Toronto Maple Leafs
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We're in store for some pretty serious changes to NHL hockey this season. The competition committee will recommended rule changes for the NHL board of governors to approve. Bob McKenzie speculates in his latest column as to what these changes will be, so I'll list them and share my thoughts
It's June 2006. Gary Bettman is there, it's the ACC, the crowd is ecstatic, I'm crying. Gary speaks into the microphone. "Mats...come to center and claim what the Leafs and its fans have been waiting 39 years for!" I think it's going to happen. This is the year.
It looks as if every NHL team will have to adhere to a hard salary cap of $39 million next season. Our beloved Toronto Maple Leafs currently have 8 players under contract for next season. They are Mats Sundin, Owen Nolan, Ed Belfour, Bryan McCabe, Tomas Kaberle, Ken Klee, Darcy
Things are coming together nicely. First we learn that the NHL and NHL Players' Association have finally reached an agreement on a new six-year collective bargaining agreement and now we learn that Don Cherry will return to CBC's Hockey Night In Canada, once the agreement between the NHL and NHLPA
I saw this moment coming, and now that it's here I'm even happier than I thought I'd be. The NHL and NHL Players' Association have finally reached an agreement on a new six-year collective bargaining agreement. Assuming this deal gets ratified, the NHL will start back up again on July
It's been way too long since we've been able to talk Maple Leaf hockey. Sure, we've talked about the NHL, but it's been all about labour negotiations and lock outs and season cancellations. I want to be able to talk about Belfour's edge and Sundin's scoring streak. I want to
Ruslan Fedotenko's goal for the Tampa Bay Lightning exactly one year ago today won the Stanley Cup. There hasn't been an NHL game since. We have managed to survive an entire calendar year without NHL hockey. It's been more than a year since we've seen the Toronto Maple Leafs play.
On February 16, the day this NHL season was officially cancelled, I wrote an open letter to Gary Bettman. At the time I was furious because there was a reasonable salary cap offer of $49-million on the table from the NHLPA that Bettman should have accepted. The NHL and NHLPA
Today has seen a great influx in the number of people visiting this site having searched Google for Bill Barilko. My Bill Barilko page ranks a proud third when you Google it. Thanks to some major coverage in the Toronto Star's sports section today, it seems a number of people
British anthropologists have conducted a study that helps explain why we haven't won a Stanley Cup in my lifetime. They realized that across a range of sports, wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning. There's a variety of reasons for this, including the association with aggression
If Gary Bettman and the NHL board of governors adopt the proposed lockout draft plan, the Toronto Maple Leafs will have a 1.92% chance of getting Sidney Crosby. One of the 52 bingo balls would be ours! A 1.92% chance the next one plays in the hockey center
I've been rather fixated on the idea of Sidney Crosby playing in Toronto. I first floated the idea in early March and then revisited the notion in April. According to the Toronto Star, the Maple Leafs have approached Crosby with the possibility of playing for the Toronto Marlies of the
The St. John's Maple Leafs fourteen year history is officially over. They were ousted from the AHL playoffs last night and will never return to St. John's. They will change uniforms and play out of the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto as the Marlies next season. Covering these AHL games was
Lee Goren's power-play goal at 2:35 of overtime helped the Manitoba Moose to a 3-2 victory over the St. John's Maple Leafs in Winnipeg last night and a 3-1 lead in the AHL's North Division semifinal. We're on the brink. With the NHL Leafs in this position, I'm left
Manitoba went up 5-1 early in the second and it was lights out for the Maple Leafs. Brad Leeb scored the lone goal for the blue and white who will try and tie up the series tomorrow night. Manitoba leads series 2-1
The Maple Leafs stormed back to tie up the series last night. Matt Stajan scored twice and defenceman Joel Kwiatkowski had three assists to lead the charge. As an interesting foot note, this series now goes to Manitoba for three games and if a game six or seven is necessary,
It was 54 years ago today. At the 2:53 mark of the first overtime period, Bill Barilko scored the last goal of his life winning the Stanley Cup for the Toronto Maple Leafs. It remains the most legendary goal in the rich history of Canada's team. Pay your respects
The Maple Leafs lost the opening game of their best-of-seven AHL North Division semifinal to the Manitoba Moose. You can't blame Mikael Tellqvist though, as he kept us in this one. Game two is Friday night. Manitoba leads series 1-0
The Maple Leafs won their 14th and final regular season home finale before a full house of 6,247 at Mile One Stadium last night. It was their 46th win of the season, a new club record. Up next for the Leafs are the Manitoba Moose in the opening round
In the team's second-last regular season game at Mile One Stadium, the Leafs beat the Edmonton Roadrunners in a shootout. Their final regular season game in St. John's is tonight against these same Roadrunners and next season they'll be in my neighbourhood as the Toronto Marlies. Will Sidney Crosby be
Kyle Wellwood scored a pair of goals as the St. John's Maple Leafs upset the first-place Rochester Americans 5-2 last night. The Leafs dominated the Americans, out shooting them 41-26.Current Record Recent GamesSeason Leaders44-28-1-5 94 points5-2 Win vs. Rochester 4-3 Loss vs. Rochester 2-1 Win vs. EdmontonKyle Wellwood -
League-leading Rochester Americans staged another come-from-behind rally against the St. John's Maple Leafs to register a 4-3 shootout victory in American Hockey League play Monday night. The Leafs are a woeful 1-6 against the Amerks this season and we've got them again tomorrow night.Current Record Recent GamesSeason Leaders43-28-1-5 92
Nineteen years later, I still remember the Diet Coke. For years and years afterwards, clinch night meant having Diet Coke on stand by. Being born in the mid 70s meant being too young to remember any Maple Leaf playoff success in that decade. The early 80s was a virtual wasteland
Earlier today I heard journalist Jim Kelly thinking aloud on the local sports radio station. He had an idea that rather intrigues me. He thought the Maple Leafs should go ahead and sign Sidney Crosby as soon as possible. The NHL would probably raise a stink, but in the absence
Matt Stajan and Nathan Perrott scored for the Leafs, who moved one point behind Manitoba for second-place in the North division after winning the ninth of 10 meetings against Edmonton this season. Jean-Francois Racine made 28 saves for his tenth win.Current Record Recent GamesSeason Leaders43-28-1-4 91 points2-1 Win vs.
