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Toronto Maple Leafs draftee Luke Schenn stands with team representatives during the first round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa June 20, 2008.

Got more questions about the Red Wings or the NHL? Leave Allen a note on his profile page at allen.usatoday.com. When a player records a goal, an assist and a fighting major in a single game it's said that he has completed the "Gordie Howe Hat Trick." Because I'm a Gordie fan, it's one of my favorite NHL traditions.

The Maple Leafs ended the season tonight the way they began it: with a victory. Now if they could have done something different with the 80 games in between, they might be joining the playoff party that starts Wednesday involving the 16 best NHL teams, instead of sitting out among the 14 worst.

Now, 75 games with the Toronto Maple Leafs later, the 24-year-old pivot from Waterloo is a promising somebody on the rebuilding Buds.

If there is one significant attribute shared by the Toronto Maple Leafs ' Curtis Joseph and , it is their dogged optimism.

The son of one of the notorious Hanson brothers from the movie "Slap Shot" scored his first NHL goal, and Martin Gerber played a spectacular game with 47 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the suddenly inconsistent New Jersey Devils 4-1 on Tuesday night.

Keepers Matt Stajan He was the Leafs best forward for the first half of the season.

Jeff Carter scored three goals, Danny Briere had a goal and three assists, and the host Philadelphia Flyers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 8-5, last night.

The Philadelphia Flyers will try to avoid a home-and-home sweep at the hands of the Maple Leafs when they host Toronto tonight at the Wachovia Center.

Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke didn't get up on the wrong side of the bed yesterday.

Jamal Mayers, Lee Stempniak and Ian White scored for the already-eliminated Toronto Maple Leafs in a 3-2 win over the playoff-hopeful Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night.

Maple Leafs' Curtis Joseph celebrates stopping the Capitals' Alex Ovechkin in the shootout last night.

Associated Press The Maple Leafs beat the Caps in overtime at Air Canada Centre on Tuesday night.

John Mitchell, who scored the Maple Leafs' first goal in the second period, netted the winner in the shootout to lift Toronto to a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night.

The thousands of sun-seeking Canadians who supported the Maple Leafs in Tampa Tuesday evidently didn't make the trip over here to Florida's east coast.

While the 8-6 win against the Calgary Flames Saturday won't do much to change Maple Leafs ' fortunes this year, the team can be encouraged by the performance of a rookie corps expected to put up solid offensive ...

Don't expect Mikhail Grabovski and Jason Blake to exchange Christmas cards any time soon.

There will always be fighting, but some Maple Leafs like the direction the league is going when it comes to cracking down.

Mikhail Grabovski, right, celebrates his first goal of the night, which gave the Leafs a 3-0 lead midway through the first period.

MLive.com's own Eric Fish lambasted the general managers' proposed rule change to eliminate "staged fights" by imposing ten-minute misconduct penalties on those who engage in such scraps, and the Toronto Star's ...