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Vesa Toskala's Leafs head into New York to play Henrik Lundqvist's 4-1-0 Rangers. The Rangers have gotten big contributions from two rookie defenders; first round pick Michael Del Zotto has five points in five games from the blue line and NCAA free agent signing Matt Gilroy

Currently I'm trying to get a job on the TSN analyst panel but they told me I need to have some hard hitting TSN style analysis. I looked at the Leafs terrible record and decided what's wrong with the team is most likely curse related due

The Ottawa Sun opens up Negative Nancy Notebook season with this gem: There was plenty of hype around the decision by Toronto coach Ron Wilson to start goalie Jonas "The Monster" Gustavasson, but Daniel Alfredsson, on a penalty shot, and Shean Donovan scored for the Senators. Apparently giving

The Leafs lose to the Senators 2-1 on a bizarre penalty shot and a goal that looks like it was high sticked in by Ottawa's fourth line. Terrible reffing aside the Leafs were outshot 28-26 and didn't show any jump until the end of the third

Hockey Night in Canada's Elliotte Friedman, AM640's Jonas Siegel and the Canadian Press' Chris Johnson are all reporting that Jonas Gustavsson was the first goaltender off the ice in practice today which traditionally means that he'll get the start at home tonight against

That's right, there will be zero Toskala discussion on the site, aside from this sentence of course, until 7PM. I'm searching for Leafs links; the site was down all night and we stop paying blurr overtime after five minutes of overtime because we're cheap

The Leafs came out completely flat in this game and Vesa Toskala rose to the occasion allowing an Ovechkin wrist shot from the top of the circle to hit him before going in the net. The Leafs allowed only eight shots on net in the first period despite the defensive

The Leafs head into the Phone Booth today to face the recently bulked up *gulp* Alexander Ovechkin and the Caps. It turns out Bruce Boudreau must read our blog: Washington Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau told a Toronto radio station yesterday that he expected his club would face Leafs backup goalie

Really deflated right now. Leafs outshoot Montreal 46 - 27 and lose 4-3. Beauchemin and Schenn looked bad on the first goal for Montreal, a power play tally early on in a double minor awarded to Komisarek for high sticking Gomez, but Beauchemin picked his play up considerably afterwards. The

Are you fired up? I'm fired up. Will the streets run red with the blood of the Canadiens? Will Toskala be legendarily bad or just generally mediocre? Will Stålberg score? Will Montreal change their primary uniform color from red to pink now that they only have one Tit?

"Stålberg will be in the lineup on opening night." - Ron Wilson

Vesa Toskala [Save %:0.708] [Saves: 17] [Shots: 24] With literally any other goalie on any team anywhere in their depth chart this is a win for the Leafs. Disgusting.

This is your gameday open thread for the final preseason game. We'll see Viktor Stalberg tonight but Christian Hanson has been sent to the Marlies, Nazem Kadri has been cut and sent to the London Knights, and Tyler Bozak and Jiri Tlusty are in limbo and not playing.

Nazem Kadri has been returned to his OHL club the London Knights as per Jonas Siegel at AM640. This is the right move for a number of reasons: Kadri needs to bulk up to dominate at the NHL level and survive the rigors of an 82 game schedule against grown

The facts: Vesa Toskala lets in softies. Jonas Gustavsson does this: Power play goals from Stalberg and Gunnarsson bail out Vesa "dogshit" Toskala and power the Leafs to another preseason win. Discuss!

The Monster was sighted briefly off the starboard bow of the HMS Redwings last night. Though none perished the sighting rattled the men to their core. Eighteen men stood back from their stations during the incident and didn't return to their posts until the all clear was sounded

Yaharr, they speak of a monster what lives deep in the salty depths. Some say his tentacles have drowned one thousand men and posted a playoff save percentage north of nine sixty. It was an autumn day near Farjestads in the north of Europe when the Monster attacked our ship.

That's right, the Leafs will be playing the Sabres and Justin Pogge won't be in net which changes the over under on Leafs goals against from 5.5 to 2.5. Lineups are after the jump. Commenting has been going great in the game threads, pretty

That up there  doesn't look good at all. I hope someone attended that guy's funeral. Anyhow, this is your gamethread for tonight's preseason game against the other team from Pennsylvania. Let's hope the Leafs keep up their strong play and violently assault

I typed my fingers to the bone for you people just so I could do some basic stat crunching. What I did was take every draft pick between 10 and 20 from the 2000 draft to the 2006 draft and enter their name, career games played and career points. Then

It's here. After being off for approximately ten months following their elimination from playoff contention in November according to Howard "Meister" Berger the Leafs are back in action tonight. This is your game day open thread and since they were huge last year I'm

According to Kevin McGran at the Star: Jonas Gustavsson, the Maple Leafs' hightly touted rookie goaltender, is out for two days after minor surgery today. The Leafs said Gustavsson underwent cardiac ablation, which is a non-invasive type of heart surgery. From MapleLeafs.com's Mike Ulmer: It sounds

Phil Kessel has made it clear that he doesn't intend to negotiate any longer with the Bruins, his Toronto-based agent in recent days informing the Boston front office that the right winger's priority instead is to sign a free-agentoffer sheet with one of the league'

That's right the title isn't a clever joke by me, it's an actual fact. The Boston Bruins have signed Andy "Are you shitting me?" Wozniewski aka. "herpes" because we thought he'd never go away, to a one year

... Never known when you gotta dump a body. Noted optimist eyebleaf alerted me to this article posted on some Ottawa blog: A Brief Look at the Toronto Maple Leafs. We here at PPP Amalgamated Heavy Industries and Kitten Petting Consortium LLC GmbH S.A. believe in equal opportunity team bashing