The city of Toronto has been buzzing since they made the playoffs, but last night it just had a different feel. At the beginning of the year, next to nobody had picked the Leafs to even make the playoffs. After they clinched a spot and kind of stumbled into the [...]
There are few things more speculated upon or anticipated in the hockey world than a game seven. It has this aura, this build to it that few sports can match. And we get two of them tonight. With all due respect to Washington/New York, their matchup is secondary to a [...]
It was yet another playoff first for the 2012-2013 Toronto Maple Leafs last night; the first time this team has faced elimination. Considering the team and the venue it proved to be a tough task. However, they managed to pressure the Bruins early and took the crowd out of it. [...]
This morning many a fan in Leafs Nation could be singing they lyrics to this song for the last time in 2013. We all hope it won’t happen quite so soon but the sting of defeat will be sweet yet painful. Game 4 was a positive on so many levels [...]
Boston and their bully-in-chief Milan Lucic have the upper hand over a jittery Toronto team Joffrey Lupul felt it. He didn’t have much of a choice. The Lucic Express was headed straight in his direction and he didn’t see it coming. When the contact came he crumpled to the ground [...]
(Spoiler: No, but we should be very concerned with reports he is asking for a $5 million per year contract). Bozak was an undrafted college player whom the Leafs were able to sign to a 2-year entry-level contract in April 2009. At the time, as many as 20 teams were [...]
The 2004-05 lockout represented disharmony between the skated-laced employees and the suits who ran their hockey enterprises. The feeling of despair in 2004-05 was quickly iced by a rookie crop featuring Sid the Kid and Ovechkin in 2005-06. Bandwagons of fringe fans filled arenas in hopes of getting a chance to [...]
The season series between these two Original Six and divisional rivals finished up 3-1 in favor of the Boston Bruins. The games seemed a lot closer than statistics indicated, but that’s hockey. Boston outscored the Leafs 10-7 in those games, yet two of their three victories came by one goal (1-0, 3-2), the other [...]
The Toronto Maple Leafs currently own the longest playoff drought in the NHL, having not made the postseason since 2004, when they lost in the second round to Philadelphia. However, with the Leafs now poised to end their 9-year absence from the NHL’s “second season,” I thought it would be [...]
12 games to go and the Toronto Maple Leafs are within touching distance of the playoff spot that has eluded them for eight long, dark years. A confident 4-0 win over the Senators in Ottawa last night will have gone a long way in convincing their long-suffering fans that they [...]
Leaf’s patience with Kadri paying off, Kadri’s rise to leading the Leafs in scoring a long time coming for team, and fan base. Progression Is The Name Of The Game Being drafted by your hometown team should be a dream come true, but for any kid that is drafted in the [...]
The big news in Leafland (aka the Centre of the Hockey Universe) this week (other than today’s bombshell trade of F Nicholas Deschamps for D Kevin Marshall) was defenceman Jake Gardiner’s agent, Ben Hankinson’s, puzzling tweet: “#freeJakeGardiner.” While the meaning of the tweet has been dissected by analysts already, with [...]
Life is all about give and take isn’t it? That cliché summarizes the last three or four games for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last night Phaneuf gave the puck away a billion times. Holzer isn’t immune to this disease either. When Fraser steps on the ice, I breathe a sigh of relief. [...]
The battle of two of the Original Six takes place tonight when the Montreal Canadiens travel to the Air Canada Centre to face the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last season the Leafs and Habs finished 26th and 28th in the league. The biggest part of the rivalry between these two teams became [...]
With Brown potentially out of the line up, the Leafs are a banged up bunch. He fought last night and apparently has a lower body injury. Is the shoulder connected to his body south of the abdomen? Orr, Gardiner, Frattin, Brown and Lupul are hurting, leaving much of the Leafs [...]
The Winston Report is your daily fantasy baseball outlook. Five Studs - Miguel Cabrera (Det): [...]
How the first ten minutes of game three goes will go a long way in shaping the rest of this series. The [...]
Of all the subjects covered during this run of “What The Hell Happened To…?”, there [...]
A fortnight ago, Wayne Rooney told Sir Alex Ferguson that he wanted to leave the Manchester United. In [...]
Brendan Riley examines the NFC North, and how its teams did in this years NFL Draft. Green Bay Packers Selections: 1st, [...]
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