Cathy Squires

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.

The Leafs want to bottle up that Lightning and put it on the shelf for another year. And no one thinks that's going to be easy. The fourth win is a hard thing to get.

The Maple Leafs are back home in Toronto today, getting ready to do the hardest thing in playoff hockey – get the fourth win.

Toronto will play two games in Stockholm as part of the Global Series. One vs the Red Wings and one vs the Wild. The full press release is below.

So Tampa got the first goal, and the second goal and the third goal. So they made it 4-1. Nope, I was absolutely certain. I believed from about the moment the Leafs coughed up goal two, and I kept on pretty much to the end. And you can't prove otherwise.

PPP talks our way though game 4 of the Leafs-Lightning series.

With the series at two games to one in the Leafs favour, Tampa can't take back home ice advantage with a win. If the Leafs win, they take a one-game-wins-it series home to Toronto.