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Martin Brodeur gave his team every chance to win but no one could beat Flyers goalie Brian Boucher until the very late stages of the third period in Game 1 that Philly stole, 2-1.   Brodeur will turn a similar performance in Game 2; Boucher may not.   A number of pucks during scrambles in front of Boucher rolled or were poked by an empty net while the Flyers goalie was down and out ...

  Goaltending is the most important part of a team’s playoff success and over the last couple decades, Martin Brodeur has been the best guy between the pipes bar none.   Brodeur has a career .920 save percentage and 1.98 goals against average in the playoffs in 176 games with the Devils, including 23 shutouts.   He owns a ton of hardware including four Vezina trophies, three Stanley Cup rings and has appeared in multiple ...

Twenty-one-year-old 6’3”, 200-pound Luca Caputi, born in Toronto, Ontario, will have his life-long dream realized tonight as he takes to the ice at the ACC for the first time wearing the blue and white.    Caputi has mentioned to reporters while growing up in Toronto and playing with the Mississauga IceDogs, now the Niagara IceDogs that he had hopes of playing for the Maple Leafs, which is now reality.   Caputi was drafted in ...

I was born in Toronto in 1970 and the first glimpse I had of this game was on a Saturday night sometime during the winter of 1973.   At once I was mesmerized, and since I was quite a rambunctious child, I’m sure just my captivation by something that kept me still thrilled my mother immensely.   If I were to tell you I remembered which team we were playing or who any of the players on ...

Toronto has 18 games remaining in its schedule and the vast majority of them are against teams that are battling for a playoff spot in the jam-packed lower portion of the Eastern Conference playoff picture.   Toronto is not going to make the playoffs, that’s a given.  Even if the Leafs went undefeated for the rest of the season they would still only end up with 88 points, which wouldn’t be good ...

Many of the Leafs faithful thought Tomas Kaberle would be moved at the trade deadline and bring another top forward that they desperately need.   But it would not be the case.   Kaberle and his agent Rick Curran gave Leafs general manager Brian Burke a short list, consisting of three teams that Kaberle would be willing to waive his no-trade-clause for and be dealt to, but nothing came to fruition.   Burke obviously couldn’t get ...

During the Olympic hockey tournament, the majority of the punches thrown were between Finland and Sweden in the womenÆs bronze medal game. á The menÆs hockey was fast, even on the NHL size rink. Some teams played a defensive style of hockey, trying to use the size to their advantage, and some played a wide open game. á Each had its share of success. á The battles in the corners and in front of the net ...

With the success that Toronto GM Brian Burke and Coach Ron Wilson had with team USA at the Olympics, can Leafs Nation expect a roll-over effect with their beloved blue and white? á I think they can, though the U.S. fell in the end to a better Canadian squad, Wilson may have built some confidence ináToronto through his coaching style with the USA. á Toronto players may now believe and buy in to his ...

Tonight marks the beginning of the second half of the season for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and if they are going to get going, now’s the time! The Leafs host the pesky Florida Panthers tonight at the ACC; the teams are meeting for the second time this season. The first battle between these teams was a high-scoring affair in which Toronto fell behind early—no surprise—but came back and won 6-4 during a ...

Nazem Kadri, the seventh pick overall of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2009 NHL Draft, was one of the preseason's most dominant players, and gave Leafs fans a much anticipated glimpse into the bright future of their franchise. Yet he was sent back to juniors to continue his development and dominate in his final year. Though he had a slow start with the London Knights, he now leads the team with ...