Devils winger Stefan Noesen will miss Thursday’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs because of an illness, his second straight game sidelined. Coach Sheldon Keefe announced that Noesen had “not progressed well enough” to travel with the team on Wednesday, leaving their second line unsettled again.

Editor’s note: This interview was originally published on Dec. 10. On Thursday, Sheldon Keefe will coach in Toronto for the first time since joining the New Jersey Devils. NEWARK, N.J. — The slogan that lines the dressing room wall of Sheldon Keefe’s New Jersey Devils team reads: Compete. Commit. Connect.

On Monday, January 27, the Toronto Maple Leafs will host the annual Outdoor Practice presented by Sport Chek, along with a weekend of free activities leading up to the marquee event. For the first time,

Three straight regulation losses aren't a good sign. Exactly how much of a problem are the various underlying trends?

Last night, the Toronto Maple Leafs hosted the Dallas Stars, and they didn’t get the result they were hoping for. They came into the game as losers of two in a row and coming off what might have been their worst effort of the season against the Vancouver Canucks.

The Toronto Maple Leafs head coach felt his players delivered. The result, however, was more of the same. And now a team that did well to grasp a new system in the first half of the NHL season is facing its first real bumps in the road.