// Toronto Maple Leafs

Boston Rakes In Victory Over Leafs With Playoff Spot, Draft Pick on Line

Following recent troubles, the Bruins rallied Saturday to drop the Maple Leafs 2-1 in OT. You could tell it would be a tough contest (despite it being Toronto) when Colton Orr (no relation to Bobby) snapped the puck past Tuukka Rask 5:10 into the game. And Michael Ryder got called for hooking 9:15 in, and [...]

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Maple Leafs, Saturday April 3rd

With just five games left in the regular season, the Bruins (35-30-12) find themselves in desperation mode, needing every point they can get to cling to their playoff spot. That clinging starts tonight when they head north of the border to face the Eastern Conference’s cellar dwellers, the Toronto Maple Leafs (29-36-13). Boston currently sits [...]

Bruins Move on Without Savard, Lose to Leafs

Without the services of center Marc Savard, the Bruins marched forward on Tuesday night as they continue their pitiful push toward the playoffs. Savard, arguably the best player on the team, will likely be out the rest of the season with a serious Grade 2 concussion after a hit at the hands of Pittsburgh’s Matt Cooke [...]

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Maple Leafs, Tuesday 3/9

The road trip continues tonight for the Black and Gold, as the Bruins (29-24-11) make their third stop on their current seven-game trip, this time in Toronto to face the lowly Maple Leafs (20-33-12). These two teams should know each other pretty well by now, having faced each other four times already, including less than [...]

Satan, Thomas Help Bruins End Home Losing Streak

A day after the Bruins failed to acquire a desperately needed goal-scorer, the team took the ice against the Maple Leafs, which served as a grim reminder they traded their best goal scorer to Toronto: Phil Kessel. The only “significant” offensive player added since Kessel’s departure was perhaps free agent signee Miroslav Satan, who had [...]

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Maple Leafs, Thursday 3-4

After a busy trade deadline day, or not so busy deadline day depending on which team we’re talking about, the Bruins (27-23-11) will get back to game action tonight at TD Garden in their final home game before departing for a season-long seven-game road trip up and down the Atlantic coastline. Coming to town tonight, [...]

SoB NHL Power Rankings 1-31-10

It’s time, once again, for the SoB NHL power rankings. Our four experts have selected their picks, in addition to predictions for who will finish the season with the NHL’s best and worst records. Four the third time in three possible chances, two teams have dropped from the rankings. We saw the highest ever non-unanimous [...]

Bruins Get Raked by Leafs

You almost knew that the Bruins couldn’t take three straight games from Phil Kessel’s Toronto Maple Leafs within a month. After beating the Leafs 7-2 and 5-2 earlier this season, the Bruins could not find the back of the net Saturday night, and fell 2-0. Jonas Gustavsson pitched his first career shutout, stopping 25 Bruins [...]

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Maple Leafs, Saturday 12/19

The Bruins (16-10-7) will look to rebound from Friday night’s 5-4 shootout loss to Chicago tonight, when they travel north of the border to face off with Phil Kessel and the Toronto Maple Leafs (12-16-7). This will be the third meeting of the month between these two squads, but the first away from TD Garden. [...]

Bruins Beat Out Maple Leafs…Again

Someone better tell the Bruins it’s almost winter because they are hot; 8-1-1 in their last ten games. The Bruins defeated Phil Kessel’s Toronto Maple Leafs Thursday night by the score of 5-2 at home. Five days earlier, Boston defeated the same team 7-2. Scoring 12 goals to Toronto’s 4 is something to be proud of. With [...]

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Maple Leafs, Thursday 12-10

It’s been a quiet week for the Black and Gold since their Saturday night stomping of Phil Kessel and the Toronto Maple Leafs (10-13-7). Behind a nifty hat trick by Marc Savard, the Bruins (15-9-5) were able to pummel the young Toronto squad, racking up seven goals en route to a 7-2 beatdown. Tonight, the [...]

Phil Kessel: Don’t Love Him, Don’t Hate Him, Don’t Boo Him

Zero goals. No assists. Plus/minus of -3. Those are not the stats any hockey player hopes to have on his game splits, especially when he’s returning to his former team’s rink. Unfortunately for Phil Kessel, that was his exact scoring line when he played against the Boston Bruins for the first time since being traded [...]

Bruins Crush Maple Leafs Like Leaves

Yes, the Maple Leafs folded like their namesake, and the Bruins looked like bears again instead of cubs as Boston won convincingly at home, 7-2. The Bruins stepped on the gas from the start and never let up, scoring on a Marco Sturm tip-in. Just one second later, Shawn Thornton got into a scuffle with [...]

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Maple Leafs, Saturday 12/5

After one of the worst efforts of the season last night in Montreal, the Bruins (14-9-5) will look to get back on the winning trail tonight, as they return home for the much anticipated return of Phil Kessel and the rest of the Toronto Maple Leafs (8-12-7). Tonight will be the first of three December [...]

Don’t Let Phil Kessel Ignite Us Bruins Fans

We’ve all flipped out before. More often than not it’s the result of multiple things piling up: a bad few days at work, an argument with a girlfriend, car problems, bad weather, and/or a bad loss by your favorite. Then, some minor annoyance occurs. Maybe you can’t find your remote, or the Internet is a little slow. And what [...]