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Give the other teams a sporting chance, Gary Bettman. Break 'em up -- the Toronto Maple Leafs are just too darn good.

Jason Blake got the winner but Jonas Gustavsson earned the save. A whole bunch of them, in fact.

MONTREALMike Cammalleri was almost a Maple Leaf. Twice. The mere thought of the first time Cammalleri slipped through Leaf fingers makes the Richmond Hill native who grew up a Leaf fan chuckle.

Ron Wilson isn't fibbing when he says the best candidate the Maple Leafs have to play centre with new winger Phil Kessel is not likely yet in the NHL.

October was a month that the Toronto Maple Leafs would like to forget. They got off to their worst start in franchise history.

Embattled Maple Leafs goaltender Vesa Toskala was neither lucky nor good in his return to the Toronto net Saturday in a 5-4 shootout loss to Canadiens in Montreal.

Written By: Mark "The Hard Hitter" Ritter The offseason saw Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke make plenty of changes.

Heading into this season Toronto Maple Leafs fans understood their club was rebuilding but had reason for optimism.

Stars defenceman Karlis Skrastins, left, and left-winger James Neal celebrate an overtime goal by Neal against the Maple Leafs.

To say the Maple Leafs released some pent-up frustration in their first win of the season on Monday would be an understatement.

Niklas Hagman scored three of Toronto's five power-play goals, and the Maple Leafs finally earned their first victory of the season, 6-3 over the last-place Anaheim Ducks on Monday night.

As an 18-year-old, Luke Schenn was named to the NHL's all-rookie team last season after scoring two goals and 14 points in 70 games.

To the list of expensive film flops such as Heaven's Gate, Waterworld and The Adventures of Pluto Nash, you can include the badly directed and poorly acted first three weeks of the Maple Leafs season.

It doesn't matter to Kevin Bieksa that the Toronto Maple Leafs remain winless this NHL season.

A casual observer would never have guessed the Toronto Maple Leafs were the last winless team in the NHL.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are not in contention for the title of All-Time Worst NHL Team.

With a nickname like Captain Canada, it was probably unwise to overlook Ryan Smyth.

The Leafs need to get off the schneid at the Air Canada Centre tonight against a team that has won seven in a row, including a 7-2 drubbing against Toronto in Manhattan last Monday.

Like every coach in the NHL not named Bruce Boudreau, Ron Wilson can only dream of having an Alex Ovechkin in his lineup every night.

The Toronto Maple Leafs were one of the busiest teams in the NHL this past offseason, but so far the alterations have done little to change the struggling franchise's fortunes.