Der Toronto Maple Leafs Thread

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die vierte niederlage in folge

Minnesota Wild - Toronto Maple Leafs 5:3 (1:1, 2:1, 2:1)

0:1 (3.) Stajan 8 SH (unassisted)

1:1 (15.) Foster 8 PP (Bouchard, Gaborik)

2:1 (21.) Walz 6 (unassisted)

2:2 (34.) Ponikarovsky 11 PP (Allison, Wellwood)

3:2 (39.) Chouinard 9 PP (Robitaille, Rolston)

4:2 (46.) Gaborik 14 (Robitaille)

4:3 (59.) Allison 9 (Antropov, Klee)

5:3 (60.) Chouinard 10 SH EN (unassisted)

SOG: Wild 23, Leafs 22.

PIM: Wild 14, Leafs 14.

PP: Wild 2/6, Leafs 1/6.

-> Recap

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Ottawa Senators - Toronto Maple Leafs 7:0 (3:0, 3:0, 1:0)

1:0 (1.) Alfredsson 28 (Spezza, Volchenkov)

2:0 (18.) Heatley 31 (Spezza, Eaves)

3:0 (20.) Schaefer 11 (Fisher, Pothier)

4:0 (23.) Spezza 14 (Alfredsson, Heatley)

5:0 (29.) Alfredsson 29 SH (Heatley, Volchenkov)

6:0 (35.) Fisher 15 (Redden)

7:0 (45.) Fisher 16 (Neil, Schaefer)

SOG: Sens 41, Leafs 23.

PIM: Sens 16, Leafs 14.

PP: Sens 0/6, Leafs 0/7.

-> Recap

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saisonbilanz gegen ottawa: 0-0-5, 9:32 tore. lasset die spiele beginnen:

PASSIVE LEAFS PUT QUINN ON THIN ICE

It all unfolded almost a decade ago, but today it seems an eerie echo. It was March 3, 1996, that the listless, uncaring Maple Leafs were spanked 4-0 by the Colorado Avalanche in Denver, the club's eighth loss in a row. General manager Cliff Fletcher vowed not to fire the experienced head coach, Pat Burns, who had taken the club to two conference finals. "He's our coach. Period," Fletcher said. And the next day Fletcher canned Burns, evoking this priceless, perfect piece of commentary from late, great Star columnist Jim Proudfoot:

"The plain truth is that, sooner or later, the coach and only the coach must be held responsible when his athletes fail to perform," Proudfoot wrote. "The coach runs practices, formulates plans and changes personnel during matches, but his most important function by far is to prepare his men to play their best hockey, beginning with each faceoff. If he can't do that, the rest of the job description is meaningless."

The current coach of the Leafs, Pat Quinn, knew and admired our man "Chester" as we called him and was an avid reader of his columns. Which means, in the wake of last night's 7-0 destruction at the hands of the Ottawa Senators that created the longest losing streak for the Leafs since Burns' ouster, Quinn has to know his job is now on the line.

"You don't worry about those things," Quinn said after his team slipped down to ninth place in the conference. "I'm worried about 23 guys." Those guys, however, seem not terribly worried about him.

Tomorrow night, quite clearly, is the most important regular-season game of Quinn's coaching career in Toronto. He doesn't necessarily have to win, although with teams possessing a greater organizational thirst for victory, that would surely be the case. But Quinn's Leafs must compete ferociously and must give the high-flying Senators a serious game, a game that cannot be anything like last night's. Or the 8-2 loss to the Sens on Dec.17. Or the 8-0 humiliation at the ACC on Oct.29.

Even in the "new" NHL, a more wide-open version of that which we watched before the lockout, no team loses by that many goals to the same team that many times in less than three months. It just doesn't happen. Not to lowly Pittsburgh, not to dreadful St. Louis. Not to anybody and definitely not with the opponent going 0 for 6 on the power play. The Sens are a very, very strong team, but they aren't that good.

The Leafs, however, are that flawed in terms of talent and heart. Their solid first half, which attracted many compliments from here and everywhere despite lousy defensive stats, now seems a mirage based mostly on playing a lot more home games than road contests.

