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Sunday, August 30, 2020
Holland expects Oilers to use 2-goalie system again next season
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020
WATCH: Was the Kapanen trade good for the Leafs? What’s next? The Star’s Kevin McGran breaks it down
The Leafs made their first big move of the off-season on Tuesday in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Watch the latest episode of “Indoor Recess” here.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Dave Feschuk: The Kasperi Kapanen trade looks like a good start for the Leafs. Then again, so did the Nazem Kadri deal
As necessary as Tuesday’s swap with the Penguins was, with a number of upsides, the Leafs gave up the best player in return for a boatload of potential and didn’t directly address their biggest need on defence, Dave Feschuk writes.
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Trade grades: Maple Leafs rob Penguins by getting haul for Kapanen
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Maple Leafs trade forward Kasperi Kapanen to Penguins, reports say
The right winger is said to be on his way to the Pittsburgh Penguins as the Leafs are making changes following four playoff disappointments in a row.
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Monday, August 24, 2020
Boudreau confirms he's open to joining Maple Leafs: 'The idea is cool'
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Bruce Boudreau has interest in joining the Maple Leafs’ staff, if they have interest in him
Former NHL head coach says it would be ‘intriguing’ to be a Leafs assistant but adds they have not contacted him.
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Sunday, August 23, 2020
Ranking the 5 best candidates to be the Capitals' next head coach
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Saturday, August 22, 2020
Bruce Boudreau and the Maple Leafs could be a nice fit, but they’ll have to wait
While NHL coaching is skewing younger, Boudreau is a likely candidate for any head coaching job in the off-season. An assistant’s role in his hometown under Sheldon Keefe might not cut it.
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
Report: Boudreau intrigued by idea of joining Leafs as assistant coach
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Kadri embracing playoff success: 'You want to learn from your mistakes'
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Tortorella cuts postgame presser short to avoid 'touchy-feely stuff'
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Saturday, August 15, 2020
Friday, August 14, 2020
Maple Leafs report card: C-level seasons don’t win Cups
Auston Matthews and the rest of the highly paid star forwards weren’t the problem in a season that ended before the round of 16. Here’s how we rate their performances, and what we think lies in the future.
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'Everyone buys into the system': 3 takeaways from Thursday's early games
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Thursday, August 13, 2020
Damien Cox: Maple Leafs need to challenge their young stars, not coddle them
A little tough love, and perhaps you’ll get more, Damien Cox writes.
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Dave Feschuk: From the president to the players, everyone with the Maple Leafs — OK, most everyone — is talking tough
Leafs appear to be grasping the lessons of Mike Babcock and understanding the value of Nazem Kadri after being eliminated early again.
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The tough questions the Maple Leafs must answer, including the toughness question
Will Andersen get an extension? Will the big four survive the off-season?
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020
The future is uncertain for Maple Leafs’ Jason Spezza, Tyson Barrie and other unrestricted free agents
Spezza, who played for the league minimum for a shot at a long Stanley Cup run, would like to return.
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Bruce Arthur: The growing pains have become ongoing pains with one early exit after another, but the Maple Leafs still believe in their path
The president and the GM — and the most experienced veterans, for that matter — expressed faith in the core and the system. The best player vowed this team will break through.
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Matthews: Leafs' failure to advance for 4th straight year is 'embarrassing'
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020
NHL podcast: Draft lottery takeaways, Leafs fallout, playoff plot twists
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NHL Power Rankings: Each team's most impressive player since restart
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Monday, August 10, 2020
Dave Feschuk: The Leafs might make the smart play and fix their defence. But first they have to admit the process failed
What Will Dubas Do? If the Leafs GM is as flexible and as forward-thinking as his supporters will tell you he is, you have to believe he’ll see that there’s plenty more wrong with his team than a case of rotten puck luck, Dave Feschuk writes.
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The Maple Leafs found new ways to lose against the Blue Jackets. The numbers tell the tale
The Leafs scored just three goals at even strength. That’s from a team that led the NHL in offensive-zone possession in the regular season and dominated in that area in the series.
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Tortorella defends Leafs' Keefe: What he's criticized for 'pisses me off'
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Hockey Hall of Fame postpones induction ceremony due to COVID-19
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What went wrong against CBJ, who's on the hot seat as Leafs exit restart
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Sunday, August 9, 2020
Rosie DiManno: The Leafs core has had long enough to gel. They should have been better in Game 5
Morgan Rielly tried to sum up the disappointment of another lost season, but his downcast face spoke volumes: “It’s hard to put it all into words. It might take some time to digest. But it’s definitely a bad feeling, a bad taste,” Rosie DiManno writes.
