Toronto Maple Leafs Rumors & News

TSN.ca "Colton Orr signed a new two-year, $1.85 million deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday. The 2012-13 season marked the final year of a four-year deal Orr signed with the Leafs prior to the 2009-10 season worth $1 million per season. After spending a significant portion of the 2011-12..." June 13

Edmonton Journal "The Edmonton Oilers will usher in their next head coach on Monday and by all accounts Dallas Eakins is set to take over a team that is again in transition. Eakins, 46, will be named the club’s fifth coach in a short six-year span, replacing Ralph Krueger, who was fired on Saturday after just 48..." June 10

SportingNews.com "While the NHL, NHL Players Association, International Olympic Committee and International Ice Hockey Federation all say a deal to bring players to the 2013 Sochi Olympics will get done, there are still roadblocks, according to Sportsnet's John Shannon. Two of the big ones: the league's desire..." June 10

Sportsnet.ca "Toronto Maple Leafs forward Leo Komarov has signed a one-year contract with HC Dynamo Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League, according to Sport-Express. Komarov played three full seasons, plus the start of the 2012-13 campaign, with Dynamo Moscow. In his first season playing in North..." June 10

Hamilton Spectator "If you're any kind of fan, maybe you'll never get over it. It was a little more than three weeks ago that the Maple Leafs were seconds away from ousting the Boston Bruins from the NHL playoffs. Now that the Bruins are a game removed from sweeping the Pittsburgh Penguins for a berth in the Stanley..." June 07

Toronto Star "The wreckage of the Maple Leafs’ post-season campaign is no longer a smoking, stinking hulk. The cleanup is well underway, and unless you’re at home replaying the final 90 seconds of regulation and overtime over and over and over in morbid fascination, some measure of perspective has probably..." June 06

TSN.ca "The Vancouver Canucks are having a second interview with Dallas Eakins this week for their vacant head coaching position, according to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger. Eakins, who has been with the Toronto Marlies since 2009 and has two years left on his three-year AHL deal, has received..." June 06

Toronto Sun "Tim Leiweke watched Toronto’s Game 7 collapse against the Boston Bruins from the highest vantage point at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. But the new president and CEO did not see it as another nadir of the Cup-starved franchise. With the introduction of Masai Ujiri as Raptors new..." June 05

NHL.com "All players entering the NHL beginning next season could be required to wear a visor. The NHL's Competition Committee met Tuesday here. Among its recommendations was a proposal that would make visors mandatory for all players entering the League, starting in 2013-14. Under the proposal,..." June 05

TSN.ca "According to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger, the Vancouver Canucks' interview process for their next head coach will continue with Scott Arniel and Glen Gulutzan believed to be getting an audience either Wednesday or Thursday. Dreger is also reasonably sure that Toronto Marlies head coach..." June 05

TSN.ca "The NHL's Competition Committee has recommended the mandatory wearing of visors be grandfathered in at its meeting in Toronto on Tuesday. The use of shallower nets to be used next season as well as a hybrid icing rule to be tested in preseason were among other recommended rule changes proposed..." June 04

Toronto Star "It will be a list of all-stars and pluggers, of first-liners and goalies, even potential Hall of Famers. Maple Leafs GM Dave Nonis — like the rest of his NHL brethren — will be watching and guessing who’ll be on the list of this summer’s new wrinkle to the collective bargaining agreement: the..." June 04

The Globe and Mail "Dallas Eakins’s tour around the NHL added yet another stop over the weekend. The Toronto Marlies head coach has become a coveted name as various teams look for coaching replacements this spring, with the Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks all expected to speak..." June 03

Toronto Star "If there’s one thing the Chicago Blackhawks can offer Leaf Nation, it’s hope. The Hawks were the one team with a longer Stanley Cup drought than the Maple Leafs before they ended 49 years of disappointment with a championship in 2010. The Leafs now have the longest drought in the NHL at 46..." June 01

Toronto Star "For the past three or four years, the Boston Bruins have been teaching the Toronto Maple Leafs a lesson. It’s been painful for Leaf Nation to watch, capped by Game 7 of the opening round of this spring’s playoffs. The Leafs have done a good job of learning from the rival they most closely..." May 31

NHL.com "The 2013 NHL Awards winners will be revealed in two live television specials during the Stanley Cup Final. At 7 p.m. on the day of Game 2 of the Final, the winners of the Hart, Calder, Norris and Vezina trophies, along with the Ted Lindsay Award, will be announced as part of an hour-long show..." May 24

