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TORONTO — Nick Foligno vividly recalls walking home from Maple Leaf Gardens with his family one memorable night in the spring of 1993.His dad, Mike Foligno, was a winger on the team that upset the . . .
TSN Toronto Reporter Mark Masters reports on the Maple Leafs, who practised at Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg on Friday ahead of Saturday’s rematch against the Jets.
Are the Toronto Maple Leafs a dirty team? I don t think so, said Winnipeg Jets coach Paul Maurice. I don’t feel that. The league has said they re not so we will abide by the league s rulings. But they re a poorer team, right. There s some fines. Probably they ll be looking for some part-time jobs now, because that s gotta hurt.
The last two times the Leafs and Jets have played, a Toronto player walked away lighter in the wallet. Zach Hyman was fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement, for high sticking defenceman Neal Pionk late in a game last week while Joe Thornton was fined $3,017.24, again the maximum allowed, for a hit on Mathieu Perreault, ruled interference, on Thursday night.
TSN Toronto Reporter Mark Masters reports on the Maple Leafs, who skated at Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg on Thursday ahead of tonight’s game against the Jets.
Paul Maurice broke into a smile and interrupted a Toronto-based columnist asking about Winnipeg s goaltending situation. You have a completely legitimate question, the Jets bench boss acknowledged, and now I m coaching two teams … because I know the story, right. If you have a website [up] you re going to get the Toronto articles.
Maurice, of course, once coached the Leafs and understands the media circus that follows the team and how one quote can quickly grow legs. And, he knows what the big issue is right now in the centre of the hockey universe.