Leafs fans Abruzz over Leafs prospect Nick Abruzzese winning ECAC Rookie of the Year
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5 trades the Leafs could make that would make their roster worse
Andreas Johnsson and Kasperi Kapanen are both pretty good hockey players, but the Leafs have a lot of pretty good hockey players. It would not be wise to trade these guys for worse hockey players, but NHL general managers make bad decisions all the time. Instead of pushing for some hypothetical trades that the Leafs…
Connor McDavid and the worst-kept secret about Morgan Rielly
Morgan Rielly is bad defensively. That’s it. That’s the secret. You can stop reading now if you wish. On Monday night, the Leafs played the Edmonton Oilers at home, a fixture which had become nearly as guaranteed as two points come in the NHL. It hadn’t been since December 2, 2010 since the Oilers won…
What if the Leafs’ roster was made solely of players they “should’ve kept”?
There’s an infamous Anne Murray tweet that goes around every time the Leafs hit a rut. I wish the Leafs were better. — Anne Murray (@annemurray1) October 26, 2014 It popped up during the team’s recent 6-game slide. But instead of wishing the Leafs were simply better, what if Anne wished the Leafs were made…
Mike Babcock’s dismissal shouldn’t have been time for a celebration
“You don’t get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.” — Eminem — Mike Babcock Mike Babcock’s tenure as the coach of the Maple Leafs is finished. Cooked, done, over. He’s forever etched into the first three-and-a-bit seasons of Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, and William Nylander. But he’s all done in his opportunity to make…
The Leafs need a jersey thrower to get back on track
The Leafs are bad right now. Six losses in a row, two regulation wins in sixteen, an inability to win unless Frederik Andersen is in net, and no home games for another ten days. Things are at the lowest point of the Mike Babcock era, and that includes a last-place finish in the NHL and…
Maple Leafs Pre-game #23: 5 things to watch out for as the Leafs hit The Strip
The Leafs: not fun to watch right now! On a five game skid, they take on the Vegas Golden Knights way past my bedtime. Let’s see if any of us make it through tonight’s game. Leafs lineup LW C RW Forwards AUSTON MATTHEWS Rating: 82.0#5 C ZACH HYMAN Rating: 73.1#63 LW KASPERI KAPANEN Rating: 73.5#50 RW FL2 Rating…
Maple Leafs Post-Game #18: 5 things we learned from the Leafs’ loss to Philly
The Leafs fell 3-2 to the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night, for their first loss in quite some time. Well, we might get to see the Leafs without Mitch Marner In the second period, Marner fell down. Jim Hughson said it was a broken skate blade. Joe Bowen said it was a broken skate blade….
John Tavares returns to the Leafs lineup tonight
What a different world we lived in last time John Tavares played a game for the Leafs. Kanye West hadn’t yet released a gospel album, the Washington Nationals had never won a World Series, and there had yet to be a cat on the field during documented Monday Night Football history. But since Oct.16, all…
A study in PDO, or why you should calm the hell down about the Leafs
The Leafs haven’t been very good to start the year, at least not up to their standards. They’ve won as many games as they’ve lost, and each of their four losses have been what seemed like, at some point or another, winnable games. They’ve held the lead at least once in every game so far…
Maple Leafs Pre-Game #6: 5 things to watch against Detroit
Three losses in a row! Burn the boats! Throw the jerseys! Go beat Detroit and forget about life for a while! Leafs lines LW C RW ANDREAS JOHNSSON AUSTON MATTHEWS WILLIAM NYLANDER KASPERI KAPANEN JOHN TAVARES MITCH MARNER ILYA MIKHEYEV ALEXANDER KERFOOT TREVOR MOORE DMYTRO TIMASHOV NICK SHORE FREDERIK GAUTHIER DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS MORGAN RIELLY CODY…
5 thoughts from Blue Monday — A 3-2 loss to St. Louis
The defending Stanley Cup Champion St. Louis Blues came into Toronto and steamrolled the Leafs by a 3-2 score. Wait, what? More accurately, the Leafs fell behind 1-0, scored twice in 24 seconds, and then saw a pair of unanswered goals dictate the narrative as Toronto couldn’t find enough to muster up a late tying…