Cathy Squires

In a somewhat shocking turn, Kyle Dubas came out and said that he will either return as GM of the Leafs or he won't be working anywhere. He said that this season has been taxing on him and his family, and they will discuss his future in the coming days.

All the player interview videos from the final media availability of the season.

We ask the big questions and give our best answers before we have any idea of what to base them on. As is tradition.

You need some facts before you fantasy trade all the Leafs for stars on other teams. And yes, you could just look this up on Cap Friendly, but here's some things you need to know.

After game three of the second round, when the Leafs had played very poorly for three straight at a very inopportune moment, I went back and read two things from the end of the Montréal series. Both were about Mitch Marner.

Florida wins it in overtime. This is how it happened:

We know the Leafs can win an elimination game, they've done it before. That's just science.

Are the Leafs really on the brink of a long fall, or are they actually at the bottom of a long climb? I don't think that's a question of pessimism vs optimism or realism vs hopium. I think it's a question of point of view.

After opening overtime with 13 or 14 icings, the Leafs gave up a goal to the other Sam, as Reinhart played the hero.

I don't know what to think about the Leafs, this series or anything about the playoffs right now. I'm not very optimistic, but I've never been more irritated by outlandish performative pessimism.

The diagnosis is concussion, and the prognosis is at least two games missed, likely more.

That should read, fined for cross-checking Michael Bunting in the head.

The Leafs defence looked exposed and fragile in Game 1. And it also looked like it was on the forwards to fix that. Well. They fixed it all right.

The late April and early May schedules for the Maple Leafs prospects in the playoffs.

Come chat with us as we watch Round 2, Game 1.

It's a well-trodden path, but new to this New Maple Leafs team. The second round is where you find out if the naysayers were right, and your first round win was one of those random events hockey is famous for. The Maple Leafs believe they are where they should be. But so do the Panthers.

We talk about what we did last weekend, and our plans for this week.

This is too soon, we haven't even stopped celebrating beating Tampa or stopped laughing about Florida beating Boston long enough to consider that Florida might be pretty good. We aren't ready!

Bruins-Panthers Game 7 is on at 6:30 tonight, and we can watch the Leafs' next round opponent be revealed.

Guess who: I like his commitment to his bit – which is to walk the miscreants away from the crease like he's the bouncer in a club in the wrong part of town. I like his point shots, and also that he knows he's on the Leafs now, and he should use them sparingly. I like his defensive awareness too.

This post is just tweets of videos. It will break your phone if you didn't already throw it in the air when Mr. John Tavares esq. scored that goal.

It is fitting that the only goals in regulation were scored by Steven Stamkos and Auston Matthews, the two best shooters in the game (NHL?). Overtime decided a contest of intense, grinding effort from every player on both teams. This is how it happened: First Period Tampa takes the first

Toronto Maple Leafs @ Tampa Bay Lightning 07:00 PM at Amalie Arena Watch on: TBS, CBC, TVAS, SN, BSSUN

The Leafs lead the series three games to two and have two more tries at closing out this first-round series. As was clear last night, most series in this year's first round are tough contests going to six or seven games to solve.

Andrei Vasilevskiy plays his best game of the playoffs to take the series back to Tampa Bay. The Maple Leafs can't convert on their chances, and struggled, albeit a lot less, at what we used to call driving play. Auston Matthews tried his best, but he couldn't do it twice in a row.