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All of these injuries have brought a lot of familiar faces to Paul Maurices bench, who coach the AHL’s Marlies last season. The Leafs continue to lose games and are in need of help fast.

Last game the leafs had 7 players from the Toronto Marlies on their roster. Those including Ian White, Alexsander Suglobov, John Pohl, Boyd Devereaux, Ben Ondrus, Brendan Bell, and Kris Newbury. Not mentioning the few that played for the team last year, being Bates Battaglia and J.S Aubin. The Leafs have more farm team players than they do of their regular roster players right now, one would think a trade of some sort should come soon.

After last nights loss to the Ottawa Senators, the Leafs have now won just once in their last six games. And the sad part is this six game stretch was supposed to be an easy part of their schedule.

The Leafs have won 4 of their last 16 games. They better start making some changes soon or else their going to be riding the bottom of the standings for a long time.

I don’t see why the Leafs shouldn’t bring back Jason Allison or even Brian Leetch. It’s safe to say this team is in trouble in almost all areas of the club. Ferguson has been entertaining offers im sure but the team needs to dump some salary in order to find a replacement for any one of the key players injured.

One of the options was to place Tucker on injured reserve but if he were to come back earlier than predicted that could cause some problems on the Leaf team.

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Briere, scheduled for unrestricted free agency in July, is the Sabres leading scorer with 46 points in 37 games. He cuurently makes 5 million on his one year arbitration deal.

In a battle of Eastern Conference powerhouses, the top offenses in the East played a strong defensive game for the first 40 minutes. Briere scored in the first to make it 1-0 and Jason Pominville scored on a 3 on 1 break midway through the second to make it 2-0.

Glen Metropolit scored early in the third to cut the deficit to one before Vanek tipped a Maxim Afinogenov shot past Kari Lehtonen with three minutes to go to seal the win. Vanek would later score an empty net goal.

Ryan Miller made 29 saves in recording his 20th win of the season. Lehtonen took the loss, stopping 28 of 31 shots. Buffalo hosts the New York Islanders on Monday night.

Allison, who has recieved minor interest from teams since the free agent market opened, may decide upon a deal with either the Ottawa Senators or the Tampa Bay Lightning.

With the recent injury to Sens’ Mike Fisher, who will miss 4-6 weeks, the club is looking for a replacement. A source indicates the team has inquired about Allison, but Ottawa has also been listening to offers from other teams around the League. Sportsnet reports one of those teams may be the slumping Coyotes, who has almost every player on the club available.

The Tampa Bay Lightning has also inquired about Allison, but if any sort of deal were to take place they would be making a trade first. Allison would likely only take around $800 000 on a one year contract plus incentives, making it affordable for both teams.

Allisons effictiveness on the powerplay, especially with the Leafs last season, would really help out both of these struggling teams. Tampa Bay and Ottawa were both in the playoffs last season and played each other in the first round (Sens were 1st overall, while the Bolts were 8th). But now they both find themselves out of a playoff spot.