Good to see Matthew Schaefer flop and get a whistle after taking a deflection in the shoulder and then come back and try to hotdog for an empty net goal. Going for the record while his team is likely missing the playoffs. Wow. That's the kind of winning hockey you gotta play

Nylander OZ won draw. Straight back to Philippe Myers. Myers then tries to float one towards the net but gets his shot blocked and takes a penalty. Nice 👍

Looked back at the TV (illegal stream) and saw Max Domi being sultry in some boxers. What da eff is going on !!

John Tavares "their most consistent player this season." It's insane how you can just go on TV and say whatever you want to say

It seems almost impossibly unlikely, but I'm gonna need Michael Pezzetta to score a goal here before the season is over. And then I'm gonna need the Leafs admin to caption the goal "Have you ever hugged an Italian person before?"

I stopped paying much attention to hockey stats. Is there recent work on coaching impact? I think Berube is terrible, but I vaguely remember the consensus was that coaching impacts are overestimated. Basically, am I kidding myself when I believe the Leafs could be much better with a different coach?

Ben Danford, a massive +1 with 0 points as the Brantford Bulldogs take Game 1 of the OHL semis against the North Bay Battalion by a score of 8-1. He's going to be so important to the Bulldogs as they advance in the OHL playoffs. And so important to the Toronto Maple Leafs

Turn the game on to watch Easton Cowan look off Nylander and turn it over for a goal against. Lol

Helpful explanatory article from Lebrun today

The Leafs have recalled Luke Haymes on an emergency basis (nuclear war)

Man, thank god Tumbler Ridge gets something. Because that would've been uhhhhhh tough

If they actually call that Tavares goal unassisted I might actually firebomb the NHL situation room

If this ref wanted to stop "the fur from flying" or wanted to "protect the goalie" he could just fucking blow the whistle when the puck is frozen by the goalie

Incredible stuff. Domi takes the 4 minute penalty and beelines off for Bill to take the minus. Love it. Normal stuff, the kind of stuff that I'm sure Nick Kypreos will underline

Tank Commander Max Domi

Really funny to me that Habs fans are upset about how many empty net goals MacKinnon has vs. how many Caufield has. Of course, as we all know, empty net goals are a function of how much your team trusts you to defend the lead at the end of the game. Caufield just doesn't have it, unfortunately

I'm not really a baseball analyst but I'm starting to wonder if maybe the Jays should stop letting Brendon Little pitch for them

Wow. Tough showing for the Ottawa Senators this afternoon. You have to feel for captain Brady Tkachuk who simply can't seem to energize his teammates, even when he goes on his podcast to shit on them publicly

Don't remember any. But I can tell you some horrible hockey takes that I've been on the right side of, like: "Jake Virtanen is better than William Nylander." "Brock Boeser is better than William Nylander." "Max Domi is better than William Nylander" "Josh Anderson is better than William Nylander" etc

I was saying Boo Jays

Friedman saying "there's a report" the Leafs have talked to John Chayka. Lol. Going to build out our Data Analytics Department with a dedicated Phrenology Unit

Friedman saying "now the Leafs are looking at Boston and how they came back so quickly, and saying how can we do that too?" Well, I think it might have a lot to do with the trade deadline, which you've already bungled, so

Love to tune into not a Leafs game and see that a stick getting slashed out of your hands is a penalty again

What a celly for Adam Gaudette on his 4-1 empty net goal

Insane how bad Myers is

Benoit almost saw him. Unfortunately he had his eye on the prize, by which I mean the hash marks

Literally one player in the league who doesn't get that call

Insane how bad Benoit is

Ullmark pushes the net off after a long shift during which the Senators are hemmed and leaking chances against. Are you looking at this @russohockey.bsky.social

Very funny to me that after Gudas ended Matthews's season Brady Tkachuk goes off on his podcast about what he'd do if anybody came after his teammate, then the Senators do nothing when their rookie gets brained by a Florida Panther, then Brady giggles as his dad talks shit to his face about Ullmark

This is the one hockey tweet I have saved on my computer. Really distills a very specific time on hockey twitter

The great thing about William Nylander saying explicitly, again and again, that the thing he wants most is to win in Toronto, is that, if you hate William Nylander, you can print stuff like "William Nylander wants no part of a rebuild"

Downloaded Victory+ so I could watch Miroslav Holinka play hockey. He just walked the whole Saskatoon Blades team for a pretty goal except for some reason the broadcast cut to the penalty box so we didn't see the goal, we just saw the guy in the penalty box react to it. Avant-garde hockey directing

Should the Toronto Maple Leafs kill 5 of their players to trigger a disaster draft to improve their roster? My column:

Holy shit lmao. If I was a Senator i simply wouldn't allow this kind of thing to happen I'll tell you what

[Internal monologue of those Italian guys missing their penalties]: “I kicka da ball. Oh!”

It's simple: Good teams have good culture. And teams with good culture have good structure and alignment. So we need good culture, but we need to put a structure in place to build that culture. And that way, when we have a good team, we will also have a good culture built on a good, aligned, structu

"The verticals weren't as horizontally integrated as they needed to be." Real quote about what went wrong this year. Complete nonsense. Gobbledygook

Keith Pelley is now talking up "Vinny Borgini" who is playing with the Marlies and "showing unbelievable skill." Lmao

Ok slight mood uplift in that Keith Pelley says the people he's going to hire are "going to have to be data-centric." I'm on board with data-centric

Jesus christ lmao. "We didn't see the train coming that is the Buffalo Sabres and Montreal Canadiens"??? How embarrassing are we trying to be

Man, this presser is just absolute nonsense lol. Just empty corporate speak. Incredibly bleak

Panthers have officially shut down Barkov, Marchand, Reinhart, Lundell, Mikkola, Rodrigues, Balinskis and Gadjovich. Embarrassing and soft. Not like the ethical Toronto Maple Leafs who are letting injured William Nylander singlehandedly ruin the tank

That overtime featured the refs blowing the play while the Leafs charged up ice on a 3-on-1 and the linesman picking Nylander off the puck. Oh well. Puck don’t lie. When your captain refuses to answer the bell it can’t help but seep into your team’s mentality. A very soft team over there in Anaheim

Thank god I didn’t go to sleep. Thank you Bill

Oh yeah why not. An extra minor to the Leafs. Who could of guessed an extra minor would be going to the Leafs

Never seen the refs protect a team like the refs are protecting the Ducks tonight. Well, except when the Leafs played the Lightning in the playoffs. And also when they played the Bruins in the playoffs. But otherwise, really rare to see this, unless you're playing the Leafs really

Ducks broadcast pointing out Gauthier went to the dressing room after a McCabe cross-check. Good

William Nylander's assist on the Tavares goal moves him past Michael Nylander for career points and ties him with Zdeno Chara

Extremely funny how this always happens to the Leafs. Like when Keefe says "it's gonna be a war" before the Lightning series or whatever and then they get called for 7 penalties. Different league for different jerseys