Now the Leafs really will be—the rest of this season—what they are right now: is that good enough?

With the deadline gone, the Leafs are—and will be—exactly what we see now, as they continue their run (and yes, we can call it that) toward ...

What will Phil Kessel become?

Trade deadline day could be businer than we expected, despite some feverish activity early last week.  This  past weekend was quiet and many...

Reimer: a bit of Dryden and Fuhr; the traded McCabe had some fine moments with the Maple Leafs

Here's the thing:  Reimer gave up five goals, and it wasn't his best night, yet he made certain the Leafs got at least the one point...

Remembering when the Maple Leafs recorded an “album” in the mid-1960s

I came across something I thought I’d lost recently, which brought me back to my youth in the mid-‘60s. Olden-day Leaf followers will reca...

Can we talk playoffs now? And would Leaf fans want a Terry Pegula as owner?

It's one thing to get the puck deep, it's another to keep it there when the game is on the line.  The Leafs did that to virtual perf...

James Reimer: evoking memories of Mike Palmateer

I should be clear from the get-go:   I don’t think James Reimer could be much more different from 1970s Leaf netminder Mike Palmateer,   eit...

Trading Kessel an option?

Somehow I wasn’t shocked to see reports that Phil Kessel (who scored the winner against the Islanders Tuesday night) was supposedly “in play...

Kent Douglas: A very valuable “5th” defenseman when the Leafs were very, very good in the 1960s

It’s impossible to think of the Maple Leafs of the early 1960s and not think about Kent Douglas. To the untrained eye of a very young fan...

Kaberle: Closure—finally; and what I’ll miss about Tomas

I’ve been bobbing and weaving back and forth about whether the most persistent sports story—one that just keeps coming back, has been that o...