The Toronto Maple Leafs are heading toward a summer of real change, and Morgan Rielly might be at the center of it. According to Sportsnet’s Nick Kypreos , the organization may need to consider a route that felt unthinkable not long ago. If a trade cannot be worked out, a buyout could be the only realistic way forward.
Nick Kypreos floats Morgan Rielly buyout option
Kypreos openly questioned whether this is the offseason the Maple Leafs sit down with Rielly and try to move him,...
The Toronto Maple Leafs kept a familiar trend alive, dipping back into the college free agent market by signing Vincent Borgesi to a two-year entry-level contract. Maple Leafs add Vinny Borgesi to defensive pipeline
Borgesi, 22, wraps up a strong four-year run at Northeastern University where he served as the team's captain and produced 80 points in 135 games. This past season alone, he posted 20 points in 36 games while leading all Huskies defensemen in scoring and logging massi...
Montreal Canadiens news and notes
Why the Canadiens’ playoff hopes hinge on risk-reward management. [ Montreal Gazette ]
Juraj Slafkovský admits that he had to adjust his game coming back from the Olympics. [ The Athletic ]
Vincent Damphousse, the last Habs player to score 40 goals, is surprised that it has taken so long for someone else to reach that milestone. [ Montreal Gazette ]
Brendan Gallagher received a standing ovation as he marked his 900th NHL game. [ Sportsnet...
The Toronto Maple Leafs have begun the UDFA period by signing right-shot defenseman Vincent Borgesi to a two-year entry-level contract. The Northeastern University product will join the Toronto Marlies to begin his professional hockey career. The 22-year-old, who appears to go by “Vinny” on his Northeastern player page, is listed at 5’8/185, which is the […]
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Unsurprisingly in the lead up to this game, all the media attention for the New York Islanders was on rookie phenom Matthew Schaefer, who is from Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up going to Toronto Maple Leafs games. Blah, blah, you’ve heard it all before. But it would be a different rookie from the Toronto area […]
He'll join the Marlies this season.
Back by (popular?) demand, we’ll try to have game thread posts that are separate from the morning thread and any other posts. Ideally, this is to help people riff in-the-moment (hilarious, heated, or otherwise) while not having the emotional reactions get confused in the morning/daytime threads. You know, like once upon a time. The Islanders […]
The Maple Leafs will host Hamilton native Matthew Schaefer for his first-ever NHL game in Toronto tonight at Scotiabank Arena (7:00 p.m. EST, TSN4). Game Day Quotes Matthew Schaefer on his first-ever NHL game in Toronto: It is awesome. I’m coming home to the roots a little bit. I came to the games with my […]
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The NHL’s Department of Player Safety appears comfortable with how it handles suspensions for illegal and dangerous plays. In response to the league suspending Ducks defenceman Radko Gudas for just five games after a knee-on-knee hit that ended Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews’ season, Connor McDavid suggested it may be time to revisit the process….
Ahead of Tuesday’s game against the Islanders, head coach Craig Berube discussed the team’s play since Auston Matthews’ injury, the use of iPads on the bench, and the points of emphasis as the team plays out the string. You emphasized the lack of a response to the Matthews hit at the time. Is it something […]
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The Matthews Schaefer experience.
The Toronto Maple Leafs ’ offseason is already starting to take shape, and the latest chatter from Sportsnet’s Nick Kypreos and Justin Bourne, on the Real Kyper and Bourne podcast, has the team overhauling their blue line. After ranking 24th in defenseman scoring this season, Toronto is once again staring at the same issue that’s lingered for years: a lack of elite puck movement and offensive creation from the back end.
Maple Leafs eye Adam Fox as blockbuster solution
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In the latest MLHS Podcast, Nick Ashbourne and Anthony Petrielli discuss the Auston Matthews injury incident, Matthews’ future in Toronto, the Leafs’ culture problem, and the play of Easton Cowan and the call-ups during the recent wins. Episode Topics The Auston Matthews incident/injury, warning signs, and the impact on the organization moving forward (1:20) The […]
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are a storied franchise that is in the throes of chaos at the moment. Without Captain Auston Matthews and the burden of general manager Brad Treliving's failures coming to light, fans in Toronto aren't happy. The team has begun to sell, as the inclination of the team is to remake itself, but what will they look like after Treliving is done tearing down the Kyle Dubas and Brendan Shanahan consensus? Mitch Marner was the first casualty, being traded to the Ve...
The latest to weigh in on the Auston Matthews/Radko Gudas affair are none other than the Tkachuk brothers, Matthew & Brady. Trust us when we say that if they watched as their team's best player was taken out with a dirty hit like that, they would not have been standing around doing nothing. But don't take our word for it. Here they are on their latest Wingmen podcast, basically ripping Matthews' Toronto Maple Leafs teammates for not sticking up for their captain: “If you go after our bes...
“I thought the execution was great. The first 10 [minutes] were as good as we’ve played for a long time. [Rochester] didn’t touch the puck much, and we were doing a good job of spending time in their end, wearing out the back of the net, and making them defend. That just sends the right […]
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On the first day of the NHL GM meetings in Florida, GM Brad Treliving discussed Matthews’ injury, the Radko Gudas suspension, and the Leafs’ path forward heading into the offseason with TSN’s Geno Reda. Most importantly, how is Auston Matthews doing? What are you seeing as the timeline for his injury? Treliving: Well, he is […]
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In November of 2011, then-Bruin Milan Lucic was chasing down a loose puck in Boston. Sabres goalie Ryan Miller, identifying that he could prevent a mini-breakaway, charged out and played the puck. Lucic lost the race, but he decided to plow right through Miller in open ice anyway. Nobody on the Sabres responded, and Lucic […]
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BO Groulx is the best Maple Leaf ever.
The Islanders begin their last road “trip” of the regular season as they head north of the border for visits to tanking Toronto and still playoff-holding Montreal and playoff-hopeful Ottawa. After this trip, they’ll finish with 10 of 12 games at home and only single-game trips to make up those two away games in Buffalo […]
Craig Berube addressed the media after his team’s 4-2 win over the Minnesota Wild, which improved the Maple Leafs’ record to 29-27-12. On the team “sitting back” in the third period with a 3-0 lead, but ultimately withstanding the scare: Well, I don’t think we sat back. They just came hard. I didn’t think we […]
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The Maple Leafs’ team plane made it through the winter storm for a Sunday night battle in Saint Paul against a hungry Wild team that’s lost three of its last four games (7:30 p.m. EST, Sportsnet Ontario). Game Day Quotes Craig Berube on the challenge defensively against the Wild, especially with Oliver Ekman-Larsson absent due […]
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Just like that iconic old E.F. Hutton slogan, but with a twist: When Connor McDavid talks, people listen. Everyone around hockey is talking about the controversial five-game suspension handed out to Radko Gudas for ending Auston Matthews' season with a brutal knee-on-knee hit. So, of course, McDavid was asked to weigh in on it. He spoke to the media in Edmonton on Sunday, and said it's time for "a better way" to hand out punishment: I think the (NHL’s Department of Player Safety) ...
Maybe it was the shutout that clinched it. The Toronto Maple Leafs have been thoroughly impressed by the play of 24-year-old netminder Artur Akhtyamov with the Marlies this season. And Saturday night's shutout wasn't the only reason they've now signed him to a new three-year contract. But the timing was impeccable. 🚨 BREAKING: The Maple Leafs have announced that they have EXTENDED G Artur Akhtyamov to a three-year contract. The deal starts as a two-way contract for the 2026–27 season and then ...