Auston Matthews scored 2:12 into overtime and the Toronto Maple Leafs rallied for a 2-1 victory over the Ducks on Wednesday night, squeaking by after taking 57 shots on goal. “He’s found another level here in the last month or so,” Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said. The Maple Leafs lost forward Bobby McMann to a game misconduct for boarding …
The trade Maple Leafs get: Defenseman Jake McCabe, center Sam Lafferty, conditional fifth-round pick in 2024, conditional fifth-round pick in 2025 Blackhawks get: 2025 first-round pick, second-round pick in 2026, forwards Joey Anderson and Pavel Gogolev Sean Gentille: There are going to be folks out there who, on behalf of the Maple Leafs, balk at this one. But given the …
Josh Doan has been friends with Matthew Knies for over 10 years and knows him better than most. “You could tell what it meant to him to be selected to that team,” Doan said of Knies, the Maple Leafs’ second-round pick in the 2021 NHL Draft. Gophers assistant coach Garrett Raboin said during the team’s first few skates of the …
Last week, the Finnish Ice Hockey Association made one of the easiest decisions in recent world juniors history by naming defenceman Topi Niemela to their roster. One of The Athletic’s prospects gurus, Corey Pronman, wrote in his NHL pipeline rankings in August that he thought Niemela “could be a second- or third-pair defenseman in the NHL depending on if the …
