Ian White News

He's right. The Leafs have averaged a league leading 34.7 shots per game this year, the law of averages dictates that eventually, some of them will start to go in.

One club lost in dramatic fashion to the worst team in the league. The other got blown out of their own building by the same team that eliminated them from last spring's playoffs.

For a team that had suffered through so much misery and was headed to a shootout, which they rarely win, the Maple Leafs displayed a surprising sense of fun as the Zamboni scrapped the ice for the penalty shots.

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Maple Leafs forward Jason Blake is thwarted by Tim Jackman, Andy Sutton and Dwayne Roloson on Monday.

A season that is going south hit a low point down in Dixie last night with a 6-5 shootout loss.

Perhaps the only bright spot that emerged from last season for New York Islanders was the chance to select John Tavares.

The Toronto Maple Leafs figured they had nothing to lose. Locked in a winless slide and facing another potential loss in the shootout, the Toronto players decided to turn around their helmets in an effort to turn around their luck.

Blessed with a 3-0 lead after one period of play, the Toronto Maple Leafs looked poised to avoid having the Carolina Hurricanes leap frog them in the standings for the a oecoveteda 29th overall spot in the NHL, the position the Leafs occupied before tonighta s a oeepica battle against the a Canes.

Sitting at the bottom of the league the Toronto Maple Leafs put on a serious, tough practice on Friday led by Maple Leafs head coach Ron Wilson.

The Washington Capitals will try to avoid a second straight loss tonight in a matchup with the Toronto Maple Leafs at Air Canada Centre.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Carolina Hurricanes rallied from three goals down, and Tuomo Ruutu and Jussi Jokinen scored in the shoot-out to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 6-5, on Thursday night.

Leafs defenceman Luke Schenn will not be benched for tonight's game against the Hurricanes.

Leafs coach Ron Wilson is satisfied with winger Phil Kessel 's conditioning even though he admits it's a work in progress.

In the few yards it takes to get from their dressing room to the ice at game time, the mindset of the Maple Leafs takes a turn for the worst.

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Phil Kessel, left, celebrates his first goal as a Maple Leaf on Saturday. It was a series of firsts for the Toronto Maple Leafs during Hall of Fame Night on Saturday.

Nikolai Kulemin #41 and Ian White #7 of the Toronto Maple Leafs congratulate teammate Alexei Ponikarovsky #23 on his first period goal against the Minnesota Wild at the Air Canada Centre.

In a battle of bad teams, the Toronto Maple Leafs earned their way out of the NHL 's basement by following a formula good teams find works for them.

On Hall of Fame Night against the lower-rung Maple Leafs, who would have thought the mighty Red Wings would need their stars of yesteryear to peel off their Hall blazers and get on the ice? With three former Wings -- Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull and Luc Robitaille -- honoured before the match for entering the Hall, it was Toronto that showed more ...