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Bruce Arthur: The Leafs exit without a goal in Game 5. Blame whoever you like, but this season was a waste of a whole lot of talent
Sunday’s loss to the Blue Jackets was an appropriately frustrating night for a team that was frustrating to everyone involved through most of a strange, underachieving year, Bruce Arthur writes.
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Bruce Arthur: Big games are the ultimate test of how far the Maple Leafs have come, and how far they have to go
A double elimination game is more about how you channel that will, and how you all work in concert. That’s what collective mental toughness really is, Bruce Arthur writes.
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Rosie DiManno: For the Maple Leafs and Blue Jackets, the road to Game 5 contained all the elements
You might not think Hippocrates and his ancient theory relating bodily fluids to earth, air, water and fire would have anything to do with what Toronto and Columbus have gone through heading into Sunday night’s deciding game, but read on, Rosie DiManno writes.
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Saturday, August 8, 2020
Flyers clinch No. 1 seed in Eastern Conference with win over Lightning
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Dave Feschuk: The Miracle of Game 4 might be the push the Maple Leafs need for Game 5
Even with playoff advancement at stake, sometimes it’s as though the Leafs need to be reminded they’re in a hockey game that counts. They can only hope the buzz of an all-time comeback will keep that fact top of mind come Sunday night, Dave Feschuk writes.
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Bruce Arthur: Champions don’t hesitate. The Leafs will get what they deserve in Game 5 — win or lose
In Game 4, at a point when they didn’t look like the better team, the Leafs summoned a series of miracles. It was, despite the elation, a dangerous way to live. Their season is on the line again Sunday. If they have what it takes, now’s the time to prove it, Bruce Arthur writes.
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The Jason Spezza scrap was a wakeup call for the Leafs. Fighting is up in the playoffs — and Don Cherry is watching
Spezza signed with the Maple Leafs — his hometown team — to win the Stanley Cup, not to go down in four games in the qualifying round. So, the 17-year veteran who has seen a thing or two did what he felt he had to do in Game 4. Cue the comeback.
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The numbers suggest the Maple Leafs and Blue Jackets are in for a heart-stopping finish
The Leafs have been losing the goaltending battle by a wide margin, according to one key advanced stat, but have also held the edge in other areas where they normally struggle.
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Report: Werenski to get MRI, status for Game 5 vs. Leafs in question
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'It's a roller coaster': Resilience rules Maple Leafs-Blue Jackets
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Matthews' OT winner completes Leafs' improbable comeback to force Game 5
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Friday, August 7, 2020
Bruce Arthur: Down three with four minutes left, the Leafs are somehow still alive. With enough talent maybe anything can happen
It was stunning. It was unbelievable. It was probably what Boston fans felt like in 2013, when their players were sitting on the bench in the third period of Game 7 wondering who was going to get traded. Now, the Leafs have another chance to show what they’re made of on Sunday, Bruce Arthur writes.
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Bruce Arthur: The Leafs have the talent, and a system that makes sense. But old habits are hard to break
The issues aren’t all the same, but there are themes. Every loss is scar tissue, but not all scar tissue helps, Bruce Arthur writes.
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NHL playoff picks: Columbus closes it out, Minnesota stays alive
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Dubois' night, scary Flyers, and a star battle: 3 takeaways from Day 6 of NHL restart
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Bruce Arthur: The Maple Leafs’ fortunes turned on a dime. It’s not over, but they can see it from here
Game 4, an elimination game, is Friday night against the Blue Jackets. The best thing you can say is that this Leafs team knows what the formula is, Bruce Arthur writes.
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Thursday, August 6, 2020
Rosie DiManno: Travis Dermott was no Jake Muzzin. Now the Leafs are in trouble
The Maple Leafs blew a 3-0 lead in Game 3, against a team that grinds offence into dust, and lost in OT. With Muzzin hurt, the Jackets showed Dermott no mercy. Friday’s Game 4 could be the end of the road — on “home” ice, Rosie DiManno writes.
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Rosie DiManno: The Leafs would do hockey a giant favour by eliminating Tortorella’s Blue Jackets
Coach John Tortorella’s heretical, talent-squelching brand of retrograde hockey must be stopped in its tracks, Rosie DiManno writes.
