by Brian Kennedy | Nov 14, 2018 | Homepage, Leagues, Los Angeles Kings, NHL, Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs play all three California teams in four days, and they don’t even get to take a bus from LA to Anaheim to ease the road trip. They have to fly to San Jose in between playing the Kings and Ducks. Perhaps that’s why they decided to get out to a...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 13, 2017 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage
No disrespect to Paul Kariya. That’s what I’m supposed to write just before I tell you that he shouldn’t be going in to the Hall of Fame. Not this year. Not with Teemu Selanne. Right? I’m not saying he should never be there. There are cases like his—Cam Neely, Eric...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 3, 2017 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL, Toronto Maple Leafs
LOS ANGELES – The Kings have handily outclassed Eastern Conference teams this season, going 9-1-0 against them thus far. Their only loss was on the road in Toronto. Thursday, they repaid the Leafs with a victory at home. The game saw Toronto plagued by...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 4, 2017 | Anaheim Ducks, Archived Features, Homepage, Toronto Maple Leafs
You wouldn’t normally think of the Anaheim Ducks and the Toronto Maple Leafs as having much to do with one another. But on Friday night with the Canadian team in town, the crossovers were hard to miss. Mike Babcock, the Leafs’ coach? Took the Ducks to the Stanley Cup...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 8, 2016 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Toronto Maple Leafs
I don’t know what Dean Lombardi got for Christmas, but it’s the time for new toys, so it’s perhaps not surprising that in the week after New Years’, he unwrapped a couple of good ones called Vincent Lecavalier and Luke Schenn. It wasn’t that the Kings didn’t need...