[The Athletic] "When one member of the support staff joked that Spurs should play a youth team against City, the manager was furious." (www.theathletic.com)
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Keefe on Thursday, five days after they were eliminated from the playoffs....
Management took a different approach this year, one that swerved away from past precedent: They would speak on Thursday, three days after players and Keefe. (Who exactly will speak was left unclear. GM Brad Treliving is a given. Team president Brendan Shanahan not so much. He’s spoken only sporadically throughout his decade in...
Auston Matthews appears poised to return to the Maple Leafs lineup in Game 7 after all, according to league sources....
In Game 5, the Toronto Maple Leafs planted a seed of doubt in the Boston Bruins, whose 3-1 series lead fell to a 3-2 lead....
Auston Matthews will be unavailable to the Toronto Maple Leafs as they look to avoid elimination for the second straight game Thursday. The 69-goal scorer has been ruled out for Game 6 against the Boston Bruins with an undisclosed injury, according to Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe....
Per his tweet “Giving them to first responders, health care professionals and other local Philadelphia-based organizations…”
This wasn’t training camp. This wasn’t a Tuesday in January. This was Monday afternoon, hours before the Toronto Maple Leafs would fly out to Boston for Game 5. And there was John Tavares, the captain of the team, still on the ice fine-tuning his game....
Joseph Woll didn’t hear no bell....
Almost two years later, Brandon Marsh still remembers what time it was. His phone buzzed. He answered a call that changed his life. “I was walking to the cage,” Marsh said. “It was 12:34, I believe. California time.” It was trade deadline day, Aug. 2, 2022 — the last time he stood inside Angel Stadium....
It was a mostly quiet morning otherwise for the Leafs ahead of Game 5 on Tuesday and potential elimination from the playoffs. No smiles. No laughs. Not much chatter. And no sign of Auston Matthews, who left Game 4 after two periods with an illness he just can’t seem to shake....
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A record 6 QBs were taken in the 1st round. Most ever.
The Boston Bruins threw 52 hits in Game 2 against the Toronto Maple Leafs and it felt like the Leafs rookie left winger had been the prime target of the heaviest of them. The 21-year-old was playing in his 82nd game of 2023-24 combining regular season and playoffs. That’s almost double his previous high of 47 games with the...
William Nylander confidently pushed his way through the largest crowd of reporters that have been at a Toronto Maple Leafs practice this season to take the same place he’s been throughout the entire series against the Boston Bruins, despite not having played a minute: At the centre of attention....
With an extra day to prepare for Game 4 in this first-round matchup with the Boston Bruins, the Leafs are expected to return with reinforcements when the teams battle here again on Saturday night....
When you’re expected to score in the Stanley Cup playoffs, time is rarely on your side....
William Nylander could be back in the lineup as soon as Game 3 on Wednesday night....
Game 2 was an even more physical affair than Game 1, but the Leafs did well to match the nastiness the Bruins brought. And their penalty kill held up better than in Game 1, showing that aforementioned patience. Killing off a third-period Tyler Bertuzzi slashing penalty ultimately swung the momentum back in their favour....