Monday FTB: No Leafs for two weeks

Good morning Toronto Maple Leafs fans!

It's the start of a long, long, two weeks without a Leafs game. It's absolutely disgusting.

We can turn our attention to the other teams I suppose. There's plenty of their games to go around.

The Marlies have five games while the Leafs are off. Next up is Wednesday Feb. 12, and it's the school day game! 11AM vs the Syracuse Crunch.

Schedule

They're in Belleville for Valentine's Day, taking on the Senators. Coming home the next night in a hockey convoy with Belleville to play at home on the 15th.

Monday, Feb 17 is another big weekday afternoon game for the Marlies as they're hosting the Laval Rocket at 2PM at Scotiabank Arena for the annual Family Day game.

The final Leafs-less game day for the Marlies is Friday, Feb 21 when they head to Syracuse to play the Crunch.

All games are available for streaming on AHL TV.

The Toronto Scepters will be there for you as well. They start watering out drought on Tuesday (Feb 11) by hosting the Minnesota Frost at 7PM.

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Friday night they're hosting the Boston Fleet, before hitting the road for several away games.

Sunday the 16th they are in Ottawa, then it's off to New York for a game against the Sirens on Wednesday the 19th.

All the games will be on TSN, except Tuesday the 11th, which will be on Amazon Prime.

There's plenty of big league hockey to fill the holes, or we can take a break and catch up on some good TV. Or speak to our loved ones, get to know them. See how their winter has gone.

Or, hang here and click these links.

With no games last night for some reason, we're bereft of news, and all we'll be getting for the next two weeks is trade deadline speculation, as Cathy noted yesterday,

2025 NHL Trade Deadline: Top 5 under-the-radar additions to watch

From depth defensemen to role-oriented forwards, these five could become big value pickups this year.

Daily FaceoffSteven Ellis

Prospects have a long road ahead of them to the NHL.

The Journey: NHL Prospects Stepping into Bigger Roles – Part 1

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. **** This week, I wanted to spotlight some NHL prospects who’ve taken significant steps in their development, and what those strides could mean

DobberHockeyPuneet Sharma

Ah, Forbes, my favourite sports magazine of record.

At The 4 Nations Break, The 2025 NHL Playoff Picture Is Sharpening

Since U.S. Thanksgiving, three NHL teams have climbed into playoff spots. Can the Detroit Red Wings and Ottawa Senators end their years-long postseason droughts?

ForbesCarol Schram

PWHL players were out on the ice with the future of the league.

Edmonton area female hockey players learn from PWHL Pros at Scotiabank Girls Hockey Fest

250 girls learned hockey skills from professional women’s hockey players at Scotiabank Girls Hockey Fest at Rogers Place. Bianca Millions reports on the event, and how both the program and the sport has grown.

CityNews Edmonton

It may be division 3, but one NCAA team is making history.

Color of Hockey: ‘Rising star’ Koelzer excelling as 1st Black woman coach of NCAA team | NHL.com

Guided Division III Arcadia to 2024 conference championship in program’s 3rd season

NHL logoWilliam Douglas

Winnipeg isn't know for airports, but it does have a hold on Lunar New Year hockey. From CBC Winnipeg:

"As somebody who didn't get to start playing hockey until their adult years, it's great to play organized hockey because I never got to experience this when I was young," said team White Snake goalie Ray Camphu on Sunday.

Barriers related to not speaking English as a first language, financial security and having knowledge of the sport prevented him from playing hockey at a young age, he said.

Camphu, who is Laotian, grew up in Edmonton where he says there was little to no outreach for Asian youth interested in hockey. He wasn't able participate in hockey until his 20s.

Drew Doughty got the call to play for Canada at the Four Nations Faceoff after Alex Pietrangelo bowed out.

Drew Doughty named as Alex Pietrangelo’s replacement on Team Canada

The Los Angeles Kings announced Saturday that their veteran defenceman has been named to Team Canada to replace Alex Pietrangelo at the 4 Nations Face-Off.

Sportsnet.caSportsnet Staff

Finally, congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles on winning the Superbowl, and even bigger congratulations to Eagles fans for being true to themselves. If you haven't seen a thread on the Philly police scanner post game...

They were dancing on the cop cars, not flipping them over. Learn from this Montreal.

Go birds.

Enjoy your day everyone!