Steen's boy scouts memories

Scouts for the Minnesota Wild and San Jose Sharks were sizing up Alex Steen yesterday and given near-exclusive access to the Maple Leaf forward for two days.

That's not too surprising, given Minnesota's scout was Alex's dad, former NHLer Thomas Steen, and the Sharks' scout was former Montreal Canadiens great John Ferguson Sr., the father of current Maple Leafs' general manager.

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Steen scores game winner as red-hot Leafs get past Blues 2-1

Alex Steen snapped a tie late in the second period and Andrew Raycroft made it stand up with strong third-period play as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the St. Louis Blues 2-1 on Tuesday night.

Alexei Ponikarovsky added a power-play goal for the Maple Leafs, who have won the first four games of a five-game trip and have won five in a row overall. Toronto has also won eight of nine on the road.

Toronto, which entered ninth in the Eastern Conference, is 11-0-2 when getting a goal from Ponikarovsky, and 16-9-3 on the road.

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Steen scores winner as red-hot Maple Leafs get past Blues 2-1

Watching from the other end of the rink, St. Louis Blues goalie Manny Legace thought he witnessed the save of the year. Andrew Raycroft wasn't arguing.

Alex Steen snapped a tie late in the second period and Raycroft's spectacular stop on Bill Guerin made it stand up in the Toronto Maple Leafs' 2-1 victory Tuesday night. Raycroft robbed Guerin during a power play at about the four-minute mark of the third, recovering from a nice stop on a deflection by lunging to his left and gloving Guerin's shot that would've tied it at 2.

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Steen makes difference in Leafs' miracle month

The New Year started horribly. The Maple Leafs were hobbled by injuries to many of their core veterans after a disastrous December that saw them fall from a comfort zone in the Eastern Conference to near bottom-dweller status.

One after another, the injuries and losses mounted in December. Mike Peca, Darcy Tucker, Kyle Wellwood – the top penalty killer, the top goal scorer, the crafty playmaker – joined a list that already included the twin towers of Alexei Ponikarovsky and Nik Antropov.

But a month later, all is rosy. Those players are still hurt, but somehow the Leafs went 8-4 through the first month of the year and find themselves keeping pace with the playoff contenders. The .667 winning percentage makes it the club's best month of the season.

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Hostile rinks a welcome sight for Leafs' Steen

Kingston Steen discovered laughter recently, an entertaining self-revelation that has seen the three-month-old baby boy breaking out in giggles over just about anything -- including his own feet --ever since.

"It's hilarious," Kingston's proud father, Toronto Maple Leafs forward Alex Steen, said after practice at the Air Canada Centre yesterday. "He is starting to laugh, and he is grabbing at you a little bit.

"It is an amazing time, and you never get it back, and I don't want to miss it."

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