Maple Leafs' playoff collapse deepens postseason woes

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:20 am

After a humiliating Game 7 loss, the Maple Leafs' morale remains in shambles. The Panthers’ rout and the consequent exodus of key players, including Mitch Marner, underscore a season filled with repeated playoff disappointments that leave the team and its supporters questioning if genuine change is ever on the horizon.

torontosun.com / RICK VAIVE: If you can’t stand the heat in Toronto, time to go

If you’re going to have a high-profile role as a Toronto Maple Leaf, be ready for all the attention that comes with it. We didn’t have a choice in the 1980s. There were some years our team struggled, the media was around all the time, and we had to be accountable. There was nowhere to […]

torontosun.com / Pluses and minuses: Maple Leafs season in review

Mitch Marner slumped at the bench in the final seconds of the Maple Leafs’ season-ending 6-1 loss on Sunday was quite the sight. But for us, John Tavares’s woeful gaze to the heavens after Brad Marchand’s overtime winner in Game 3 was the defining image of 2024-25. After a great season, beating…

torontosun.com / Opportunity awaits for Treliving to revamp Maple Leafs’ forward group

A summer of change has to be upon the Maple Leafs. That must be the mandate of general manager Brad Treliving in the next four months before training camp opens. It starts with moving on without Mitch Marner and John Tavares. We can’t be having the same conversation at this time next year, that the…

nationalpost.com / Matthew Tkachuk feels ‘bad’ for the Leafs as Brad Marchand reject his new nickname: ‘Maple Leafs Executioner’

Justin Bieber, meanwhile, still believes in the Leafs: 'I can be patient cuz I know this is the team to do it'

torontosun.com / What to do with Leafs president Brendan Shanahan? Fire him or keep him?

The easy and convenient thing to do right now is fire Brendan Shanahan as president of the Toronto Maple Leafs.But there’s absolutely no point in letting him go without knowing exactly who the next president will be. If there will, in fact, be a next president. Shanahan has been in charge of the…

torontosun.com / Disgusted Leafs fans burn jerseys after Game 7 nightmare loss

Hopes were raised, then dreams were dashed for Toronto Maple Leafs fans at about the midway mark of Game 7 of their second round spanking by the Florida Panthers. The last few days have been a roller-coaster ride of emotions for fans, all starting with the Game 5 debacle last Wednesday. Two days…

cp24.com/ / Heartbreaking loss for Leafs against Panthers in Game 7 - CP24

Heartbreaking loss for Leafs against Panthers in Game 7 CP24

theglobeandmail.com / Maple Leafs coach Berube and players react to ugly Game 7 loss

Toronto Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube was at a loss for words when asked how his team could come up flat in two straight home games against the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers.

nationalpost.com / Mitch Marner on Leafs losing to Panthers: ‘Sadness, obviously, depression’

Panthers rout the Maple Leafs 6-1 in Game 7 to advance to the Eastern Conference final

globalnews.ca / ‘End of an era’: Leafs fans vent on social media after Game 7 loss to Panthers

Some Toronto Maple Leafs fans are venting on social media Monday morning after yet another year without a deep run in the NHL playoffs.

torontosun.com / Time to break up the Maple Leafs core in wake of Game 7 defeat

The annual rite of spring in Toronto: Another crushing end to a Maple Leafs season. This time, it was Game 7 on Sunday night against the Florida Panthers in a 6-1 loss. Four nights after a no-show performance in Game 5, the Leafs hit rewind. The shutout win in Game 6? It’s like it never […]

torontosun.com / Craig Berube latest Leafs coach to experience no playoff pay-off

Welcome to the crowded club of confounded Maple Leafs coaches, Craig Berube. Like his two immediate predecessors, Mike Babcock and Sheldon Keefe, Toronto’s newest bench boss saw a great regular season grind to a halt before the playoff tournament was half complete. They were hammered by the…

torontosun.com / SIMMONS: The great goodbye for Mitch Marner and another Leafs playoff season

The players stood rather awkwardly in the semi-silence of the Scotiabank Arena, waiting for one last lifeless salute to the hockey fans of Toronto. One last uncomfortable way of saying goodbye to another playoff season ending too soon. Mitch Marner was the last to leave the ice. He looked around…

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