 13 21 19
1993-94 Portland Winter Hawks WHL 70 62 90 152 80 10 8 11 19 13
1994-95 Syracuse Crunch AHL 67 30 45 75 71 -- -- -- -- --
1995-96 Syracuse Crunch AHL 74 40 39 79 82 16 14 8 22 16
1995-96 Vancouver Canucks NHL 3 0 1 1 0 -- -- -- -- --
1996-97 Syracuse Crunch AHL 41 22 30 52 28 3 2 2 4 4
1996-97 Vancouver Canucks NHL 36 11 11 22 10 -- -- -- -- --
1997-98 Syracuse Crunch AHL 17 12 12 24 8 -- -- -- -- --
1997-98 St. John's Maple Leafs AHL 11 7 9 16 10 2 1 1 2 2
1997-98 Vancouver Canucks NHL 31 2 1 3 4 -- -- -- -- --
1997-98 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 6 3 3 6 4 -- -- -- -- --
1998-99 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 7 3 0 3 4 9 3 6 9 2
1998-99 St. John's Maple Leafs AHL 70 34 48 82 40 5 2 4 6 2
1999-00 Manitoba Moose IHL 63 18 33 51 45 2 0 0 0 2
2000-01 Davos Swiss-A 43 28 32 60 42 4 0 1 1 2
2001-02 Davos Swiss-A 43 20 26 46 22
2002-03 Davos Swiss-A 44 22 21 43 46
2003-04 Zurich Swiss-A 44 22 21 43 26 11 3 8 11 31
2004-05 Fort Worth Brahmas CHL 2 0 2 2 2 -- -- -- -- --
2004-05 Chicago Wolves AHL 62 20 37 57 18 18 3 9 12 6
2005-06 Mannheim Eagles DEL 19 4 9 13 20 -- -- -- -- --
NHL Totals 83 19 16 35 22 9 3 6 9

i guess he's still playing hockey

kenshunt

Bell Placed in NHL/NHLPA Substance Abuse Program Sep 4, 2007, 3:21 PM EDT
Bell September 4, 2007

(NEW YORK/TORONTO) -- The National Hockey League and National Hockey League Players’ Association announced today that Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mark Bell has been placed in Stage 2 of the Substance Abuse & Behavioral Health program of the NHLPA and the NHL.

Per the terms of the SABH program, a player who is convicted of a controlled-substance offence (including under a plea arrangement or similar procedure), is assessed by the program doctors and staged appropriately.

Bell recently pleaded no contest in California to charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and hit-and-run.

By reason of his Stage 2 placement, Bell is suspended without pay until reinstated for on-ice competition by the program doctors after consultation with the NHL and NHLPA. The program doctors will make a clinical determination as to the training camp activities in which Bell may be allowed to participate.

The program’s doctors, Dr. Brian Shaw on behalf of the NHLPA and Dr. Dave Lewis on behalf of the NHL, are administering Bell’s care.

kenshunt

My 1, 000 post is in the best hockey teams thread

sourdough

Sorry guys, but the Leafs are going nowhere fast.

kenshunt

NHL suspends Leafs' Bell for 15 games
Mark Bell

TSN.ca Staff

9/12/2007 5:36:33 PM

Toronto Maple Leafs' Mark Bell was suspended without pay for 15 regular-season games by the NHL on Wednesday.

The suspension stems from a driving under the influence of alcohol incident in California on September 1st, 2006. Bell will serve six months in county jail at the end of the season as a result. The 27-year-old was with the San Jose Sharks at the time.

"Playing in the National Hockey League is a privilege, and with that privilege comes a corresponding responsibility for exemplary conduct off the ice as well as on it," said NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

"However, over the past year, Mark has made extraordinary strides in his rehabilitation," added Bettman. "This positive progress was a material factor in reducing what could have been a lengthier suspension."






"The NHLPA sees no basis for the excessive suspension Gary Bettman has imposed upon Mark Bell. Mark has fully accepted the serious consequences of his actions. He faces incarceration at the conclusion of the season and has already been suspended without pay as a result of his placement in Stage 2 of the NHL/NHLPA Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health program (SABH). There is no legitimate purpose served by adding a substantial league disciplinary suspension to the severe sanctions that have already been imposed.

We are currently reviewing all of our legal options with respect to this matter."

In August, Bell pleaded no contest to drunk driving and hit and run charges. He has been put into stage two of the NHL's substance abuse program.

In order to be reinstated to active status, Bell will require the recommendation of the doctors who administer his care under the joint Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health program of the NHL and NHLPA. The suspension will begin once he has been reinstated.

"The NHL supports Mark's commitment to learning from his past mistakes and his efforts to move his life forward in a positive direction," said Bettman.

Bell will be allowed to practice and train with the team during the suspension.

http://www.tsn.ca
What a joke Dany Heatley kills his team mate and get's no suspension a few years back, i guess this is how the Leafs get treated for being in one of the biggest hockey markets.