Cujo ties Worsely for most Losses!

Yes Curtis Joseph is now tied with the great Gump Worsely ! They share the record for most career losses. It did not seem to bother him though.

“There’s too many good things in my life for me to even think about losses,” said Joseph, fourth on the career victory list with 454.

The Leafs lost to the Buffalo Sabres 3-1 on the strength of 32 saves by Ryan Miller and a third period rally by Buffalo. Christian Hanson got his second point in as many nights and Jason Blake got an assist to add to his club leading 62nd point.



The Leafs final game of the season comes Saturday night against Ottawa and as always, you can hear all of the action live right here on Bench Brawl!

Cujo Gets yet another Record

Hanson gets first NHL Goal as Leafs dump Devils

First of all, would all you media meat heads drop the whole ' son of a Hanson Brother '
crap already!

Cristian Hanson did indeed score his first NHL goal tonight in a 4-1 win over Martin Brodeur and the New Jersey Devils.

“We stuck to our system,” Hanson said. “We knew we had to play a certain way against New Jersey and we stuck to it and Martin Gerber was the difference maker. He stood on his head. He was phenomenal.”

Hanson got it against his favorite player, Martin Brodeur, and the Toronto Maple Leafs rookie didn’t seem to care it didn’t come on a slap shot.

“To be honest I would have taken it any way it would have gone in. Off my head, off my butt, off my skate, and luckily it went off my stick,” said Hanson, whose backhander capped a three-goal first period that led Toronto to a 4-1 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.

Martin Gerber also shone for the Leafs making 47 stops for his fifth win as a Leaf.

“We did a much better job of pushing them away from the net,” Gerber said. “It gives you a split second more time and you have a better chance to read the game. That’s a big difference from the last two games.”

Hamilton, Mitchell and Grabovski also scored for Toronto. For Grabovski, it was his 20th of the season.



The Leafs next action comes tomorrow night against the Sabres. As always, you can hear all of the action live right here on Bench Brawl!

Kovalev Shines in 6-2 Beating of Toronto

Yes Patrick, I know, I owe you 5 bucks!

On a night that I fully expected the Leafs to come out in a foul mood after being beaten handily the night before, they, well, didn't. Right now, kids like Christian Hanson are probably sitting on the bench thinking to themselves, ' what the hell did I do?'

I suppose that it could be a little difficult to 'get it up' for the remainder of the season when you know it's essentially pointless, but still.

The Leafs second loss in a row came at the hands of the suddenly good looking and tactical, Montreal Canadiens. Les Canadiens opened up a 4-0 lead before the Leafs finally responded early in the the third to make things still not even close.

“We’re trying to grab as many points as we can and move up the standings,” forward Chris Higgins. “The confidence in the room is back—that’s pretty obvious to tell. I think we’ve got four games left here and if we continue to play the way we’ve been playing the last couple games, then we’ll have the right mind-set for the playoffs.”

Montreal scored twice more and Boyd Devereaux added a short handed marker for the Leafs, in the end, the Leafs lost 6-2.



Defenseman Mathieu Schneider left the game with an upper-body injury in the first period, and leading scorer Andrei Markov was knocked out by Mikhail Grabovski’s hit with 7 minutes to play. I love that!

The Leafs next action comes Tuesday night when they visit the Devils in New Jersey. As always you can hear all of the action live, right here, on Bench Brawl!