The most crushing Leaf playoff defeats in my lifetime….

Today I want to get away from the contract soap opera stuff hanging over the Leafs and talk about something a little different.  And I don...

Remembering a great Leaf-Bruins series from the spring of ’59…a harbinger of things to come for today’s Leafs?

It’s simplistic sometimes, I recognize, to draw comparisons to earlier times—in life and in sports.  Many of us do it, and I certainly do h...

As we await the Leaf playoff opponent, some Leaf-Hab memories

There will be tons of analysis from all quarters the moment we find out exactly who the Leafs will be playing in “Round one” of the Stanley...

Who would you like to see the Leafs match up with in the playoffs? Who do they match up best against?

After dismantling the Senators Saturday night (I’m not sure what else we can say about Kadri and Lupul…on the fourth Leaf goal, I focused o...

Remembering what it was like when the Leafs were getting ready to play in the Cup finals

With the weather like it is, at least for a lot of us, we should probably be talking about summer vacation, or being out on the golf course ...

Remembering Bobby Orr and some great Maple Leaf playoff games

It’s been a few seasons (seven; who’s counting…) since the Leafs have made it to the playoffs, but they nonetheless have a long and proud (...

Remembering the spring of 1971: when the Leafs also had a young goalie, young defense- and made the playoffs

As our enthusiasm grows for the current Leaf roster (young goalie, good young defense, a few talented forwards under the age of 25, etc.) I ...

Are the Bruins done like dinner? Just like "Tiger" and the Leafs in 1977

I’ve long thought that we fans sometimes get too amped up about the first game of the playoffs, even the first two games, in terms of decidi...

The Leafs and Rangers in the spring of ’62 : What a playoff series

When the playoffs began in the late winter of 1962, the Leafs were due for something big.  They hadn’t won a championship since 1951, and ...

1993 was painful for us old Leaf fans who remember the bitter 1960s playoff battles with Montreal

You don’t have to be very old to remember how painful it was for Leaf fans in the spring of 1993. We were “this close” to getting past Wa...