Game Reviews

After watching the Maple Leafs fail to start Game 6 with any semblance of intensity the other night, I'm not sure why we should...

My goal is always to remain objective with these postgame evaluations, but there's something about the emotional aspect of last night that got to...

The Leafs deserved to lose tonight. Yes, they made a nice comeback. Yes, they absolutely outplayed the Habs in overtime. But the first two periods...

That's what happens when you turn the puck over. The more I got into hockey analytics, the more I tended to value some of the...

The hardest thing to do is put a team away to end their season. Montreal came out tonight looking crisper, more aggressive on the forecheck,...

Redemption game for the reclamation project against his former team After failing to register a single shot attempt in his previous two games, Alex Galchenyuk...

Up 2-1 in the series and on the second night of a back-to-back, many were wondering how Sheldon Keefe would approach his lineup decisions...

Well, that wasn't stressful at all! After dominating the run of play for two periods, the Toronto Maple Leafs decided to make things interesting for...

They don’t ask how in the playoffs. A win is a win, and there isn’t much time to think about it considering these two teams...

The Leafs finally fixed their power play! You could argue it looked pretty good in Game 1 apart from the shorthanded goal, but the floodgates...

After an emotionally charged Game 1, the Toronto Maple Leafs took care of business in a much-needed statement game of sorts to settle down...

Cursed game, cursed team. There's nothing I enjoy more than breaking down the nuances of Maple Leafs hockey, especially now that they're in a big...

There was a hockey game tonight -- and we will get to that -- but I’d be remiss if I did not start by...

It's over. It's finally over. I'm not going to lie, it's been quite difficult for me trying to take meaningful notes on meaningless games lately....

We're almost there, folks. It's becoming tougher and tougher to derive meaning out of these meaningless regular-season games as the season winds down here, but we'll...

The Toronto Maple Leafs didn't appear to be too engaged to start things off in this game. As good teams are able to do, they...

Scoring chances galore in a dominant win for Toronto I'm a big fan of using "scoring chances" to measure how well a team played. These...

The Toronto Maple Leafs couldn't quite hold on down the stretch. After leading for the entire game, the Leafs gave up the game-tying goal with...

Are the playoffs here yet? As much as I love spending my Saturday nights watching the Vancouver Canucks, I'm sure most of us are looking...

Let the load management begin! After locking up a playoff spot, the Leafs have started to rest some of their key players. Healthy scratches included...