Jason Orach

Puck Drop 8:30 ET Sportsnet Ontario This is going to be short and sweet: it's Friday, PPP doesn't really blog anymore and I'm about to head out of town. The Chicago Blackhawks are a fantastically talented team with a rich history of success

Mike Komisarek suffered a quadriceps pull and will miss up to four weeks of action. Carl Gunnarsson has been recalled from the Marlies. Komisarek was a big part of the Leafs' PK and if Tuesday's game is anything to go by it's time to panic.

Johnny Bower reads "In Flanders Fields"

Being an American who follows the Leafs from his home in New England I get an interesting look into the subtle cultural differences between the Northeast and Canada. To be honest there's less of a difference between being in Massachusetts and Ontario than there is between Massachusetts and

This is your post-game thread I guess.

Puck Drop: 7:00PM ET, Sportsnet Ontario Goaltenders: Backstrom v Gustavsson Fret not, after leaving Saturday's decisive win over Detroit with an injur, Mike Komisarek practiced this morning and will be in the lineup tonight against the Minnesota Wild. The Wild are 15th in the Western Conference and

Editor's Note: To get a sense of the quality of person that Malik is take a look at how he dared to denigrate the memory of Teeder Kennedy when he passed away earlier this year. Despite everyone, including Gordie Howe himself, clearing Kennedy of any blame on the

Red Wings at Leafs: 7:00 ET CBC-HD, NHLN-HD (US) It's Saturday morning and I had the most beautiful drunken hallucination dream. I dreamed that the Leafs came out flat but then came back and dominated the Hurricanes en route to a 3-2 win on the back of

Puck Drop: 7PM Eastern TV: Leafs TV Tonight the Leafs travel to the land of Jeff Dunham's core demographic to take on the suddenly punchless Hurricanes in what has the potential to be the worst hockey game any of us will ever watch. Some may point to the

To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld: what's the deal with Jeff Finger? He's been a healthy scratch six games in a row and in those six games the Leafs defense has started to gel. There's a lot of Garnet Exelby hate around these parts but lately

It's painfully obvious that the Leafs need a better option to pass to Phil Kessel than Matt Stajan. They also probably need a better winger than Jason Blake on that line but that's a Question of the Day for another day. Today's question: what

The Tampa Bay Lightning (4-4-4) bring second season scoring sensation Steven Stamkos (12GP 11G 5A 16Pts) and second selection overall Victor Hedman to the ACC tonight. The Lightning have lost their last two, having been soundly thumped last night by the Flyers 6-2. Oddly enough, Vinny Lecavalier is having a

God's Team went 1-1-3 on a five game road trip and they would have done better if someone whose nickname rhymes with "Dog ship" didn't torpedo a strong effort on Saturday. Have the Leafs turned the corner, who knows? But tomorrow night the latest

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You think you can tell us what to do? Go Leafs Go!

Welcome to stop four of our road trip, everyone off the bus in beautiful... Buffalo? Well, shit. The Leafs are 1-1-1 on this road trip, which is a .500 points percentage and thus way above their record before this road trip meaning things are going pretty well. The Leafs nabbed

POWER PLAY: 1. TORONTO 30.0% 2-30. LOSERS < 30 % THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT.

This is going to be short, we're going to hold off on swagger until the Leafs prove that they can play for real, but reading this quote all I could think about was Futurama. Just how low can a hockey team go? If you are the Ducks, you

The Leafs came out of the gate with some jump last night and did a decent job taking it to Vancouver. Toronto outshot Vancouver 36-25 despite the Canucks having six power plays to Toronto's three. In the first period Toronto served four minor penalties to Vancouver's

Before this game on Twitter people were joking "who will score more, TFC or the Leafs?" TFC is getting shut out, so fuck you. The Leafs looked fine tonight, sometimes you just don't win I guess.

I'm going to try and find positive things to write about on the Maple Leafs this week. Here's number one. This year the Toronto Maple Leafs have been outscored 14 - 32 in their first seven games. Despite that Alexei Ponikarovsky is a +5. Here'

From Rogers Sportsnet, Jonas Gustavsson is expected to be in action on Monday against the Anaheim Ducks. From a purely speculative standpoint I can only hope that this is to simply give him extra time to rest. No sense rushing Gustavsson back early at this point. The other Leafs goaltender,

Update [16/10/09 10:47am]: via TSN's Darren Dreger Leafs D-man, Mike Van Ryn will announce he's having knee surgery.via AM640's Greg Brady: One of [Van Ryn's] doctors believes he should have an osteotomy. It's what Yzerman had

Well last night stunk and this night might not be much better. The Colorado Avalanche started this year in much the same boat we did. Everyone picked the Avalanche to be a lottery team but unlike Toronto the Avs have come out gunning and have quickly silenced their critics. Craig

From AM640's Jonas Siegel on Twitter: @jonas640: Tyler Bozak and James Reimer called up. I'm not surprised by Bozak, last night at MSG both Jiri Tlusty and Tyler Bozak were listed as healthy scratches for the Leafs. James Reimer's promotion means that something is