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Toronto - Ben Scrivens made 37 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs improved to a 10-6-0 record with a convincing 3-0 victory over the Florida Panthers.

Roberto Luongo talked to the Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper Monday and said what some media, Digital Journal included, have said all along: he wants to go to Florida. He spoke to the paper as Scott Clemmensen and Jose Theodore worked out on nearby ice.

Forget about show business, truth is there's no business like business, it supersedes all else because all else flows from it. In hockey the business of a new contract between the NHL and the NHLPA is of such import it may be holding up a trade.

The desperation being felt by Canucks GM Mike Gillis must surely be mounting. Yes, his Canucks won their second straight President's Trophy but a window to winning the Stanley Cup is closing and he needs the Roberto Luongo trade to keep it open.

Vancouver - Let us get this right out in the open: when we don't have hockey we fans, especially Canadian ones, consider the next best thing to be hockey trade rumors. And this off-season is a great one for rumors, with the Roberto Luongo trade-saga leading the way.

The latest of a flurry of trade rumors concerning Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo comes courtesy an American magazine called The Fourth Period. The magazine says Roberto Luongo is only willing to go to the Florida Panthers.

The NHL season is finally over and the playoffs are set. The Eastern Conference lineup features a few perennial favorites as well as a resurgent New York Rangers team.

In a season-ending slide of biblical proportions, one that has them eliminated from playoff contention and now includes 11 straight home losses, more bad news awaits the Toronto Maple Leafs, and their fans. It will come courtesy of the Florida Panthers.

Toronto - As is the case every November, hockey’s finest was celebrated with another special night in Toronto as four of NHL’s past stars were inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Toronto - The cracks are starting to show. Last week the Toronto Maple Leafs were the best team in the NHL – all was good in Leafs nation. But what a difference a week makes.