Anthony Petrielli
Anthony Petrielli has been writing at MLHS since 2011. He is known for his weekly “Leafs Notebook” feature, and also writes specific analysis pieces. Anthony has been featured on GlobalTV, CBC Radio 1, Sportsnet590 and TSN 1200. You can contact him at [email protected] or find him on Twitter at @APetrielli.
The Maple Leafs’ top job is too big for “learn as you go” candidates
Over the past few weeks, as the Maple Leafs’ 2025-26 season painfully wound down, all the attention shifted to who will take control of...
On cost-cutting, AI, Pelley, and the Maple Leafs’ 2025-26 season from hell
written in collaboration with Alec Brownscombe
It has been a long time since the Toronto Maple Leafs were this bad. In case you’d somehow forgotten...
An eyebrow-raising start to the Maple Leafs’ executive search – Maple Leafs Notebook
While the Maple Leafs continue losing on the ice, giving fans some draft-pick hope, what’s happening off-ice is drawing the main attention, as the...
Game Review: AA gets shelled, a solid Leafs debut for Luke Haymes, and Berube...
On paper, this set up as one of the Maple Leafs' more interesting games in weeks, given their place in the standings.
Due to...
Is more urgency needed for getting the Maple Leafs’ new management in place? –...
On last week's 32 Thoughts podcast, Elliotte Friedman noted that the Maple Leafs are eyeing the Boston Bruins' retool with a similar goal in...
How deep will the organizational change go for the Maple Leafs? – Maple Leafs...
The first shoe has officially dropped: General Manager Treliving was relieved of his duties on Monday.
While much of the focus naturally shifts to the...
The house cleaning begins: Maple Leafs fire Brad Treliving eight games before season’s end
The inevitable has officially arrived, as the Toronto Maple Leafs announced that Brad Treliving has been relieved of his duties as General Manager.
https://twitter.com/MapleLeafs/status/2038779588659048951
The writing...
Let there be no doubt: The Maple Leafs need to clean house this offseason,...
As the Maple Leafs' 2025-26 season slowly crawls to an end, all eyes have naturally shifted towards the offseason and the major question marks...
The Matthews incident, Bo Groulx’s emergence, and the tank setback – Maple Leafs Notebook
In November of 2011, then-Bruin Milan Lucic was chasing down a loose puck in Boston. Sabres goalie Ryan Miller, identifying that he could prevent...
With Matthews out for the season and Gudas suspended for just five games, will...
The Maple Leafs have officially announced that Auston Matthews is out for the remainder of the 2025-26 season.
A day after a knee-on-knee hit by...
The 2025-26 Maple Leafs season is now in “tank and pray” mode, and the...
The rest of this 2025-26 Maple Leafs season will be a slog.
On the ice, there’s really nothing left to watch for or write about,...
Adrift Maple Leafs are neither winning nor learning anything right now
"You’re either winning or you’re learning" is one of my favourite sayings in sports.
It’s a constructive way to frame a game in a glass-half-full...
Instant Analysis: Bobby McMann traded to Seattle for 2027 second-round pick & 2026 fourth-round...
The long-rumoured Bobby McMann trade finally happened, and the return is less than was hoped for from the Maple Leafs' perspective.
After months of speculation,...
Instant Analysis: Maple Leafs fetch first and fifth-round picks for Nic Roy, but now...
The Maple Leafs' 2026 trade deadline has officially kicked off, as the team has sent Nic Roy to Colorado for a first-round pick in...
With trade deadline week upon us, the Maple Leafs’ question marks start at the...
The Maple Leafs left the Olympic break hoping to embark on some sort of winning run to give themselves a fighting chance at the...
Game Review: 2025-26 Maple Leafs sink to new low in loss to Senators
After every Leafs game, we try our best to write a detailed review recapping the game's events and providing insight into individual performances, storylines,...
Can Olympic gold provide a stretch-run boost for Auston Matthews? + Other key storylines...
The Olympics have come and gone, and the NHL stretch drive has officially arrived.
There are all sorts of narratives flying around after the Olympic...
Game Review: Better team loses Olympic gold medal game in three-on-three contest
Entering this gold medal matchup, it looked like Team USA owned the deeper forward group and a more talented defense, but when the chips...
Game Review: Cardiac Canada punches ticket to gold-medal game
Canada can exhale again.
Following a nervy come-from-behind win in the quarterfinal against Czechia, I thought Team Canada would have learned its lesson and taken...
Game Review: Exhale, Canada
In a quarterfinal rematch against a Czech team that Canada thoroughly outclassed just six days earlier, Canada got through to the semifinal by the...
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