John Mitchell News

Win or lose, last night's game at the Air Canada Centre was going to come as a bitter pill for many of the Toronto Maple Leafs' faithful.

At times, Niklas Hagman plays the game as if he were toying with the opposition.

Most 40-year-old NHL goaltenders are retired and watching games from the press box, not turning in 58-save performances to steal games for their teams! Dwayne Roloson had arguably one of the best games of his career with a huge performance last night in Toronto.

It's hardly fair to a player who just suffered an injury to say thatA it happened at the perfect time, but in the case of John Mitchell and the Toronto Maple Leafs, it just may have.

Christian Hanson knows exactly the address he needs to inhabit if his second stint as a Maple Leaf is going to result in permanent residency.

The Toronto Maple Leafs placed goaltender Vesa Toskala on injured reserve on Tuesday with an injured groin.

In 12 years as Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Ron Wilson's right-hand man, former NHL tough guy Tim Hunter has seen it all.

Toskala heads to IR Vesa Toskala looks up at the Madison Square Garden game clock during the Maple Leafs' 7-2 loss Monday night to the New York Rangers.

The moment native son John Tavares stepped on to the Air Canada Centre ice surface for the pre-game warmup last night, the estimated 100 family and friends in attendance erupted in a collective cheer.

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Yes, it sounds like a broken record, but the Leafs have now given up the first goal in 15 of 17 games this season and have fallen behind by two goals in eight of those contests.

Looking for an early Christmas present for your favourite Maple Leaf? How about a game night alarm clock with the snooze button ripped out.

NHL players are like commodities on the market, and Matt Stajan's stock plummeted over the weekend.

Just like the old days, it takes a special kind of team to survive the first few minutes of hockey here after the Star Spangled Banner rocks the house.

Henry Ford once said, "Whether you think you can or you think you can't - you are right." For the majority of this young season in Leaf land, there has been an awful lot of "thinking you can't" going on, from both the team and their fans.

Colton Orr of the Toronto Maple Leafs can't bear to watch as Minnesota's Derek Boogaard rides him into the boards in Toronto on Tuesday night.

The kids who grew up playing hockey in the 1970s used to skate circles on frozen ponds pretending to be Bobby Orr.

John Mitchell wants every one to remember he's no Doug Gilmour. Yet he realizes that centring the first line of the Maple Leafs with a No.

With Phil Kessel and Jonas Gustavsson in the lineup, the Toronto Maple Leafs are starting to show big improvement.

When the Detroit Red Wings face off against the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre tonight , they face more than the usual, "If the Leafs win, they'll act like they won the Stanley Cup" pressure.