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Toronto Maple Leafs’ 2011-2012 Season in Review: The Surprises & Disappointments

Lukas Hardonk | April 18, 2012

Follow @LukasHardonk This is the third and final part of the three-part series titled “Toronto Maple Leafs’ 2011-2012 Season in Review.” In this edition we take a look at some…

Categories Toronto Maple Leafs

Toronto: Where Do They Go From Here?

Mark Ascione | April 16, 2012

It’s guaranteed to be an interesting off season for the Toronto Maple Leafs. The daggers are out. LeafsNation is unhappy, and with good reason. Things looked so good, then turned…

Categories Toronto Maple Leafs, Uncategorized

Toronto Maple Leafs’ 2011-2012 Season in Review

Lukas Hardonk | April 15, 2012

The 2011-2012 regular season has finally come to a close and the playoffs have begun, which means it’s now time to take a look back at the season that was…

Categories Toronto Maple Leafs

Pressure Mounting on Leafs GM Brian Burke

Tom Yawney | April 10, 2012

When you include the lockout, the Toronto Maple Leafs haven’t been to the playoffs in eight seasons. Leafs General Manager Brian Burke was supposed to change all that when he…

Categories Toronto Maple Leafs

Maple Leafs Panel: Kadri, Checking Role & Who Should Stay and Who Should Go

Lukas Hardonk | April 2, 2012

This week the panel discusses if the Toronto Maple Leafs have been toying with Nazem Kadri’s success, players’ ice time and who on the Leafs’ roster deserves to stay and who deserves to go…

Categories Toronto Maple Leafs

Toronto Maple Leafs’ Bottom-Six Consists of Too Much Diversity

Lukas Hardonk | March 31, 2012

The Toronto Maple Leafs have had a very rough season in 2011-2012. Has a poorly constructed bottom-six forward group played a key role in that?

Categories Toronto Maple Leafs

Five Things about the Maple Leafs in 2011-12

Mark Ascione | March 30, 2012

In Toronto, a 5-16-3 run since February 6 has eliminated the Maple Leafs’ from the playoffs, again. You’d think LeafsNation would be used to an early spring. But it’s different…

Categories Toronto Maple Leafs, Uncategorized

Maple Leafs Panel: Coaching Change, Veteran Players & Aulie Traded

Mark Ascione | March 5, 2012

Maple Leafs Panel is a weekly feature that is published every Monday here on The Hockey Writers. It is a feature where THW Toronto Maple Leafs correspondents Lukas Hardonk, Mark Ascione and Alex Mamalis answer three questions that concern the…

Categories Toronto Maple Leafs, Trades Contracts and Transactions, Uncategorized

Maple Leafs Panel: Who’s Expendable, Brian Burke & Nikolai Kulemin

Lukas Hardonk | February 20, 2012

The panel discusses which Leafs players are most expendable, if Brian Burke should be on the hot seat and what the team should do with Nikolai Kulemin…

Categories Toronto Maple Leafs

Maple Leafs Panel: Grabovski, Stepping Up & What Needs to be Done

Lukas Hardonk | February 6, 2012

This week the panel discusses where Mikhail Grabovski stands, who needs to step up and what the Leafs need to do best…

Categories Toronto Maple Leafs

The Tim Connolly Concern

Mark Ascione | February 4, 2012

Brian Burke made a pitch to acquire Brad Richards this past off-season. But after Richards decided on the bright lights of Broadway, Burke invoked his back-up plan, and gambled on…

Categories Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs

Are the Toronto Maple Leafs a Playoff Team?

Lukas Hardonk | January 2, 2012

The Toronto Maple Leafs could not have gotten off to a better start this season. A 4-0-1 record to open the season and a brief stretch as the league’s best team had Leafs fans all across the planet rejoicing.

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