8 h. 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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9 h. 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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18 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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26 h. ago Takeaways: Ottawa Senators have no regrets after gutsy OT win in Battle of Ontario

"It as a do-or-die situation," captain Brady Tkachuk said of the win

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28 h. 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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31 h. ago A fine to the Senators and Nick Cousins sparks a Battle of Ontario off the ice

The NHL acted after pregame incident

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31 h. 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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35 h. ago Maple Leafs not looking ahead, only wish to complete sweep of Senators

Just win one game. If the Ottawa Senators are telling themselves as much heading into Saturday night, you can bet the Maple Leafs are doing the same. What’s on the line in the Battle of Ontario, of course, is vastly different. A Maple Leafs win at the Canadian Tire Centre and it’s their first sweep […]

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40 h. ago Party leaders campaign in Ontario, B.C. battlegrounds as election day nears

OTTAWA — Party leaders blitzed key ridings in southern Ontario and British Columbia on Saturday with the final vote in the federal election now just two days away. Liberal Leader Mark Carney took his tour through battleground ridings in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as Windsor, Ont., a city where U.S. President Donald Trump’s […]

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43 h. ago Ottawa Senators desperate to write a comeback story in Battle of Ontario

Alternate captain Claude Giroux was part of the 2010 Philadelphia Flyers team that erased a 3-0 series deficit to beat the Boston Bruins.

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56 h. 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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66 h. 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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3 d. ago Takeaways: Ottawa Senators aren't ready to surrender the Battle of Ontario

"One thing I know about our team is they're not going to lie down. We're not going to go away, we're going to be ready to play," says coach Travis Green

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3 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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4 d. ago Ottawa Senators winger Ridly Greig is Public Enemy No. 1 in Battle of Ontario

The Ottawa Senators' Ridly Greig is at his best when he's a pain in the butt to play against. He has made his mark on the first two games of this series.

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4 d. 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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5 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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5 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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5 d. ago Conservatives channel Viagra as record Ontario voters risk killing their mood: Election Power Meter

Easter long weekend was anything but restful for election workers as 7.3 million Canadians flocked to advance polls

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5 d. 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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