Ex-Leaf role-player Gerry Ehman: key early ‘60s contributor reminds a bit of Colby Armstrong

There are a lot of different philosophies about how to build a successful NHL team.   Some stress the value of goaltending and team defens...

The injury test may come now for the Maple Leafs

The announcement on Thursday that young Nazem Kadri may miss a couple of weeks (or more) with a twisted knee is not huge news, even in Leafl...

Leafs better, but not quite there, as VLM hits the two-year mark

With the regular-season less than a week away now, the Leafs are facing the usual last-minute decisions about the opening-night roster. W...

Burke’s crew still a ways off from having to make the really tough decisions

For those who missed yesterday's article (late post), comparing the current Leaf squad with the last Leaf team that made the playoffs in...

How this year’s team stacks up against the last Leaf squad to make the playoffs (2003-’04 season)

Let me state right off the bat that we all know the hockey world has changed quite a bit since (sadly) the last time the Maple Leafs made th...

The Kadri conundrum

Leaf supporters, like most passionate sports fans, have the natural desire to want to see “their own” do well.  It could be the “local boy...

Late 1950s Leaf winger Gerry James: “Bo” Before Bo and Deion

Long before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders, two outstanding modern-day “two-sport” professional athletes, the Leafs had their own two-sport st...

Jean Beliveau: Words can’t do justice to what he has meant to hockey

I know this is primarily a "Leaf site", but I’ve been remiss in not writing enough here about one of the finest players in the h...

By the way, where did Tomas Kaberle end up?

It’s funny.  Throughout last season, I posted a number of articles relating to the fate of now former Maple Leaf Tomas Kaberle. We all know...

OK: Who would un-do the Kessel trade?

The Leafs have won two of their first three exhibition games, and we've seen (if we believe pre-season can tell us anything) some good s...

For all the positive Burke moves, is there one recent Leaf you’d like to have back?

It’s hard to argue that Brian Burke has done anything but improve the Leafs, in terms of the current roster (younger, faster, tougher), cap ...

Maple Leafs are in a different category than the so-called elite teams—at least for now...

Yes, the new "season" (pre-season style) has finally started.  But I'm not a believer in early pronouncements based on limite...

Using Phil Kessel as just one example, what does it really mean to be “playing well”?

Those of you who drop by here on occasion may have noticed something I tend to mention on occasion.  That is, that I’m not always sure off...