Kabs Staying!

After all of the media coverage nothing happened. Tomas Kaberle will remain a Maple Leaf unless he decides that he needs a change of scenary. Most people know that Kaberle is not interested in leaving the Leafs at all because he’s quite comfortable with the city and the fans. He has never really had a bad reputation with the fans and never will because he’s too nice of a guy to not like and appreciate.

The Defensive side of the game for the Leafs will be solid indeed next year, as the back end will provide a good mix of offence and defence for the Leafs throughout the tiring regular season. There can only be one reason for Burke not trading Tomas Kaberle and that reason is basically Burke not getting the right offer for Kaberle. The asking price was always a tad high and no one was going to meet it unless they were desperate, clearly no one was desperate enough to give Burke three major components of their assets.

Let’s not focus on what Tomas Kaberle will bring to our newly patched up defensive batch. He will certainly add the offensive numbers that this defensemen were getting ridiculed for. We all know they can defend their zone but points are a problem. Kaberle if he can get back to his old groove will provide those numbers and make this back end one of the toughest in the league. Kaberle will certainly be getting a lot of minutes and his usual powerplay spot as playmaker. It seems as if his partner on the powerplay will be Beauchemin which is a sound pairing to have back there. We all know Francois has a superlative shot just like Kubina and Kaberle is one of the smoothest passers of the puck. We all hope the chemistry between them is good otherwise we could have one disastrous season in terms of our powerplay numbers.

As for his partner in five on five situations, I would have to say that he will lace up with Komisarek because Burke has been keen on stating the fact that Kaberle will do better with more toughness surrounding him. I think these two could be as deadly as markov and Komisarek were a few years back. Of course Markov is a fantastic Defenseman but Kaberle is not to shabby himself. We will now have a puck carrying defenseman and that problem can now be put to bed.

We all hope he does well and proves Burke right in keeping him. If he doesn’t do well then Burke will certainly have to answer the critics for not pulling the trigger on a deal when Kaberle’s value was still respectable.