Maple Leafs News & Analysis

The Morgan Rielly trade market shrank as San Jose bowed out for Trouba and Nurse, leaving Toronto a thinner field and less leverage.

Opinion: A Matthew Knies trade for Zach Werenski would have cost too much. Losing the Werenski race saved Toronto from a franchise-altering mistake.

Opinion: Gavin McKenna belongs on the Maple Leafs roster now — alongside Matthews. The case for keeping the No. 1 pick, the argument for patience, and why patience loses.

An opinion grading the Maple Leafs free agency reshape — Chayka's disciplined July 1 of five signings and two trades earns an A-minus for solving the right problems without a panic overpay.

The Nick Robertson trade sends the RFA forward to Pittsburgh for a 2028 fourth-round pick, ending a two-year Maple Leafs saga and reuniting him with Kyle Dubas.

Alex Tuch got $10.5M, Pavel Dorofeyev $11M, and Bobrovsky wants seven years. Maple Leafs free agency in 2026 calls for discipline — and Chayka is right to hold.

Patrik Laine is the bargain the Maple Leafs should chase on July 1. Why a short, incentive-laden deal on a former 40-goal scorer is Toronto's smart move.

The Patrick Kane Maple Leafs rumour is tempting, but at 37 he's the wrong July 1 swing for a team trying to get younger and faster. An honest case against it.

An opinion on John Chayka's Maple Leafs offseason — a disciplined reshaping of the roster's edges that keeps the core and trims everything around it.

Opinion: An Anthony Stolarz trade only makes sense as a real upgrade. At a $3.75M cap hit, dealing him for a lateral goalie would be a Maple Leafs mistake.

The Maple Leafs defence is overstocked after the Raddysh and Andrae adds — why Brandon Carlo's $3.4M deal makes him the cleanest piece to move.

Opinion: the Maple Leafs shouldn't trade William Nylander. He wants to stay, his $11.5M deal ages well, and he's the bridge to the McKenna era.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Carolina won the 2026 Cup the analytics way: depth scoring, value bets, system over stars. It's the blueprint John Chayka's Maple Leafs should steal this summer.