Before firing Burns in '96, Fletcher fiddled with the lineup, sending Bill Berg and Sergio Momesso to the Rangers for Wayne Presley and Nick Kypreos, but it didn't change much. Similarly, there is no trade so momentous it could fix this edition of the Leafs, a team that accepted the one-sided result last night as meekly as the Toronto team that rolled over in Denver that March evening 10 years ago and sealed Burns' fate. They weren't even involved enough last night to get pushed around.

Firing Quinn, of course, isn't the magic pill, either. Remember, the Leafs were bounced in the first round in the '96 playoffs with Nick Beverley in place of Burns behind the bench. But there is a youthful and very available alternative these days with the Marlies in Paul Maurice and you'd have to believe John Ferguson is different from every GM in the history of the sport to believe he won't look at dumping the coach if this death spiral continues.

Moreover, Quinn has no contract beyond the end of this season. So if this Leaf team really likes this coach, we should see an expression of that affection tomorrow night, because they are playing to save his job.

-> TheStar.com

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TRADE MATS, NOW!

Time has come for the Maple Leafs to rebuild. The Leafs Nation is proud, boisterous and defiant beyond words. It hasn't been subjected to a legitimate crisis in some time. But the difficulties it currently faces possess the potential to blossom into a full-blown freefall.

As the trade deadline and playoffs steadily approach, the Leafs continue to flail, with different factions each approaching a crossroads. John Ferguson Jr. remains a GM in a precarious position who requires immediate success in order to retain his job. The team itself portrays an unstable core defence, a veteran goaltender being hung out to dry and a patchwork offence incapable of providing the assistance required to string together multiple wins. It's understandable why Leafs fans are displaying less bravado than usual.

The Eastern Conference is not to be trifled with, especially when a single point could be the difference between golfing in April and hoisting the Stanley Cup in June. Drastic actions are called for in situations like these. JFJ needs to do the taboo. He must trade Mats Sundin.

Sundin possesses the unofficial title of franchise player for Toronto. He is the face of the Leafs, similar to Daniel Alfredsson for the Senators, and indeed Joe Thornton, during his time with the Bruins. The trading of Thornton created a massive uproar among the Bruins faithful, with fans stating that they would never purchase season tickets again.

But the Leafs are an aberration of the norm -- the teams iced by Toronto in the '80s provide evidence of that. If one person was to tear up his season tickets, there would be 10 waiting to replace him. Leaf fans seethe, fume and complain. Constantly. But they always support their team. It's easy to assume they would continue to do so, with or without Sundin in the lineup. And whether the Leafs organization or its fans want to admit it, the time to rebuild is obviously nigh. Sundin is in his 11th year with Toronto and has skated alongside teammates that possessed the swagger and skill of potential champions. This year's squad does not fall into that category.

Have you viewed the Leafs' website lately? The roster lists a total of six players as wingers. All other forwards are displayed as centres. Undoubtedly this is some sort of creative spin, suggesting that the team possesses unknown versatility. Reality paints a different picture. How successful can Sundin truly be when Darcy Tucker and Jeff O'Neill are sometimes chosen to flank him? Where else in the league are players like Alex Steen or Matt Stajan considered first-line wingers?

Sundin has maintained nearly a point-per-game average in spite of this. It bodes well in the grand scheme of things, if Ferguson were to pull off a swap. The GM currently is walking a tightrope -- it stands to reason his job would be in jeopardy unless there was a dramatic turnaround that took the Leafs deep into the playoffs. As the trade deadline approaches, there will be many a team in search of a top-flight centre.

Sundin has the credibility, feistiness and decent leadership skills that play into a trade's favour. The Toronto captain may be revered by the Leaf faithful, but it serves little purpose to retain the strongest player if they are ultimately weakening the team. Bryan McCabe and Tomas Kaberle should be salvaged. The nurturing of top goaltending prospects Justin Pogge and Tuukka Rask must continue. And right now, the potential of all Leafs players must be questioned, in order for this team to move forward.

The decision to rebuild is never an easy one, but the Leafs need to seriously consider beginning the process if they wish to eventually contend for the Stanley Cup. They are missing many pieces of the puzzle and may have to trade their most cherished piece away.

