The Toronto Maple Leafs practiced today, with new lines. Lupul-Bozak-Kessel is back together, Jake Gardiner may actually play, and a bit more shuffling went down too. But here’s something that bugs me. Colton Orr appears to be in tomorrow’s lineup, skating on line three. Matt Frattin isn’t. This, at least in my eyes, is a…
Leafs practice at Boston University (via @mirtle) So Mike Kostka broke his finger at some point during Game 1. I have a hard time believing after his performance in that game that he’d draw back into the lineup for Game 2 regardless, but with the injury we can put him on the shelf, probably for…
Hey, did you know that the Toronto Maple Leafs lost 4-1 last night? And did you know that was the Toronto Maple Leafs’ first playoff game since the invention of the spirograph? It was a pretty bleak night all around, so there’s not much to do except scour the local broadsheets and Internet lines to…
LESSONS LEARNED At the very least we can now say everyone on the roster has playoff experience. The Leafs are still getting reacquainted with the post season so it seems only fair that there are few things that needed to be relearned. One goon in your lineup in the playoffs is pointless, but two is…
SWEAR WORDS! This video is a bit long, but in my 1st ever Leafs playoff video, I think I’ve figured out what the Leafs need to beat Boston.
(Photo via Jared Wickerham/Getty Images and NHLInteractive) I had a friend in university who got really sick at exam time in her first year. She didn’t get a virus, and showed no symptoms beyond nauseousness. There’s nothing different between a university exam and a class. The material doesn’t change. If you know the subject you…
Basically a metaphor for the game itself. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images) It’s clear to anyone who understands "luck" in hockey, and how a team can in fact get lucky over a sample size of nearly fifty games, that this years Toronto Maple Leafs aren’t particularly good. They’re not as bad, however, as they looked…
The Toronto Maple Leafs kick off their playoff season Wednesday night against the Boston Bruins, at 7:00 Eastern, on the CBC. If you can’t find the game on TV, don’t come running to us complaining that we didn’t tell you what channel to watch or what time it was on. I’ve only been running this…
New to this season, every Nations site will get its readers and writers to vote on “Year End Awards” in a few different categories. It was a painstaking process to whittle down the nominations in each category to five apiece, and not only that, the pony transporting the ballots to Leafs Nation HQ got eaten…
