Leafs Lose 4-3 to Panthers!

Despite firing 38 shot's at Florida net minder Tomas Vokoun, the Leafs came away with a 3-1 loss last night, “They’ve been struggling of late, having lost four,” Toronto right wing Jamal Mayers said. “We knew that. We couldn’t quite get that second goal to hopefully make them tighten up a little bit. But you’ve got to give their goalie credit, he played well.”

The story of Martin Gerber coming to Toronto varies, depending on who you ask but so far, I think he has played fairly well. ( Ugh!, I can't believe I might be warming up to this guy!) He allowed 3 goals on 42 shot's last night and is a respectable .500 since taking over for Toskala after the trade deadline.

“We had chances and we had good puck possession,” Gerber said. “In the second period, we just lost the momentum and they were on top of us for a while. We had a tough time getting out of our zone. In the third, we tried everything we could. We had some chances, but we couldn’t put it in.”



The Leafs next action comes Saturday against Montreal, and my buddy Patrick is going to owe me another 5 bucks! As always, you can hear all the action live, right here on Bench Brawl!

Leafs Beat Lightning in Shoot Out!

With only 11 games left in this season that has been full of contradiction for the Leafs, it was great to see them beat Tampa and avoid the season sweep. Especially given that it would have come at the hands of a team who for the most part are at least as good at under achieving as the Ottawa Senators!

The final tonight was a 4-3 shoot out win that saw the Buds gain another 2 points and entrench them firmly in no mans land in regard to the up coming draft. Currently in 11th place in the Eastern Conference, only 8 points out, the could make things very exciting down the stretch!

The Leafs failed to convert on 3 consecutive power play chances in the first period only to allow LeCavalier and the Lightning a power play goal to take the lead in the first.

Stamkos and Pettinger both scored in the second to put Tampa up 3-0 in the second before John Mitchell scored at 19:36 of the second to put the Leafs on the board

Blake and new comer Jeff Hamilton score in the third to tie things up, with Hamiltons goal coming with just five and half left to play in regulation.

Overtime solved nothing and the shootout went six rounds before John Michell snuck a shot low shot past the right skate of rookie net minder Karri Ramo.



The Leafs next action comes Thursday night as they travel to Florida to face the Panthers,. As always, you can hear all of the action live, right here on Bench brawl!