-> Ottawa Sun

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Ottawa Senators - Toronto Maple Leafs 4:3 (2:0, 0:1, 2:2)

1:0 (5.) Fisher 17 (Schaefer, Neil)

2:0 (17.) Alfredsson 30 (Spezza, Heatley)

2:1 (29.) Domi 4 (Kaberle, Steen)

3:1 (44.) Redden 8 PP (Heatley, Alfredsson)

4:1 (46.) Smolinski 10 (Vermette, Colchenkov)

4:2 (52.) Wellwood 7 (Domi, O'Neill)

4:3 (58.) Antropov 6 PP (Sundin, Klee)

SOG: Sens 22, Leafs 26.

PIM: Sens 18, Leafs 22.

PP: Sens 1/6, Leafs 1/4.

-> Recap

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Ottawa Senators - Toronto Maple Leafs 4:3 (2:0, 0:1, 2:2)

1:0 (5.) Fisher 17 (Schaefer, Neil)

2:0 (17.) Alfredsson 30 (Spezza, Heatley)

2:1 (29.) Domi 4 (Kaberle, Steen)

3:1 (44.) Redden 8 PP (Heatley, Alfredsson)

4:1 (46.) Smolinski 10 (Vermette, Colchenkov)

4:2 (52.) Wellwood 7 (Domi, O'Neill)

4:3 (58.) Antropov 6 PP (Sundin, Klee)

SOG: Sens 22, Leafs 26.

PIM: Sens 18, Leafs 22.

PP: Sens 1/6, Leafs 1/4.

-> Recap

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war dann schlussendlich noch ein knappes spiel obwohl die senators als eindeutige favoriten ins spiel gegangen sind

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Toronto Maple Leafs - Buffalo Sabres 4:8 (1:2, 3:3, 0:3)

1:0 (5.) Steen 12 PP (Wellwood, Sundin)

1:1 (13.) Hecht 13 (Gaustad, Afinogenov)

1:2 (19.) Roy 5 (Afinogenov, McKee)

1:3 (24.) Campbell 8 PP (Drury, Pominville)

1:4 (24.) Vanek 14 (unassisted)

2:4 (29.) Steen 13 PP (Wellwood, Kaberle)

3:4 (34.) Ponikarovsky 12 (Antropov, Klee)

3:5 (34.) Pominville 10 (unassisted)

4:5 (37.) Khavanov 4 SH (Kilger, Sundin)

4:6 (47.) Drury 17 PP (Kotalik, Campbell)

4:7 (53.) Vanek 15 PP (Hecht, Fitzpatrick)

4:8 (20.) McKee 4 SH EN (unassisted)

SOG: Leafs 37, Sabres 32.

PIM: Leafs 18, Sabres 18.

PP: Leafs 2/8, Sabres 3/8.

-> Recap

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7 niederlagen in folge, die playoffs wackeln bedenklich - und das panikorchester übt sich nicht ganz zu unrecht in kakophonie.

HELP ON WAY FOR LEAFS

Three white knights appeared at practice yesterday and could soon be coming to rescue the sinking Maple Leafs. Darcy Tucker, Bryan McCabe and Eric Lindros were at Lakeshore Lions Arena yesterday, all wearing the snowy sweaters that marked them as injured players. Top-scoring forward Tucker is a possibility for the game against the Montreal Canadiens tonight, while he and No. 1 defenceman/leading points man McCabe both plan to play on the three-game swing through the southern U.S. next week. The duo's imminent return comes with news of another casualty on defence, a rib injury to veteran Aki Berg that will sideline him a few games.

The Leafs recalled Jay Harrison from the Marlies yesterday for his first National Hockey League test after a four-year minor-league apprenticeship for the Oshawa resident. Harrison had just climbed off the minor-league bus in Manchester, N.H., late Thursday after a 12-hour ride when he was recalled, flying back early yesterday.

"(Berg's rib) is not broken, but there is some stretching in there," Leafs coach Pat Quinn said. "There was probably a displacement and they popped it back in. I don't have a (return) time on him. It's the same situation that troubled him in training camp."

Tucker, also nursing sore ribs, was a bit more cautious about jumping back into the lineup than he was on Thursday, no doubt calculating that the extra two days rest might be the prudent course.

"We have to be in tune with our medical staff to be sure we can consider Darcy's entreaties to go back in," Quinn said, wary of letting him play hurt again. But the urge to get all hands back to halt a seven-game losing streak is tempting. "Certain guys in your lineup weather those storms better than others," Quinn said. "Darcy is one of our leaders."

