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| Leafs try to extend unbeaten string to 12 at home |
NHL Hockey |
01/07/2003 |
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| Toronto, Ontario (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Maple Leafs will try and extend their home unbeaten streak to 12 games tonight when they welcome the Boston Bruins to the Air Canada Centre. The Maple Leafs have not lost at home since a 2-1 setback to Detroit on November 16 and are 14-7-2 in their rink this season. Toronto comes into tonight's contest after splitting a home-and-home series with the New Jersey Devils. Ed Belfour made 50 saves and Travis Green snapped an early third-period tie with his fifth goal, as |
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| Devils lose forward Gionta to injury |
NHL Hockey |
01/06/2003 |
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| East Rutherford, NJ (MySportsbook) - The New Jersey Devils will be without Brian Gionta for two-to-three weeks after the forward sustained a broken right leg last week. Tests on Monday revealed the injury. Gionta went down during the Devils' 2-0 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on January 3. He was hit in the leg by a shot from teammate Scott Stevens. The 23-year-old Rochester, New York native has seven goals and four assists in 35 games this season. |
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| Devils Team Report: Frustrated by an Eagle |
NHL Hockey |
01/05/2003 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The New Jersey Devils won a goaltending duel Friday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Asking to win another would have been too much to ask, and that point was proven Saturday. Ed Belfour made 50 saves and Travis Green snapped an early third-period tie with his fifth goal, as the Maple Leafs posted a 2-1 victory over the Devils to gain a split of the home-and-home set at the Air Canada Centre. Belfour gave up just two goals on Friday at the Meadowlands, but Corey Schwab earned a shutout in |
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| Maple Leafs Team Report: Eddie saves ailing club |
NHL Hockey |
01/05/2003 |
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| r Jersey center Jason Arnott banging home the OT winner in Game 6 of the 2000 Stanley Cup Finals to officially spoil the Dallas Stars' chance at a repeat. Well, Belfour isn't in Dallas anymore, and he got to stick it to the Devils as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. Eddie the Eagle made 50 saves and Travis Green snapped an early third-period tie with his fifth goal, as the Maple Leafs posted a 2-1 victory over the Devils to gain a split of a home-and-home set at the Air Canada Centre. Belfour |
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| Belfour's 50 saves lift Leafs past Devils |
NHL Hockey |
01/05/2003 |
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| Toronto, Ontario (MySportsbook) - Ed Belfour made 50 saves and Travis Green snapped an early third-period tie with his fifth goal, as the Toronto Maple Leafs posted a 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils to gain a split of the home-and-home set at the Air Canada Centre. Belfour gave up just two goals on Friday at the Meadowlands, but Corey Schwab earned a shutout in New Jersey's 2-0 victory. Tom Fitzgerald also scored for Toronto on Saturday, as the Leafs improved to 5-1-2-1 in their last nine outings. Toront |
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| Leafs put 10-game home unbeaten streak up against Devs |
NHL Hockey |
01/04/2003 |
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| Toronto, Ontario (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Maple Leafs put their 10- game home unbeaten streak on the line tonight when they welcome the New Jersey Devils to Air Canada Centre for the back end of a home-and-home. In the set opener on Friday night, Corey Schwab made 17 saves for his first shutout of the season to lead the Devils to a 2-0 victory over the Maple Leafs at the Meadowlands. Patrik Elias scored a goal and added an assist for the Devils, who bounced back from a 2-1 loss to Florida on New Year's Day |
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| Leafs' Renberg nearly loses hand to infection |
NHL Hockey |
01/03/2003 |
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| Toronto, Ontario (MySportsbook) - Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mikael Renberg nearly lost his left hand due to an infection. Renberg was kept out of the Leafs' game on New Year's Eve against Vancouver. He aggravated a blister on his hand while trying to tie his skates in Edmonton on Saturday. The hand became infected and team athletic therapist Brent Smith took him to a Vancouver hospital with a 104-degree fever. "It could have been a lot worse, amputation to save my life, I guess," Renberg told the Toronto Star |
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| Sharks Team Report: Two goal lead not enough |
NHL Hockey |
12/22/2002 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The San Jose Sharks held a two-goal lead over the Toronto Maple Leafs midway through the third period on Saturday and thought they were on their way to their second win in three tries. Think again. After drawing within a goal at 9:22 of the third, the Maple Leafs benefited from a strange delay of game penalty assessed to the Sharks and capitalized on the ensuing power play to pull even in Saturday's 3-3 deadlock at the Air Canada Centre. "Five minutes to go in a one-goal game?" said Teemu Selan |
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| Lightning Team Report: Stoned by an Eagle |
NHL Hockey |
12/20/2002 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Thursday's game between the Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs could have turned into a classic goaltending duel between Tampa's Nikolai Khabibulin and Toronto's Ed Belfour. Unfortunately, Khabibulin took the night off in favor of backup Kevin Hodson, but Belfour nonetheless did his best to put on a show between the pipes. Eddie the Eagle made 29 saves and came within 1:36 of his league-leading sixth shutout of the season, as the Leafs held on for a 2-1 victory over the Bolts at St. Pete Times F |
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| Lightning attempt to stretch unbeaten string to four |
NHL Hockey |
12/19/2002 |
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| Tampa, FL (MySportsbook) - The Tampa Bay Lightning try to extend their unbeaten streak to four games tonight when they welcome the Toronto Maple Leafs to the St. Pete Times Forum. Tampa Bay is 2-0-1 during the run, on the heels of an 0-2-0-1 slide. On Wednesday night the Bolts skated to a 1-1 road tie with Carolina in a matchup between the top two clubs in the Southeast Division. Brad Richards scored in the first period, but the Canes' Jan Hlavac countered with the equalizer in the middle frame. The Lightning h |
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