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Bruce Arthur: The Leafs are giving Auston Matthews all the ice time he could ever want — and the pressure that comes with it
In theory, the Leafs do have a fourth line, in the same way that some steakhouses have a burger menu. The best forwards have been carrying a heavy load, which has been among coach Sheldon Keefe’s goals and which reflects the team’s star-tilted salary structure, Bruce Arthur writes.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Dave Feschuk: Martin Marincin is no Jake Muzzin. Then again, for these Maple Leafs, nobody is
The Leafs haven’t been a very good team without Muzzin in their lineup, which will be the case for the rest of their play-in series against Columbus. Still, Toronto does see some similarities in Marincin’s game that helps ease the pain entering Thursday night’s Game 3.
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This is the Auston Matthews the Maple Leafs have been waiting for. The numbers don’t lie
The all-star centre, who has been asked his entire career to become more involved away from the puck, is seeing career-high results in that area, all while racking up a career-high goal total.
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Leafs defenceman Jake Muzzin out for rest of series with Blue Jackets
Muzzin was stretchered off the ice in Game 2 with a suspected head-neck injury after a Pierre-Luc Dubois cross check caused him to go head-first into Blue Jackets forward Oliver Bjorkstrand’s leg.
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Maple Leafs' Muzzin discharged from hospital, out for rest of series
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Team identities are on full display in Maple Leafs-Blue Jackets. Now what?
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Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Rosie DiManno: The Korpisalo spell is broken, and the Maple Leafs can breathe again
After four-plus periods of frustration, Auston Matthews solved Columbus goalie Joonas Korpisalo. John Tavares and Morgan Rielly added to the tally. A few adjustments and just like that, we’ve got ourselves a ball game heading into Game 3 Thursday, Rosie DiManno writes.
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Tortorella blunt in Game 2 assessment: 'Toronto was really good, we sucked'
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Bruce Arthur: The Jake Muzzin injury casts a cloud over a Game 2 win the Maple Leafs should be proud of
After a cross-check by Pierre Luc-Dubois, Muzzin — talking to trainers and teammates, but in distress — was down for over 10 minutes in a silent Scotiabank Arena. The to defenceman was transported to a Toronto hospital, which means he left the bubble. Safer here than in Orlando, Bruce Arthur writes.
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NHL playoff picks: Maple Leafs, Canucks headed toward early exits
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Monday, August 3, 2020
Dave Feschuk: Put in a corner, the Leafs tend to answer the bell. But the margin for error in Game 2 is razor thin
If the Leafs don’t win Tuesday afternoon, it’s not over, but it’s in the postal code. Their bubble could be rubble come Thursday if they don’t get better performances from Mitch Marner and John Tavares in particular, Dave Feschuk writes.
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The youngest Leaf sees quiet NHL debut as something to build on
Nick Robertson, the first player since Jarome Iginla to start his NHL career in the playoffs, played 12:28 in Game 1 and had a golden scoring chance: “I thought I did better than I expected.”
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What the Leafs' Game 1 loss signals about the state of play in the restart
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Matthews calls out columnist for reporting Maple Leafs star had COVID-19
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Sunday, August 2, 2020
Bruce Arthur: The Maple Leafs resurface in a new world — with the same goals
The Leafs are trying to salvage a season that started with Stanley Cup hopes, shuddered backwards as often as it glided forward, before everything was interrupted. It’s pandemic hockey, and everyone gets a chance to prove they can handle life in the new world, Bruce Arthur writes.
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Rosie DiManno: The boring Blue Jackets are a Babcock dream. The Leafs have what it takes to dazzle them to death
Columbus has its hands full with Toronto’s vastly gifted top two lines, a three-line attack actually. It will be a tough assignment for Columbus to contain Toronto’s goal bursts — often in bunches — in a best-of-five series, Rosie DiManno writes.
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Saturday, August 1, 2020
Maple Leafs ready to show off the defensive project they worked on at summer camp
“There’s been a lot of details and structure put in,” says coach Keefe, “and I fully expect our players to do well with it.”
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Robertson to make NHL debut in Game 1 of Leafs' qualifying series
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Dave Feschuk: Frederik Andersen is the Maple Leaf with the most to prove in the playoffs
The Toronto goaltender is 31, making $5 million a year, and he has a .421 winning percentage in the post-season with the Leafs.
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Here are four reasons why the Maple Leafs might win the Stanley Cup (and a couple why they might not)
It all starts with speed for Toronto, though strong coaching, good goaltending and a surprise contributor should help.
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