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The Tampa Bay Lightning won every statistical category when they played the Washington Capitals on Friday except the one that counts. Tampa Bay had more shots on goal, won more faceoffs as well as more hits and blocked shots only to come out on the wrong side of a 5-1 final. The teams now meet in Tampa with the Lightning trying to avoid suffering a…

The Washington Capitals now hit the road after a season long four game homestand. Their first stop is in Florida, specifically Tampa Bay where a rematch with the Lightning awaits. The Caps won the game on Friday 5-1 so the Bolts will be out for revenge especially as tempers flared throughout the night with multiple fights. Sonny Milano scored…

Two of the top teams in the NHL will meet up Sunday night when the Florida Panthers visit the Colorado Avalanche. Sure, the Panthers are atop the NHL standings and the Avs are outside of the top 10 - but Colorado is still the odds-on favorite (+600 per FanDuel) to win the Stanley Cup. While Colorado did not get off to the start it had hoped at…

In net, the whole position was obviously an unknown. Jack Campbell was an unrestricted free agent and Petr Mrazek was coming off of a nightmare first season in Toronto. Both are in the other conference now. Logically, betting on any two goalies in the league that have flashed ability/shown some form of extended success in their careers to better…

While the star players remain the same, the Leafs added two new goaltenders, plenty of depth forwards, and will now benefit from a full season of Mark Giordano. On paper, this team looks as strong as ever. Toronto's dominant top line is back. Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, and Michael Bunting finished second, fifth, and seventh in points last…

Denis Malgin will ultimately feel hard done by if he doesn't make the Toronto Maple Leafs opening night roster. Coming into training camp, very few Toronto Maple Leafs fans would likely have seen this being the case; but Malgin has really pushed his case for a spot in the line-up. Joining up with the team after spending last year back in his native…

The cool autumn wind blistering through the streets of Toronto can only mean one thing: The Maple Leafs are back. The latest: Toronto enters the 2022-23 season still looking to exorcise its playoff demons. Despite another first-round exit last year, expectations remain high for the team, which has the second-shortest odds to win the Stanley…

Most betting sites have the Toronto Maple Leafs as the most favoured Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup in 2022-23 and the second or third most likely in the NHL (from'NHL Stanley Cup Odds: 2022-23 Winner Futures Betting', The Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/21/22). Considering what the Edmonton Oilers accomplished last season, making it to the Western…

How you feel about the Toronto Maple Leafs' 2021-22 is a matter of perspective. Sunny side up: it was the best, most memorable regular season in team history. Toronto smashed its single-season bests for wins (54) and points (115), and superstar center Auston Matthews rewrote the franchise record books. His 60 goals leapfrogged Rick Vaive's…

Day 1 of camp commences in a few hours. Over the next couple of weeks, battles will ensue, and the roster will take shape. The vast majority of Maple Leafs fans could accurately predict most of the top 6 forwards for opening night, and there are some familiar names that should help round out the top 9. The 4th line however, is not nearly as…

The Leafs have made a few predictable moves that we discussed in previous editions: adding more draft picks, signing unqualified restricted free agents to cheap prove-it contracts (Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Ilya Samsonov were two players we mentioned specifically), and choosing not to trade any of their top players (the assumption being there weren't…

When Kyle Clifford signed with the St. Louis Blues back in October of 2020, it seemed like a return to the Maple Leafs was never a reality. However, after one season in the blue and gold, and then two games with St. Louis in 2021, the 31-year-old found himself on the outside looking in. The Blues then placed Clifford on waivers on November 15th,…