Respected on the field and off.

Mitch Marner officially cancels annual charity event in Toronto an ominous sign for free agent, from Lance Hornby 🇺🇦🇨🇦 torontosun.com/sports/hockey/…

Beware the Swiss!

Argos announce Chris Schultz and builder Nick Volpe will be added to the All-Time Argos List. A celebration for both is to be held at BMO at the Aug. 9 game vs. Ottawa.

New York hockey fans well served by Arthur for many years in print and on-line. Best of luck on your next assignment!

Hate to admit it, but the Leafs' 2nd-round loss isn't looking so bad anymore. Only team to get 3 wins against the Panthers in the playoffs.

For all the thirst in Leafs Nation for a Stanley Cup, this humble beach bar/NHL hangout keeps getting quenched.

Our prediction of Panthers in six completes this year's playoff series record at 11-4.

Further to this note, it was 75 years ago the Leafs last were defeated in a seventh game by the eventual Cup champions, the 1950 Detroit Red Wings. Only other instance was 1941, a Game 7 loss to Boston, which went on to beat Detroit.

One of my favourite Stanley Cup Fun Facts: Jacques Plante won the Cup in 5 consecutive years (‘56-60) and his name was spelled differently each time it was engraved: J. Plante, Jacques Plante, Jac Plante, Jacq Plante, and Jaques Plante

Dept. of Time Flies: Ten years ago today, Leafs traded for Zach Hyman, ironically with Florida, for F Greg McKegg.

Leafs not scheduled to pick at the draft a week Saturday until end of Round 2, holding Cup champ Florida's ticket at 64th. Chosen at that spot by Toronto to date, D Topi Niemela (2020), F Freddy Modin (1994), Peterboro F Greg Vey (1985) and Quebec Jr. F Luc Simard (1970).

Stanley Cup is no stranger to damage or rough and tumble adventures, Lance Hornby 🇺🇦🇨🇦 torontosun.com/sports/hockey/…

The #SeaKraken have acquired forward Mason Marchment from the Dallas Stars in exchange for Dallas’ 2025 4th-round pick (previously acquired by the Kraken) and Seattle’s 2026 3rd-round pick

The Cup, particularly the ‘presentation’ version, has taken a lot of hits, so don’t expect the pugnacious Panthers to ease up on it after their long road to a second win: torontosun.com/sports/hockey/…

No Original Six team has seen all five of its top point producers retire elsewhere (yet). Plus, the Feds insist they aren’t dropping the Tavares tax case for now, Easton Cowan, new author Kyle Wellwood and more in your Friday Leaf Snap Shots: torontosun.com/sports/hockey/…

Wrote this nearly two years ago. It's finally happened. Jonathan Toews returns home to play for the #NHLJets: winnipegsun.com/sports/friesen…

This date in 1992, six of the 12 Leaf draft picks at the Montreal Forum would play some NHL in Toronto or elsewhere: Brandon Convery (8th), Grant Marshall (23rd), Nikolai Borschevsky (77th), Patrik Augusta (149th), Ryan VandenBussche (173rd) and Nathan Dempsey (245th).

New post for Rich Clune, rejoining the Dubas regime.

Happy 50th to the blockbuster Jaws. Saw it while working at Bayview - Wildwood Resort when about 10 of we young staffers piled into a pick-up and drove into a theatre in Orillia. A highlight of that summer. We didn’t want to go back in our little lake after.