TORONTO -- Sheldon Keefe coached 150 regular-season games at Scotiabank Arena when he was with the Toronto Maple Leafs from 2019-24. So to say his trip to the arena on Thursday was familiar, right down to the traffic on the Queen Elizabeth Way, is fair.

Few Maple Leafs coaches have exited as gracefully as Sheldon Keefe did and the Devils bench boss sees his return to Toronto as the final cutting of the cord.

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.

Maple Leafs forward John Tavares was placed on injured reserve with a lower-body ailment Thursday and is considered week-to-week, coach Craig Berube said.

Toronto Maple Leafs forward John Tavares was placed on injured reserve with a lower-body ailment on Thursday and is considered week-to-week, head coach Craig Berube said.

: TSN insider Pierre LeBrun is now reporting that John Tavares will be out 2-4 weeks following today’s announcement that the Toronto Maple Leafs have moved him to the injury reserve. From LeBrun today on TSN’s ‘Insider Trading’ segment: “What I was