Every other week, Hog-O-Vision takes an illustrated look into Toronto’s future.

Photo by kristin shaw. When Brian Burke arrived in Toronto last November, he promised a Maple Leaf team full of “pugnacity, testosterone, truculence and belligerence.” He wasn’t kidding: barely seven months into his tenure as the Leafs’ thirteenth general manager, Burke has begun creating exactly that. His first foray into free agency typified Burke’s approach [...]

Photo by kozumel. Nothing’s official yet; so far there’s just a rescheduled game between Toronto FC and the New York Red Bulls. It would appear, however, that the move was made in order to free up Toronto FC and BMO Field for what would be the biggest occasion in the fledgling team’s history: an exhibition [...]

BMO Field at dusk. Photo by S.S.K. from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Major League Soccer’s Toronto FC have been busy the last few weeks preparing for their third season, kicking off this Saturday at 8:30 p.m. away against the Kansas City Wizards (live on GolTV and The Fan 590). As in years past, Canada’s only [...]

Photo by Яick Harris. Ten years ago today, Maple Leaf Gardens hosted its final National Hockey League game. And ten years further on, we still haven’t learned the building’s ultimate fate—still haven’t learned what’ll happen to “the Grand Old Lady of Carlton Street,” the last of the famed Original Six arenas. After the Maple Leafs [...]

The Brian Burke saga, or at least the first part of it, is over. We’re as surprised as anyone—Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment tends to struggle with straightforward tasks—but today, Burke was officially unveiled as the new President and General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. It wasn’t exactly a surprise: we’ve known it was [...]

Tomorrow, our lives come grinding to a halt until mid-June. The NHL playoffs are here—and even without the Toronto Maple Leafs (more on them in a second), that means there’s going to be meaningful hockey on TV almost every single night for the next two-and-a-half months. (That’s assuming you think it’s possible for sports to [...]

Far be it from us to conflate professional sports with Bill Shakespeare—but the Toronto Maple Leafs’ actions before, during and after Tuesday’s NHL trade deadline recall Macbeth’s famous words: full of sound and fury, yet ultimately signifying nothing. Charges of heresy will be duly acknowledged. In the end, the promised blow-up never materialized. None of [...]

If you’re reading this and it’s between the hours of 7-9:30pm EST, do yourself a favour and tune into Hockey Night in Canada. You might be witnessing the end of an era in Toronto sports. Mats Sundin, captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1997, is on the trading block. Earlier this week, TSN broke [...]

The saga of John Ferguson, Jr. is mercifully over: the beleaguered General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who’s been a whipping boy for the team’s misfortunes ever since his appointment in 2003, has been fired. Say what you will about Ferguson (and if you’re a Leaf fan then you probably have): the way he’s [...]

We have no problem admitting our man-love for Mats Sundin: he’s been the captain of our favourite hockey team for most of our adult lives, he’s one of the greatest Toronto Maple Leafs of all-time and he’s a shoe-in hall-of-famer once he retires. Seeing him score his 500th career goal still ranks as the greatest [...]

Say what you will about the Toronto Maple Leafs, but they’re not boring. Incompetent, sure, but definitely not boring—not even during their recent, well-publicized losing streak. The Leafs are a middling 3–4–3 in their last ten games, yet they're oddly compelling to watch: they’re tied for third in league scoring (this, despite the inability of some of its key players to put the puck in the net) and they’re by far and away the...