No hockey and no hockey talk makes Leafs Nation go crazy. Hitting pause on the season has been interesting. I’ve learned just how much I use sports to navigate my day. The empty moments between meetings, the twitter tab open while I take breaks from mundane excel spreadsheets, and those couple hours a night of…
In case you were wondering what your favourite Leafs blog was going to do for content during this hiatus, look no further. Well, keep looking, we’ll have other stuff too, but also look at this. It’s our official March Bracket… ABSOLUTELY, THE LEAF’S MADNESS!!!! Okay, so you aren’t particularly excited about this yet, but hopefully…
A day after the NBA had it’s first case of COVID-19, and suspended it’s season, the NHL cancelled morning skates and team meetings in order to allow the league and the NHLPA to assess their situation and determine next steps. The end result is what we all should have expected, and honestly hoped for… The…
I’m gonna start this off with something that probably needs to be said. You are not a public health expert. I am not a public health expert. My apologies to any Infection Prevention and Control clinicians and researchers reading this. You are in fact an expert, but even you know that you don’t know everything…
There are plenty of things bigger than sports. We like sports, that’s why the people on this site write about sports, but things like public health and ensuring a pandemic doesn’t move swiftly through the population is one of those things that are significantly more important than the Leafs playing against the Nashville Predators as…
I’m assuming this is something that no one wants to hear. I’m also assuming that sending Sandin down when Martin Marincin is sitting right there isn’t something that agrees with you, but hear me out. There’s some reasoning behind this, and it’s not the usual, “if you are only going to play him 10 minutes…
It’s safe to say the Leafs needed this one. It’s also safe to say the Leafs need to be consistently playing like they can beat their likely first round playoff opponent, but consistency is a problem for another day, and for now we can enjoy the Leafs outlasting the Lightning in a 2-1 victory. It…
So the Leafs are coming off another rough week. They went into California, and had a schedule of three very winnable games against lottery teams and left with one point. To add to that, the Florida Panthers won both of their games since the Leafs last played, and are now sitting one point back of…
You don’t need me to tell you that Nick Robertson is damned good. Maybe you do? How closely do you follow the OHL? Anyways, Nick Robertson’s 55 goals in 46 games is pretty impressive, and he had a particularly good week last week… #OHL #OnTheRunPlayer of the Week | @MapleLeafs prospect @nickrob2001 of @PetesOHLhockey. PERFORMANCE…
As I start my second week on the job as the managing editor of TLN, I felt it was important to bring back one of the staples of the blogging community, the mail bag. Well, we won’t be calling it the mail bag anymore, because there isn’t a physical bag and I don’t want to…
Through the miracle of poor scheduling the Leafs don’t play on Saturday night, and the NHL has left its largest fanbase lost and searching for ways to kill time until Toronto plays again on Tuesday night. One strategy for following the Leafs, but not watching them (which seems preferable at the moment) is to see…
Earlier tonight we saw the activation of Cody Ceci from the Injured Reserve, that was immediately followed by the announcement that he would be playing tonight against the Ducks. There were initially reports that Rasmus Sandin would be the lone defenseman out tonight, but that was soon dismissed by this… Liljegren going back to the…
