Sam Lafferty was traded by the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Vancouver Canucks on October 8, 2023, in return for a fifth-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft. The Chicago Blackhawks sent Lafferty to the Maple Leafs in exchange for Joey Anderson, Pavel Gogolev, a first-round pick in 2025, a second-round pick in 2026, and…
When the Columbus Blue Jackets play the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night, they will have to contend with a hot-shooting Auston Matthews. After scoring two goals and dishing out two assists in Tuesday night’s 7-3 road victory over the New York Rangers, Matthews has five goals in his last three games, or seven in…
After Saturday’s 4-0 Toronto Maple Leafs win over the Nashville Predators, Head Coach Sheldon Keefe was asked about the team and how they played in front of Ilya Samsonov. Quoting verbatim, Keefe said: “Ilya Samsonov’s 18-save shutout: If you could draw it up as a perfect game for him, that would probably be it. He…
The Toronto Maple Leafs should take a page out of the Toronto Blue Jays notebook and swing for the fences. While the Jays didn’t ultimately end up with Shohei Ohtani, the fact that they came close was astonishing and inspirational. The Toronto Maple Leafs need to do something similar. There are a lot of rumours out there…