Normally when someone has a lot of a good thing, it is a really good thing. Except maybe a football team with two legitimate starting quarterback seeing as how they can't play both at the same time.
Over to hockey, when the clock struck midnight this past Sunday, it meant that the Toronto Maple Leafs and Tomas Kaberle would still be 'together' come the start of hockey season.
See, Toronto GM Brian Burke has said many many times that he was looking to deal the longest-serving Leaf in hopes of landing someone who might be able to compliment Phil Kessel up front.
That didn't happen.
Burke couldn't trade Kaberle because he wasn't satisfied with any of the offers he was made in return.
That could be good or bad, depending on how you look at it. What it sort of means now is that the Leafs' blueline is now jam packed. If this team, at least by looking at the names on the roster, cannot hold opposing teams to less then, say, three goals per game then something is seriously wrong somewhere.
Kaberle will be back in Blue this season. Joining him on the Leafs' defensive corps will be Francois Beauchemin, Luke Schenn, Mike Komisarek, Jeff Finger and Carl Gunnarsson and the big dog, Dion Phaneuf. Then Burke went out and signed former Detroit Red Wing Brett Lebda; not bad. Not bad at all.
That is also an awful lot of solid defenceman who will be able to play game in and game out.
Hopefully it will work out for the better for Toronto. San Jose was interested in acquiring Kaberle but he said he wanted to stay in the eastern conference. Dallas Stars GM Joe Nieuwendyk was looking to add a veteran blueliner but all he could apparently come up with in exchange for Kaberle was Mike Ribeiro.
Tampa Bay was another destination that Burke might have shipped Kaberle to, however the Lightning did not want to part with left-winger Ryan Malone.
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