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| 12th January, 2007 - 3:38 pm |  NHL.com - Kris Newbury, Boyd Devereaux and Ben Ondrus are making the most of their chance to stick with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
They've been solid contributors since being summoned from the AHL farm team because of a horde of injuries, and head coach Paul Maurice needs them to keep it up because none of the walking wounded are ready to return. The speed of Newbury and Devereaux has pleased Maurice, who has always liked the grit with which Ondrus plays.
"Kris is quicker and stronger," Maurice says, comparing the Newbury of today to the Toronto Marlies player he coached last year.
"Newbury and Ondrus, you don't ever have to tell them when they come to the bench, 'You should have finished that check,"' Maurice said Friday. "Sometimes you might pull them aside and say, 'You better slow down going in there because you're going to be going to the box.'
"They're fighting every shift." [READ] |
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