It’s a clean slate. The Leafs have a best of 5 series with Tampa having the home advantage. Toronto will need to pick up at least one on the road to get to the next round, and tonight is as good a night as any. Leafs at +100 For the first time in the series,…
The lineup blender is officially out for Sheldon Keefe and the Toronto Maple Leafs as the series shifts to Tampa Bay. Out of the lineup are Wayne Simmonds and Timothy Liljegren. In comes Jason Spezza and Justin Holl. #Leafs lines during morning skate May 6/22 Bunting-Matthews-Marner Nylander-Tavares-Anderson*Mikheyev-Kampf-KerfootEngvall-Blackwell-SpezzaExtra: Clifford, *Filling in for Kase Rielly-LyubushkinMuzzin-BrodieGiordano-HollSandin-Liljegren Campbell (starter)Kallgren…
TAMPA — The Toronto Maple Leafs took a less than ideal path to get to Tampa Bay for Games 3 and 4 of their first-round series with the Lightning. Instead of boarding their charter directly from Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, the team took a bus to Western New York and flew to Tampa from…
After a Game Two which saw plenty of penalties and a physical affair, expect something similar in Tampa on Friday night. There’s plenty to look forward to in this game between the Maple Leafs and Lightning. First is how Toronto performs in the playoffs in the visiting building. If you remember back to last season,…
TAMPA — Jason Spezza admitted that it hasn’t been easy to watch the games from the up in the press box. After sitting for the first two games of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ first-round playoff series with the Tampa Bay Lightning, the 38-year-old will draw in to play on Toronto’s fourth line on Friday. “It’s…
The Toronto Maple Leafs are satisfied with the way they have played against the Tampa Bay Lightning at even strength. The only problem is they are using special teams a lot more than they expected. ”Around the league it’s been a little bit of surprise, frankly, on how the games have been called,” Maple Leafs…
The Marlies’ season came to an end last weekend. It’s a bit disappointing following the number of years that Kyle Dubas and Sheldon Keefe, and even Dallas Eakins before them made the AHL team competitive on the strength of established veterans and a deep prospect pool. Ryan Hardy and Greg Moore have taken a decidedly…
