5 h. ago Ineffective night for Auston Matthews line helps seal Maple Leafs’ Game 5 fate

Late on Tuesday night at Scotiabank Arena, Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews mentioned not looking in the rearview mirror. The Leafs have little choice but to look ahead to Game 6 in the Battle of Ontario on Thursday night in Ottawa after failing to put the Senators away in Game 5. Still, the Leafs will […]

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6 h. ago WARMINGTON: Maple Leafs loss means another rough night for team wearing blue

Not much for Maple Leafs fans to cheer for in Game 5, just like Tory supporters after federal election

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6 h. ago Maple Leafs fail to finish off Senators again as series heads back to Ottawa

This has been a bad week for any blue team with a big lead trying to take over Ottawa.  But moving from the political arena to the rink, it’s the Maple Leafs who’ve given the Senators another life, dropping Game 5 by a 4-0 score on Tuesday night at Scotiabank Arena.  That leaves the Senators down […]

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16 h. ago Overtime vibes or not, Maple Leafs look to close out Ottawa Senators any way they can

If ever a pre-game overtime aura has enveloped the Maple Leafs, it has been ahead of Game 5 against Ottawa on Tuesday night. Three straight games in this series have gone to an extra period and this date and circumstance certainlyis significant for Toronto. April 29, 1978, was Lanny McDonald’s memorable 2-1 OT series-clinching goal […]

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36 h. ago Bad blood is building between Senators and Maple Leafs in Battle of Ontario

There were some more fireworks off the ice in the Battle of Ontario on Monday. As the Senators and Maple Leafs prepared for Game 5 of the series on Tuesday night at the Canadian Tire Centre, the good people in Toronto weren’t the least bit pleased with Ottawa defenceman Artem Zub. Centre John Tavares was […]

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40 h. ago Toronto Maple Leafs' biggest star conspicuously absent from practice ahead of huge game

The Toronto Maple Leafs were without their biggest star at Monday morning's practice.Though the Leafs are officially citing "rest" as the reason for his absence, Auston Matthews raised a few eyebrows by sitting out of the team's skate one day ahead of Tuesday’s Game 5 at Scotiabank Arena.Matthews' absence does at least raise a few preliminary questions about whether he's operating at full health, or perhaps dealing with a lingering issue.Given that the Leafs took Sunday off following a 4-3 overtime loss on Saturday to give the Ottawa Senators their first win of the series, it is a bit curious that Matthews needs a rest day.With NHL teams being notoriously tight-lipped about player health status, particularly in the playoffs, we likely won't get a good answer as to what exactly is going on with Toronto's captain.Matthews has one goal and four assists in four games so far for the Leafs.A year removed from a franchise-record settin...

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68 h. ago GAME 4 TAKEAWAYS: Nothing ‘special’ about Maple Leafs’ overtime loss

Special teams can make or break a team’s hopes in the Stanley Cup playoffs. For the Maple Leafs on Saturday night in the Battle of Ontario, failure to score on a four-minute power play in overtime snuffed their desire to eliminate the Ottawa Senators in a four-game sweep. The double power play had an asterisk, […]

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3 d. ago Maple Leafs fail to sweep Senators, fall in overtime in Game 4

Put those brooms away, Leafs Nation. Some 24 years after sweeping the Ottawa Senators from the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Maple Leafs couldn’t get it done again on Saturday night. We’re going to have Game 5 in the Battle of Ontario after the Senators beat the Leafs 4-3 in overtime at the Canadian Tire Centre. […]

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3 d. ago MAPLE LEAFS NOTES: Scott Laughton’s ‘simple’ game a boon in playoffs

Scott Laughton was finding his return to the Stanley Cup playoffs to his liking. The Battle of Ontario marked just the fourth time Laughton has participated in the annual tournament, and first since the 2020 bubble season with the Philadelphia Flyers. “It feels awesome,” Laughton told media in Ottawa on Saturday, hours ahead of Game […]

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4 d. ago Maple Leafs’ habits of composure, patience will be crucial in Game 4

For those wondering about the Maple Leafs and killer instinct, we would argue we’ve already seen it in the Battle of Ontario. Whether the Leafs win Game 4 on Saturday night in Ottawa to sweep the Senators won’t be based on an ability to put a team away. It’s going to be more about continuing […]

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4 d. ago GAME 3 TAKEAWAYS: Two vastly different Maple Leafs combine for big win in Ottawa

It's Toronto’s first 3-0 series lead since sweeping the Senators in 2001

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5 d. ago Leafs spoil Senators playoff homecoming party with another overtime gutting

The Senators' dream of making the playoffs has turned into one of their worst nightmares

