Friedman: One of the things in the new CBA that was targeted at Toronto: They said you can’t open your facilities over the summer for guys. Toronto was a team where a number of their prospects would come to Toronto in the summer and work out at the practice facility and really improve as players. Teams were like, “We don’t like that. We think that is an advantage for Toronto, and we don’t want that to happen.” They shut that down.
Right on the heels of other clubs crying foul about the Leafs‘ use of referees during Phase 3 training camp, this is as bush league as it gets from the NHL to kowtow to these complaints — and it’s quite clearly myopic on its behalf.