Oct 8, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 11 segments
In the first MLHS Podcast episode of the 2026-27 season, Nick Ashbourne and Anthony Petrielli take stock of the Maple Leafs through four games, discussing the early reasons for optimism and concern…
Anthony PetrielliHost
Nick AshbourneHost[laughs] It's, it's funny, when, when they were down two-nothing, I, I thought to myself, they actually have played pretty well.
The, the penalty kill and then the game kind of swinged, but I kind of thought in general and in larger terms, just knowing the road trip that's ahead and everything, I thought, you know, I actually think they're a pretty good team.
But they're probably not good enough to survive if they get off to a really poor start.
Like, if they get off to a one in five start kind of thing, two and six, I don't know if they'll be able to kind of make up that ground.
Y- you could see how your mind kind of like pushes pretty quickly at, at two-nothing, three-nothing.
And in part, again, 'cause I thought generally speaking, they're actually playing quite well.
At the three-nothing point, he, he kind of said, "I actually think they're playing pretty good, but they're just, their mistakes have just been a catastrophe." I mean, Ekman-Larsson was-
the third goal, Ekman-Larsson, the double whiff there, just really putrid stuff.
I mean, [laughs] I don't wanna fully get into it, but do you remember at the deadline when they didn't trade him 'cause they had a crazy asking price, and we sat here, and we were like, [laughs] "I probably-
[laughs] It's, it's funny, when, when they were down two-nothing, I, I thought to myself, they actually have played pretty well.
The, the penalty kill and then the game kind of swinged, but I kind of thought in general and in larger terms, just knowing the road trip that's ahead and everything, I thought, you know, I actually think they're a pretty good team.
But they're probably not good enough to survive if they get off to a really poor start.
Like, if they get off to a one in five start kind of thing, two and six, I don't know if they'll be able to kind of make up that ground.
Y- you could see how your mind kind of like pushes pretty quickly at, at two-nothing, three-nothing.
And in part, again, 'cause I thought generally speaking, they're actually playing quite well.
At the three-nothing point, he, he kind of said, "I actually think they're playing pretty good, but they're just, their mistakes have just been a catastrophe." I mean, Ekman-Larsson was-
the third goal, Ekman-Larsson, the double whiff there, just really putrid stuff.
I mean, [laughs] I don't wanna fully get into it, but do you remember at the deadline when they didn't trade him 'cause they had a crazy asking price, and we sat here, and we were like, [laughs] "I probably-
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