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Maple Leafs manage to lose 4-3 to the Senators who have forgotten how to trap - Pension Plan Puppets
That was a hell of a trick, Leafs, dropping a game against a tired team playing really bad hockey a lot of the time.

Auston Matthews is the lone Maple Leaf at the 2018 NHL All-Star Game - Pension Plan Puppets
At least one Leaf got snubbed so the bottom feeding Sabres, Canadiens, and Senators could be represented

Women’s Hockey Wednesday: Russia U18s make World Championships history - Pension Plan Puppets
Plus Nations Cup results, and college hockey is back!

Maple Leafs 2017 Q2 report: half good, half bad, all fun - Katya
The season is approximately half over, so it’s time to examine the Leafs record to date.

Leafs prospect Mattinen traded to the Hamilton Bulldogs - elseldo
The Flint Firebrids acquired the defender early in the season from the London Knights

CWHL News: Markham Thunder sign Megan Bozek
The 2014 Olympic medalist returns to the CWHL.

The Riveters playing for Team NWHL are ready for Team USA - The Ice Garden
Ten players on Team NWHL come from the undefeated Metropolitan Riveters.

Stuff we didn’t write (Leafs)

Dreger: JVR would prefer six years, $36M to stay with Leafs - Sports News, Opinion, Scores, Schedules | TSN

What does Travis Dermott have to do to stick at the NHL level? – TheLeafsNation

Lou on Prime Time Sports

Around the NHL

Things are great in Buffalo.

Seriously, everything’s good.

How Team Canada might have looked with NHLers at the Olympics - Sportsnet.ca
Consider it an exercise in what might have been. This is how we think the 2018 Canadian men's Olympic roster might have looked with NHL players.

McDavid: NHL should lose offside challenges

The Canadiens are no longer the same team, says Kovalev
This is in French, FYI

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