Sonny Sachdeva

Writer and Editor at Sportsnet Canada

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Articles

Rogers brings pieces of Oilers’ hometowns to Edmonton for Stanley Cup Final

4 days ago | sportsnet.ca | Sonny Sachdeva

Jason Bright can still remember Connor McDavid before he was Connor McDavid, before the generational phenom was galloping down big-league sheets, clad in Edmonton Oilers colours, upending NHL history. Before the records and the trophies and the back-to-back Stanley Cup Final runs, McDavid was just another young hopeful in Newmarket, Ont., trying to hone his game. “He grew up on the street that we live on,” says Bright, a Newmarket hockey dad whose four kids all grew up immersed in the game, too.
Treliving says Maple Leafs must ‘evolve' mindset after Game 7 collapse

1 week ago | sportsnet.ca | Sonny Sachdeva

As Brad Treliving sees it, if the Toronto Maple Leafs are to get to the lofty post-season heights its fanbase craves, a fundamental change is needed. That was the message the Maple Leafs’ general manager delivered Thursday, speaking to the media from the team’s practice facility in Etobicoke, Ont., for the first time since the club’s season came to an end.
Looking back at the best and worst of Maple Leafs' Shanahan era

2 weeks ago | sportsnet.ca | Sonny Sachdeva

After 11 years of tumult, progress and plateauing, the Brendan Shanahan era in Toronto came to a close Thursday as the Toronto Maple Leafs parted ways with the Hall of Famer who had served as the team’s president and alternate governor since 2014. The exit came days after the Maple Leafs were ousted in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, bounced by the Florida Panthers for the second time in three seasons.
'It builds winners'

2 weeks ago | bvmsports.com | Sonny Sachdeva

TORONTO - Joe Mazzulla might've put it best. Ahead of the 2023-24 season, the head coach of the Boston Celtics - a franchise and a city that's been known to generate its fair share of pressure - was asked about his squad's young, highly scrutinized phenom, Jayson Tatum. The leader of a young core that endured post-season heartbreak for half a decade before breaking through and winning a championship - coincidentally, in the same year Tatum's old high-school classmate, Matthew Tkachuk, won too.
Maple Leafs' Pacioretty on navigating Toronto pressure: 'It builds winners'

2 weeks ago | sportsnet.ca | Sonny Sachdeva

TORONTO — Joe Mazzulla might’ve put it best. Ahead of the 2023-24 season, the head coach of the Boston Celtics — a franchise and a city that’s been known to generate its fair share of pressure — was asked about his squad’s young, highly scrutinized phenom, Jayson Tatum. The leader of a young core that endured post-season heartbreak for half a decade before breaking through and winning a championship — coincidentally, in the same year Tatum’s old high-school classmate, Matthew Tkachuk, won too.
Maple Leafs' seven-minute collapse spirals into Game 7 disaster

2 weeks ago | bvmsports.com | Sonny Sachdeva

TORONTO - For 48 hours, it swung like a pendulum. The hypotheticals, the what-ifs. The maybes and hopefully-nots. It would go only one of two ways for these Toronto Maple Leafs. Win this do-or-die finale and cement this campaign as the one where it all turned, the one that brought real progress, that forever altered legacies - or fall short again and invite the vultures waiting to tear this whole thing apart, to end this blue-and-white era for good, to carry it away over the horizon.
Maple Leafs' seven-minute collapse spirals into Game 7 disaster

2 weeks ago | sportsnet.ca | Sonny Sachdeva

TORONTO — For 48 hours, it swung like a pendulum. The hypotheticals, the what-ifs. The maybes and hopefully-nots. It would go only one of two ways for these Toronto Maple Leafs. Win this do-or-die finale and cement this campaign as the one where it all turned, the one that brought real progress, that forever altered legacies — or fall short again and invite the vultures waiting to tear this whole thing apart, to end this blue-and-white era for good, to carry it away over the horizon.
Old ghosts return as stumbling start sinks Maple Leafs on biggest stage

3 weeks ago | sportsnet.ca | Sonny Sachdeva

TORONTO — The final buzzer came like sweet relief, like cold water poured over rising flames, extinguishing the chaos. Like a bit of much-needed mercy. The last time these teams were on this sheet, the Toronto Maple Leafs looked like they might just have a shot here, like they might have an era-defining run in them. They’d outlasted the defending champs twice, running up a 2-0 series lead on the Florida Panthers that had them boarding a flight south looking the picture of steely optimism.
Should Maple Leafs change up power-play personnel for Game 5?

3 weeks ago | sportsnet.ca | Sonny Sachdeva

TORONTO — Rewind a few weeks, and the Toronto Maple Leafs’ greatest conundrum seemed their greatest strength. A round ago, when the blue-and-white were flying high through the early going against the wild-card Ottawa Senators, no aspect of Toronto’s game seemed to be soaring higher than the club’s lethal power play.
Takeaways: Hurricanes stay undefeated at home, push Ovechkin’s Capitals to brink

3 weeks ago | sportsnet.ca | Sonny Sachdeva

After a sterling 2024-25 campaign that made the Washington Capitals the story of the season, Alex Ovechkin’s club finds itself one loss away from a second-round exit. Much was made of the single-summer turnaround that transformed the Caps into an Eastern Conference behemoth, just a year removed from clawing their way into the 2024 playoffs right before the doors closed.