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Phil Kessel, Niklas Hagman and a couple good bounces helped pull the Toronto Maple Leafs out of another extended winless slide.

Honeymoon over for Leafs coach Ron Wilson hit a milestone Saturday night: The first 100 games for an NHL coach with a team.

Mike Fisher scored twice, including the game- winner late in the second period, and Pascal Leclaire made it stand up with a solid outing in net, as Ottawa took a 3-2 decision from Toronto at Scotiabank Place.

Looking for an early Christmas present for your favourite Maple Leaf? How about a game night alarm clock with the snooze button ripped out.

Toronto's Colton Orr and Calgary's Brian McGratton slug it out in the first period of Saturday's game, which the Leafs lost 5-2. Their power play might be amongst the league's most potent.

He has scored points in five of his six games as a Maple Leaf and has the potential to thrill every time he touches the puck.

Henry Ford once said, "Whether you think you can or you think you can't - you are right." For the majority of this young season in Leaf land, there has been an awful lot of "thinking you can't" going on, from both the team and their fans.

One of the questions that come to mind when thinking Toronto Maple Leafs is,who will be their next Captain ? Likely candidates could include, Kaberle , Blake , White and Kessel .

No one does goalie worship quite like the denizens of the Air Canada Centre. So in love were Toronto Maple Leafs fans with Curtis Joseph, they booed the early efforts of Ed Belfour.

Ron Wilson has tried just about every coaching technique at his disposal to get the Leafs going.

The Toronto Maple Leafs will try to keep moving in the right direction as they will try for a third straight win when they host the Minnesota Wild tonight at Air Canada Centre.

John Mitchell wants every one to remember he's no Doug Gilmour. Yet he realizes that centring the first line of the Maple Leafs with a No.

With Phil Kessel and Jonas Gustavsson in the lineup, the Toronto Maple Leafs are starting to show big improvement.

When the Detroit Red Wings face off against the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre tonight , they face more than the usual, "If the Leafs win, they'll act like they won the Stanley Cup" pressure.

RALEIGH, N.C.a 'Rare as it was, the Maple Leafs hope they achieved more than just a victory here Friday.

Once a high-powered offensive juggernaut, the Red Wings have used defense to put together their first three-game winning streak of the season.

Eds: APNewsNow. Maple Leafs 3, Hurricanes 2. AP Photo NCKD101, NCKD104, NCKD103, NCKD102 RALEIGH, N.C. Jason Blake scored on a power play with 8:24 left and Jonas Gustavsson made 34 saves to help the Toronto Maple Leafs win for the second time in 14 games this season, 3-2 over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.

Jason Blake always looks tired after practice, dead tired. His face goes fire-engine red, his hair mats to his head and he looks like a hockey player in desperate need of some liquids, if not an afternoon nap.

High-scoring winger scheduled to play 14 or 15 minutes as Maple Leafs return home to face Lightning FULL TEXT Phil Kessel ended the suspense soon after the game-day skate this morning at the Air Canada Centre, stepping before an unusually large media gathering and saying that, yes, he had in fact passed the tests on his surgically repaired shoulder ...

Burying a child is "the most horrific thing" for anyone to endure, the father of a 13-year-old boy who died from H1N1 said at his funeral, but he hopes the tragedy will encourage more education about the virus.