Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images This feels weirdly like that moment when a hockey season is over, and the excitement for the coming season starts to seep in. Late June for a team that’s rebuilding and you believe it will be better next year. And yet it’s still sad that this is a kind of ending. I went back and read the first real article I wrote for this site, something that is both amusingly overly hopeful and still ideologically valid. It’s from 2016 and is all about the Coyotes and how they have to be careful with their money vs the rolling in it Leafs, who can buy anything they want. A ..read more

Photo by Dennis Pajot/Getty Images Good news for a couple teams and a real big scoop of pain for another one Good morning Maple Leafs fans! It was a big day for the OHL community, with the host of the 2024 Memorial Cup being announced and the 2023 draft lottery was held as well. First, the Saginaw Spirit will host the 2024 Memorial Cup. They beat out the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, Niagara IceDogs, and Kingston Frontenacs for the right to host the national junior hockey championship. They had two things going for them that the others were missing: They made the playoffs this year, and they ha ..read more

NASHVILLE, TN - MARCH 26: Mark Giordano #55 of the Toronto Maple Leafs waits for play to begin against the Nashville Predators during the first period at Bridgestone Arena on March 26, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. | Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images Last one in our old home Florida Panthers @ Toronto Maple Leafs 07:30 PM at Scotiabank Arena Watch on: TVAS, SN, BSFL I’m not convinced the Leafs are going to skate 12/6 tonight, mostly because it doesn’t seem certain Acciari will play. Barring that and Liljegren coming in, the lines are posted in the Preview. Between our last meeting with the ..read more

Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty ImagesFlorida Panthers @ Toronto Maple Leafs 07:30 PM at Scotiabank Arena Watch on: TVAS, SN, BSFL The Leafs last game was an away game on March 26 against the Nashville Predators, which Toronto won by a score of 3-2. The Leafs have a record of 44-20-9 so far. The Florida Panthers last played an away game on March 27 against the Ottawa Senators. The Panthers lost by a score of 5-2, and their current league record is 36-31-7. Them Was that loss to Ottawa the end of any hope of playoffs? Florida is three points behind Pittsburgh with each team having eight games to g ..read more

TORONTO, ON - MARCH 10: Michael Bunting #58 of the Toronto Maple Leafs high-fives teammate Timothy Liljegren #37 before facing the Arizona Coyotes at the Scotiabank Arena on March 10, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images How 11/7 might be affecting the young defender The Toronto Maple Leafs play tonight against the Florida Panthers in their ninth-last game of the 2022-23 regular season. Puck drop is at 7:30 in Toronto. The Leafs held a practice yesterday and Ilya Samsonov made his return to the team after the birth of his first child with his wife, Mar ..read more

Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images They’re playoff bound, though we already knew that. It’s always fun when your team clinches without doing anything. The Maple Leafs were at home last night when the news broke that because some other team won or lost, they were officially in the playoffs. Job finished? Job not finished. pic.twitter.com/JkxZIDigeP — Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) March 28, 2023 So now that’s out of the way, the Leafs play the waiting game, oh and also eight more regular season games, one of which is against the Lightning, which will be the most interesting to watch, whi ..read more

Photo by Bernd Weißbrod/picture alliance via Getty Images This is the place to sign up for early access to the new site. Do not put email addresses in comments. The form below will ask for your email, and for you to choose yes you want early access. If you pick no, it won’t save your email. If you put in a fake email, nothing will happen. If you put in an email you never check, you’ve wasted your own time. Choose the email address you want to attach to your account at the new site. What happens next is that the form will be closed on Tuesday evening, and all the collected emails will be import ..read more

Toronto Star/Toronto Star via Getty Images The countdowns are on Good morning Toronto Maple Leafs fans! The clock is ticking down to the playoffs, as well as our time here at SB Nation coming to an end. Also to my dog finally realizing I'm awake and he starts poking me with his nose to go for his morning walk. It's a race against time. On the site news, we have five more days until we are shoved out of the nest, whether we can fly or not. Thankfully things behind the scenes are flapping their wings and the mother bird is vomiting the information into our mouths and this metaphor is getting gro ..read more

Photo by Jaylynn Nash/Getty Images The Leafs add a nice win on their road trip with Marlies call-up Joseph Woll standing tall. The Maple Leafs beat the Predators 3-2 tonight in a rare Sunday game with an even more rare 6:00 p.m. start time. Leafs Goals: 3 #1: 150th career goal and his 31st of the season JOHN TAVARES TIC TAC TOE! 150 GOALS AS A LEAF pic.twitter.com/ttRsmLn3Pm — Omar (@TicTacTOmar) March 26, 2023 #2: Alex Kerfoot 9th of the season ALEXANDER KERFOOT the scoring is still going pic.twitter.com/1paOPYToKE — Omar (@TicTacTOmar) March 26, 2023 #3: John Tavares 32nd of the seas ..read more

Photo by John Russell/NHLI via Getty ImagesToronto Maple Leafs @ Nashville Predators 6:00 PM at Bridgestone Arena Watch on: SNO, NHLN, BSSO No one knows why this game is on so early. Likely some college basketball reason. While we wait for the list of random defender choices for this game, you get to have your say: Sunday lines@JackpotCityCA | #LeafsForever pic.twitter.com/MNHmsi2V7z — Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) March 26, 2023 ..read more