text: I think they made a decent pick up here... McElhinney is over 30 years old and has some soilid NHL experience that can be valuable for the Leafs right now. He'll have no expectations as the back up and hopefully he'll provide some stability and gain the confidence of the coaching staff - all he has to do is play .500 hockey, probably against inferior teams....I do know that he's a popular guy with team mates and fans in Cbus.
  
  Torts had nothing but positives things to say about him a couple weeks ago - at least until he let a bunch of goals in in a loss to NYR (perhaps the team let him down?) ....Torts is a hothead and probably wanted to vent withiut unloading on the skaters, so McElhinney loses out and then they brought up a young guy....Looks like they cut off their nose to spite their face, because Bob couldn't play last night and the new kid played dodgeball.