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Toronto Maple Leafs’ No. 1 goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere thinks he and Jonas Gustavsson will give the team a strong tandem in goal.
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Phil Kessel and Tyler Bozak will lead the Leafs offence into the new season.
Rogers Sportsnet Ontario continues to be the official broadcaster of the Toronto Maple Leafs with 29 regular-season games, more than any other channel.
“Sportsnet has become the destination for Toronto Maple Leafs viewers and we are pleased to broadcast more Leafs games than any other Canadian broadcaster,” said Doug Beeforth, President of Rogers Sportsnet. Continue reading ‘Sportsnet Ontario to air 29 Leafs games’
D’Amigo signed a three-year entry level contract.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs signed forward Jerry D’Amigo to a three-year, entry-level contract on Wednesday.
A sixth-round draft pick in 2009, D’Amigo had a solid season with the NCAA’s R.P.I. Engineers last year.
“We’ve been very pleased with Jerry’s progression over the past 12 months,” Leafs GM Brian Burke said in a statement. “Seth Appert and Continue reading ‘Leafs sign F Jerry D’Amigo to three-year deal’
By ANTHONY GIORNALISTA
STATS Senior Writer
At the very least, the New York Rangers are playing as if they belong in the playoffs.
Their postseason chances appearing bleak entering this week, the Rangers now look to win their third straight game as they visit the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night.
A three-game losing streak seemed to have New York (33-32-9) resigned to missing the postseason for the first time Continue reading ‘Confident Leafs host Rangers at ACC’
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The Toronto Maple Leafs shook up their front office Sunday, with assistant GM Jeff Jackson leaving the club and senior VP of hockey operations Dave Nonis taking over GM duties with the Toronto Marlies.
In other moves Sunday, the Leafs announced that forward Jay Rosehill has been recalled on emergency conditions from the Marlies. He will join the Maple Leafs in Philadelphia this afternoon and will be Continue reading ‘Leafs’ Nonis takes over GM duties for Marlies’
It has been more than two months since the Boston Bruins won a home game, and if they can’t win one Thursday, it will be at least two more weeks before they finally do.
A visit from the Toronto Maple Leafs may be just the fix.
A loss to the lowly Leafs would match the longest home losing streak in Bruins history at 11, but Boston will be happy to face the Eastern Conference’s last-place club, which has dropped six in a row on Continue reading ‘Lowly Maple Leafs head into Boston’
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TORONTO — Ron Wilson could have pointed to the eye-opening television ratings. He could have talked about how a young group overcame its inexperience to challenge for a gold medal, and how the U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team he coached might finally have lit the flame of interest in its home country.
But he did not.
On his first day back to work at his regular job as head coach of the Toronto Maple Continue reading ‘Leafs’ silver lineup returns to Toronto’
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TORONTO — The Maple Leafs have added another ex-Calgary Flame to their roster.
Toronto claimed forward Jamie Lundmark off waivers from the Flames on Saturday.
Lundmark played in 21 games with Calgary this season, registering four goals and five assists. He also had 21 points in 32 games with the Abbotsford Heat in the AHL.
The 29-year-old is in his sixth NHL season, having played in 280 career Continue reading ‘Leafs claim centre Lundmark off waivers’
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ST. LOUIS — Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke made his first public comments Friday about son Brendan’s death last week in a car accident.
Brendan, a senior at Miami University and advocate for gay rights, was killed Feb. 5 in Indiana after his car slid sideways into the path of another car on a snowy road. Burke’s friend, 18-year-old Mark Reedy, also died in the accident.
“Obviously, Continue reading ‘Leafs GM Burke speaks about son’s death’
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — She reached out to Brendan Burke to say she was proud of him. Irene Miller wanted to tell the stranger who she had never met that he had done a good thing, and that by declaring he was gay in the realm of sports, he had changed lives for the better.
Miller, whose son came out when he was a high school senior, sent Burke a message last fall. Burke, the youngest son of Toronto Maple Leafs general Continue reading ‘Leafs stunned by death of Burke’s son’
