Who’s the one NHL player you just can’t stand?

I know “hate” is not a nice word, but for the purposes of our discussion today, let me use it in the way sports fans do: not maliciously, ...

The era of the enforcer is dead? Not really

Leafland shook ever so slightly this past week when Brian Burke took center stage to take heat away (as he likes to do, and good for him) fr...

Guys you hated on other teams over the years, but wish they had been Leafs…

I’d like to think what one small element of growth and maturity on a personal level (it better come soon—I’m almost 60) is reflected in t...

Leaf Larry Hillman underrated for sure—and he played the best hockey of his life to help the Leafs win it all in ‘67

If ever there was a player in my youth who was totally under the proverbial radar screen, it had to be defenseman Larry Hillman. Hillman b...

How a long-time non-Western Leaf guy looks back at the old Winnipeg Jets

What springs to mind when I, as a non-Westerner but someone who loves the history of our game, think back to the Winnipeg Jets? Well, the f...

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 ...