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5 d. ago Cherry blossoms, Earth Day and more beautiful things to honour this weekend in GTA

It’s the last weekend of April — can you believe it? The Maple Leafs will be in Ottawa to play the Senators in Game 4 on Saturday night, but there will be a tailgate party in Maple Leaf Square at Scotiabank Arena, with the game being played on the outdoor big screen. And while there […]

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5 d. ago Max Pacioretty to replace Nick Robertson for Maple Leafs in Game 3

Toronto coach Craig Berube make switch after careless third-period penalty

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5 d. ago Watching a Toronto Maple Leafs game at Maple Leaf Square made me a believer

MLSE's Toronto Maple Leafs tailgate parties have become an integral part of NHL playoff season in the city year after year, and I, a non-sports watcher, went down to find out what all the fuss is about for the first time.Let's set the stage. It's the eve of Game 2 in the battle of Ontario, and I'm packed like a sardine in a southbound TTC train headed, alongside dozens if not hundreds of blue-clad compatriots, to watch the game from outside Scotiabank Arena at Maple Leaf Square.Now, I'm a Leafs fan by virtue of birthright only — I can count on one hand the number of full games I've actually sat through — but, already seeing the sheer volume of fans planning to be physically present at the game (a tiny fraction, surely, of their total fan base), it's beginning to dawn on me that I've been missing out on something major this whole time. I just have to figure out what, exactly, that major something is, and Maple Leaf Squar...

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5 d. ago Will Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube make any lineup changes ahead of Game 3 against the Senators?

WATCH BELOW: On the latest episode of Inside The Leafs, Postmedia’s Rob Wong speaks with Toronto Sun Maple Leafs writers Terry Koshan and Lance Hornby about the Maple Leafs 3-2 overtime win against the Ottawa Senators in Game 2. They give their biggest takeaways from the victory and if head coach Craig Berube will make […]

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6 d. ago Here's what Max Domi said after epic Toronto Maple Leafs' game

The Toronto Maple Leafs have a 2-0 series lead for the first time since 2003.Last time, it was Tie Domi who helped the Leafs jump out to the multi-game lead. This time, it was his son, Max Domi, who scored in overtime to help the Leafs sweep the first two home games against the Ottawa Senators.Domi got the puck on his stick in the slot and beat Linus Ullmark cleanly to see Leafs fans into a frenzy.Tie was in the crowd at Scotiabank Arena and was celebrating after Max's shot found the back of the net."It's a heck of a play by [Benoit], he made that whole thing happen," said Max humbly postgame. "Got a little lucky when it squeaked through, I'm not sure if it was Cozens or who it was, but a little lucky and then you get inside the hashmarks like that, the middle of the ice, you've just got to shoot it. Ullmark's a heck of a goalie, but we'll take it."MAX DOMI WINS IT FOR THE LEAFS IN OVERTIME. A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE 🤩MAPLE LEAF SQUARE ...

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6 d. ago SIMMONS: Legacy OT moment for Domi in Maple Leafs’ Game 2 win

It’s easy to forget, because he’s Tie Domi’s son, because he’s been around here forever, because he’s a bit of an unfinished work of art, that this is Max Domi’s 10th year in the National Hockey League. His fifth in the Stanley Cup playoffs. It seems in so many ways that he’s still an exuberant […]

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7 d. ago LEAFS 3, SENATORS 2: Max Domi the OT hero as Maple Leafs beat Senators in Game 2

Take a breath, Leafs Nation. The Maple Leafs are heading to the nation’s capital with a two-game grip in the Battle of Ontario. After failing to hold a 2-0 lead on Tuesday night, the Leafs emerged with a 3-2 win in overtime when Max Domi scored at 3:09 at Scotiabank Arena. The Leafs lead the […]

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7 d. ago Metallica frontman James Hetfield among stars at Toronto Maple Leafs playoff game

The Toronto Maple Leafs got a bit of hardcore help rooting them on Tuesday night.Taking on the Ottawa Senators in their second home game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, a trio of celebrities found themselves in the crowd for the Battle of Ontario matchup.Metallica lead vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield was pictured in a box on the evening, and got a loud cheer from the crowd when shown on the Scotiabank Arena jumbotron midway through the second period.Enter Passion 🔵 @Metallica pic.twitter.com/1lFJxBhPEU— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) April 23, 2025Hetfield and his band are performing at the Rogers Centre this week on April 24th and 26th as part of their M72 World Tour.It's an eighty-leg world tour, with forty cities being visited for two dates each. They began the tour in 2023 and are concluding this fall, having already visited Montreal and Edmonton as their two previous Canadian tour stops.But he wasn't the only big name out cheering the team on.When in Toront...

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