Maple Leafs News & Analysis

Gavin McKenna and the Maple Leafs become official June 26 in Buffalo as Toronto makes the No. 1 pick. The player, the numbers and the fit.

The Matias Maccelli decision is a quiet Maple Leafs RFA problem — arbitration rights, a $3.425M base, and a qualifying-offer call due before July 1.

The McKenna pick looks like a rebuild, but Chayka kept Matthews, Knies and Nylander and spent cap space. This is a Maple Leafs retool, not a teardown.

The Maple Leafs draft-floor trade scenarios — a Rielly deal, a cap dump, moving the 60th pick — are the real story in Buffalo even with McKenna locked in.

Auston Matthews has told John Chayka he's all in, per Pierre LeBrun, settling the summer's loudest Maple Leafs question: the captain is staying for 2026-27.

We grade John Chayka's Maple Leafs offseason before the draft: the Woll trade, the Raddysh overpay, the Hiller hire, the Knies stance and McKenna at No. 1.

Maple Leafs goaltending is suddenly crowded. Anthony Stolarz starts, but Ersson, Hildeby and Akhtyamov all chase one job behind him in 2026-27.

The Nick Robertson qualifying offer is the Maple Leafs' next call: tender $1.825M by late June, or lose him. And Robertson wants real term.

The Morgan Rielly trade market is active — he's handed Chayka a West-heavy list with San Jose and Anaheim on it, Vancouver off it, and draft week looming as the deadline.

Boone Jenner is the best UFA centre available, but in a bone-dry market the Maple Leafs centre target search may push Chayka toward a McTavish or Wright trade instead.

The Maple Leafs draft strategy under Chayka: McKenna at No. 1, best player available after, and the draft floor as a venue for a Rielly or centre deal.

Maple Leafs cap space is about $18.8M after Raddysh. Enough for one addition, but the centre need and a looming Knies raise tighten the math.

A Matthew Knies trade is 'not probable,' John Chayka said Friday. After Knies posted 66 points in 79 games, keeping Toronto's young winger is the correct call.

Toronto shrugged at the Jim Hiller hire, but Chayka's bet on trust over star power is more defensible than it looks.

The Maple Leafs agreed to a sign-and-trade for Darren Raddysh: eight years, north of $8M — Chayka's boldest blue-line bet yet.

The Maple Leafs hired Jim Hiller as head coach, John Chayka's surprise pick to replace Craig Berube. Strong regular season, a playoff question mark.

Our take on whether the Maple Leafs should hire John Tortorella, and what the idea reveals about the team's real problem.

A closer look at Sam Ersson and Emil Andrae, the goaltender and puck-moving defenceman the Maple Leafs acquired from Philadelphia in the Joseph Woll trade.