Ladies Talkin’ Leafs

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It’s been a busy couple weeks for Kyle Dubas! Trade deadline is over, and the Leafs have made a lot of changes bringing in 6 new players! This episode is dedicated to breaking down the deals that were made, as well as some that weren't but maybe should've been.  We evaluate all the Leafs' deals and start things off with a special edition of the LTL Highlight Reel, where we rank our top 3 Leafs' tr...

Only a few days away from trade deadline day! A lot is going on and a lot is still going to happen! To date we have welcomed new members Ryan O'Reilly and Noel Acciari who have made quite an impression on and off the ice already. No doubt Kyle Dubas still has a lot up his sleeve and we're here for it!  With the all the deadline buzz in the air, some of this electricity has spilled over onto the ic...

Seems like forever since our last show! Probably because the Leafs have only played 3 games! In between, we had the All Star break which wasn’t that exciting. We talk a bit about Miami Mitch and the Mascots, as well as what might be coming to TO in 2024 in our opener. Let's just say we are hoping for an improved product! Then, for GBU "light", we look at what was good, bad or otherwise o...

The NHL Allstar game is almost upon us, and the Leafs are heading into the weekend in pretty good shape. The team will have some additional time off with their bye week attached to the All Star break, and will hopefully head into it in style, with a win over Boston on February 1st. They won't play again until February 10th, and this couldn't be coming at a better time! With Auston Matthews joining...

We are just past the halfway point of the season and we already know that the Leafs are playing Tampa in the 1st round of the playoffs! With 38 games left to play, it is still possible that the Leafs' fate can change, but we're not holding our breath! We mentioned early in the season that Chris would be monitoring the team's losses to sub-par competition, and she delivers her first report on how m...

Happy New Year Leafs Nation! We had a lovely Holiday, and we hope all of you did too! Did everyone get all the Leafs inspired gear and gifts that they were dreaming of? We hope so! In this, our first episode of 2023, the Ladies take a look back at the year that was and pick out their favourite moments from 2022 for a special instalment of the LTL Highlight Reel! While there were some obvious conte...

It's our final show for this year and we’re going to have some fun going into the Christmas/New Year break! We're going to talk Leafs as always cuz well... that's what we do, but we have a a couple special segments planned in celebration of the Holiday Season and to close out the year in style! Before we get into the show line-up, one final reminder, there is still time to enter our Merry Leafy Ch...

November was bittersweet for Leafs Nation. While the team rounded out November on a roll with Magic Mitch continuing his points streak and tying the Maple Leafs franchise record, we also said farewell to the King, Borje Salming, who left us too soon, passing away after a brief battle with ALS. We are grateful to MLSE for allowing us all the opportunity to say goodbye in person, and we are sure tha...

It feels like a lot has happened with our Leafs since our last episode. Coming back to the east coast seems to have been just what the doctor ordered. Top it all off with Hall of Fame weekend and a poignant tribute to Borje Salming, its been a memorable and moving couple of weeks! In our GBU segment, we are happy to report that some of our stars are starting to look like their old selves, and one...

Things unfortunately have not gotten any better for the Leafs since our last episode.  Their record is 4-4-1 after the loss to the L.A. Kings, which oddly enough was the same record they had last season at the end of October. No doubt there's lots to dissect as we try to make sense of the teams stagnant start. While LeafsNation laments all the things that are going wrong, we did manage to find som...

The NHL schedule makers weren’t very kind to the Maple Leafs giving them a back-to-back to start off the regular season and 3 games in 4 nights! It kicked off a somewhat tumultuous start with the team having a less than stellar performance vs. the Canadiens and once again, the injury bug hit the goaltending department with Matt Murray placed on LTIR dealing with an adductor injury. Even the Home O...

Welcome to October and Season 4 of Ladies Talkin’ Leafs! The excitement of a new hockey season is building and soon our Maple Leafs will be embarking on their 106th NHL season! The pre-season schedule of games is almost complete and there are a lot of decisions to be made. For us there is no better way to address those decisions than by talking about it with Leafs reporter and the host of The Leaf...

