Coming up this week on AFITC, three wins in four games for the Maple Leafs this week has them sitting right back in the thick of the playoff hunt, only four points back of eighth place Montreal. We’ll take you through the four games against the Thrashers, Islanders, Bruins and Capitals to begin the Redline Report. An injury update will follow in the Revolving Door before we wrap the Report with a Quick Hit regarding Brendan Witt, and by saying quick hit, we’ve never meant this more literally.

On The Bubble follows with some listener contributions from Twitter and email. The Junior Hockey Report takes you through an update of two St. Michael’s Buzzers games from the past week and announces the second annual “Battle of Ontario.” The Gong Banger wraps the segment as he usually does with a Troubling Fact of the Week.

And in rigamarole, we take a look at why the Maple Leafs fortunes have dramatically improved since the beginning of December. All that and more ahead on Episode 5.13 of AFITC.

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