Maple Leafs vs. Bruins Series Preview: The Matchups, Special Teams, and Storylines to Watch
Well, here we go again—another year of Leafs playoff hockey and another first-round matchup against the Boston Bruins.
At this point, you have likely heard...
Game in 10: Familiar playoff flaws haunt Maple Leafs in Game 1 loss to...
Heading into this game, the Maple Leafs were 2-6 in Game 1s under this core. Make it 2-7.
There were a lot of familiar themes...
Game 1 Analysis: The song remains the same in another frustrating loss to Boston
For the second straight year, the Toronto Maple Leafs opened the first round of the playoffs with a near-worst-case scenario.
The Leafs allowed the first...
Game in 10: Dominant performance from Auston Matthews and his line powers Maple Leafs...
The Maple Leafs earned their split, and we have ourselves a series.
Auston Matthews and his line were fantastic. The Leafs got a penalty kill...
Game 2 Analysis: Auston Matthews drives the Leafs to victory
In need of a big win to even the series, the Toronto Maple Leafs leaned on the brilliance of their best player and got...
Game in 10: Special-teams struggles, home-ice woes continue in Maple Leafs’ Game 3 loss
The Maple Leafs stealing home-ice advantage was short-lived.
Despite finally scoring first against Boston, the Leafs' special-teams struggles are starting to prove too difficult to...
Game 3 Analysis: Familiar special teams failures doom the Leafs
It's pretty hard to win in the playoffs when you have the worse goalie and are massively outplayed on special teams.
For the second time...
Leafs Notebook: Series comeback hinges on Toronto’s offensive strengths coming through
After three playoff games, the Maple Leafs are down 2-1 in the series and face some lineup uncertainty around one of their best players,...
Abject Game 4 loss leads to more soul searching at playoff time for the...
Throughout the season and playoffs, we generally write post-games in a “Game in 10” format, breaking down the game into 10 digestible points that...
Game in 10: Joseph Woll comes up huge, Matthews-less Maple Leafs pick up deserved...
The Toronto Maple Leafs lived to fight another day.
Amidst all the turmoil and vitriol hurled their way, the Leafs went into Boston, dug in,...
Game 5 Analysis: Marner, Woll, and Knies keep the series alive for the Maple...
With their backs against the wall and without Auston Matthews, the Toronto Maple Leafs played their best game of the series in Game 5...
Game in 10: Maple Leafs lock it down defensively, William Nylander delivers offensively to...
The Maple Leafs needed to break the losing streak at home to keep their season alive. They delivered.
Joseph Woll was excellent again, the Leafs...
Game 6 Analysis: Pressure shifts Boston’s way after Woll, Nylander lead Maple Leafs to...
It was always going to come down to Game 7. Boston and Toronto at the TD Garden one more time.
The Leafs forced Game 7...
Game in 10: Same as it ever was — Maple Leafs fall in Game...
It might have felt different, but in the end, it was the same.
Game 7 in Boston goes to overtime, and the Leafs lose.
Your game...
With one playoff series victory eight years into the Matthews era, where do the...
In some ways, the latest Maple Leafs vs. Bruins post-season battle was one of the toughest playoff series to analyze.
Before the first game started,...
It’s time for the Maple Leafs to be honest about the flaws in the...
“The challenge here in Toronto is not coming up with the plan. The challenge in Toronto is sticking to it.”
Those were Brendan Shanahan’s famous...
Leafs Notebook: The positives and ultimate failures of the Sheldon Keefe era, and the...
The dust has settled since the Maple Leafs were eliminated from the 2024 playoffs and Sheldon Keefe was subsequently dismissed as head coach. Now,...
New head coach Craig Berube represents a style and attitude shift behind the Maple...
Craig Berube has been named the 32nd head coach in Maple Leafs history.
According to Darren Dreger, Berube's new contract in Toronto is four years...
Leafs Notebook: Marc Savard’s fit as an AC, Kampf, Tavares & Holmberg’s showing at...
Shortly after the Maple Leafs introduced Craig Berube as their new head coach, the Calgary Flames and Marc Savard, who worked with Berube in...
Staying or Going, Part 1: Max Domi, Tyler Bertuzzi, Ilya Samsonov, Martin Jones, Noah...
We’re just about a month away from the opening of free agency.
We’ll soon examine external options that might fill the Maple Leafs' needs in...
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Craig Berube on keeping the McMann-Tavares-Marner line together after Matthews’ return:...
After Tuesday's practice, head coach Craig Berube discussed Auston Matthews' return to practice, keeping the McMann-Tavares-Marner line together, and the challenge in Florida on...