TSN.ca "Hockey Canada is making changes to reclaim its spot atop the international game, as the national governing body has parted ways with head scout Kevin Prendergast and goaltending consultant Ron Tugnutt. "Those are not easy things to do, but we have to do it," Hockey Canada president Bob..." May 24

TSN.ca "The Toronto Maple Leafs may have some competition if they want to keep Leo Komarov in the fold. In an interview with Russian news agency RIA Novosti translated by Dmitry Chesnokov of Yahoo! Sports, the soon-to-be restricted free agent forward has already spoken to his former KHL club Moscow..." May 22

Toronto Sun "In all things hockey, it seems, Randy Carlyle is about moving forward. The Maple Leafs’ head coach hates the rear-view beyond addressing it briefly and carrying on. But for the big one that got away Monday night in Boston, the blown 4-1 lead in Game 7 of the franchise’s first playoff..." May 19

Toronto Star "James Reimer didn’t fall asleep until well after dawn. “Just lying there, thinking about it.’’ That’s how he’d ended the season too, just lying there, on the ice in Boston, though incapable of thinking through what had just happened, synthesizing it, not in the dreadful finality of the moment,..." May 18

Toronto Star "As Maple Leafs GM Dave Nonis wrapped up his season-ending news conference, there was only one player on the roster who received his unwavering support: Phil Kessel. When he mentioned the names of others — such as pending unrestricted free agent Tyler Bozak and No. 1 goalie James Reimer — there..." May 17

Toronto Star "Twenty-four years ago, the Memorial Cup was held in Saskatoon and included 19-year-old enforcer and Maple Leaf draftee Tie Domi of the Peterborough Petes, who spent most of his time riding shotgun for star centre Mike Ricci. Starting Friday night, the Memorial Cup, now attached to a major..." May 16

Toronto Sun "The unshaven faces of sadness and disappointment walked through and around the Maple Leafs dressing room, their expressions of shock saying more than their words could muster. It was that difficult. It was that challenging. It was, in so many ways, that sad for the Maple Leafs. A night that..." May 15

CSN New England "Trailing 4-1 with about 11 minutes left to play in Monday night's Game 7 at the TD Garden, it looked as if the Bruins season would be ending as the result of a blown 3-1 series lead. But the B's scored four unanswered goals to seal the deal on an improbable comeback, as Patrice Bergeron scored..." May 14

Boston Herald "That killer instinct you may have hoped the Bruins had somewhere in them did not surface last night at the Air Canada Centre. And the scoring touch, which had been so unreliable in the regular season before surfacing earlier in the series, has gone missing again as well. As a result, the B’s..." May 13

Boston Herald "Tuukka Rask didn’t even want to talk about what happened to the Bruins in the playoffs three years ago. The reference of the postgame question at the Air Canada Centre last night was, of course, to the B’s blowing a 3-0 lead in the 2010 Eastern Conference semifinal series, as they dropped four..." May 13

Boston Herald "For a team filled with playoff newcomers, the Toronto Maple Leafs have grabbed the momentum in this series like a squad of veterans. Led by goaltender James Reimer, making his first appearance in NHL postseason play, the Leafs head into tonight’s seventh and deciding game against the Bruins..." May 13

CSN New England "After intense, scoreless hockey through two periods Sunday night, it appeared that the first mistake from either team was going to decide whether or not a Game 7 in Boston was going to be necessary. That mistake happened in the opening minutes of the third period as David Krejci couldn’t..." May 13

CSN New England "Adding insult to the injury of losing Game 6 by a 2-1 score to the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre, the Bruins will be stuck in Toronto on Sunday night after developing mechanical trouble with the jet they charter. They will instead remain at the Toronto Four Seasons, where they’ve..." May 13

Toronto Star "They grew up watching Game 7s as children. Now the Toronto Maple Leafs — the youngest team in the NHL playoffs — get to play one. It’s Leafs vs. Bruins on Monday night at the TD Garden, with the winner advancing to the second round against the winner of Washington-New York Rangers. “It’s..." May 13

NESN "The Bruins have no one to blame but themselves, and if they don’t figure it out quickly — in less than 24 hours — their season will be over. The B’s played an inexplicably ugly game Sunday night in Game 6 against the Maple Leafs, and Toronto took full advantage of it. The Leafs won the do-or-die..." May 13

Toronto Star "Don Cherry took a veiled shot at Vancouver that earned him an ovation from Toronto Maple Leafs fans. Speaking during the Coach’s Corner segment on “Hockey Night in Canada,” the hockey commentator noted Sunday there were thousands of people watching Game 6 between the Leafs and Boston Bruins..." May 13

