Pekka Rinne will probably win the Vezina. Filip Forsberg will probably win the Calder. These are two very good players who are making the Nashville Predators a very good hockey right now. Throw in James Neal who is proving he can still put up a decent number of points without Malkin, Mike Ribiero, who is…
The Leafs are on a three game win streak, they have points in their last four, everyone should be feeling fine. Two goaltenders who both seem capable of handling a 1A workload, secondary scoring no longer an issue, and for the most part, defensive pairings that actually make sense. Life is pretty, pretty good. Enter…
Unless you’ve been in hiding for the past week you’ve probably been subjected to the Too Many Cooks video by Adult Swim which lampoons 80s sitcoms. If you have been in hiding, I envy you. Nonetheless, we’ve been given the short window of opportunity to milk this cultural phenomenon for easy web traffic and that’s…
Tonight the Monsters of Regression face-off once again. The 2013-14 regressors, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the 2014-15 regressors, the Colorado Avalanche. The two teams are eerily similar to the extent that both jettisoned talented centers (Grabovski and Stastny) after their playoff season, and both for some reason thought aging, injured defenseman would be the…
Is there anything more fun than Halloween? For the purpose of this post, we don’t believe so, that’s why The Leafs Nation reached out to our favourite young, elite centre and halloween expert for his tips on the upcoming holiday.
Tonight Leafs fans join Sabres fans in rooting for a Toronto win. The Sabres with their league worst goal differential (-18) are coming off an upset of the Sharks and the Leafs are doing their best to forget a shelling at the hands of the Chara-less (but still very good) Bruins. The Leafs have made…
#457618804 / gettyimages.com The Leafs are now 7 games into the 2014-15 and since Phil Kessel has been producing above a point per game pace, that means we need to shift the discussion to if the Leafs are getting enough secondary scoring. The Question posed to the roundtable this week was… “Should the Leafs shake…
#104129704 / gettyimages.com The top competition; who plays against them? That’s been the question that materialized after Zetterberg ran over the Leafs on the weekend. The Leafs did better at controlling John Tavares on Tuesday night. While he did score, it was on the powerplay and holding him to just 3 shots in the game…
Tonight we have a matchup between two teams who have long been basement dwellers in the league. One of the two teams has been drafting well and was finally ready to make significant moves to push for a playoff spot this season, the other is the Leafs. We also get our first look at Nikolai…
Is there anything more exciting than a two game win streak? Apparently a three game win streak is a possibility. The last time the Leafs had one of these was on March 10th last season. Following that win the Leafs picked up just six points in the next fifteen games. Memories. Tonight the Leafs host…
As Leafs fans we often like to fantasize that this team is one or two trades away from being ready to compete for the Stanley Cup. As a seven year old I carried a notebook and a hockey almanac around and would develop what I deemed as fair trades for the Leafs to make in…
#105233571 / gettyimages.com Hockey returns tonight. That’s exciting. Let’s talk about it for a while. Hopefully you spent some of your summer outside, doing stuff, maybe spending some time with family or friends, because hockey is your only friend now. Embrace your drug, slip on your jersey, open a beer and prepare to spend the…
