Analysis

Bruins and Leafs, Leafs and Bruins. Two teams you think you know well.

Put down the spreadsheet and just watch the game.

Is Liljegren the next domino to fall? More likely the last.

One team has a worse schedule than the Leafs, and who is going to lose the most?

How many people are watching the games live.

How do you solve a problem like Max Domi?

What's going on in the NHL right now?

Can the Leafs find a role for their eclectic mix of players?

An early look at the Atlantic Division and who is actually good. You'll never guess who is a paper tiger with good goalies.

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening.

And important set of five games for Fraser Minten.

It's only three games! Yeah, okay, true, and yet no one the Leafs signed this summer is a rookie. So how many games do they need before they start playing the way they usually do? (More than three, but I feel like venting.)

It became clear in Game 2 of the preseason the the Maple Leafs look serious about Noah Gregor, a player on a PTO.

The problem with Liljegren is that people try to sell him hard. I invented the term "big success" just for him.

Analyzing the draft history of Brad Treliving with the Calgary Flames and seeing how he stacks up against Kyle Dubas and the Maple Leafs. No reason, why do you ask?

For the Toronto Maple Leafs, the series against the Florida Panthers has had a much different arrangement than the one against the Tampa Bay Lightning. I have two points to make around this. My shorter point is I think the Leafs prepared well for the Lightning defensively with their specialized

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.