Toronto Sun "In the greatest moment of James Reimer’s young career, he skated a circle on the Air Canada Centre ice with his right arm and his goalie stick in the air, the perpetual smile on his reddened face, with an ovation ringing in his ears. He didn’t want to leave. It felt that special. It was that..." May 13

Toronto Sun "For the captain, the goal was one of redemption, not just for himself but for his Maple Leafs teammates who have given so much in the franchise’s uplifting return to the Stanley Cup playoffs. For leading scorer Phil Kessel, it was arguably the biggest goal of his career, a game-winner that..." May 13

WEEI Boston "The Bruins ended up having the comeback that mattered most, Boston came back from a 4-1 deficit in the third period against the Maple Leafs in Game 7 before advancing on an overtime goal from Patrice Bergeron. With the Bruins trailing, 4-1, entering the third, Nathan Horton, Milan Lucic and..." May 13

NHL.com "As if a disappointing 2-1 loss in Game 6 of their Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series against the Toronto Maple Leafs wasn’t enough, the Boston Bruins received more bad news Sunday night. Hoping to be able to sleep in their own beds before Monday’s Game 7 at TD Garden, the Bruins were forced..." May 13

Toronto Star "The Maple Leafs go into winner-takes-all Game 7 against the Boston Bruins with a bit of a controversy. Tyler Bozak is day-to-day with an undisclosed upper-body injury and his replacement — Joe Colborne — could be in hot water with coach Randy Carlyle. The Leafs kept Bozak’s injury a secret,..." May 13

Toronto Sun "It was bold, creative and acrobatic, and it showed something that has been growing in the Maple Leafs as a whole against a team that, not so long ago, was painfully lacking: Confidence. Mikhail Grabovski’s daring display two nights ago in Boston — where he scooped the puck on to his stick..." May 12

Toronto Star "Back to Boston. The Maple Leafs pulled off the improbable, forcing a Game 7 on Monday night in Boston with a 2-1 win over the Bruins on Sunday night. Captain Dion Phaneuf, with his first goal of the playoffs, forward Phil Kessel, with his third, and another outstanding performance in net by..." May 12

Toronto Star "At their worst this season, when the Maple Leafs couldn’t clear the puck from their own end and the opposition would outshoot them near 2- 1, Toronto coach Randy Carlyle would occasionally joke that it was all part of his grand plan. Allowing the other team to dominate the Toronto end, allowing..." May 11

The Globe and Mail "No one can say James Reimer does not have a sense of occasion. Throughout the Toronto Maple Leafs’ playoff series with the Boston Bruins, the Leafs goaltender was never terrible but not great, either. At the other end of the ice, Tuukka Rask of the Bruins was superb. He was making a case in..." May 11

CBC Sports "Randy Carlyle has been around the Stanley Cup playoffs block. As a player, the 1980-81 Norris Trophy winner suited up for 69 NHL postseason games. When he steps behind the bench of the Toronto Maple Leafs for Game 6 of the first-round series against the Boston Bruins on Sunday, it will be..." May 11

The Globe and Mail "You could have switched the jerseys – blue and white for black and gold – and few would have been surprised. As it was, though, this was a shocker. The Toronto Maple Leafs were all over the puck, dominating the play, hemming the Boston Bruins in their own zone for a full 20 minutes to start..." May 11

Toronto Star "A puck in the face to Mark Fraser is not the way John-Michael Liles envisioned getting back in the Maple Leafs lineup, but the veteran blue-liner is happy to get a second chance to prove he belongs. He played Game 1, but was a healthy scratch the next three games. “It’s never easy, just keep..." May 10

NHL.com "The National Hockey League moved closer to an agreement to send its players to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia during a meeting in Stockholm on Friday. The meeting included representatives from the NHL, National Hockey League Players' Association, International Olympic Committee,..." May 10

Toronto Star "The captain took the weight and the blame. “It’s a big mistake and a bad time to make it,’’ said Dion Phaneuf, facing a phalanx of reporters in the funereal wake of a Game 4 loss, his face both pink from exertion and grey, a look of bruising around the eyes, in the eyes. “I take..." May 09

Toronto Sun "Mark Fraser is recovering at home after having surgery on Wednesday night. The Maple Leafs defenceman was hit in the forehead by a Milan Lucic shot during the Leafs’ 4-3 overtime loss against the Boston Bruins in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal. “(Fraser) had surgery last night..." May 09