from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

- If you do the math, MLSE is on the hook for $11 million owing to Nonis, Randy Carlyle, Dave Poulin and Claude Loiselle. That number increases significantly if you add the $27 million Nathan Horton will be paid not to play for the Leafs. And word is, Leiweke has negotiated a nice going away present when he departs the company. So there is that, too.

- Peter Chiarelli won a Stanley Cup, lost a Stanley Cup, and won a Presidents’ Trophy with the Boston Bruins. After that, he got fired. Had he won and lost a Stanley Cup in Toronto, his name would be in the rafters forever and a statue with his likeness would be built outside the Air Canada Centre.

- This has not been a great season for those who wave the analytic flag in hockey. The Anaheim Ducks, the team that pays the least attention to fancy stats, was among the best in the NHL. The teams that hired analytic departments, Toronto, Edmonton, New Jersey, all fired their coaches and had dreadful seasons. And everybody’s favourite possession team, the Los Angeles Kings, didn’t make the playoffs. Other than that, pretty much all is well

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