Leafs Notebook: What’s behind Toronto’s home vs. road record?
The contrast in the Toronto Maple Leafs record at home versus away is well known – they are 3-5-0 in Toronto and 6-0-0 everywhere...
Leafs Notebook: Options with Auston Matthews out, Power play Adjustments, Kasperi Kapanen’s hot start
With only two games for the Toronto Maple Leafs this past week, I thought we would get right into the notes this week.
I’d also recommend giving...
Leafs Notebook: On 5v5 play, secondary scoring & special teams after nine games
For the second straight season, the Toronto Maple Leafs got off to a 6–1–0 start, setting the league on fire by overpowering the opposition...
Leafs Notebook: Leafs outscoring a high-scoring league, thoughts on defensive pairings, Nazem Kadri’s usage
Last season, the NHL averaged 5.86 goals per game, the highest number since 2008 (5.7).
I thought that made the timing of the John Tavares...
Leafs Notebook: Crunch time for the William Nylander contract, Preseason Observations & Predictions for...
It’s good to be back. Welcome to the 2018-19 NHL season.
I think it might be a good one.
Before we get to the notes...
Leafs Notebook, John Tavares Edition: Matchup Implications, 11/7, Cap Crunching, Can More Offense Help...
For a team coming off of a 105-point season in which their best player missed 20 games, the Toronto Maple Leafs have undergone quite...
2018 Toronto Maple Leafs Draft Notebook: Analyzing the Trends & Themes with the nine...
It was a relatively quiet weekend around the league, and the Toronto Maple Leafs were no exception.
After a trade down that many expected to...
Leafs Notebook: Kyle Dubas era begins with big questions looming in 2018 offseason
After a flurry of departures, promotions and one hiring (so far), the dust is starting to clear in the Toronto Maple Leafs front office....
Toronto Maple Leafs 2017-18 Post Mortem: Reflecting on Lou Lamoriello’s tenure, Playoff Takeaways &...
When Lou Lamoriello was hired as General Manager in July 2015, it came out of nowhere. While his exit a little under three years later...
Leafs Playoff Notebook: Seven
It always felt like it was going to come down to this – Leafs versus Bruins in a Game 7 winner-takes-all. And yet it...
Leafs Playoff Notebook: Kadri returns, Andersen steps up, Johnsson earning trust, Hyman providing spark...
The bottom line when it came to Game 5 was this: The Maple Leafs needed to win, and it didn’t matter how.
This was a...
Leafs Playoff Notebook: Pushed to the Brink
We almost exclusively focus on the Toronto Maple Leafs and their perspective of things in this space, but let’s take a few minutes here...
Leafs Playoff Notebook: Home Cooking
Well, we now have a series. That was closer to the Toronto Maple Leafs team fans were expecting when the series got underway.
And what...
Leafs Playoff Notebook: Mike Babcock under the microscope after Game 2 adjustments
After Game 1, we touched on the Leafs’ poor bench management after the team missed challenging a goal that was offside, put their fourth...
Leafs Playoff Notebook: Special Teams Swing Game 1
Game 1 will be remembered for the Nazem Kadri hit, and the score will show that it was a blowout, but the real story...
Leafs Notebook – Playoff Preparation, Fourth Line Decisions, D-Zone Draw Set Plays – April...
It’s an extended notes edition of the Leafs Notebook this week. Let’s get right to it!
Notes
- I was playing with some leading/trailing stats looking...
Leafs Notebook – The Bruins vs. Lightning Question; Andreas Johnsson’s first NHL stint; Preparing...
For at least a month – probably longer – we’ve known the Toronto Maple Leafs are making the playoffs and will finish third in...
Leafs Notebook – Franchise records within reach; Marner, Kadri and JVR red hot; Power-play...
With an awkward division format in place and the team still on the rise, it has been pretty easy to lose sight of the...
Leafs Notebook – On line balance, measuring Nikita Zaitsev’s impact, scheduling madness – ...
Since signing a seven-year deal last summer, Nikita Zaitsev has been one of the most polarizing players on the Toronto Maple Leafs roster.
This season,...
Leafs Notebook – Playoff brackets, Nikita Zaitsev’s play, Tomas Plekanec’s arrival – March 5
In the 2003-04 season, the NBA reorganized the league into a six-division alignment wherein the top seed in each division automatically received a top-three...
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Free Agents Targets for the Maple Leafs: Bottom-Six Forwards of Interest
As the activity around the NHL moves fast and furious, we will wrap up the forward portion of our free agent series with a...
