The wound was far from healed, the sting of a devastating collapse in game 7 still painful for Randy Carlyle and the Maple Leafs. "The feeling is frustration," said Carlyle, upon the dismissal of his hockey club on Thursday morning, "at times you feel you were hit between the eyes with a hammer." ...more
Crumpled in the blue paint of the crease, head down for a few moments, season dramatically over, James Reimer could hardly stomach what had just occurred. In a matter of stunning minutes, he and the Leafs went from sure victory to disastrous defeat. ...more
Toronto captain Dion Phaneuf is one among many Maple Leafs who have stepped to the forefront and improbably thrust the favoured Boston Bruins onto the ropes in their series. Despite facing elimination in the past two games and responding with gutsy efforts, Leafs coach Randy Carlyle expects the nerves to be ramped up when the series decides itself at the TD Garden on Monday night. ...more
Four nights earlier in the very same building, Dion Phaneuf made an error that would cost his team victory. He would more than make up for it on Sunday evening. ...more
Fewer than 12 seconds remained on the clock, the visitors clinging to the lead and their season amid a throng of furious black and gold, a future Hall of Famer bearing down on the 25-year-old from Morweena, Manitoba. Employing the very last fibers of his goal stick, James Reimer turned the puck aside, high and into the netting, Jaromir Jagr looking skyward in disbelief. It would be the 41st save of 43 on the night for Reimer in game 5, he and the Leafs staving off elimination by the slimmest of margins, a edge of seat gripping 2-1 victory at TD Garden, the series shifting back to Toronto for game 6 on Sunday evening. ...more
While the pain and residue of a stinging overtime defeat still lingered, the Toronto Maple Leafs pledged to look ahead with their season momentarily on the line. "…on the highs we're not going to be jumping off the CN Tower and on the lows we're not going to be in the bowels of the construction underneath it," Leafs coach Randy Carlyle theorized shortly before his team departed for Boston. TSN 1050 Radio's Jonas Siegel has more. ...more
Dion Phaneuf delivered the statement quietly with obvious undertones of regret and disappointment. “I made a bad play and it cost us the game,” he said dejectedly. The error of the Toronto captain cost his team not only the game but perhaps a chance at a series that increasingly appeared to be up for grabs. ...more
With a good deal of sizzle and swagger, Nazem Kadri emerged as a star for the Leafs in the first three months of the regular season, but entering the new terrain of postseason hockey he is still, as one might expect, trying to find his footing. ...more
A mini-war of words is brewing between Leafs' head coach Randy Carlyle and Claude Julien of the Bruins, in regards to the face-off circle. As Jonas Siegel of TSN Radio 1050 writes, Carlyle voiced his distaste with the Bruins' tactics and officials after Monday's defeat. ...more
It was exactly 50 seconds after Jake Gardiner scored to bring the Leafs to within one that the Bruins zapped the electricity out of the playoff-starved Air Canada Centre and ultimately snatched Game 3. The error was one among too many for the Leafs as Boston regained control of the series, now up 2-1 with Game 4 on deck in Toronto Wednesday night. ...more
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