Archive for category AlexeiPonikarovsky

Leafs’ Kulemin more at ease, and it’s showing

Posted by Paul Hunter in AlexeiPonikarovsky, MapleLeafs, MikhailGrabovski, PhilKessel, RonWilson, Sports, Toronto Star Leafs News, hockey, nhl on March 10, 2010

There is an argument to be made that soon-to-be-one-year-old Alexei, who props himself up against his dad in front of their television, has helped Nikolai Kulemin’s career more than any coach.

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Leafs’ kids shine, but not quite like Bruins

Posted by Paul Hunter in AlexeiPonikarovsky, BrianBurke, LukeSchenn, MapleLeafs, PhilKessel, RonWilson, Sports, TomasKaberle, Toronto Star Leafs News, hockey, nhl on March 4, 2010

Miroslav Satan scores shootout winner on Leafs

There, in the post-game summary, is a signpost of the Maple Leafs’ future: Tyler Bozak assisted by Nikolai Kulemin and Luca Caputi.

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Leafs come up lame in return to ice

Posted by Daniel Girard in AirCanada, AlexeiPonikarovsky, BrianBurke, Business, Companies, MapleLeafs, NHLTrades, Olympics, Sports, TomasKaberle, Toronto Star Leafs News, hockey, nhl on March 2, 2010

The highlight of the night came long before the opening faceoff. With the NHL trade deadline drawing closer and a tilt between Toronto and Carolina, the two worst teams in the Eastern Conference at hand, it was the last-minute scratch of Alexei Ponikarovsky from the Maple Leafs lineup that caused the biggest stir.

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Woolsey: NHL back to business, and it’s not pretty

Posted by Gath Woolsey in AlexeiPonikarovsky, BrianBurke, International, MapleLeafs, PhilKessel, RonWilson, Sports, Toronto Star Leafs News, hockey, nhl on March 2, 2010

No, it is not the same. That would be impossible. From Super Sunday, the sublime, to Just-Another Tuesday, the ho-hum. Quite the comedown.

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Leafs’ Primeau waits as NHL trade deadline looms

Posted by Daniel Girard in AlexeiPonikarovsky, BrianBurke, MapleLeafs, NHLTrades, Sports, Toronto Star Leafs News, hockey, nhl on March 1, 2010

Wayne Primeau will spend the next couple of days being a busy dad, playing with his kids, taking his son to hockey practice and hanging around home.

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Kadri survives swim with the Sharks

Posted by Paul Hunter in AlexeiPonikarovsky, MapleLeafs, Sports, Toronto Star Leafs News, hockey, nhl on February 8, 2010

The Leafs, playing with emergency callup Nazem Kadri, fell to the San Jose Sharks 3-2 Monday night.

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Cox: Leafs find a new way to lose

Posted by Damien Cox in AlexeiPonikarovsky, JonasGustavsson, MapleLeafs, MattStajan, RonWilson, Sports, Toronto Star Leafs News, hockey, nhl on January 21, 2010

So many inventive ways to lose. That will be part of the inscription on the epitaph of this Maple Leafs season when it ends without a playoff berth, as most certainly will be the case.

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