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Founded in 2008, Maple Leafs Hotstove (MLHS) has grown to be the most visited independent team-focused hockey website online (Quantcast). Independently owned and operated, MLHS provides thorough and wide-ranging content, varying from news, opinion and analysis, to pre-game and long-form game reviews, and a weekly feature piece entitled "Leafs Notebook." MLHS has been cited by: ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CBC News, USA Today, Fox Sports, Yahoo! Sports, NBC Sports, TSN, Sportsnet, Grantland, CTV News, CBSSports, The Globe & Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, Global News, Huffington Post, and many more.

Thursday Mashup: The kids are crushing it

Nylander, Soshnikov and Hyman continue to impress, the Leafs will again play the Red Wings in an outdoor game on New Year's Day 2017,...
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Game Day #66: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. New York Islanders

Toronto Maple Leafs (21-33-11, 30th in NHL) vs. New York Islanders (37-20-7, 10th in NHL) Puck drop: 7 p.m. ET Arena: Air Canada Centre Watch: Sportsnet Who's Hot Nikita Soshnikov: 3 points (2g,1a) in his...
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Game Day #65: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Buffalo Sabres

Toronto Maple Leafs (21-31-10, 30th in NHL) vs. Buffalo Sabres (26-31-9, 25th in NHL) Puck drop: 7:30 p.m. EST Arena: Air Canada Centre Watch: TSN4 Greatest Tank Battles Who's Hot Nikita Soshnikov: 2 goals in his last...

Game Day #64: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Ottawa Senators

Toronto Maple Leafs (21-31-10, 30th in NHL) vs. Ottawa (30-28-7, 20th in NHL) Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. EST Arena: Air Canada Centre Watch: CBC HNIC Dion Phaneuf Tribute Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwnvPmTXUQQ Who's Hot Nazem Kadri: Seven points...

William Nylander scores the first of many

You couldn't have scripted a more poetic first period for tonight's Leafs vs. Senators matchup: Leafs fans said goodbye to the past with a touching tribute...
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Game Day #63: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Minnesota Wild

Toronto Maple Leafs (21-30-10, 30th in NHL) vs. Minnesota Wild (29-25-10, 17th in NHL) Puck drop: 7:30 p.m. EST Arena: Air Canada Centre Watch: Sportsnet Ontario The two pieces of lineup info...

Game Review #62: Washington Capitals 3 vs. Toronto Maple Leafs 2

When you’re bottom of the standings with one of the youngest rosters, playing against the runaway Presidents Trophy favorites, a chart like this should lend...

Game Day #62: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Washington Capitals

Toronto Maple Leafs (21-30-10, 30th in NHL) vs. Washington Capitals (46-12-4, 1st in NHL) Puck drop: 7 p.m. EST Arena: Verizon Centre Watch: Sportsnet, CSN-DC, NHL-TV - William Nylander, Nikita Soshnikov,...

Game #61 Review: Tampa Bay Lightning 2 vs. Toronto Maple Leafs 1

There was a lot of disorganized energy on the ice tonight at the Air Canada Centre, as expected with seven new faces in the...

Game Day #61: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Tampa Bay Lightning

Toronto Maple Leafs (21-29-10, 29th in NHL) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (36-22-4, 9th in NHL) Puck drop: 7:30 p.m. EST Where: Air Canada Centre Watch: TSN4 It's William Nylander debut night. And Zach...

A visual breakdown of the Daniel Winnik trade

Courtesy of @SeanTierneyTSS: a visualized statistical breakdown of the Daniel Winnik trade to Washington in exchange for Brooks Laich, a 2nd round pick (2016)...

Trade deadline passes, PA Parenteau remains a Leaf

Ostensibly a lock to be traded, PA Parenteau remained a Leaf after today's 3 p.m. deadline passed. Back on July 1, the Leafs signed PA Parenteau to a...
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Toronto Maple Leafs recall William Nylander, Kasperi Kapanen, Zach Hyman, Nikita Soshnikov and Ben...

All of William Nylander, Kasperi Kapanen, Zach Hyman, Nikita Soshnikov, Brooks Laich and Ben Smith will be making their Toronto Maple Leafs debuts tonight. All told, that's...

Game Day #60: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens

Toronto Maple Leafs (21-28-10, 29th in NHL) vs. Montreal Canadiens (29-27-5, 21st in NHL) Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. EST Where: Bell Centre Watch: CBC HNIC Who's Hot Josh Leivo: Four goals in last four games Nazem Kadri: Five points...

Lou Lamoriello on the James Reimer trade: “We made a decision to give the...

Transcript below of Lou Lamoriello's media address on the James Reimer trade. I’m wondering if you can talk about what James brought to the table...

Saturday Mashup: Jared Cowen clears waivers, Leafs pursuing trade options; Parenteau to play, Hunwick...

https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/703626407642062848 The Leafs weren't realistically expecting anyone to claim Jared Cowen yesterday, but waiving Cowen enables any team acquiring him to stash the defenceman in...

Friday Mashup: Trade talk, Maple Leafs place Jared Cowen on waivers, PA Parenteau leaves...

The Toronto Maple Leafs have floated Jared Cowen out on the waiver wire hoping some team will take an interest in an expensive depth defenceman at no...

Game Day #59: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Carolina Hurricanes

Toronto Maple Leafs (20-28-10, 29th in NHL) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (28-23-10, 17th in NHL) Puck drop: 7:30 p.m. EST Where: Air Canada Centre Watch: Sportsnet Ontario Who's Hot Josh Leivo: Three goals in last three games Nazem...
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Wednesday Mashup: Isles interested in Parenteau?, Kovalchuk suspended & stripped of captaincy, 30 thoughts,...

Midweek news and links: https://twitter.com/KHLNewsEN/status/702499631587004417 https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/702175716234829824 https://twitter.com/sportingnews/status/702526678086586369 https://twitter.com/DimFilipovic/status/702529205318225920 https://twitter.com/ESPN_NHL/status/702509946143768576 https://twitter.com/globeandmail/status/702452801247518720 https://twitter.com/bdnwheatkings/status/702524449111859202 https://twitter.com/StatsbyLopez/status/702501832866865152 https://twitter.com/CdnPress_Sports/status/702367919808897024 https://twitter.com/MarkUkLeaf/status/702279032897826816 https://twitter.com/NicholsOnHockey/status/702275233101688832 https://twitter.com/leafsbuzztap/status/702343234056491009 https://twitter.com/LeafReport/status/702534866752114689 Todd McLellan shreds members of the team: "Maybe we get rid of some players" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XbPCcP38w8

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