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.
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...
Game Review: Team Canada takes care of business against the Swiss, clinches top spot...
Two games in, two wins for Team Canada, who clinched first place in Group A.
This game got off to a fast and furious start,...
Game Review: Team Canada opens Olympics with complete team win over Czechia
Canada opened their Olympic tournament with a resounding win over Czechia.
This game opened exactly how you'd like to see the first game of a...
The Maple Leafs shouldn’t sell just for selling’s sake at the trade deadline
With the Olympic break officially underway, all eyes in Leafs Nation have turned to the March 6 trade deadline.
I've already written on this subject...
Game Review: Maple Leafs enter the break on a high note with a satisfying...
They aren't dead yet. The Maple Leafs will head into the Olympic break on a three-game winning streak and five points out of a...
Game Review: William Nylander, Joseph Woll drag Maple Leafs to victory in Calgary
Tonight's opening shift perfectly set the tone for the 40 minutes to follow: Calgary put the puck in deep, cycled and outworked the Maple...
What does “selling” look like for the Maple Leafs? Laying out a 2026 trade...
The Toronto Maple Leafs should be in sell mode at the trade deadline for the first time in a decade.
That much is clear, and...
Game Review: More baffling lineup decisions, awful defensive play plague Maple Leafs in loss...
Well, any concern that the Maple Leafs would sweep their Western road trip and possibly fool themselves ahead of the trade deadline can be...
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