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The good news has been coming in bunches for the Toronto Maple Leafs during the past 15 games or so, and Monday was no different. Not only did they stretch their home winning streak to four games after a 3-2 victory over the rival Ottawa Senators, but rookie goaltender Jonas Gustavsson was seen back on the ice in the morning skate for the first time after his second heart surgery in ...

On Saturday, December 7 the Toronto Maple Leafs came storming into Boston playing some of their best hockey of the season to face the Bruins. The Leafs had won two gamesáin a row, and four of their last five, and the confidence was palpable around the team. It was also Phil Kessel's first game back in the town where he made his name as an NHL sniper; in case you hadn't ...

The season started out as a disaster for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Long losing streaks, terrible play both offensively and defensively, and fans crying out for the team to call up players from the Marlies to add some life to a pathetic looking roster. And as the losing continued and the veterans on the team continued to struggle, fans wondered if the season was lost right from the beginning. But then something strange ...

The first two months of the 2009-2010 season for the Toronto Maple Leafs have certainly been interesting; and each has been completely different. September was a disaster. November wasn't so bad. And if the Leafs plan on going anywhere this year, there has got to be a noticeable improvement in December. The Leafsáhad aádismal record ofá1-7-4 in September, and looked as if they had played their way out of a playoff spot ...

The stage doesn't get much bigger than CBC's Hockey Night in Canada in Toronto on Saturday night. Add in a matchup against the game's most explosive player, Alexander Ovechkin, and you've got yourself a recipe for a nationally viewed disaster for a struggling team. It's one thing to be the player a coach asks to have the dubious duty of attempting to shut down Ovechkin. It's another thing to tell the coach you want ...

It's hardly fair to a player who just suffered an injury to say that it happened at the perfect time, but in the case of John Mitchell and the Toronto Maple Leafs, it just may have. Mitchell suffered an MCL injury Monday night against the New York Islanders and has been put on the shelf for six weeks; bad news for him, but it could be great news for the team. Mitchell has ...

When Phil Kessel became a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs many wondered who on the team would be able to adequately center a line with him. It has become very apparent in the seven games he has played, that player isn't on the Leafs. Kessel has been stellar since stepping on the ice for the Leafs, with five goals and eight points through his first seven, but other than collecting the ...

When a team has aágoaltending controversy, they find themselves in a situation where their backup is playing well enough to steal the job from the current starting goalie. This was thought to be the case in Toronto early on in the season, when, through the first two weeks, Vesa Toskala looked like he was in the wrong league. He was absolutely pitiful and to this day has still not won a ...

It's easy to switch up the lines when things aren't going well for a hockey club, though for some of the players on the Toronto Maple Leafs, new linemates just aren't working out. It's time they were given a stern message about their poor play; improve or you're watching from the press box. Certain players on the Leafs, of which will be named, have been almost invisible throughout the team's recent games, ...

Henry Ford once said, "Whether you think you can or you think you can'tùyou are right." For the majority of this young season in Leaf land, there has been an awful lot of "thinking you can't" going on, from both the team and their fans. With the losses piling up, the team's confidence at a minimum, and hope nowhere in sight, it looked as if the 2009-2010 season in Toronto would ...