Despite having a 2024-25 season that would qualify as the best year for many NHL players, Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews didn't live up to his usual standard because of a lingering injury.

Had the Toronto Maple Leafs had starting goaltender Anthony Stolarz healthy for the entire second-round playoff series against the Florida Panthers, they might have had a different outcome. Despite jumping out to a 2-0 series lead,

The Toronto Maple Leafs lost, yet again, in a Game 7. They were taken down by the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Florida Panthers, who have advanced to face the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final.

The Toronto Maple Leafs fell short in an eighth consecutive winner-take-all game with a 6-1 drumming at the hands of the Florida Panthers. After working hard to secure a shot at redemption on home ice following a 6-1 blowout loss in Game 5,

In retrospect the time to move off the Shanaplan was after the 2020-21 season. Back then, the Toronto Maple Leafs had a dominant regular season in the one-off North Division — it was the COVID-affected 56-game season.

The Toronto Maple Leafs did look different at times throughout their 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs run. However, the final result was the same as the Maple Leafs got booed off the Scotiabank Arena ice following a 6-1 drubbing at the hands of the Florida Panthers in Game 7.

Leafs fans? Y'all might have me beat. The Toronto Maple Leafs lost another Game 7 on Sunday night to the Panthers. Not only did the Leafs lose, but they got destroyed 6-1. The game was over after that quick burst from Florida in the second period.

For the Toronto Maple Leafs, the hope was that their incredible Game 6 performance, in which they rebounded from a putrid Game 5 stinker to shut out the Florida Panthers, would create a wave of momentum they could ride back home to finally advance to the Eastern Conference Final for the first time since 2002.