Who will provide the Maple Leaf "entertainment factor" this season?

One thing about the Maple Leafs through the first few weeks of the 2011-’12 NHL season:  they were entertaining.  Oh, I realize they were of...

10 issues the Leafs face going forward, despite a win in Tampa Bay

The most heartwarming aspect of the win in Tampa Bay had to be Reimer’s performance. (Some of you will recall that, after the last Leaf game...

Leafs that, well, I could do without- how about you?

To be clear, this is not a column intended to criticize any of the current Leaf players.  In fact, it’s a hard-working team that has certain...

Colton Orr and Mike Brown: almost a throwback to when enforcers could play

Recently I posted on modern-day hockey parlance that includes terms such as “energy line”— a phrase you didn’t hear back in the 1960s, for ...

Maybe the Leafs could use a fourth-liner like Eddie Shack now!

Like other sports, hockey has created more terminology in recent years that just wasn’t around when I was a kid growing up in the late 195...

As the Leafs talk deals now, remembering one off-season deal that didn’t work: Eddie Shack for Murray Oliver

When the Leafs won the Cup in May of 1967, they were a team on the decline. They had given everything they had to nudge past Chicago and Mo...

It was more than “truculence” in the 1970s; before the “Broad Street Bullies” came the “Big Bad Bruins”

In hockey, being able to compete physically is obviously important. This is no doubt why Brian Burke talks a lot about “truculence”. You don...