Comparing Auston and Wendel
TORONTO (Mar. 30) — So, which accomplishment is more impressive: Wendel Clark's 34 goals in 1985–86 that stood, for more than three decades, as the rookie–season record for the Toronto Maple Leafs? Or, the 35 goals (and counting) by Auston… Read More
Ron Wilson's Loud Voice
TORONTO (Mar. 27) — In the early 1970's, while in junior–high school, I would play around with the radio dial at night to determine which hockey games I could hear. After 8 o'clock, AM radio stations in the United States… Read More
Leafs May Need a Schwab
TORONTO (Mar. 26) — Depending on the severity of the "upper–body" injury (either shoulder or concussion) sustained by Frederik Andersen on Saturday night in Buffalo, the Leafs may be looking at a reprisal of the 2001–02 season. Quite a bit… Read More
Streaks Are Meaningful — Usually
TORONTO (Mar. 24) — By defeating the New Jersey Devils, 4–2, at Air Canada Centre last night, the Toronto Maple Leafs broadened a late–season surge to 7–1–1 in their past nine games. Though the potential for decline still lurks, this… Read More
Leafs Have Earned Playoff Shot
TORONTO (Mar. 22) — The math will sort itself out over the next 18 days and nights, finally determining whether the Toronto Maple Leafs partake in the Stanley Cup tournament for the first time in 13 years after a full… Read More
Gondola Reunion
TORONTO (Mar. 19) — Everywhere you looked at the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night, there was green. Far from me, in this forum, to buck the trend. As such, the first blog on my website (b. June 1, 2011)… Read More
Only Once — And Never Again
TORONTO (Mar. 15) — This website is blatantly hockey–centric, which belies the fervor with which I followed the National Football League during my teenage years in the 1970's. What an era that was — with the Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers,… Read More
What MLSE Should Have Said
TORONTO (Mar. 14) — There is no more honorable way to build credence with a base of fans in professional sport than by supplying a commendable product. In that realm — and after more than a decade of abject failure… Read More
Is There A Cup Favorite?
TORONTO (Mar. 11) — Here's a prediction for the 2017 Stanley Cup final that would have drawn loud gagging noises if made prior to the season: Columbus Blue Jackets vs. Minnesota Wild in a battle of the two most–recent National… Read More
The Morgan Mystery
TORONTO (Mar. 8) — An off year. A bad season. That has to be it. How else can one explain the plight of Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly? As the team plummeted toward the National Hockey League basement in the… Read More
Bet'cha the Leafs Aren't Done
TORONTO (Mar. 5) — With Detroit next up for the Maple Leafs, it's an appropriate time to wonder if the last meeting between the pre–expansion rivals supplied the demarcation point in Toronto's schedule. That would have been Jan. 25 at… Read More
Leafs Need To Extend Lamoriello
TORONTO (Mar. 2) — Exactly how the Maple Leafs will be generally managed beyond next season may or may not be a topic of internal debate at the Air Canada Centre. Lou Lamoriello, destined for the Builders' wing in the… Read More