10 Copyright (c) 2012 Yahoo!, Inc. All rights reserved. en-us 126 15 http://sports.yahoo.com http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/b/ysp_logo_rss.gif Latest news and information about the Toronto Maple Leafs. http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/tor http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13d1uq5dl/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/toronto-marlies-advance-to-calder-cup-final-with-win-over-oklahoma-city.html The Maple Leafs farm team will face the Norfolk Admirals in the final. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:52:37 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,5f833780-11ad-3506-a874-ce5777168451-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13dkjf774/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/devils-look-eliminate-rangers-game-6-hal-gill-224506056.html Fri, 25 May 2012 15:45:06 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,3f21bdeb-6986-3814-b039-59dce25a8426-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13g5pg4dv/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/dominik-hasek-wants-nhl-return-tortorella-game-6-195836583.html Fri, 25 May 2012 12:58:36 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,5d1aaeed-9239-366c-8019-50e2ee6045ed-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12nugaacc/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/canadiens-hire-dudley-assistant-gm-160012770--nhl.html The Montreal Canadiens have hired Rick Dudley as their assistant general manager, the team announced Friday. Fri, 25 May 2012 09:00:12 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,09742493-e1be-36c8-bc11-e587e656dcfb-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=136dq200l/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/los-angeles-kings-clinch-stanley-cup-finals-berth-184400937--nhl.html On Tuesday, May 22, the Los Angeles Kings beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4-3 in sudden-death overtime to clinch their second Western Conference title. The team will now move on to play either the New York Rangers or the New Jersey Devils in the Stanley Cup Finals. Wed, 23 May 2012 11:44:00 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,b5d86cc4-c76a-3d88-9006-14e6df88b83b-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13md1od13/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/islanders-goalie-al-montoya-most-popular-hockey-player-162923307.html Tue, 22 May 2012 09:29:23 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,ffc75fde-ea41-39fe-95ca-105f5dd022e3-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13r087mun/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/learned-embarrassing-la-sports-media-moments-while-covering-135822855.html Mon, 21 May 2012 06:58:22 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,f879fe6a-83b0-3bf8-9dad-82774f5c572e-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12lf32g4c/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/russia-back-top-defeats-slovakia-223428721--nhl.html HELSINKI (AP) Russia won the world championship Sunday by defeating Slovakia 6-2. Sun, 20 May 2012 15:52:23 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,89d74013-5ed8-3293-aab4-7064c26c8989-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13ad1r1pp/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/king-leads-kings-super-meta-game-3-victory-044442877.html Make it eight. No, not Canadian teams -- consecutive wins for the Los Angeles Kings, who took a 3-0 series lead over the Phoenix Coyotes in the Western Conference Finals with a 2-1 Game 3 victory. While the result was the same, Thursday night's script was slightly different, at least for the first 21 minutes. The Coyotes came out stronger in Los Angeles, outshooting the Kings 11-8 in the first period and showing that they wouldn't go easily. A minute into the second period, they finally beat Jonathan Quick, as Daymond Langkow slipped a shot through the LA netminder's pads on a partial breakaway to give the Coyotes their first lead of the series. But only 127 seconds later, the Kings answered. Dustin Brown found Anze Kopitar streaking in behind the Phoenix defence, and Kopitar made two elite plays to tie the score: first, he deftly accepted the pass by kicking it from his skate to his stick, and second, he opened up Mike Smith up with a first-class deke, slipping the puck through the five-hole. And then the Kings kept answering. Thu, 17 May 2012 21:44:42 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,6082a87f-308f-31a0-818e-96eb8e12a71b-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12onb340n/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/rangers-shot-blocking-mentality-bad-161800584--nhl.html The New York Rangers are the only team left that only plays defense, so if they win the Stanley Cup, the league will be worse off. Mon, 14 May 2012 09:18:00 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,aa3f4c1c-ee13-3edb-87fd-d3a537cab111-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=132163kk1/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/learned-washington-capitals-season-122810056.html Mon, 14 May 2012 05:28:10 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,b64b3f05-215d-3e7b-bb33-a5e2f2745783-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12gqesi0o/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/canada-routs-kazakhstan-8-0-205903860--nhl.html HELSINKI (AP) Dion Phaneuf scored twice and Devan Dubnyk stopped 24 shots to help Canada crush Kazakhstan 8-0 Saturday and reach the quarterfinals of hockey's world championships. Sat, 12 May 2012 13:59:03 