Saturday morning the Leafs held an optional skate prior to Game 4 tonight, here are a few of the takeaways from that skate: Auston Matthews returned to the ice for the optional skate after being unavailable for yesterday’s practice while he gets over his illness.
Yardbarker's Griffin Carroll is a clean 4-0 on his last two NHL betting articles, and he's ready to hop over the boards for another 2-0 night on the ice. Game on!
William Nylander took another step towards making his series debut by participating fully in today’s practice. Based on the comments he made with the media afterwards, he seems ready to debut in the series on Saturday night and will start on the third line with Calle Jarnkrok and Pontus Holmberg if that’s the case.
Auston Matthews, the NHL's leading goal scorer in the regular season, won't practice Friday for what the Toronto Maple Leafs called a "maintenance" day off.
There was plenty of blame to go around in the aftermath of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Game 3 home loss to the Boston Bruins, falling back into a 2-1 hole in the series.
Auston Matthews is eight years into his decorated career and yet, no one’s managed to give him a fitting nickname. Sure, we know No. 34 as ‘Papi’ — although it should be exercised with caution, especially against the Boston Bruins as it used to be the nearly-exclusive domain of Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz.
There are plenty of questions surrounding William Nylander heading into Game 3 for the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday. Will he play? What’s his injury situation?
Heading into Game 2 in TD Garden, the Toronto Maple Leafs knew they needed to win this game to get back in this series. They needed to lean on the core of their team, the leaders in their forward core.
For one Toronto Maple Leafs superstar, Monday night at TD Garden will go down as a defining performance. Auston Matthews was everywhere in Game 2 against
The Toronto Maple Leafs finally took a lead over the Boston Bruins this season, but through the four regular-season matchups and Game 1 of the playoffs, they failed to secure a lead.
Star forward Auston Matthews made his presence felt to help the Toronto Maple Leafs capture a road split of the first two contests of their Eastern Conference first-round series against the Boston Bruins.
If you are a Toronto Maple Leafs fan, your confidence has to feel a boost after Monday night’s exhilarating Game 2. Suddenly, the sense of “same-old, same-old” has been lifted.
A win is a win is a win, and nothing is going to take away the fact that Matthews showed up, put on a three point effort and dragged the Leafs to their first victory of Round 1 (with some big help from Ilya Samsonov).
If you watched the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Game 2 effort against the Boston Bruins, you would think Auston Matthews spotted a bat signal in the sky on Tuesday night.
Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews' first goal of the 2024 postseason couldn't have come at a more perfect time.
Auston Matthews scored with 7:54 left in regulation to cap a three-point night and lift the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-2 win over the host Boston Bruins in Game 2 of an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series on Monday.
Auston Matthews had a goal and two assists, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 to even their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series at a game a piece.
We're onto our first full week of playoff hockey, and it's going to be a great one around here. We have two new series beginnings and a pair of matchups heading into big Game 2s.
In the last game of the season against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Auston Matthews tried hard but failed to bring home goal number 70 over the regular season.
Auston Matthews concluded the 2023-2024 regular season with an impressive tally of 69 goals, solidifying his legacy in hockey history. Though remarkable, his achievement comes as no surprise to most hockey fans captivated by his relentless pace throughout the season.
With the last day of the regular season schedule behind us, the three major stat-based award winners for the 2023-24 season are set in stone.
Auston Matthews just fell short of becoming the first player to score 70 goals in 31 years, finishing the 2023-24 season with 69 goals. Still, the American-born forward racked up his third Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy as the NHL’s leading scorer.
Could an unsung hero on the blue line be the key for the Boston Bruins to shut down the NHL’s leading goal scorer, Auston Matthews? Boston Bruins defenseman Brandon Carlo is arguably coming off his best NHL season and will likely be the key to shutting down the Maple Leafs sniper.
Nikita Kucherov got his milestone, but Auston Matthews did not.
Welcome to the April leg of the 2023-24 NHL regular season. At this point in the calendar, the stakes are elevated. We’re starting to see teams clinch playoff spots.
Toronto Maple Leafs’ forward Auston Matthews scored his 66th goal of the season on Tuesday night against the New Jersey Devils, breaking the salary-cap era’s single-season record for most goals.
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