1 week ago Chaos erupts in Toronto streets after Leafs win series with Senators

The Toronto Maple Leafs haven't given their fans a ton of playoff performances to celebrate in recent history, so when they got the chance on Thursday, fans took full advantage.The Leafs beat the Ottawa Senators 4-2 to wrap up their first-round Battle of Ontario. While the game took place in Ottawa, there were plenty of fans going wild in Toronto after the big win.After so many heartbreaks over the years, Maple Leafs fans waited until the very end to start their celebration. William Nylander scored an empty-net goal with less than a minute remaining to finish the Senators off, which sent fans in Toronto into bedlam.The fans watching on the big screen at Maple Leaf Square were jubilant as the clock hit zero.    View this post on Instagram           A post shared by Scotiabank Arena (@scotiabankarena)The Leafs were ahead 3-0 in this series, but the Senators came back to make it interesting. It was reminisce...

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1 week ago Coach Berube goes to the Max with Maple Leafs lineup change for Game 6 in Battle of Ontario

Craig Berube is making a lineup change for Game 6. It’s more of a shuffling on the part of the Maple Leafs coach as he isn’t inserting Nick Robertson or David Kampf at forward after Toronto lost the past two games in the Battle of Ontario. Berube will move veteran Max Pacioretty up to the […]

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1 week 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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1 week ago Ottawa Senators plant seed of doubt with huge Game 5 win in Battle of Ontario

SENATORS 4, LEAFS 0 Toronto leads series 3-2 The Ottawa Senators have planted the all-important seed of doubt in the Battle of Ontario. Facing elimination for the second time against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Senators refused to go quietly into the night with a 4-0 victory over their arch-rivals on Tuesday night at Scotiabank […]

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2 w. ago Ottawa Senators alive and getting ready for Game 5 of Battle of Ontario

'It's one game at a time right now. Everyone knows that. ... It's not that complicated. Worry about the next game.'

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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. ago What the Toronto Maple Leafs' unlikely OT hero said after huge win

The Toronto Maple Leafs are one step closer to pushing one of their fiercest rivals to the brink.The Leafs took a 3-0 series lead on Thursday night over the Ottawa Senators in their first-round playoff matchup, staking a serious claim to another Battle of Ontario crown.Though the game wasn't as much an invasion of Ottawa's arena as is often the case when the Leafs come into town, it was still a scenario that left much of the local fanbase heading home from Kanata unsatisfied.Taking the Senators to overtime in back-to-back games, defenceman Simon Benoit upgraded his assist on Max Domi's overtime goal in Game 2 into one of his own, playing hero for what he called the biggest goal of his career.SIMON BENOIT WINS IT FOR THE LEAFS!!! pic.twitter.com/s57inifTs2— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) April 25, 2025Now in his second season with the Leafs, it was just the third goal that Benoit had scored in Toronto and his seventh career in the NHL after a combined 289 regular season and...

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2 w. 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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2 w. ago Has Anthony Stolarz been the best player in the Battle of Ontario?

WATCH BELOW: On the latest episode of Off The Post, Toronto SUN Sports Columnist Steve Simmons, Postmedia Hockey Columnist Bruce Garrioch, and Postmedia’s Rob Wong break down Game 2 of the Battle of Ontario. They discuss why the Maple Leafs deserve to lead the series 2-0, what the Senators need to do to get back in […]

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2 w. 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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2 w. ago LEAFS NOTES: Ottawa Senators yet to show Toronto their veteran influence

The Maple Leafs do not have a monopoly on being battle-tested in the Battle of Ontario. Ottawa has Linus Ullmark in goal, 1,300-game veteran Claude Giroux and were expected to bring in Travis Hamonic on defence and Nick Cousins, a Stanley Cup winner with Florida last season, either for Game 2 or soon after. That […]

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2 w. ago LEAF NOTES: Matthew Knies turns it up another level in playoffs

All season, Matthew Knies has been in corner skirmishes, fenced foes in front of the net, even been in a fight. But Sunday’s Game 1? Now, that was a battle. The Battle of Ontario to be exact and the most satisfying home playoff result for the 22-year-old left winger. He blocked a couple of Ottawa […]

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3 w. ago Maple Leafs have chance to reach rare feat in Game 2 of Battle of Ontario with Senators

Leafs seek to improve forechecking, 5-on-5 play and take a 2-0 series lead against rival Senators

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3 w. ago Ottawa Senators confident they can right the ship in Game 2 of Battle of Ontario

The Ottawa Senators got knocked down, but they swear they will get back up again. The first chapter of the Battle of Ontario since 2004 is in the books, and the Ottawa Senators spent Monday licking their wounds after a 6-2 loss in Game 1 of the series on Sunday night at Scotiabank Arena. The […]

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3 w. ago SIMMONS: Leafs beat Senators, Sens defeat themselves, in Game 1 of Battle of Ontario

They were a first-time playoff team looking like a first-time playoff team

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3 w. ago Battle of Ontario: Stars shine for Leafs in convincing Game 1 victory over Senators

Mitch Marner and his Maple Leafs have never had offensive issues in the regular season.

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3 w. ago Ottawa Senators take one on the chin in Game 1 of Battle of Ontario

Goaltender Linus Ullmark isn't good enough, and neither is anyone else in loss to Toronto Maple Leafs

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