It’s kind of odd, really. For all the complaining I do about the Marlies facing the teams again and again and again, I actually look forward to facing the Abbotsford heat now. Maybe the whalloping from the start of the season has an effect on that. Maybe its the fact that despite being lumped in [...]

You’d think adding Nazem Kadri and Keith Aulie to an already solid team would make the Toronto Marlies a force to be reckoned with. What we saw tonight wasn’t exactly that – in fact, the Syracuse Crunch made a point of dominating the Marlies from start to finish. There was only one problem for them, [...]

As I’ve made pretty clear in the insanity that was Friday’s unorthodox ‘pre game’, this weekend includes matchups against teams the Marlies face for a combined 32 games this season. That’s almost half the year, and that’s almost a little crazy. In some cases, it builds rivalries. In others, it creates stagnancy. So far this [...]