Category: Toronto Sun
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Toronto SunWhat will the Toronto Maple Leafs do? No qualifying offers for Dominik Kubalik and Dylan Strome.
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Dave Tippettfrom Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun, - Ken Holland takes a pounding from the number crunchers and the perennial Oilers critics but, if he understands anything, he understands what it takes to win. He brought Smith in when he couldn’t sign Markstrom. He fired coach Dave Tippett when he knew he...
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Connor McDavidfrom Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun, - It will sound wrong and feel a little off when Auston Matthews is voted the most valuable player in the National Hockey League — if that happens. Nothing against Matthews, really. It’s about Connor McDavid right now. He’s doing what’s never been done...
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Joe Warmngtonfrom Joe Warmngton o the Toronto Sun, Grapes on a comeback to Hockey Night in Canada? While “I do miss Coach’s Corner and going down there on Saturday nights,” it’s unlikely because “the truth is people are afraid of me.” He said with today’s TV, “you have to get along with people, and you...
Read moreMaple Leafs forward Mitch Marner's vehicle carjacked in Toronto
Maple LeafsToronto Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner's vehicle was carjacked in the city on Monday night, CityNews reports.
Read moreMaple Leafs Mitch Marner Carjacked at Gunpoint
Toronto Maple LeafsToronto Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner and a close friend were victims of a random carjacking outside a Cineplex theater. The Toronto Sun was first to report the news.A absolute scary scene in Etobicoke, ON as Marner and his friend were approached by multiple armed suspects according to the Sun's...
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Toronto Sunfrom Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun, This is eight seasons for Shanahan on the job, with his hand-picked general manager Kyle Dubas and the GM’s hand-picked coach Sheldon Keefe. In sports, that’s a lifetime on the job. In those eight seasons, six of them in the playoffs, one of them bottoming...
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Tampa Bay Lightningfrom Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun, Overtime goals are rarely acts of beauty. They are often shots of desperation, pucks banged at, not aimed, with bodies piled up around the net. That kind of desperate play is why the Tampa Bay Lightning won Game 6 in overtime. It may be the real di...
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Leafs’from Terry Koshan of the Toronto Sun, Don’t go exorcising those playoff ghosts just yet. The Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning will decide their best-of-seven first-round series in Game 7 in Toronto on Saturday night. The Leafs’ elimination-game frustration continued on Thursday night...
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Leafs’from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun, This is the time the best players come out and play. The way Kirill Kaprizov has emerged during the season and now in the post-season in Minnesota. The best players flex their muscles. They do what others can’t do. They take over games and, if they can, th...
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Toronto Sunfrom Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun, The final score actually flatters the Leafs. The game did not in any way. Sunday night began badly for Toronto, ended badly, and in the between wasn’t much to see either. There was barely a glimpse of anything resembling pride, anything resembling...
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Steve Simmonsfrom Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun, - Nikita Kucherov is the hockey equivalent of an illusionist: Now you see him, now you don’t. His ability to make plays when there aren’t any, to see things that aren’t there, makes him the leas talked-about great player in hockey. And he does it all, it s...
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Minnesotafrom Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun, - Can’t make sense of the Eastern Conference. It’s too close. Who wins between Tampa Bay and Toronto? Who wins Carolina and Boston? Who wins Rangers and Pittsburgh? My only sure thing in the first round is Florida over Washington … In the West, Calgary bea...
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William Nylanderfrom Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun, - I’ve heard some say that William Nylander is having a career year. That’s nice. If being 34th in goals and 40th in assists in the NHL is a career year for an immense talent like Nylander, then isn’t that just a touch disappointing? - When the Buffalo...
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Toronto Sunfrom Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun, - One general manager insists that Calgary centre Elias Lindholm should be the runaway winner of the Selke Trophy, which goes to the NHL’s best defensive forward. He has never finished higher than 10th in Selke voting, but, really, he’s the best defensive...
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