With their backs against the wall and without Auston Matthews, the Toronto Maple Leafs played their best game of the series in Game 5 and earned a series-extending 2-1 win. Mitch Marner played his best game of the series, leading a top line that was excellent all night long.
It’s nice to see the Leafs prove that they have enough fight in them to make it a series. Toronto going home for Game 6 was a huge positive when the team was in the process of getting written off even before it was known that Auston Matthews was out of the lineup.
If the Toronto Maple Leafs are eliminated from the playoffs on Tuesday night, talk among Leafs Nation will be that changes need to take place. Suggesting the bench issues that showed up on Saturday was eight years in the making.
The reality that the Toronto Maple Leafs were facing the Boston Bruins in the first round of the playoffs provided just as much fear as it did optimism.
Kent Hughes is still rebuilding, and some people think it would be a good idea to get a big impact player to improve the attack. On Monday evening, Jean-Charles Lajoie suggested on his JiC show that Kaiden Guhle be traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Mitch Marner.
Speaking about the Toronto Maple Leafs’ playoff woes, NHL insider Chris Johnston noted on his podcast this week that audio likely exists of the bench argument between William Nylander and teammates Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews.
It appears the audio of a bench argument between several players was caught on a mic.
Fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs are preparing for the worst, yet again. The Maple Leafs are down 3-1 in their first-round series against the Boston Bruins, and while they’re not done yet, they haven’t been playing well, and their chances of coming back seem slim.
As Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman put it himself in the latest episode of 32 Thoughts: The Podcast, Game 4 on Saturday night may have been rock bottom for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Brad Treliving is getting his first taste of the Stanley Cup Playoffs as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs and needless to say, he can’t be too pleased with the dish.
After their rather uninspiring 3-1 loss to the Boston Bruins on Saturday night, the Toronto Maple Leafs are facing a 3-1 series deficit and facing elimination going into Game 5 in Boston on Tuesday night.
Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe provided an update on Auston Matthews’ status after the superstar forward was pulled from Saturday’s Game 4 against the Boston Bruins.
When starting to write this series I think there was either optimism or naivety involved. I didn’t account for how difficult it would be to come up with positive takeaways as the Leafs neared elimination, especially when there wasn’t a sense of urgency in the performance to get there.
On Saturday, April 27th at the Scotiabank Arena, the Bruins took Game 4 with a 3-1 victory for a 3-1 series lead. Brad Marchand passed Cam Neely for the most career playoff goals in Boston Bruins history when he scored to give the Bruins a 2-0 lead in the second period.
This is the darkest hour of the Auston Matthews-Mitch Marner era. There’s no way around it. After submitting one of the most listless performances of the past decade, the Toronto Maple Leafs are on the verge of elimination, falling 3-1 to the Boston Bruins in Game Four.
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner was roasted on national television for his lackluster postseason performance to date.
Toronto Maple Leafs franchise super star Auston Matthews had himself a game to remember in Game 2 against the Boston Bruins. He was in on every goal, assisting on two and scoring the eventual game-winner off a highlight reel, mid-air pass from Max Domi.
Mitch Marner, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ hockey player, possesses several notable strengths. Specifically, he has exceptional skill, a high hockey IQ, and strong defensive capabilities.
The Maple Leafs make their way back to Toronto for Games 3 and 4 this week and even though they feel good about splitting the first two games in Boston, there are some growing concerns over the output of Mitch Marner.
For one Toronto Maple Leafs superstar, Monday night at TD Garden will go down as a defining performance. Auston Matthews was everywhere in Game 2 against
During the regular season, there are few players in the NHL who can impact a game like Toronto Maple Leafs’ forward Mitch Marner. He is seventh amongst all players in scoring over the past five seasons with 415 points in 335 games and is coming off of another great season in which he recorded 85 points in just 69 games.
Either the Boston Bruins or Toronto Maple Leafs are going to cast off some bad postseason vibes in the first round of the NHL playoffs. For the other, yet another long summer awaits.
None of the first-round matchups in the Stanley Cup playoffs are garnering more pre-round hype than the beaut of a battle that will take place between the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Before the injury, the winger was on pace to crack the 100-point mark for the first time in his career.
Mitch Marner skated on a line with John Tavares and Bobby McMann at practice on Friday, and is expected to make his return to the lineup when the Toronto Maple Leafs face the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.
The Maple Leafs have made a pair of roster moves heading into their game Saturday in Buffalo.
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