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Auston Matthews a maybe, Woll likely starter as Maple Leafs stare down elimination in Boston
In a must-win game for the Maple Leafs, their best player is a maybe. Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe told media in Boston on Tuesday morning that there was “no determination” as to whether Auston Matthews would play in Game 5 at TD Garden against the ...
PWHL Toronto heading to much bigger venue for playoffs
PWHL Toronto will more than triple ticket availability for its upcoming playoffs. Beginning May 8, Toronto will host a first round opponent but make the move from Mattamy Athletic Centre to Coca-Cola Coliseum on the Exhibition Grounds. The move is ...
Jack Todd: Bob Cole's voice intertwined with Canada's hockey history
It was fitting that Bob Cole died during the early stages of the national trauma we call the NHL playoffs. The play-by-play voice we associate with hockey more than any other this side of the untouchable Danny Gallivan, Cole died last week at age 90 ...
Better Bruins push Maple Leafs to the brink of elimination
Well, no one could say Scotiabank was quiet at the end of that game. And poor special teams and a bad Game 7 history in Boston won’t likely be talking points in Toronto much longer in this series. The Maple Leafs were booed off the ice, their ...
'Sigh of relief:' Jets defenceman Dillon day-to-day after suffering nasty gash against Avalanche
Not much has gone right for the Winnipeg Jets in the last couple games of their playoff series against the Colorado Avalanche, but they may have at least dodged a bullet when it comes to the hand injury suffered by defenceman Brenden Dillon on Friday ...
STEVE SIMMONS: Marchand the Magnificent key to Bruins' Stanley Cup hopes
Brad Marchand is six inches shorter than Auston Matthews, some 50 pounds lighter than Ryan Reaves, with a heart about the size of Zdeno Chara. And none of that is an exaggeration in any way. There really hasn’t been much to choose from between the ...
NHL roundup: Marchand leads Bruins to 4-2 win over Leafs in Game 3
Brad Marchand scored the go-ahead goal with 8:07 remaining in the third period, lifting visiting Boston to an eventual 4-2 victory over Toronto and a 2-1 edge in their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series. Marchand, who added a late ...
Jets nod off for six minutes against Avs, pay the price
Before Tuesday’s tilt with Colorado, Winnipeg Jets coach Rick Bowness, talking about the 8:45 p.m. start time, joked about having a nap on the bench during the game. Hours later his team went out and did just that. In good shape with a 2-1 lead past ...
Predators 4, Canucks 1: Goaltending wasn't the problem, everything else was
It was supposed to be about the goaltending challenge. It turned into concern about everything else as the air went out of the Vancouver Canucks ’ playoff ballon on Tuesday at Rogers Arena. Casey DeSmith supplanting Thatcher Demko , who was ...
Georgiev finds redemption in Game 2 as Avalanche tie series with Jets
There was a moment in Game 2 on Tuesday night where it felt like the Winnipeg Jets were about to take their first-round series by the scruff of the neck. They had just killed off Kyle Connor’s four-minute double-minor, and riding that wave of ...