AUSTON MATTHEWS SEEMED MORE COMFORTABLE WITH AN ‘A’ ON HIS MAPLE LEAFS JERSEY.

TORONTO (Mar. 10) — There are a number of seminal dates in the history of the Toronto Maple Leafs, but Apr. 11, 2014 is fast–rising in prominence. It was the day Brendan Shanahan became president of ...

ROBERT F. KENNEDY EXCITEDLY WATCHED THE ARGOS AND ROUGH RIDERS AT CNE STADIUM ON OCT. 22, 1967 (A 28–28 TIE). THE ...

If considering only performance in the Stanley Cup chase, the Leaf gunners aren’t worth sh**. Marner included. The core ...

TORONTO (Feb. 24) — Whenever my time comes, I will take with me two remarkable badges of honor: I got to know Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky by name. Not bad for a small media muffin in a large bakery.

TORONTO (Feb. 21) — This was happenstance you rarely see. Teammates in the National Hockey League; rivals in the most–hyped international shinny fracas since the “golden goal” that won the 2010 Winter ...

TORONTO (Mar. 3) — It’s an annual rite of passage for hockey in this city; largely forgotten by the ensuing year. Which has yielded, as every year, not a feather’s weight of onus or urgency on the ...

TORONTO (Mar. 7) — If Scott Laughton and Brandon Carlo are the final marble slabs of the Maple Leafs, Michaelangelo could have stopped at David’s waist. The part everyone stares at in Florence would ...