On March 25th the MLSE Team Up Foundation along with the Maple Leafs, Marlies, Raptors & Toronto FC will be hosting the Players Gala at Real Sports Bar & Grill. While the event is sold out, tonight’s #TMLtalk TOTN wins two tickets to the Players Gala!

It is your chance to mix and mingle with over 80 of Toronto’s pro athletes. This is your chance to talk with Dion Phaneuf, Joffrey Lupul, James Reimer and more. All proceeds from the event will benefit the MLSE Team Up Foundation.

To enter all you ...

James Reimer and the rest of the Leafs have the rest of the year to right the season

By the time they reach Grade 2 children begin to develop a mature outlook toward money, community and private property.

Their friendships deepen. They grasp the difference between writing for marks in school and for pleasure. Seven-year-olds understand the distinction between asking a question and reciting a fact. By Grade 2 children are forming lifelong patterns and points of view.

Not one of these children, not one the world over, was alive on a ...

When LA winger Dustin Brown’s name hit the rumour mill, all eyes were raised toward Brian Burke.

Brown seems perfect. He hits, he scores, he plays bigger than his six-feet.

Most important, he’s from Ithaca, New York.

He’s American.

Buffalo-born and bred Jim Kelley remains a towering figure in hockey journalism, a business that has yet to produce a successor for a reporter who filed a story on his last day on earth, Nov 30, 2010.

He loved Canadians and this country but sometimes shuddered at our provincialism.

“Hockey is Canada’s gift to the ...

Keep an eye on this guy. He's staying.

Let’s say you heard a 21-year-old puck-moving defenceman was on the trading block.

Drop dead talent. Tied for the team lead in plus minus. Fourth on the team in ice time with over 21 minutes per contest and trending up.  Points leader among NHL rookie defencemen.

What would you give up to land such a player? Congratulations, Leaf fans. You are the only team that doesn’t have to covet Jake Gardiner.

Gardiner is on track to be the best Leaf defenceman since Borje Salming left ...

With the Maple Leafs hosting the San Jose Sharks for the only meeting this season, tonight’s Sport Chek Tweet Of The Night winner takes home tickets to an upcoming Leafs game.

To enter all you need to do is follow @mapleleafs on Twitter and include #TMLtalk in your tweets during the game for a chance to win.

Leafs forward Clarke MacArthur was the Sport Chek #undercoverpro last week.  Check it out as he is Phil Johnson for an afternoon.

There are some rules and regulations for the Sport Chek #TMLtalk Tweet Of The Night that you ...

Does this man look eager to give away confidential information?

I spent 25 years in the print media. The last six came as a sports columnist for the Toronto Sun.

The Sun was built on three pillars: sports stories, crime stories and stories that serviced a loony right-wing ideology.

It was a great place to work, full of smart, wonderful people. You might not agree with Peter Worthington’s stance on the military but he sure loved his Blue Jays.

I also worked at the National Post, another newspaper staffed by iconoclastic, brilliant, ambitious ...

The Leafs have friends in high places.

Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins donned a personalized Maple Leafs sweater in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Thursday. He is one of 23 bishops in Rome this week preparing for elevation into the College of Cardinals.

“It’s safe to say there are more than a few Toronto Maple Leafs fans in the pews of our parishes in the Archdiocese of Toronto,” Collins said in an Archdiocese release.

“This is a fun way to let them, and all Catholics in our diocese, know that I am ...

This is what you get for three inconsequential players, $15 million and three first-rounders. Just sayin'.

Who should the Maple Leafs be willing to trade to land a franchise player?

Anyone.

Ok, anyone except for Phil Kessel, Dion Phaneuf and Jake Gardiner.

By anyone, I mean anyone  else.

Package the rest however you like but spare those three because each has the chance to someday be as impactful a player as anyone you are likely to get.

So would you deal James Reimer, Matt Frattin, Nazem Kadri or the superb Joffrey Lupul. Got to give ...

As the Maple Leafs homestand continues, during tonight’s #TMLtalk you could win a signed Darcy Tucker jersey courtesy of The Keg by having the #TMLtalk Tweet Of The Night.

To enter for your chance to invite three friends to watch the Leafs take on New Jersey March 23 at The Keg with former Leaf Darcy Tucker just Like The Keg on Facebook

To enter make sure that you are following @mapleleafs on Twitter and include #TMLtalk in your tweets to be eligible to win.

There are some rules and regulations for the #TMLtalk Tweet Of ...

The Maple Leafs were back on the ice early Monday morning before heading out on a three-game Western Canada road trip. The trip begins in Calgary Tuesday (9pm, Sportsnet, AM640).

During practice, defenceman Carl Gunnarsson collided with Jay Rosehill and fell awkwardly into the boards. He had to be helped off the ice and there was no immediate word on whether Gunnarsson would be in the lineup against the Flames.

“We’re not sure,” Ron Wilson said on the severity of the injury. “He’s going to need an image on it so we will ...