Maple Leafs News & Analysis

A free agent is reportedly waiting on Maple Leafs cap space to open up. Here's why Toronto is over the cap and how Chayka clears the room.

Reports link the Maple Leafs to Claude Giroux, but Toronto's cap crunch makes signing the veteran a long shot without a discount and a trade to open room.

Maple Leafs depth signings: Toronto added Lettieri, Hlavaj, McWard and Rybinski to fill out the roster and Marlies pipeline as the free-agent frenzy wound down.

Toronto's July 1 Maple Leafs free agency signings — Sissons, Blueger and Roslovic — cost about $10.75M in cap and remade the forward group with centre depth, speed and a right-shot punch.

The Maple Leafs trade for Nick Paul lands a Mississauga-born centre on a $3.15M cap hit for three years, solving Toronto's long-standing third-line centre hole. Hildeby and two picks went to Tampa.

The Sergei Bobrovsky Maple Leafs deal is official — three years, $21 million for a two-time Cup champion, reuniting him with Anthony Stolarz and resetting Toronto's crease.

The Panthers landed Jacob Markstrom, pushing Sergei Bobrovsky toward the Maple Leafs' thin crease. Inside Toronto's goaltending decision and the risk.

Alex Tuch and the Maple Leafs won't happen: he signed an eight-year, $84M deal and was sign-and-traded to Washington. What it means for Toronto's July 1 plan.

Anders Lee is the Maple Leafs' top winger target for July 1. Why the net-front captain fits Toronto's core, the projected $6.6M deal, and the term risk.

Maple Leafs free agency begins July 1 with $22M in space and a gutted bottom six to rebuild. The cap picture, the targets and the goaltending wild card.

Matias Maccelli is a UFA after the Maple Leafs declined his roughly $4.11M qualifying offer. The cap logic behind letting a 39-point winger walk for free.

Troy Stecher is back in Toronto on a two-year, $2.7M deal. Why the Maple Leafs' $1.35M depth signing fits Chayka's cap-conscious offseason.

The Mason Marchment Maple Leafs reunion is real before July 1 — Toronto is chasing the winger it traded away in 2020. The fit, the cost, and the risk.

Maple Leafs free agency 2026 opens July 1 with Chayka's stated approach — aggressive but disciplined, depth-first, and unwilling to overpay in a thin market.

Maple Leafs qualifying offers are due by 5 p.m. ET June 29. Here is what Chayka must decide on RFAs Nick Robertson and Matias Maccelli before July 1.

Why the Maple Leafs and Sergei Bobrovsky keep getting linked: the Stolarz connection, the cap math, and the Ersson decision due June 29.

Maple Leafs free agency opens July 1 with about $27 million in space and a barren market. Why the trade route, not a July 1 splash, is Chayka's smarter play.

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.