Good morning Toronto Maple Leafs fans!

If you got caught in that winter storm yesterday I hope you’ve been able to dig yourselves out. If not, take another snow day and relax.

It’s not a game day, so we’ll be taking it easy over here. Let’s see what we can wrangle up for your reading pleasure.

We looked back at our Top 25 rankings now that we’re in the middle of the season.

PPP Roundtable: We rethink our Top 25 Rankings

The Toronto Marlies are on a six game winning streak, as they start a road trip that will last the rest of the month. Also, our own Filip Král was the AHL player of the week!

There’s some other Leaf stories out there too.

Veteran Leafs D Muzzin looks to iron out inconsistencies - TSN.ca
Adventurous commutes to practice for Maple Leafs’ Tavares and Kerfoot

Do we want to laugh at the Canadiens? Yes, we do.

And they lost to the Coyotes? Who does that?

Canadiens' loss to Coyotes proof they don't need to tank to bottom out

John Tavares was out playing in the snow with the wee baby Tavares:

Timo Meier scored five goals last night, which makes us all wonder what Joe Thorntons idea of a celebration for this would be?

Highlight: Timo Meier sets franchise record with 5 goals against Kings

There is some hubub around the PHF who are making a 7AM(?) announcement today. They say this is “major announcement regarding its future in the sport”, but would you really make an announcement like this at 7AM eastern, with the only notice coming less than 12 hours ahead of time?

What are they the Toronto District School Board?

Let’s go out on a high note! Good night everybody!

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