It was McCabe's first practice since a minor groin tear was detected after a Jan. 7 game in Edmonton, coinciding with the team slump. "It was all out, positive signs with no setbacks," McCabe said. "As long as there is no stiffness, hopefully I can go Monday (against the Florida Panthers) or Tuesday (in Tampa). Groin injuries are a big issue now (in the NHL) and something you can't rush. But you know your own body and as far as I can tell, it feels good."

Lindros, wearing a new brace to support a healing ligament tear in his right wrist, at least was able to flip pucks yesterday, but isn't expected back until February. "I'm looking forward to (shooting) next week," he said. "It's back to basics now, back to hockey school."

-> Toronto Sun

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TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW

It is a contest of massive import for the beleaguered Maple Leafs players, their coaches and general manager. Losers of seven games in a line and now occupying a non-playoff spot in the NHL's Eastern Conference, the Leafs are desperate for a win.

The equally lamentable Montreal Canadiens, a point behind the Leafs in the standings, are just as desperate and currently just as inept.

When things are going well, there is no better place to be a hockey player than either in Toronto or Montreal. Praise flows like champagne on New Year's Eve. And when things are going poorly it is hell on earth.

The machinations on the basketball side of the Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, Ltd. empire this week have served as something of an emotional accelerator on the hockey side as well. The Leafs Nation exists in a state of panic at the best of times and this has its nervous citizens just about over the edge.

Cries of, "Off with their heads!" have reached all the way to the enterprise's ivory tower, where CEO Richard Peddie resides, though it's hard to tell if anyone of substance (i.e. the Teacher's Pension Fund) is paying any attention at all, so caught up in counting their money are they.

Three years ago, in February 2003, the new structure of MLSEL was unveiled, with Larry Tanenbaum as chairman-elect, replacing Steve Stavro. "We have one objective," Tanenbaum said that day. "To bring home championships. Together with you, we crave that victory parade." Nothing that has happened between that day and this would suggest that Tanenbaum was being anything but disingenuous. The only parade taking place at Bay and Lakeshore is to the bank.

In the intervening years, the Leafs and Raptors both hired general managers. Both were brand new to their positions, rookies willing to work cheap, and neither one of them has accomplished anything of significance in the pursuit of championships. Meanwhile, MLSEL is rolling in dough. If the board was so jacked up about winning, why didn't it insist on getting the very best managers available instead of a couple of guys wet behind the ears?

Now Rob Babcock has been fired. Can John Ferguson Jr. be far behind if this hockey season continues down this slippery slope?

It always has been easy for the Leafs to stay competitive, given their affluence. Now, with a hard salary cap to limit their spending, they actually have to develop players, something they've never been very good at because it wasn't necessary.

In a sane world, the Leafs would declare this team's cycle at an end, blow up the roster and sacrifice a season or two while they patiently retool. Unfortunately, there seems to be a philosophy here that it is unacceptable for a Toronto hockey team to take that path, even though the Leafs have gone nearly four decades since their most recent Stanley Cup trying it the other way.

Two years ago, Carolina missed the playoffs. Now the Hurricanes are the No. 1 team in the league. They did it by adapting to the new game with speed and youth, for the most part. So, there is another way to get better rather than by hiring old, slow guys with recognizable names.

It says here that Leafs fans just might be willing to live with a team that struggles for a year or two if they're convinced the franchise is building with the kind of talent it will take to win in this league in the future.

But, back to reality.

Maybe, just maybe, this will be the night the Leafs snap their losing streak. Darcy Tucker will be back for this one. Bryan McCabe will not be far behind. Eric Lindros had his first full practice with the team in six weeks yesterday, so he is coming back soon.

"We've got to do it (tonight)" Matt Stajan said. "It's a big test for both teams to see who's going to snap out of it. We have to make sure it's us."

Here comes the cavalry to turn things around just enough for the Leafs to sneak into the playoffs, where they will get filled in by the Hurricanes or maybe the Ottawa Senators.

-> Toronto Sun

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WINS, LOSSES MEAN NOTHING TO MLSE

The choir is building, even if the song remains the same: when it comes to building winning sports teams, Richard Peddie couldn't find a skunk in a phone booth. He should have nothing to do with choosing the people who choose the people who play the games. Because his judgment in this area, terrible to this point, as reaffirmed by the Rob Babcock bungle, is beyond ever trusting again.

