Are Leafs too messy – on the ice and behind the bench – to make playoffs?

Oct 16, 2026, 12:04 PM ET|Comments (0)

from Daily Faceoff, by Matt Larkin,

It was a night Kirill Marchenko says he’ll never forget. Who wouldn’t cherish scoring a hat trick in their eighth game playing for an Original Six franchise? But he couldn’t even muster a smile after the game Thursday night. Not when his Toronto Maple Leafs squandered a 4-2 divisional lead to their Atlantic Division rival Buffalo Sabres and fell 5-4 in overtime.

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