NHL

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #19, Brendan Shanahan

­Shanahan is the man responsible for returning the most hallowed franchise in hockey to greatness

Slideshow: the Internet reacts to the Maple Leafs’ crushing loss

Where to get Maple Leafs playoff tickets—and the giant piles of money they’re going to cost

Toronto Maple Leafs stoke a little playoff excitement with a pair of bad-ass Game of Thrones-style pics

Best Bets: unofficial odds for our favourite Toronto Maple Leafs off-the-ice storylines in 2013

What Toronto Maple Leafs brass, players and hockey insiders are saying about Brian Burke’s firing

Send in the Clowns: behind the desk with SportsCentre’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole

Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole can’t stop laughing—at fumbling athletes, at ranting coaches and especially at their own jokes

The Maple Leafs are valuable and inefficient and have diehard fans, according to Forbes

City-bound: Markham has finally outgrown its “town” status

QUOTED: former CBC exec Richard Stursberg thinks Hockey Night in Canada is probably doomed

QUOTED: Tim Hudak explains what the Toronto Maple Leafs and Justin Bieber have in common

Markham will build a massive arena (which, of course, has nothing to do with getting an NHL team)

Could Hockey Night in Canada soon be cancelled forever?

How the Vancouver Canucks and the Ottawa Senators could cripple the CBC

Maple Leafs execs to fans: sorry this season (and last one, and the one before that…) sucked