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What on God's green earth just happened? Every season, Leafs fans are entitled to one solid rant about how absolutely pathetic their team looked in the previous game/week/month. Consider this my once-a-year-rant about the [insert expletive here] game the Leafs played in Philadelphia on Wednesday night. Seriously, it was like watching NBA behemoths playing keep-away from small children. I'll only do this once this season, so bare with me while I hold no punches ...

It's time to get down to business for the Toronto Maple Leafs. If it wasn't imperative to win games before New Years, it certainly is now with a playoff spot slipping away by the day. On the final night of 2009, the Leafs were five points out of eighth place. On the night of Jan. 4, 2010, they are eight points out and slipping fast. And it may be slightly premature to say ...

It's bad enough when you're the biggest underdog going into the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. It's worse when one of the four NHL players named to your team gets injured and won't be able to play for the team. But this is the case for Belarus and Mikhail Grabovski, who was looking forward to taking part in the Olympicsáon aáteam that will need all the help it can get. Grabovskiásuffered a fractured ...

It's bad enough when you're the biggest underdog going into the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. It's worse when one of the four NHL players named to your team gets injured and won't be able to play for the team. But this is the case for Belarus and Mikhail Grabovski, who was looking forward to taking part in the Olympicsáon aáteam that will need all the help it can get. Grabovskiásuffered a fractured ...

Yes, 2009 was certainly an interesting year for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and one that, while having some positive aspects to it, will mostly be happily forgotten by many in Leaf Nation. This season started off terribly, and the team has been playing catch-up ever since. But with 2010 rolling in, it is finally time for the Leafs and their fans to forget about what happened in the past. This year ...

The first half of the Toronto Maple Leafs season has come and gone with no shortage of topics to discuss. Through 41 games the team has taken their fans (and Ron Wilson) on an emotional roller coaster ride of which the good people of Toronto have come to be accustomed to over the years. But this year might have taken it to a whole new level. A downright terrible start, followed by ...

What a way to start. After beginning the tournament with a 15-0 win last year, they did one better this time around. It was more of a brisk practice with contact in the first game of the round robin for Canada at the World Hockey Championships. And because goal differential matters as the second tie-breaker, it got ugly very quickly as Canada took on Latvia. Just 36 seconds in, Gabriel Bourque made it ...

It's hard to say that any one game is more important than another this season for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Currently in a battle for the eighth and final playoff spot with a chance at moving up in the standings with every passing game. Every game matters that little bit more than the last and for a team that needs to continue to play well in order to make the ...

Steve Yzerman will announce the final roster for Team Canada on Dec. 30; a day that Canadians have been waiting a long time for. There are certainly players who have to be considered a lock to make the team; guys such as Sidney Crosby, Martin Brodeur and Jerome Iginla.á But what about the Toronto Maple Leafs? It is extremely unlikely that any player from the Leafs will be suiting up to play ...

There was a giant sigh of re-Leaf Saturday night after the Maple Leafs finally beat the Boston Bruins after a nasty seven-game losing streak to the division rivals that dated back to early last season. It was a hard-fought, bloody battle that ended with a 2-0 win for the Leafs and the first career shutout for Jonas Gustavsson, who had a solid 25-save performance. But more importantly the Leafs were able to ...