Alex Steeves

AHL: Toronto Marlies Midway Update

The Toronto Marlies are an affiliate team for the Toronto Maple Leafs and have had many players graduate to the Leafs from their team over the years. As we are into the second half of the season, I figured it’s time to take a look at how the Toronto Marlies are doing this season and […]

Pens Game Preview: vs. Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs come into town tonight to take on the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena at 7:00 PM Eastern. The Leafs are currently 10-5-3 with 23 points, while the Pens are 9-10-0 with 18 points. Both teams are playing their second game of a back-to-back. The Leafs lost in overtime 4-3 to […]

Leafs Drop Two Against Senators, Look For Their First Pre-season Win in Buffalo

The Leafs opened up their preseason meetings with a game in Ottawa against the Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Sunday and return home to Scotiabank Arena to face the Sens in Toronto on Monday. Since neither effort proved successful for the Leafs, with the club losing both of the home and home, back-to-back games, […]

LEAFS: Nick Abruzzese Signs For 2 More Years in Toronto

The Toronto Maple Leafs have Re-signed RFA Nick Abruzzese to a two-year, two-way contract worth $775,000 at the NHL level with a $175K minor-league salary. $250K minor league salary in 2024-25 with $350K guaranteed overall. For Abruzzese, this means a $20K raise from the $85K bonus + $70K minor-league salary he had on his entry-level […]

Toronto Marlies win season finale

The Toronto Marlies hosted the Belleville Senators in back-to-back games on the weekend. Belleville won Saturday’s game 7-2, but Toronto responded with their own 7-2 win on Sunday. An exciting way to close out the 2022-23 regular season. The Marlies finished the season with a 42-24-4-2 record. Game Summary First Period Sunday’s first period saw […]

Toronto Marlies end seven game losing streak

The Toronto Marlies finally put an end to their losing streak. Toronto defeated the Belleville Senators 6-2 on Sunday, April 2nd. They had lost their previous seven games. The Marlies’ six goals on Sunday are more than the goal total (5) from all seven games combined during their losing streak. Thanks to the win, the […]

Toronto Marlies on six game losing streak

The Toronto Marlies lost their matchup against the Hershey Bears on Wednesday and have now lost six in a row. It’s their longest losing streak of the season. Toronto has not won a game since March 12th, when they beat the Rochester Americans 6-3. Since then, the Marlies have gotten outscored by a 20-5 margin. […]

LGP 64: Everything is FINE, Leafs Return to New Jersey

After a quite tragic game for Leafs fans and the team, the Leafs return tonight to play against the New Jersey Devils. Last game saw Matthews leave the game due to injury, come back, and fire a shot on net that hit and broke O’Reilly’s finger. Tavares also found himself banged up after two massive […]

LGP 53: Back to Business

The Leafs are back after over a week off from the All-Star weekend and their bye week. The Leafs will look to build momentum with a back-to-back series against the not-so-great Blue Jackets. The Leafs, for the most part, have performed well against the higher competition in the league but haven’t done near as well […]

Diamonds In The Rough (Part 2)

First off, I would like to take a second to apologize for not having this article out last weekend. I, unfortunately, caught Covid and had a terrible week-long battle where I was not well enough to complete this article. In my previous article, I started a deep dive into which Leaf’s prospects intrigue me the […]