Maple Leafs Playoffs

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.

Scarborough's Michael Bunting is back from a three-game suspension following his Game 1 hit on Erik Cernak. While his suspension has been argued to be outside the norm and standard set by DoPS elsewhere in the playoffs, it's in the past now, and it's

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

The Toronto Maple Leafs let the Tampa Bay Lightning get a 4-1 lead, but we all know how dangerous that score is with Toronto....

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?

The Toronto Maple Leafs gave the Tampa Bay Lightning a taste of their own medicine and tie their first round series.

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.

This series preview tells the story of the regular season for both the Leafs and the Bolts. How they are similar and how they are different. And especially how each team produces their offense.

When I asked what we can expect the Leafs to score in the playoffs, the natural follow-up question is what about Tampa? I applied the same method to the Lightning, with a lot less quality of understanding going into the TOI guessing. I'm hoping most of my mistakes

There's a lot of lore about NHL playoffs. The depth has to chip in, the defence has to score, the grinders win you the series. A great fourth liner who doesn't get power-play time gets 10 goals in an entire NHL season. What are you expecting in a playoff round?