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,992b7c14-2525-3e33-b1fa-0234b4753bd5-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12us2elpd/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/canada-rout-kazakhstan-confirm-group-lead-204150221--nhl.html Vacouver Olympic champions Canada maintained their world ice hockey championship preliminary group lead with an 8-0 thrashing of former Soviet republic Kazakhstan here on Saturday. Sat, 12 May 2012 13:41:50 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,54d90c55-716d-3a33-9829-1025af3cecbe-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12g6glf2j/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/ducks-sign-coach-boudreau-2-214013761--nhl.html ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Coach Bruce Boudreau's shortened debut season with the Anaheim Ducks was good enough to keep him around for a whole lot longer. Thu, 10 May 2012 16:53:39 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,286969cd-2f42-3ac3-a835-6ebccb284820-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=140t10hhk/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/karlsson-contract-negotiations-winter-classic-la-anisimov-learns-163701584.html Wed, 09 May 2012 09:37:01 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,5f5ff66a-5907-35a2-95d7-48cd37174556-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13t8hodni/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/learned-mediocre-divisions-produce-better-stanley-cup-playoff-142434948.html Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. Occasionally you will hear that playing top teams several times a season, like those in the Atlantic and Central Divisions did this season, is a great way to prepare yourself for the postseason. They say it makes you ready to face the tougher competition in the playoffs, and by extension, those teams playing in softer divisions must logically be ill-prepared for similar rigors once the postseason rolls around. Both of the Atlantic and Central divisions were littered with 100-point teams, boasting eight of the league's 10 to eclipse the century mark between them (the other two being Boston and Vancouver), and it therefore stood to reason that they would likely send the lion's share of competitors to the conference finals. The better teams in the regular season tend to do about as well in the postseason, because they are, after all, very good teams. That makes sense. It turns out, though, that having a bunch of teams even in the neighborhood of 100 points in your division at the end of the regular season actually may be more of a detriment to a squad's postseason success. Since the lockout, only two teams have played in a Stanley Cup Final after playing in a division with three teams that managed 100 points. However, both those teams (Anaheim in 2007 and Chicago in 2010) won the Cup. If you expand that number out to even 97 points — which typically assures you a playoff berth but not home ice — only two more teams are added to the mix, the 2008 and 2009 Penguins. Conversely, teams coming out of divisions with two or fewer 97-point teams got into the Cup Finals with far greater frequency, doing so eight times since the lockout (including both Boston and Vancouver last year). But now we've seen the Los Angeles Kings advance to the Western Conference Final for the first time since 1993, and the Phoenix Coyotes stand on the precipice of doing the same for the first time since ever. Phoenix won the Pacific Division with 97 points, and is only a home ice team by virtue of its division title. Had seeding been based on points, they'd have slotted into the sixth spot. Los Angeles, meanwhile, finished with 95. The now-eliminated Sharks were sandwiched between them with 96. Three teams from one division in the playoffs, yes, but one terribly underwhelming division from which not much was expected. (Coming Up: America is a hockey superpower, thanks to Jack Johnson; Barry Trotz is wrong; Dustin Brown is awesome; Jordan Staal of Carolina; Thomas Vanek makes bank; Luongo to the Blackhawks?; Rick Dudley to the Habs; Jonathan Quick vs. Terry Sawchuck; trading Sidney Crosby; Todd McLellan-to-Calgary rumors; and the best and worst of the Capitals.) Mon, 07 May 2012 07:24:34 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,c6beedda-c66b-3b70-94d9-ff22ebdeed1c-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=130ae9bgm/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/pesonen-keeps-finland-top-ice-hockey-worlds-210435830--nhl.html Forward Janne Pesonen scored the winning goal as titleholders Finland kept their unbeaten record at the world ice hockey championships here on Sunday with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Slovakia. Sun, 06 May 2012 14:04:35 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,37b004dd-49f1-397c-aabc-5d428ed1cf01-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13ibn4bmg/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/report-rick-dudley-stop-preparing-leafs-draft-join-190949758.html Sun, 06 May 2012 12:09:49 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,940f6cf4-c2ff-363b-976b-ba7c80eed8ae-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12mkn7kgq/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/flames-shouldnt-expect-much-roman-182300688--nhl.html The signing of the Czech forward is an attempt to gain offense, but here's why he probably won't live up to expectations. Thu, 03 May 2012 11:23:00 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,3b548995-f137-3a07-91b4-da5097660e96-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13qc171r8/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/marc-bergevin-named-montreal-canadiens-gm-according-report-061030002.html Tue, 01 May 2012 23:10:30 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,a4a0b2b7-6992-36c3-8857-5a4ca6618d0b-l:1 Fri, 25 May 2012 18:52:37 PDT