84 m. ago Outside noise from upset Leafs Nation hard to ignore now for team

The outside noise only grows louder which each blown opportunity by the Maple Leafs to end this thing. Tuesday, in the throes of a 4-0 loss that brought Ottawa within a win of tying a series Toronto once led 3-0, it was heard indoors, loud and clear. Many of those who hung around Scotiabank Arena to […]

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2 h. ago Canadian Tire Centre to host outdoor watch party for Game 6 of Senators

The Ottawa Senators will host an outdoor watch party for Game 6 of their first-round playoff series against the Toronto Maple Leafs, team president Cyril Leeder confirmed Wednesday morning. The event will take place outside Gate 1 of Canadian Tire Centre in the CIBC Red Zone, where a large screen will broadcast the game live. […]

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2 h. ago Core Four talk doesn’t change as Maple Leafs again will try to eliminate Senators

The broken record is getting a workout. Craig Berube hasn’t been on the job as Maple Leafs coach for a full year and he sounds like he has had his fill. We’re talking about the Leafs’ core, of course, and its annual inability to find a way to make a difference in the Stanley Cup […]

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3 h. ago Can the Ottawa Senators force a Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs?

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 the first-round series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators. They talk discuss whether Ottawa’s Game 5 victory has planted a seed of doubt in the Maple […]

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4 h. ago ‘Embarrassed’ Maple Leafs fan burns jersey, others roast team on social media after Game 5 loss

'Honestly embarrassed to be a fan of this team but I've had enough. My Matthews jersey is next.'

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4 h. ago Inside The Leafs: Are the Maple Leafs in trouble 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 4-0 loss to the Ottawa Senators in Game 5. They discuss why the Maple Leafs still have a great opportunity to finish the series and if […]

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5 h. ago The stories behind monthly alumni lunches with some of hockey’s greatest players and personalities

Come for the food and drink, stay for the hockey talk from the game’s greatest generation. It’s a hook that has brought players, coaches, managers, referees, scouts, authors, musicians and fans together for the monthly NHL Alumni Lunch, to feast on stories you won’t hear in today’s buttoned-down league that’s bereft of candid sound bytes. […]

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9 h. ago LEAF TAKEAWAYS: Special teams go into hiding at worst possible time

If there’s one team the Maple Leafs historically have no trouble closing out at playoff time, it’s the Ottawa Senators. But this is not the early 2000s anymore. These Sens aren’t folding, living to fight another day, another game, going at home again to the Canadian Tire Centre. With the Leafs’ Scotiabank Arena ready to […]

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9 h. 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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9 h. ago Sénateurs contre Maple Leafs: Brady Tkachuk s'attend à de la «pure folie» jeudi

Ottawa a réalisé un autre petit miracle contre Toronto.

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17 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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17 h. ago Takeaways: Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark is on the mark in Battle of Ontario

"I expect pure insanity. That's for sure," Captain Brady Tkachuk says of Game 6 on Thursday night in Ottawa.

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18 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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18 h. ago Toronto Maple Leafs doing exactly the thing you thought they would in playoffs

Not to be dramatic, but the Toronto Maple Leafs might actually be cursed.The Buds were blanked in another blown opportunity to close out a playoff series on Tuesday night, bringing the Battle of Ontario to a nail-biting 3-2 lead for the Leafs after what seemed like an unbreakable 3-0 series advantage.The team has now posted an unthinkably terrible 2-14 record in series-clinching playoff games since 2004, following a 4-0 loss to the Ottawa Senators before a stunned crowd at Scotiabank Arena.Tuesday's loss proved just the latest chapter in what has become a saga of the Leafs' long-term struggles in close-out games.Like the years-long choke fest it contributed to, the game was replete with missed opportunities, frustrations, and the team's stars seemingly vanishing off the surface of the ice when it counted the most.Game 6 will bring the series back to Ottawa on Thursday, where the Leafs will have a third consecutive opportunity to close out the first round.Should...

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18 h. 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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18 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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19 h. ago Will Arnett spotted hyping up Toronto Maple Leafs playoff crowd

The Toronto Maple Leafs turned to a bit of celebrity power to try to help them get going on Tuesday night.Down 1-0 in the second period in Game 5 of their first-round playoff matchup against the Ottawa Senators, Toronto-born actor and massive Leafs fan Will Arnett was brought out during a commercial break to lead the sold-out Scotiabank Arena crowd in a cheer.Toronto entered the night with a 3-1 lead on the series, but gave up the first goal of the night for the third game in a row to begin the night on an uphill battle.His appearance might've hyped up the crowd, but it didn't exactly have an immediate effect on the ice, as the Leafs entered the final frame of the game still being held scoreless.Will Arnett in the arena tonight for the Leafs v Sens pic.twitter.com/EIi1gSDubq— Lindsay Dunn (@LindsayDunnTV) April 30, 2025Toronto is aiming to win just its second playoff series since 2004, coincidentally first-round win over the Senators in an epic seven-game set.For Arnet...

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25 h. ago ‘Hostility’ between Mitch Marner, Leafs could see star winger leave Toronto, Bissonnette says

'There’s a little hostility between the Maple Leafs and Marner, based on the fact that they tried to trade him at the deadline.'

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27 h. ago Coach Craig Berube has set the pace, Maple Leafs happy to pick it up

Follow the leader. Having a coach who has experienced just about everything there is to experience in the National Hockey League has been key for the Maple Leafs in their desire to go on a long playoff run. Craig Berube, winner of the Stanley Cup in St. Louis six years ago and with more than […]

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28 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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