Analysis

That the Leafs' offensive outbreak and first regulation win since November 19 (12 games) came against the League's top team could be pivotal in...

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The Maple Leafs played their best game of the season, but were dealt a taste of their own medicine with a sublime goaltending effort...

The Sunday game threw off the timing of the Leafs Notebook (along with life, work, and so on), so I apologize for the delay....

There isn’t much I can add to the powerplay analysis that wasn’t in the write up by JP Nikota describing the Leafs use of...

The opposite of the typical Leaf game from earlier in the season. A decent even-strength performance by the Leafs, but the game was lost...

A game in Ottawa on a Saturday night. It brought the goals, the chippy-ness, the sloppiness, and the Leaf win we were all expecting....

Unlike a singular rigid structure in the defensive zone, neutral and offensive zone systems fluctuate upon game factors including score, time remaining, and game...

Toronto welcomed the HBO crew with a 3-2 overtime victory at the Air Canada Centre.  They came out with the appropriate amount of desperation...

How will it happen & what does it mean for the Toronto Maple Leafs? A. Background In a memo released in September of this year, the...

Two vastly different Maple Leaf teams showed up, but neither were enough to muster W, as the Leafs fell to the San Jose Sharks...

The question for the Leafs right now is pretty simple: Is this the kind of slump that every team goes through over an 82-game season,...

Murphy’s Law is gripping this Leafs team at the moment. The performance wasn’t terrible in this one; it wasn’t exactly great, but there is...

Splitting the points with the Sabres over three games is far from a sign of promise headed into a tough December. Two of the...

INTRODUCTION I've always had an keen interest in systems, the X's and O's technical side, with a desire to document team systems across the entire...

The stuff of cardiac arrests. Please keep the 4-1 jokes to yourself. What a crazy game of momentum swings and refereeing-fuelled rage. 1 - The...

Good morning MLHS, First off, let me start by thanking Alec, Michael and Michael for inviting me to participate in Maple Leaf Hangout Episode #17...

- Losing to a young, inexperienced goalie that fought every puck, like in the loss against Nashville, is the kind of loss that really...

1. Countless odd man opportunities against. 2. Dreadful defense. 3. Bad breakouts vs. the trap. 4. Turnovers at the blueline. 5. Soft on the puck. 6. Too...

Lower scoring than one might have expected, this game was more entertaining than the scoreline suggests. The Leafs won the special teams battle and...