But talk about building the brand of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, or about making his bosses happy — in this case, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan — and Peddie is doing a tremendous job. Fire him? The higher-ups wish his picture was on the money he's making them.

Let us review. Twenty-five years ago, a man named Harold Ballard ran an aging arena and an institution of a hockey team and, for some reason, also bought a Canadian Football League team. The entire operation had a budget of $5 million; the Maple Leafs were a $4 million outfit and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats cost $1 million, front to back.

Things happened. Ballard died. The Blue Jays got very good and very popular and 15 years ago, the Leafs remained an institution, but played a clear second-fiddle as the Jays ruled the roost briefly. That's a fact. But things kept happening. Baseball quickly fell out of favour and the Maple Leafs, spurred by a generation of young fans with scant or zero personal recollection of the glories of 1967, became big. Bigger. Huge.

This entire Leaf Nation thing took on a life of its own in the past dozen or so years, even as ownership of the team passed through the Honest Grocer's hands. A basketball team arrived and was kind enough to build its own arena — without dunning the public, by the way — and with the building all but in place, the hockey proprietors took over the basketball team from feuding owners and here it suddenly all was — Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, operating out of the Air Canada Centre.

Arriving, too, was Peddie, whose previous lives included stops at Pillsbury and the SkyDome. Peddie quickly understood that the Maple Leaf logo had both magical and foolproof marketing powers and — this is critical — those powers did not diminish whether the team was good or bad. Not even a disgraceful pedophilia scandal had harmed it. Nor will any eight-game losing streaks.

Peddie figured everything out and acted while Larry Tanenbaum, chairman of the board, filled the cliché role as smiling owner who wished to hang around players. He went on vacation with Vince Carter and Tie Domi and was everyone's friend. (When the time came, he made sure Domi got his contract.)

In Larry's other life, he likes to pour concrete. He's a high-end Liberal bagman and strangely enough, government money keeps rolling toward his building companies.

It was Peddie, though, who moved the company forward on the logo's marketing power and look at MLSE now: it has condo towers and a hotel deal and restaurants. It has two television channels. It has a deal with an online poker company that looks here like the first step toward obtaining the inevitable downtown casino licence. It has a soccer stadium coming, coerced out of taxpayers, and a pro soccer team on the way. It swiped a city-owned arena at the CNE, giving it a home for its top minor league team, and inserted itself into control of a $45 million arena in Oshawa built, again, by the public. It's angling now to scoop up Union Station, which would give it almost all the property from Front St. to the Lake Shore and Bay almost to University Ave. They'll call it Fortress Maple Leaf.

While other sports teams tried to sell T-shirts and keychains, Peddie went bigger. He knew to use the logo to sell $800,000 condominiums. Sell souvenirs to kids, by all means, but also sell phony promises to governments.

Harold Ballard's little $5 million empire — yes, we called it an empire in those days — has been replaced by this ever-growing conglomerate that, at last year's callover, was valued at $1.1 billion and shows no signs of shrinking.

The basketball team may suck and the hockey team can equal its longest losing streak in 10 years tonight. In the big picture, it scarcely matters. (Remember, the hockey lockout eventually provided more revenue for MLSE in salary savings alone than three rounds of playoff gates would provide.)

The big wins for MLSE — the only ones that clearly matter — come on the balance sheet and have Peddie's fingerprints all over them. So, again, find somebody to run the sporting side, by all means. But fire him? The way MLSE does business, it would be crazy to.

-> TheStar.com

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LEAFS IN DANGER OF MISSING PLAYOFFS

When Sports Illustrated boldly predicted last fall that the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs would miss the playoffs this season, the players and coaches in both cities scoffed that the popular magazine didn't exactly have the best record at seeing the future. But here we are, with less than three months remaining in the 2005-06 National Hockey League regular season, and the two teams are fighting for their playoff lives.

The Canadiens have 34 games remaining and sit in 10th place in the Eastern Conference standings, one point behind the ninth-place Maple Leafs, who have 33 games left to play. Tonight at the Air Canada Centre they continue their push toward a playoff spot with the 671st meeting between the historic franchises.

Both clubs are struggling. The Leafs have dropped eight of their past nine games and seven in a row. Since Montreal general manager Bob Gainey stepped behind the bench after firing Claude Julien, the Habs have three wins in seven outings.

