Auston Matthews Makes Injury Admission
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Toronto Maple Leafs veteran John Tavares spoke out on his upcoming free agency period after spending the last seven years with the team.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, then the Toronto Maple Leafs should've been instituti
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Yardbarker on MSNMaple Leafs' 'core four' likely done after latest postseason stumbleThus, the era of the Core Four has seemingly come to a disappointing end. Although Toronto hasn't missed the playoffs since drafting Auston Matthews, they've only made it past the first round twice in nine seasons and never made it further than round two.
Maple Leafs star William Nylander didn't hold back about what it's like to lose Game 7 at the hands of the Panthers.
Let's look at the facts. Since 2018, the Maple Leafs' longest tenured players — Matthews, Marner, Nylander and Morgan Rielly — have fallen completely flat in their career in Game 7, scoring three goals between them in six games.
The Maple Leafs (52-26-4) finished first in the Atlantic Division with 108 points, six ahead of the Tampa Bay Lightning and eight of the Panthers. Toronto then won only its second postseason series in 21 years by eliminating the Ottawa Senators in six games in the first round.
The Toronto Maple Leafs lost a seventh consecutive Game 7, and it got ugly on the ice after getting blown out at home.
While the Maple Leafs look deadly on paper, they are among the most disappointing teams the league has ever seen. Another massive letdown in a winner-take-all Game 7 against the F