Article content Make your playoff plans, Leafs Nation. The Leafs and Boston Bruins will renew hostilities on Thursday night in Boston in Game 1 as the first round of the 2019 Stanley Cup tournament gets underway. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Maple Leafs, Bruins start playoff series Thursday as first-round schedule is set Back to video We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or The Leafs and Bruins will play every other day until a winner is decided in the best-of-seven series. The Leafs, who lost in seven games to the Bruins a year ago, will meet the Bruins in the post-season for the 16th time. The Leafs have won eight of the previous meetings — but none since 1959. Boston has eliminated the Leafs each of the past five times they have met. The first-round schedule, as announced by the National Hockey League on Sunday morning (* — if necessary): Game 1 — at Boston, Thursday, 7 p.m. Game 2 — at Boston, Saturday, 8 p.m. Game 3 — at Toronto, Monday, April 15, 7 p.m. Game 4 — at Toronto, Wednesday, April 17, 7 p.m. *Game 5 — at Boston, Friday, April 19, TBD *Game 6 — at Toronto, Sunday, April 21, TBD *Game 7 — at Boston, Tuesday, April 23, TBD tkoshan@postmedia.com twitter.com/koshtorontosun<doc-sep>The Maple Leafs finished off their 2018-19 regular season with a shootout loss to Montreal last night. They weren’t exactly fielding the A-team, but they were surprised by a Montreal prospect scoring a hat-trick in his first NHL game. Related Leafs lose to Habs in a game that literally means nothing The Staney Cup Playoffs schedule will be released today at 10:00 a.m. EDT. There will be some kind of long drawn out program on the NHL Network to announce all the matchups and game times and I sure hope they also have a simultaneous press release so we don’t have to wait for that program to finish. UPDATE: THE SCHEDULE IS HERE ICYMI Here’s our covereage of the Women’s World Championships from this weekend. 2019 IIHF Women’s Hockey World Championships day three recap - nafio and Katya USA beats Canada 3-2. Brianne Jenner’s 100th game didn’t go quite the way she wanted. 2019 IIHF Women’s Hockey World Championships day two recap - nafio France and Switzerland each score their first goal of the tournament. Other News The Oilers ended their season with a win, and the news of the night should have been Leon Draisaitl scoring his 50th goal of the season in that game, but this is the Oilers, and nothing good for them can go unpunished. Connor McDavid instead became the news by getting badly injured when he smashed his leg into the Flames’ goal post. It isn’t clear how bad the injury is. Apparently he will get an MRI today. It would be very Oilers though if he winds up with an injury similar to the one Stamkos had and he will miss time next season. That’s all, folks. Aside from the playoffs schedule, there isn’t going to be much more news until Tuesday night when the NHL Draft Lottery is conducted. While that doesn’t impact the Leafs, the fun part will be if the Avalanche win it with the pick the last place Senators traded to them. There may be some news on the NHL Awards finalists on Wednesday, though, again, none of the Maple Leafs or their staff are expected to be in those. Sorry, Fulemin, not even Andreas Johnsson. The Marlies regular season doesn’t even end for another whole week. They will play against the Senators on Saturday and the Monsters on Sunday at the Coliseum, before facing the Rochester Americans in the playoffs. In the time in between now and some news, you can enjoy the Women’s World Championship. Team Canada is playing the Russians tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. EDT and it’s broadcast live on TSN. Back to Excited will be out later today. In the meantime: PLAYOFFS!<doc-sep>
This morning the NHL announced the schedule for the first round of the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs. The Toronto Maple Leafs will be facing the Boston Bruins in round one and we have the schedule here for you to plan your next two weeks around. Game one: Thursday April 11th, 7:00 p.m. Game one is a Thursday, which is pretty traditional, to give the teams Friday off and put game two on a Saturday night. There’s a concert at the Toronto-Dominion Garden the night before, so we’ll have to watch the ice conditions. Game two: Saturday April 13th, 8:00 p.m. How can you have the first Hockey Night in Canada of the playoffs and not put the Maple Leafs on? There’s no way Rogers would let the NHL get away with skipping them for the premier broadcast. Game three: Monday April 15th, 7:00 p.m. The first home game of the playoffs is a Monday night in Toronto. Nothing to chase away the work week blues like a playoff game. Game four: Wednesday April 17th, 7:00 p.m. No extra days off, just keep playing every other day. Game five: Friday April 19th, time to be determined. No HNIC game! Game six: Sunday April 21st, time to be determined. We have two days off since Cher has a concert at the SBA on Monday night. Game seven: Tuesday April 23rd, time to be determined. The possible (probable?) series finale will take pace more than two weeks from today in Boston. Alright folks, we have five days to work ourselves up into a tizzy while we wait for game one to start. For rest of the schedule: