The Rangers and Maple Leafs have proved the double-negative that if your best players do not have a playoff mentality and can not make the biggest plays in the biggest moments, there’s no chance

There are also thoughts that the Leafs could eliminate the position of team president, let Shanahan go, have Pelley or one of his upper associates in charge of the team, with Brad Treliving remaining as general manager and Berube remaining as coach.

For much of his time with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Auston Matthews has served as something of a Rorschach test for hockey fans.Those who accept that playoff hockey is a fickle beast - that postseason success is often the result of getting just enough of the 50-50 chances to break your way,

We don’t know right now ... he’s dealing with something,” coach Craig Berube said of Knies’ injury and his status for Game 7 on Sunday.

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The Maple Leafs are dominating the series against the Panthers, but there is no panic in Aleksander Barkov and his teammates.

They have been fully immersed in the Panther way for about 10 weeks now, receiving a crash course of how to play the team’s grind-it-out style that frustrates opponents before being fully thrust into Florida’s latest playoff run. How has the experience gone so far?

The Florida Panthers dominated early Stanley Cup Playoffs with 17 different goal scorers, but Game 6 against the Toronto Maple Leafs exposed their str