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With just one season remaining on Phil Kessel's contract in Toronto, the Leafs must decide how much they value their star sniper.

Blog | Conversation | May 17, 2013

Captain Dion Phaneuf and Phil Kessel scored third-period goals, and the Toronto Maple Leafs edged the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Sunday to send their playoff series back to Boston for Game 7 on Monday night.

TORONTO -- With the Boston Bruins holding a 4-2 lead during the third period of Game 3 Monday at Air Canada Centre, Bruins bratty forward Brad Marchand and Maple Leafs forward Phil Kessel locked up in the neutral zone. Marchand dropped one of his...

BOSTON -- Phil Kessel scored 75 goals (including playoffs) during three seasons with the Bruins before demanding a trade out of Boston in 2009. Since the deal, which netted the Bruins two first-round draft picks that ended up being Tyler Seguin and D...

BOSTON -- James Reimer made 39 saves and Phil Kessel scored the game winner as the Maple Leafs outworked the Bruins from the opening faceoff to tie the series at one with a 4-2 win. Joffrey Lupul had two goals for the Leafs and James van Riemsdyk ...

BOSTON -- Once the Stanley Cup playoff matchups were determined, Boston Bruins forward Tyler Seguin and Toronto Maple Leafs forward Phil Kessel knew they would be part of the storyline for this Eastern Conference quarterfinal series. Hockey f...

Oh, hardly any storylines here. The Toronto Maple Leafs return to the playoffs for the first time since 2004 and find themselves in a clash with the Boston Bruins, whose trade of Phil Kessel to Toronto in September 2009 ultimately delivered Tyler Seg...

Phil Kessel scored two goals to lead

James Reimer made 31 saves, and Phil Kessel snapped a scoreless tie late in the third period to lift the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 2-0 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Monday night, despite recording only 12 shots.

From the NHL's official release: BOBROVSKY, KESSEL AND BACHMAN NAMED NHL 'THREE STARS' OF THE WEEK NEW YORK (April 15, 2013) - Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, Toronto Maple Leafs right wing Phil Kessel and Dallas Star...

In a three-point game with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the New York Rangers managed to leave with two of them in a 3-2 shootout win at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night to wrap up a home-and-home set against the Leafs. Despite a pair of goals...

Mats Zuccarello scored the lone goal in the shootout, and the New York Rangers overcame another two-goal performance by Toronto's Phil Kessel to beat the Maple Leafs 3-2 on Wednesday night.

Amanda Kessel scored the winner early in the third period and the United States beat Canada 3-2 in the gold medal game of the women's world hockey championship on Tuesday.

Last year, the Canadians beat the United States in the gold medal game in Vermont. Tuesday, Amanda Kessel's third-period goal -- on Canadian ice -- avenged that loss.

Sorry, but it's still taking some time to get our head around the fact the Toronto Maple Leafs aren't just visiting from the NHL's land of the living dead but are actually back for good. It's always a bit quaint when a perpetually lousy team rises...

In case you were out demanding that Red Lobster serve you a never-ending pasta bowl, here's what you missed in sports on Monday: In a thrilling conclusion to the NCAA tournament, the Louisville Cardinals beat the Michigan Wolverines, 82-76, to w...