If considering only performance in the Stanley Cup chase, the Leaf gunners aren’t worth sh**. Marner included. The core players have routinely withered in the intensified slog of April to June. Which ...

TORONTO (Mar. 10) — There are a number of seminal dates in the history of the Toronto Maple Leafs, but Apr. 11, 2014 is fast–rising in prominence. It was the day Brendan Shanahan became president of ...

AUSTON MATTHEWS SEEMED MORE COMFORTABLE WITH AN ‘A’ ON HIS MAPLE LEAFS JERSEY.

TORONTO (Mar. 3) — It’s an annual rite of passage for hockey in this city; largely forgotten by the ensuing year. Which has yielded, as every year, not a feather’s weight of onus or urgency on the ...

TORONTO (Mar. 7) — If Scott Laughton and Brandon Carlo are the final marble slabs of the Maple Leafs, Michaelangelo could have stopped at David’s waist. The part everyone stares at in Florence would ...

TORONTO (Feb. 24) — Whenever my time comes, I will take with me two remarkable badges of honor: I got to know Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky by name. Not bad for a small media muffin in a large bakery.

TORONTO (Feb. 13) — That was quite some tumult Mitch Marner induced at the Bell Centre on Wednesday night; its euphoric tentacles penetrating all corners of the nation. Not in ten National Hockey ...