MLHS Staff
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Kinks in the System: Who Gets the Part
The pre-season Buds may have exuded that truculent belligerence so deeply worn into the modern Toronto fans lexicon, but they rarely looked convincing. Either...
Leafs-Sabres Post Game: Comeback Kids Fall Short
Ed. Note: Meet Daniel Santos, the newest member of the MLHS blogging team. Daniel serves as the Editorial Coordinator for The Score, and formerly...
Player Review: Leafs 4-0 Flyers
The baby Leafs cruised past a Philadelphia Flyers B team playing an increasingly dirty game Thursday evening. The first victory in a, so-far, entertaining...
Kessel: Waiting it Out
It took sometime to manifest, prolonged in the wake of shoulder surgery and stunted contract talks, but the September 10th news that negotiations between...
Quotes from the Battlefield
Former NHLPA Executive Director Paul Kelly finally broke his silence yesterday following his firing early Monday morning. In a vicious 24 hours that also...
Being Fingered: Jeff and the Seventh Man
Jeff Finger's name may be rampant with tireless innuendo, but few Leafs fans were laughing when interim GM Cliff Fletcher tied the unknown, but...
The Old School Coup
One would be forgiven for trying to avoid the latest behind-the-scenes circus to befall the league and its players association. Amid the ongoing and...
Fan Post: How will the Buds Fare in ’09-10?
Author: B Leaf
Last season, the Leafs were 10th in scoring (244) and 9th in shots on goal (2,603). There is no major reason why...
Don’t Give up on Blake Yet
So few players seem to ignite the dichotomy of emotions Jason Blake inspires. Undrafted, undersized and inconsistent, Blake rode the wave of a steep...
Kaberle: The Value of Speculation
As promised it has been a summer of comprehensive retooling both on the grind lines and perhaps more pertinently on the blueline. With Brian...
Eulogy for a Dinosaur
Although the season prior to lockout would prove the Maple Leafs last playoff foray in half a decade, neither year that straddled the infamous...
Loose Ends: The Draft and the Silly Season
While he would never admit it, Ontario native Nazem Kadri must of felt a twinge of anger at how the biggest day in his...
Draft Speculation: Goaltenders
Even in the days of modern technology, many still profess that meteorology is an inexact science more guess work than theory. The very same...
Stating Precedents
Celebrating a decade of squandered potential and faded dreams, the draft of 1999 turned out shallower than an infant—s paddling pool, yet despite being...
The GTR Bandwagon
Anybody who has played an EA Sports hockey title in the last decade will be familiar with the create-a-team function whereby the gamer is...
The Free Agency Bargain Bin
In the MLSE land of unreasonable expectations, even a superstar troupe like Burke and Wilson will not be afforded another record breaking season; at...
A Year On: Draft Class of 2008
Rewind a year to Ottawa, when interim GM Cliff Fletcher was preparing to make his last great splash. Trading up to secure hard hitting...
Western Conference Playoff Preview
Western Conference:
San Jose Sharks (1) vs Anaheim Ducks (8)
Preseason odds: Sharks 10/1 Ducks 12/1
Last 10: Sharks 5-4-1, Ducks 7-2-1
Season Series: Sharks win 4-2-0
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Eastern Conference Playoff Preview
While the majority of Leafs fans wrote the team off in the summer, it wasn—t until the New Year that the teams first true...
Could Emery soon be a Leaf?
So the Leafs are interested in throwing their hat into the ring as netminding bad boy Ray Emery looks for a new home? Somebody...
Recent MLHS articles
Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Boston Bruins – Game #5 Preview, Projected...
The Maple Leafs will try to avoid their quickest best-of-seven playoff elimination in the Auston Matthews era tonight at TD Garden (7:00 p.m. EST,...
