Credit to the Toronto Maple Leafs. When the heat was turned up, they delivered, led by their star players, their goaltender, and a depth player who needed a favourable bounce more than anybody. After two periods of lockjaw hockey, featuring a good first period from the Leafs and a not so good second, Auston Matthews … Read more
The second round matchup between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Florida Panthers is headed back to Toronto tied 2-2, and frankly, Florida winning one of these games handily had to happen at some point. After a pair of Leafs wins at home followed by a loss in Game 3 in an affair of bounces, the … Read more
Game 3 was about as chaotic as you could have predicted considering the circumstances. With the Toronto Maple Leafs taking a pair of one-goal games at home to open the series, it would have been foolish not to predict a strong pushback from the Florida Panthers. And if it wasn’t more or less a guarantee … Read more
For the first time since 1987, the Toronto Maple Leafs have taken a 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference semi-finals with a 4-3 win over the Florida Panthers. After being subject to watching a Leafs team prone to outshooting their opponents and finally scoring a game-tying or a go-ahead goal only to give it … Read more
The Toronto Maple Leafs had their fans on the edge of their seats from the second period on, and not in a good way. After jumping out to an early 2-0 lead thanks to goals from Morgan Rielly and John Tavares, the Ottawa Senators turned on the jets and played like a completely different team … Read more
The Toronto Maple Leafs‘ final game of the season against the Detroit Red Wings somehow had everything despite meaning nothing. And by everything, I mean a Philippe Myers highlight reel goal, a Chris Tanev buzzer-beater to tie it with 1.8 seconds left in the game, and a Scott Laughton overtime goal. Since this game statistically … Read more
Steven Lorentz put it pretty perfectly ahead of the Toronto Maple Leafs‘ fourth-last game of the season and final game against the Montreal Canadiens. Steven Lorentz, beauty: "I know people want to see another Canadian team in the playoffs, but we don't care about another Canadian team in the playoffs. We care about our team, … Read more
I only have two words. Matthew Knies. There genuinely has to be some kind of superior force at work here. Ever since Knies lost the Frozen Four on the sheet of ice at Amalie Arena, completely unrelated to the Tampa Bay Lightning at all, he has turned into a complete and utter force against that … Read more
If you’re facing the Florida Panthers when they’re on their game, you’re often going to have a bad time unless you show up with everything firing on all cylinders. The Toronto Maple Leafs, unfortunately, were not. The Panthers were losers of five straight games heading into Tuesday night’s contest and subject to lighthearted speculation that … Read more
In the midst of all of the discourse surrounding the Toronto Maple Leafs’ third line, the Leafs have found themselves a unit of a second line emerging ahead of the playoffs. In the days following a win over the New York Rangers featuring seven combined points between the trio of Bobby McMann, John Tavares, and … Read more