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The Toronto Maple Leafs have tortured their fans many times over the years -- but never quite this way. In what had to be a Maple Leafs first, the star-crossed squad dashed the hopes of an astronaut just as he returned to Earth. Chris Hadfield told The Canadian Press in an interview that when he landed back on the planet Monday he asked his wife two questions. The first was how she was. The second was what happened in the Leafs game. What happened was a spectacular, perhaps-once-in-a-lifetime, collapse in Game 7 of their series against the Boston Bruins, where they dropped a three-goal lead in the final period to lose in overtime. Hadfield said he was wearing a Leafs T-shirt under his space suit when he returned to Earth, after five months on the International Space Station. "I decided that was the best I could do to show my support for the team," he said Friday from Houston, where he is undergoing tests and debriefings. Hadfield and two other astronauts, a Russian and an American, were barrelling through the fiery atmosphere in a Soyuz space capsule while the Leafs were playing their do-or-die game. "When I landed and the Russian search-and-rescue technicians pulled me out, they carried me over, set me down in a chair and then NASA officials hooked me by satellite phone with my wife Helene," Hadfield said. "As soon as we checked with each other that we were alive and doing OK, the next question I asked was: How did the Leafs do?" That when Hadfields wife said she was sorry to have to tell him that Toronto went all the way to the end, but unfortunately didnt win. "It turns out," Hadfield quipped, "(that) both of us went down in flames on the same day." Ever the diehard Leafs fan, Hadfield added that hes proud of the way his team played this year and hes looking forward to next season. "I am so proud of how the Leafs did this year," he said. "They played really good hockey, entertaining hockey, motivated and creative hockey." The 53-year-old said he had managed to watch previous games in space. He had even seen the Leafs win Game 6 the day before he undocked from the station. Hadfield was the first Canadian to command the giant orbiting space laboratory while he was on board. Torey Krug Jersey . McPhee said that Ovechkins father Mikhail is in stable condition after having the surgery this week and is no longer in intensive care. "Weve told him to stay as long as necessary with your dad," he said. Ovechkin and his Russian national team were eliminated from the mens hockey tournament in Sochi on Wednesday with a 3-1 quarter-final loss to Finland. Brad Park Jersey . 10 Texas A&Ms offence dominated as usual against SMU. https://www.cheapbruins.com/652m-steve-kasper-jersey-bruins.html . The native of Mont-Tremblant, Que., captured a World Cup downhill event Saturday, his second this year and fifth career victory on the circuit. Jean Ratelle Jersey . After dropping their final six games of December, the Wild opened the new calendar year with four consecutive wins. Following a loss to Colorado on Saturday, Minnesota rebounded the following night to blank Nashville 4-0, but then had the tables turned on them Tuesday. Chris Wagner Jersey . Reigning world champion Eve Muirhead of Scotland opened with a 12-2 rout of Winnipegs Jennifer Jones in a battle of teams bound for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Rugby fans and members of the public are paying personal tributes to former Ireland and Munster star Anthony Foley.The 42-year-old head coach was found dead in the provinces team hotel in Paris on Sunday, hours before the team were due to take to the pitch in the European Champions Cup.As messages of sympathy flooded in from across the world of sport and further afield, books of condolence were being opened across Munster and Irish flags were lowered to half-mast.From midday, the public can pay respects in council offices across Limerick, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Tipperary and Waterford and at Limerick University and Shannon Rugby Club.A makeshift shrine was also formed at the gates of Thomond Park, home of Munster Rugby, where Foley had some of his finest performances.Axel Foley, a back-row and fan favourite No 8, was a rrecord-breaking try-scorer in his days in the red jersey.dddddddddddd He followed in his father Brendans footsteps and ultimately emulated his on-pitch success.Anthony Foley played for Ireland 62 times, scoring a try against England on his debut in 1995 in the Five Nations, as it was then. He also led Munster to their first European Cup victory in 2006 after years of heartbreak in top flight competition. Within a couple of years he was central to the provinces repeat success.Foley scored 39 tries for his province and made 86 appearances in European competition before taking on backroom roles from 2009 and being named head coach in 2014.He is survived by his wife, Olive, and their children. ' ' '