NHL analyst Stephen Nixon believes the Toronto Maple Leafs should trade Morgan Rielly for a variety of reasons.

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.

When: Thursday, 7 p.m., Scotiabank Arena TV: TSN4 Radio: TSN 1050 Odds: Devils -102, Maple Leafs -122 The buzz If the Maple Leafs are beaten by the Devils in Sheldon Keefe’s return, they’ll do something that never happened during his tenure as coach in Toronto: Lose four games in a row in regulation.

The Toronto Maple Leafs sent defenseman Marshall Rifai back to the Toronto Marlies on Wednesday, signalling that one of their defenders could return soon. Maple Leafs D Marshall Rifai has been assigned to the Toronto Marlies (AHL).

The Toronto Maple Leafs could be without another major part of their offence after John Tavares left the team’s practice on Wednesday following an apparent injury during a power play drill.