Luke Schenn News

TUESDAY vs. Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY at Carolina, 7 p.m. SATURDAY vs. Detroit, 7 p.m. NOTES Leafs D FranA ois Beauchemin , a native of Sorel, Que., had a dozen family and friends at the game Saturday night.

When he gets a little angry, there is little that can stop big Guelph Storm defenceman Ben Chiarot.

Myths about certain types of players always seem to pop up at National Hockey League draft time.

The Sabres' hulking defenceman Tyler Myers, centre, ranks fifth in team scoring with two goals and three assists.

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.

Maple Leafs defenceman Luke Schenn remembers the day during the 2005-06 season that a gangly kid showed up to play for the Kelowna Rockets.

BRUCE GARRIOCH: I could have sworn a week ago Bryan Murray said Karlsson wasn't going anywhere.

Has any Maple Leaf player actually exceeded expectations through the first eight games of the season? Other than Ian White perhaps, the answer is no.

Whether while getting his face sewn back together or while stewing in the press box as a healthy scratch, Maple Leafs defenceman Ian White understands the value of a stiff upper lip.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have had plenty of time to dissect exactly what's gone wrong during their dreadful start to the season.

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.

The Toronto Maple Leafs coaching staff had asked their blueliners to pick up the intensity and physical play in practice yesterday, and their youngest delivered it, again and again.

Colton Orr has fought four times this season. Jay Rosehill has fought twice. And three others have spent time in the penalty box for trading punches.

We all know that hoary bromide - show me a good goalie and we'll show you a good coach.

If there is one salient element to produce itself over the last 17 days of this hockey season, it is the regression of Luck Schenn on the blue line.

So how did we get here? The Toronto Maple Leafs, an organization that only 14 months ago had, like an addict, come to grips with having reached rock bottom.

For now, Brian Burke will not react. The key words being: For now. He won't trade from a position of weakness.

You want panic? We've got your panic right here, Toronto Maple Leaf fans, next to the generator and the rifle and the tinned food.

The Maple Leafs take no pride in the number one beside their name in the NHL standings this morning.

Keeps the Habs in the game until they find their legs. MATT STAJAN Two power-play goals and won 12 of 19 faceoffs.