No first-round pick until 2028? “Draft schmaft,” Hockey Hall of Fame executive Cliff Fletcher once famously said as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Today’s Cliff Fletcher is ...

The club’s coddled Core Four would be resistant to his hardball ways, the defence was too weak a link, depth was not adequate ...

How does Julien BriseBois seem to fill his needs almost every single year? Pierre LeBrun: I think it was Cliff Fletcher who famously once said “Draft, Schmaft”, and I think Julien BriseBois is ...

His comments read like a more modern-day, well-lawyered version of Cliff Fletcher's famous draft schmaft rant 29 years ago. "I'd rather have a lineup full of good players than a bank of a ton of ...

By the 1986 trade deadline, Flames GM Cliff Fletcher – a man who often made big moves to improve his team – wasn’t messing around. Four-time Stanley Cup champion John Tonelli had a strained ...

Kari Eloranta was traded for himself in 1982 A Finnish blueliner, Eloranta was the subject of a bidding war during the summer of 1981, with Cliff Fletcher eventually landing him for the Flames.

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Brad Treliving knew his conversation with Ryan Reaves would be a hard one. After the exhilaration of pulling off two vital trades for the Maple Leafs’ playoff hopes, the general manager had to turn ...

Children and families from our Pre-Academy were at Carrington back in February for the now annual Culture Day. The event ...