36 h. ago SIMMONS: Maple Leafs lose in overtime, a game they should have won

The puck was on William Nylander’s stick in overtime. The Leafs’ leading playoff scorer. An almost breakaway. A comfortable place he has found himself in before. But nothing happened Friday night. The puck was on Matthew Knies’ stick in overtime. In the kind of comfortable position we’ve seen before. Knies has scored twice in the […]

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3 d. ago SIMMONS: Craig Berube has built Maple Leafs into true Stanley Cup contender

Craig Berube has pushed all the right buttons in his first year coaching the Maple Leafs.

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3 d. ago SIMMONS: Reason to believe as Maple Leafs head to Florida a winning team

When you win games such as Game 2 you build a certain confidence, a certain character, an internal belief

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5 d. ago SIMMONS: Panthers’ Sam Bennett has ‘elbows up’ in direction of Leafs’ Stolarz in Game 1

The Leafs got the win and may have lost their starting goaltender in the process

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7 d. ago SIMMONS: Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube not intimidated by Cup champion Florida Panthers

Craig Berube has been scratching, clawing and fighting his way through the many levels of professional hockey for most of the past 38 years, so you can excuse him if he’s not intimidated by the Florida Panthers. When asked how his Maple Leafs will fare in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs against […]

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1 week ago SIMMONS: Huge team victory for Maple Leafs, but no time to celebrate with Florida up next

When they shook hands after the final buzzer had sounded, Brendan Shanahan and Brad Treliving, there were no giant hugs, emotional shrieks or high-fives: Really, this was just a moment to exhale. For the beleaguered club president. For the second-year GM. For the Core Four who have been around forever and the rest of the […]

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1 week ago SIMMONS: Same old, same old Maple Leafs in lacking Stanley Cup desperation

Toronto fails to finish off Sens -- again -- as series heads back to Ottawa

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2 w. ago SIMMONS: Nylander the one Leaf you can’t take your eyes off of in Battle of Ontario

When trying to explain what it was about William Nylander that so enticed the Maple Leafs in the 2014 NHL draft, Dave Poulin, then a Leafs assistant, now an Ottawa Senators executive, was rather clear. “He was the only player in the draft who could stickhandle in a phone booth,” said Poulin. This is 11 […]

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2 w. 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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2 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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