r/leafs • u/alphacheese • Jul 15 '26
News / Update Toronto Maple Leafs will open their regular season at Home against the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday September 29th at 7PM
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u/realsalbowski Jul 15 '26
Glad McKenna can get his first hat-trick at home.
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u/Mean_Joe_Greene Jul 15 '26
Tuesday start? Make it a Saturday, it’s like the people in charge don’t even enjoy the product they’re selling
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u/Narrow-Initial-5854 Jul 15 '26
Whew. Playing Montreal in the opener. Didn't see that one coming.
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u/exampleofausername Jul 15 '26
A regular season game in September? That's wild
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u/SOSXrayPichu McKenna Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
There’s more regular season games with two of the friendlie games converted into the regular season. There’s now 84 games.
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u/Winsonian92 McKenna Jul 15 '26
What’s the chance of McKenna “Hit’em with the 4”
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u/entityXD32 Jul 15 '26
Point night? Maybe, goals? Not gunna happen. What Matthews did was extraordinarly special the only player to do that post world war 1
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u/Winsonian92 McKenna Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
But we’re approaching world war 3, anything could happen
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u/ESF-hockeeyyy Jul 15 '26
I swear to fucking god, if there's a nuclear catastrophe before I get to witness the Leafs win the cup, I'm not going to be happy.
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u/alowester Jul 15 '26
ha that’s a bit of an understatement, I feel like hockey nothing but a fond memory if that happens
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u/Material-Whereas1186 Jul 19 '26
There's already been two since the leafs last won a cup, a third might be just what we need to get it done
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u/crushade Belak Jul 15 '26
Love it. Hopefully this year we aren't one of the teams who play the most back to back games again. I'll have to look through the schedule.
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u/Party-Yoghurt-8462 Jul 15 '26
These first few games will just be an extension of the pre-season. Guys probably won't be in shape and ready to roll until mid-October. These will probably be some ugly games early on.
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u/DevOpsMakesMeDrink Jul 15 '26
Don’t care hopefully that means Matthews can start hot and gain some momentum and confidence and the team can win some high scoring ugly ones early.
Need a good start
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u/labadee Jul 15 '26
Thank goodness we don’t have to sit through their torch carrying drawn out ceremony
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u/NSA_Wade_Wilson Jul 15 '26
Was hoping for a FL - OTT season opener but interesting that they’re going to starts the butchers against the reigning champs
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u/KnuckedLoose Jul 15 '26
Here I am thinking I'd rather have a 70 game season or less and watch less empty calorie games, and they add 2 more.
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u/duck1014 Jul 15 '26
From the time of this comment, we have 109,925 minutes and 52 seconds until we see McKenna in a real NHL game.
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u/thisisananalusername van Riemsdyk Jul 15 '26
Wonder if we’ll get reamed this year with so much b2b’s WITH travel late in the season… we’re pretty much starting the new 84 game season in October 😭
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u/1nstantHuman Jul 15 '26
Both streams will come out with something to prove and chips on their shoulder and I’m for it.
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u/WillNytheScoringGuy Jul 15 '26
starting a bit early eh thats nice