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Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Have your say: What’s your take on the Leafs’ signing Wayne Simmonds to a two-year deal?
The Maple Leafs are bringing back the veteran forward after an up-and-down first season in his hometown.
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Maple Leafs bring back Wayne Simmonds for two more years
Simmonds’s impact with his hometown NHL team was immediate before a hand injury derailed his early success.
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Sunday, June 27, 2021
Stanley Cup Final preview: Are Canadiens poised to dethrone Lightning?
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Friday, June 25, 2021
Maple Leafs rejig minor league operations to ‘maximize the potential’ of prospects
Ryan Hardy will become senior director of minor league operations, headlining moves that Leafs GM Kyle Dubas says is meant to help get the most out of their prospects in the AHL and ECHL.
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
4 key storylines for Game 6 between Canadiens and Golden Knights
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Monday, June 21, 2021
Seattle expansion draft: Predicting Atlantic Division protection lists
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Saturday, June 19, 2021
Hurricanes' Slavin becomes 4th D-man ever to win Lady Byng Trophy
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The message from some high-profile Leafs fans after another lost season? Keep the faith
We asked Steve (Dangle) Glynn, Mike (The Ultimate Leafs Fan) Wilson and Jason (Dart Guy) Maslakow how they’re coping after the Leafs’ loss to Montreal.
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Friday, June 18, 2021
Have your say: Which Leafs fan are you like, more than two weeks after Toronto’s season ended?
The Maple Leafs are now on Year 55 without a Stanley Cup.
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Habs are in it: 3 reasons for optimism ahead of Game 3 vs. Golden Knights
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
Maple Leafs’ Auston Matthews voted best goal scorer, most fashionable by NHL players
Matthews was the only player to sit atop two categories in the NHLPA’s annual poll.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Leafs re-sign centre Jason Spezza to a one-year, $750,000 contract
The 38-year-old recorded 10 goals and 20 assists in 54 regular season games with the Maple Leafs last season.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
What we've learned so far this postseason - and what it means moving forward
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Sunday, June 13, 2021
Saturday, June 12, 2021
Stanley Cup Playoff Power Rankings: How the semifinalists stack up
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Friday, June 11, 2021
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Auston Matthews nominated for Hart Trophy, the first Maple Leafs finalist in 28 years
Doug Gilmour was a finalist for the Hart, as the most valuable player to his team, when Mario Lemieux won in 1993.
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Damien Cox: As the Islanders’ success reignites the Lamoriello vs. Dubas debate, could Tuukka Rask bring the Leafs that ‘killer instinct?’
Some fans say the Leafs made a big mistake by choosing Kyle Dubas over Lou Lamoriello, whose Islanders are now in the Stanley Cup semifinals. But it’s more complicated than that.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Toronto’s CN Tower will light up in Montreal Canadiens colours — to the chagrin of Maple Leafs fans
Leafs fans, who are rightfully still hurting and bitter after another playoff collapse, are taking exception to the decision to dress the city’s most famous building in Habs colours.
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Toffoli, Canadiens ignoring doubters: 'Feels like nobody believes in us'
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Saturday, June 5, 2021
Dave Poulin: It’s tempting to say ‘blow up the Leafs,’ but patience is the smarter play
This year’s team was the best in several years on paper. Many of the questions after recent disappointments had been seemingly answered, and yet it didn’t work. It doesn’t always translate from paper to ice, and lessons were learned, Dave Poulin writes.
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Fixing the Leafs: Why trading Morgan Rielly should be on the table. And what if Mitch Marner is their DeMar DeRozan?
The return for Rielly would be solid, they have Rasmus Sandin to replace him, and they need the cap space. Meanwhile, the brain trust’s insistence that Marner won’t be dealt might sound strangely familiar to Toronto sports fans, Kevin McGran writes.
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Leafs star Auston Matthews makes Lady Byng Trophy shortlist
Matthews, Carolina’s Jaccob Slavin and Minnesota’s Jared Spurgeon are the finalists for the NHL award that recognizes a combination of sportsmanship, gentlemanly conduct and skill.
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Friday, June 4, 2021
Have your say: What grade would you give the Leafs for this past season?
It was a disappointing end to the year, but the team had a strong regular season.
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Maple Leafs report card for 2020-21: Lots of A’s despite disappointing end to the season
Based on the players who should return, you can pencil this team in for the playoffs again in 2021-22. They are regular-season good.
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Thursday, June 3, 2021
The Leafs have to start looking for No. 2 and, yes, Frederik Andersen is a long shot for the job
Anderesen would have to take a significant pay cut to join Jack Campbell again.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Dave Feschuk: There’s nothing wrong with the Leafs, Brendan Shanahan suggests, that a little ‘killer instinct’ won’t cure
“We are going to do this in Toronto with this group,” Leafs president says. “We are going to get this done.”
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The Leafs will stick to their core four with the belief the team’s best days are still ahead
“It’s just a matter of continuing to stick to it,” GM Dubas says, “and conviction is most important.”
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Leafs captain John Tavares still hasn’t seen Game 1 hit but he knows it was ‘significant’
Tavares understands there will be both physical and psychological healing.
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The Leafs’ critics are pointing at Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews, but stars’ teammates believe in them
“I think they will get better, they will learn from this,” Spezza says, “but that’s not what anybody wants to hear.”
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Have your say: Who should be the first Leafs player traded in the off-season?
The Leafs haven’t made it to the second round since 2004 and some fans are calling for the present young core to be broken up.
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‘We have no excuses.’ Dejected Maple Leafs address media in final news conference of the season
The news came fast and furious as the Leafs held their season-ending media teleconference call while getting their heads around a season that ended too soon.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe and GM Kyle Dubas are likely to carry on despite their critics
The question, after five straight opening-round exits in the post-season, is what happens next.
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WATCH: So where did the Leafs go wrong? We break down another playoff collapse
Should the Leafs trade one of their stars? Who shoulders the blame for another weak playoff performance? Star hockey reporter Kevin McGran and digital producer Justin Smirlies discuss.
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Detour ahead? Maple Leafs looking at 3 potential paths after Game 7
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Stanley Cup Playoff Power Rankings: How the 2nd-round teams stack up
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Dave Feschuk: Leafs’ Game 7 loss to Canadiens was an all-time choke job. And Matthews and Marner shoulder the blame
The Maple Leafs have given Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner everything. In return for the keys to the kingdom, they have yet to deliver even a whiff of big-game kingliness.
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A schadenfreude soirée: Hockey fans outside of Toronto bask in the misery of the latest Leafs collapse
As a dark cloud of misery descended upon Leaf Nation, hockey fans outside of the GTA were taking part in a joyous display of pettiness.
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Keefe: Maple Leafs have 'zero excuses' for series loss to Canadiens
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