NICKLAS LIDSTROM IS THE BEST EUROPEAN DEFENSEMAN IN NHL HISTORY. IGNORING HIM IN 1989, THE LEAFS DRAFTED NONDESCRIPTS SCOTT ...

On Friday, Bourne wrote an imaginative article entitled THOUGHTS ON THREE PLAYERS THE LEAFS WILL BE COUNTING ON MOST. Citing ...

Same old sh**. The team is set. Just needs an extra center or winger. Maybe a sixth defenseman (sigh).

TORONTO (Dec. 23) — Forget the consecutive home losses to the New York Islanders and Winnipeg before the Christmas break in the National Hockey League. I’m still back in Buffalo, last Friday night, ...

TORONTO (Jan. 11) — It was a shot in the dark that landed bullseye. An idea so preposterous that it must have resulted from paralyzing fatigue. Even if, unwittingly, it became the genesis of my career ...

TORONTO (Dec. 29) — Call Edward Rogers anything you wish (and the off–color names will surely intensify, next summer, when he assumes controlling interest in the Toronto Maple Leafs). Just do not call ...

***UPDATE DEC. 27 3:15 a.m. — This blog was written and posted just after midnight. A few hours later, the NHL, as predicted, postponed the Pittsburgh at Toronto game, slated for Wednesday night. The ...

TORONTO (Jan. 16) — There are three elements of the abbreviated, 56–game season that will continuously stand out in the National Hockey League between tonight and May 8: 1) each game is just a bit ...

Hockey/baseball reporter at THE FAN-590 for 23 years (1988-2011), and original from September 1992 launch of Canada’s first all-sports radio station. Covered Toronto Blue Jays 1992 and 1993 World ...