“Somebody could have made a lot of money last October,” Hockey Night in Canada analyst Harry Neale said. “It would be an awful void for hockey fans across the country. I haven't really thought about it, that both Montreal and Toronto could miss the playoffs, but right now it looks like a possibility. Has it ever happened before?” Only on three occasions: in 1969-70, 1925-26 and 1919-20. But even 36 years ago, it was a bit of a fluke.

The Leafs, with a 27-year-old defenceman named Pat Quinn in the lineup, finished a distant sixth in the East Division. But heading into the final day of the regular season, the Canadiens had a hold on the fourth and final playoff position in the East and were two points up on the New York Rangers.

The Rangers, however, had beaten the Detroit Red Wings earlier in the season's final day. And that happened to some extent because the Wings, after clinching third place the previous evening, spent the night celebrating and sat out Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio against the Rangers.

So the Habs needed either a win, tie or to score at least five goals, since that season the number of goals-for was the first tiebreaker, against the Chicago Blackhawks. When the Canadiens fell behind the Hawks 5-2, Claude Ruel, in his first season behind the bench after the retirement of Toe Blake, decided to go for broke. He pulled goalie Rogie Vachon with more than 11 minutes remaining in the game, figuring that it didn't matter how many goals his club surrendered just as long as the Canadiens scored three more times.

Well, the Habs were defeated 10-2, giving up five empty-net goals. And a club with Jean Béliveau, Yvan Cournoyer, Henri Richard and Jacques Lemaire missed the playoffs. It was the first time the Habs were absent from the playoffs in 22 years.

There were such high hopes for all six Canadian clubs entering the first season after the lockout. No Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup since Montreal in 1993, but the Ottawa Senators and Calgary Flames were among the handful of preseason favourites. And there was a strong chance that each of the six Canadian NHL teams could qualify for the playoffs for the first time in 20 years. In 1986, the Stanley Cup playoffs included all seven Canadian clubs in the Leafs, Canadiens, Flames, Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets and Quebec Nordiques.

“It looks right now that Calgary, Vancouver and Edmonton will make it in the West,” Neale said. “If Montreal and Toronto can't get their act together, Ottawa will have to carry the torch in the East.” The big loser if the Canadiens and Leafs fail to squeak into the playoffs will not only be the fans, but CBC. These two clubs easily have the biggest following across the country. I know CBC always cheers for both of those teams to not only get in the playoffs, but have a nice, long and successful run,” Neale said. “It would be nice some day to see them meet in the playoffs, but unfortunately it doesn't happen too often these days.”

In fact, the last time the rivals met in the playoffs was in 1979, when the Canadiens swept Toronto 4-0 in the quarter-finals. The two teams have a dozen weeks to make sure at least one of them continues playing this spring.

-> The Globe & Mail

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Toronto Maple Leafs - Montreal Canadiens 3:4 OT (1:0, 1:1, 1:2, 0:1)

1:0 (12.) Tucker 19 PP (Allison, Sundin)

1:1 (22.) Kovalev 11 (Koivu, Bulis)

2:1 (40.) Khavanov 5 (Kaberle, Allison)

2:2 (51.) Koivu 13 (Higgins, Rivet)

2:3 (52.) Bulis 13 (Plekanec)

3:3 (56.) Klee 3 (Kilger)

3:4 (62.) Koivu 14 PP OT (Kovalev, Souray)

SOG: Leafs 24, Habs 20.

PIM: Leafs 14, Habs 10.

PP: Leafs 1/4, Habs 1/5.

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Kovalev lebe hoch !

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Florida Panthers - Toronto Maple Leafs 2:4 (0:1, 1:1, 1:2)

0:1 (13.) Kilger 9 (Harrison, Domi)

0:2 (35.) Wellwood 8 PP (Allison, Sundin)

1:2 (37.) Jokinen 25 PP (Nieuwendyk, Bouwmeester)

1:3 (43.) Tucker 20 PP (Allison, Sundin)

1:4 (52.) O'Neill 15 PP (Sundin, Steen)

2:4 (54.) Nieuwendyk 13 (Horton)

SOG: Panthers 35, Leafs 32.

PIM: Panthers 20, Leafs 16.

PP: Panthers 1/8, Leafs 3/10.

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Tampa 3:2 Toronto (SO)