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Brad Marchand clearly still has the Toronto Maple Leafs’ number. Marchand was traded to the Florida Panthers in March after playing 16 seasons for the Boston Bruins. The trade paid dividends for the Panthers on Friday as the 36-year-old scored …
The Toronto Maple Leafs already have a new head coach. The Leafs fired Sheldon Keefe following their first-round playoff loss to the Boston Bruins. Fewer than two weeks later, they have hired their new head coach — Craig Berube. …
Toronto Maple Leafs fans watched their team’s season end Saturday in a very familiar fashion. The Maple Leafs fell 2-1 in overtime of Game 7 in their first-round series against the Bruins at TD Garden in Boston, Mass. Bruins right winger David …
The Toronto Maple Leafs have finally done it. The Leafs beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in overtime on Saturday night to win their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series in six games. John Tavares got credit for the goal, which went off a …
The Toronto Maple Leafs had their best team in years, but they still were unable to shake a difficult streak that has been plaguing them. The Leafs lost 2-1 to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday in Game 7 of their Eastern Conference first round …
Dusty Imoo was hired by the Toronto Marlies, the franchise announced on Sunday. Two days later, the team’s parent organization, the Maple Leafs, announced that they were going back on the hire. Here was the original Twitter announcement Sunday …
The Toronto Maple Leafs took a pivotal 3-2 lead in their first round playoff series with the Boston Bruins following a 2-1 victory in Game 5 of the series on Friday night. They got the win partially due to the benefit of a controversial call. Auston …
The Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs have a very strong chance of squaring off in the first round of the playoffs, and the two division rivals are gearing up for that with some friendly smack talk. Maple Leafs center Mitch Marner recently became …
A pair of Scandinavian players on the Toronto Maple Leafs are paying up on a friendly Olympic wager. Center Leo Komarov, who is part Finnish, and right wing William Nylander, who is Swedish, wore Team Canada sweaters to practice on Wednesday after …
The Toronto Maple Leafs are facing elimination in their NHL Playoff first-round series against the Washington Capitals, but coach Mike Babcock is convinced his squad isn’t done just yet. The Maple Leafs lost to the Washington Capitals 2-1 in …
Mikhail Grabovski is getting married on Friday, but he may not be in the best mood when he begins the next chapter of his life. On Thursday night, Grabovski was waived by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Grabovski spent five seasons with the Leafs, but his …
The Boston Bruins did not have many people outside the New England area rooting for them in the Stanley Cup Finals, because people love to see Boston teams lose. The recent success of the Bruins, Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics has made people resent …
The Toronto Maple Leafs completed the biggest choke job in the history of the third period of Game 7 Stanley Cup Playoff hockey. Yes, the Leafs blew a 4-1 lead in the third, gave up two goals in 31 seconds, and lost to the Boston Bruins 5-4 in …
A man who was acting as Santa Claus at a festival in Toronto was fired for telling a young boy that the Maple Leafs suck. The Santa apparently showed up 30 minutes late for his gig at Lowe’s Toronto Christmas Market and then proceeded to insult a …
Since I have never been a season ticket holder for any sports team, I can’t imagine how an apology letter from the team would feel. On one hand, the team doesn’t have to say anything. The front office can just sit quietly, count the …
Hockey is already the red-headed step child of the sports world, and something tells me that an endorsement from Justin Bieber isn’t going to help. The Beebs says that if he wasn’t titillating tweens around the world with his barely-tolerable …
