> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # From the Branches: Let’s Go Raptors! - URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/from-the-branches-lets-go-raptors-basketball-is-confusing-but-dinosaurs-are-cool/ - Published: 2017-04-25T09:00:01.000Z - Updated: 2017-04-25T09:00:01.000Z - Description: Am I doing this right? Plus, hockey links for your hockey-less Tuesday - Author: Anne Boyd - Tags: From The Branches, #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:01 Morning, PPP! We’re on our second hockey-free day between the first and second rounds, and other than Chicago firing a coach with a highly-punnable last name and the discovery that Joe Thornton’s knee was held together with spit and prayers for the opening round, there’s not a whole lot of hockey news to report this morning. In non-hockey news, playoff sports are still happening at the ACC! Fellow Toronto team and MLSE property the Toronto Raptors won Game 5 of their first-round series last night, taking a 3-2 series lead. I know nothing about the NBA, but I assume that’s good. Congratulations, basketball dinosaurs. May you triumph over the deer from Wisconsin and move on to the second round. #### ICYMI [Does Kyle Dubas have the experience the Buffalo Sabres need? - Pension Plan Puppets](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/does-kyle-dubas-have-experience-the-buffalo-sabres-general-manager-search-toronto-maple-leafs-news/) Terry Pegula said he wants experience running his team, but Dubas has never been in charge at the NHL level. [Where do the Leafs pick in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, and who will they look at? - Pension Plan Puppets](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/where-do-the-toronto-maple-leafs-pick-in-the-2017-entry-draft-and-who-would-they-look-at-hague-foote/) Some talented teens for the Leafs to pick in the high teens. [Is the season really over for all the Maple Leafs? - Pension Plan Puppets](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/is-the-season-really-over-for-all-the-toronto-maple-leafs-iihf-world-championships/) There are several players who may go to Europe for the World Championships. [Toronto Marlies sign Jordan Papirny to an ATO - Pension Plan Puppets](http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-marlies/2017/4/24/15407720/toronto-marlies-sign-jordan-papirny-toronto-marlies-playoffs-calder-cup-2017-maple-leafs-signings) The Marlies have brought aboard a King. A Wheat King. #### Maple Leafs News [Reunited at last: Toronto Maple Leafs and Raptors endured years of hardship on the road to the playoffs | National Post](http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/reunited-at-last-toronto-maple-leafs-and-raptors-endured-years-of-hardship-on-the-road-to-the-playoffs?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) A generation of young Toronto sports fans just had a chance to see something that hasn’t happened in the city for quite a while. [Young Toronto Maple Leafs beat expectations - just not their own | CTV News](http://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/young-toronto-maple-leafs-beat-expectations-just-not-their-own-1.3382243?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) The Toronto Maple Leafs ultimately made a 26-point jump in the NHL standings from last season's bottom finish, unexpectedly made the playoffs and nearly pushed Presidents' Trophy-winning Washington to seven games in the first round. [Up all night: How stadium workers transformed the Air Canada Centre in seven hours - The Globe and Mail](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/basketball/acc-nhl-nba-playoffs-conversion-hockey-basketball-raptors-maple-leafs-toronto/article34795882/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) Following the Leafs' elimination from the NHL playoffs Sunday night, the ACC conversion crew had seven hours to turn a hockey rink into a basketball court for the Raptors' playoff game on Monday. #### News Around the NHL [Blackhawks' firing of Mike Kitchen could reopen rift between coaching staff, front office - Chicago Tribune](http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks/ct-blackhawks-fire-mike-kitchen-20170424-story.html?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) The first change came Monday as the Blackhawks fired assistant coach Mike Kitchen. [New York Islanders Sign Dennis Seidenberg to 1.25 Million, 1 Year Deal - Lighthouse Hockey](http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2017/4/24/15411966/new-york-islanders-sign-dennis-seidenberg-to-1-25-million-1-year-deal-not-expansion-draft-posturing?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) The first Islanders offseason move of the year is... something. [Sharks' Joe Thornton played with torn ACL, MCL in playoffs - The Mercury News](http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/24/sharks-joe-thornton-suffered-torn-acl-mcl/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) The knee injury that Sharks star Joe Thornton suffered was a significant one — he tore both his ACL and MCL before the NHL playoffs began, the team announced Monday. [Coyotes' biggest question this offseason may be Dylan Strome's future - Five For Howling](http://www.fiveforhowling.com/2017/4/24/15399594/dylan-strome-arizona-coyotes-future?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) The Coyotes prospect has had another big year for the Erie Otters, but his NHL ability presents something of a question for John Chayka.