Maple Leafs News & Analysis

A Dakota Joshua trade is Toronto's likeliest cap-clearing move: over the cap and heavy on left-shot wingers, the Maple Leafs can free room without touching the core.

The Morgan Rielly trade market has cooled, and Toronto's refusal to pay a sweetener means the veteran could open the 2026-27 season with the Maple Leafs.

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.

The Maple Leafs second-line centre market vanished as Trocheck, Bourque and Kyrou were traded elsewhere, leaving Tavares and the kids to answer at 2C.

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.

The Max Domi injury leaves the Leafs forward out indefinitely after back surgery complications. LTIR would free about $3.75M against a tight salary cap.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your guide to the Maple Leafs offseason schedule: the buyout window, the June 26-27 draft in Buffalo, RFA qualifying offers, arbitration, and July 1 free agency.

Calle Järnkrok and the Maple Leafs look set to part ways as the veteran returns to Sweden. What his exit means for Toronto's bottom six and cap sheet.

A Morgan Rielly trade is now a real possibility after Chayka reportedly asked for a list of teams. His no-move clause controls how — and whether — it happens.

Max Domi's back surgery complications leave him out indefinitely, gutting the Leafs' centre depth and forcing John Chayka to chase a centre this summer.