For the Toronto Maple Leafs, the hope was that their incredible Game 6 performance, in which they rebounded from a putrid ...

Together, we gather to remember one of the most disappointing eras in Toronto Maple Leafs history: the Core Four Era.  The ...

TORONTO – Mitch Marner waltzed on the scene here nearly nine years ago, capturing the hearts and minds of Maple Leafs fans as ... last spring is the “Core Four.” We may not have any reason ...

NHL Insider Addresses Possible Breakup of Maple Leafs' Core Four originally appeared on Athlon Sports. As the Toronto Maple ...

While they had their moments, the Toronto Maple Leafs once again proved to be ineffective ... same old result and same old talk of this being the end of the core as they haven’t proven that ...

Let's look at the facts. Since 2018, the Maple Leafs' longest tenured players — Matthews, Marner, Nylander and Morgan Rielly ...

But fast forward to the Core Four era, and the Maple Leafs haven’t fared much better. During the first round of the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, a still novice Leafs team ran into a much more ...

Unfortunately, that person was not in the Maple Leafs organization ... Once he goes, the benighted Core Four Era ends. “For me, it’s all between the ears,” Leafs coach Craig Berube ...

This is a narrative that's haunted the Core Four era of the Maple Leafs and it's only gotten stronger with each series loss and playoff failure in the years since. But, shifting the blame for the ...