Cathy Squires

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.

As of Sunday morning every team in the playoffs has played three games and all series are two games to one. How do the Leafs measure up to the other 15, and one other in particular?

Sam Lafferty has been fined $3,108.11 for cross-checking against Ross Colton.

The Leafs started out well, and then deteriorated while Tampa controlled the play. But Ilya Samsonov and Tampa's poor shot quality combined to give the better team through 58 minutes a one goal lead. Ryan O'Reilly tied it up and then it was a whole new game: Overtime.

The Leafs are leading the series against Tampa with a goal differential of +1 after one ten-goal game and one nine-goal game. So who wins game three?

April schedules for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Marlies and prospects in the system still playing in the post-season.

Michael Bunting of the Maple Leafs will have a hearing today with the Department of Player Safety for his hit to the head on Erik Cernak of the Lightning in game one of the playoffs.

The Maple Leafs vs the Lightning for the first time since the last time. Playoffs are here.

We dole out the reverse awards and decide what we loved and less than loved about the Leafs this year.

Are you ready for Canada vs USA?

Last offseason was the summer of the Leafs goalie. Up front, the Leafs got obvious fit Zach Aston-Reese. They tried a couple of others who didn't work out and they rolled to the trade deadline with mostly last year's team, as expected. It was the goalie moves that mattered for the regular season.

The NHL regular season is over and the playoff matches are set. Before we get to that, though, the Women's World Championship finishes this weekend.

Just because the Leafs season is over, doesn't mean all the rules governing player movement are suspended. There's more to the CBA than the salary cap.

Toronto Maple Leafs @ New York Rangers 07:00 PM at Madison Square Garden Watch on: MSG, TSN4

The Rangers are icing their usual lineup, while the Leafs are resting a few players.

Happy, Thursday, everyone, today is game 82 of one of the most interesting seasons the Maple Leafs have ever played.

That somewhat loopy game against the Lightning whetted the appetite for real hockey. Maybe not with Conor Timmins playing as a forward and the ATO du jour as a backup. But a series that does leave you asking: wait, are we blue in this one?

Toronto Maple Leafs @ Tampa Bay Lightning 07:00 PM at Amalie Arena Watch on: ESPN, TVAS, TSN4

Is the NHL picking on the Leafs, out to get the Leafs? No, actually, it's because the Leafs said, "Look over here, pay no attention to the hand behind my back," and the league said, "What's that behind your back?"

There's more to the Maple Leafs depth than Matt Knies. He's taken up all the oxygen in prospect discussion, and rightly so now that he's actually on the team. With his future plans settled, we can turn our attention to the rest of the prospects.