Welcome to our final Patio Season episode which we are recording on the last weekend of the summer!  It’s been a great summer and for the first time in quite a while we are recording in person from the shores of Georgian Bay! The crickets have continued to sing into September, and it's remained hushed on the Leaf's news front. With training camps set to open mid-week, we expect all this to change...

Hope you are all enjoying these last few weeks of summer and welcome to our 3rd Anniversary show!  It’s been a great 3 years and it’s all because of you LeafsNation, that we are going strong and we thank you so much for listening and following us! It's been very quiet in Leaf Land over the last month. Unusually so! Even the rumour mill has been struggling! But as many of you know by now, we can al...

July has gone by super fast! We are now into August and we have some exciting news to share! We have been hinting at this for some time, and we can finally reveal that we have joined the Bleav Network! Our show has come a long way since we started in September 2019, and this milestone would not have been possible without you our incredible listeners! We thank you from the bottom of our hearts, and...

Now that he Cup has been handed out, we can officially say patio season is here!  The next few weeks are going to be a little crazy, and Chris and Syl are trying to stay calm despite the lack of news on the Leafs front.  So many questions need to be addressed, from what the defence is going to look like next season, to the never ending speculation about the goaltending , to what Kyle Dubas might d...

The Stanley Cup Final is set to go, which means that we should start hearing a bit more chatter from NHL teams.  There has been some Leaf news and, of course, the Ladies are always set to bring you up to date with what’s been going on with the Blue and White!   We start the show discussing the NHL Draft, which is being held July 7th and 8th at the Bell Centre in Montreal.  This year’s draft is sai...

It’s been just over 2 weeks since the Leafs were eliminated from the playoffs, but it feels like such a long time ago!  The Ladies have been busy and the Leafs added to this by taking care of some business in the past couple weeks, giving us even more to discuss--which we love! In this episode we get you up-to-date with the latest team news and we give the team our grades for the 2021-22 regular s...

It’s not the ending that we or any Leaf fan wanted or expected, but once again the Leafs lost in the first round of the playoffs in a Game 7. Yes, the core group of players lead the team in points. Yes the refereeing was horrible! And yes, they gave it their all, but ultimately it ended with the same, all too familiar result. Chris and Syl grade the team on their keys to the series in the segment,...

It’s a big week for the Leafs with their series vs. the Tampa Bay Lightning becoming a best 2 out of 3! So far the series has been up and down and special teams have played a big role. In this playoff episode we are introducing a new segment to go along with the ups and downs of the playoffs. We are calling it “Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down”! We're reviewing our keys to the series and giving each of them...

The Leafs quest for the Stanley Cup has begun anew! Chris and Syl are excited and ready to bring you more of Ladies Talkin’ Leafs on a weekly basis! Be sure to follow and listen  to our show and we will have you ready for all that is to come in this series vs. the Tampa Bay Lightning and beyond! We kick off our 2022 playoff edition of the show with some keys to the series! Special Teams have alrea...

A couple weeks left in the NHL season and the Leafs are in 2nd place in the Atlantic Division, which would give them home ice for the first round of the playoffs! There have been so many regular season milestone moments for the players and the team, but the focus remains on  what can be achieved in the post season. In this episode's segment of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, we give some love to P...

We are in the final month of the NHL’s regular season and it’s hard to believe we are closing in on the completion of our first full 82-game season of the podcast and the best is yet to come! The Leafs are on a bit of a roll coming out of the trade deadline and the additions of Mark Giordano and Colin Blackwell have been positive! In this episode we talk about the Giordano effect on the Leafs blue...

The Ladies are celebrating 50 episodes of the podcast and it’s been quite the ride since our first in September 2019!  We’ve been diehard Leaf fans since the late '70s/early ’80s and for this special episode, we give you some background on who we are and how the show came to life.  As long-time Leaf fans there has rarely been a dull moment in Leaf Land and the ups and downs of this regular season...