Maple Leafs News & Analysis

Jim Hiller is the Maple Leafs coach with the shortest honeymoon in hockey: nine additions, a three-goalie crease and Gavin McKenna, all in year one.

NHL preseason games drop to four in 2026-27 with veterans limited to two. Why the compressed camp hurts the Maple Leafs more than any team in the division.

The Quinn Hughes contract extension is still unsigned in Minnesota. Why the reported holdup matters to Toronto — and why the Leafs cannot win that market.

The NHL minimum salary hits $850,000 in 2026-27 and retroactively raises cap hits on 376 contracts. What it costs a Maple Leafs team already over the cap.

The NHL emergency backup goalie rule is rewritten for 2026-27. What it requires, who qualifies, and why the Maple Leafs need it more than most.

The Maple Leafs Stanley Cup odds for 2026-27 sit at +6000, tied 19th league-wide. We think the Cup line is right and the playoff line is soft. Here is why.

Canada is 2-0 at the 2026 Hlinka Gretzky Cup and Landon DuPont looks like the 2027 first-overall pick — one the Maple Leafs will not be making.

The Maple Leafs two-year window is written into the cap sheet and the traded first-round picks. Here is what Chayka can still do before camp.

The Chayka Maple Leafs offseason has one through-line: import players from winning organizations. Here is what Toronto paid, and where the theory breaks down.

Semyon Der-Arguchintsev wants back with the Maple Leafs, but his lost waiver exemption means Toronto cannot sign him and quietly stash him with the Marlies.

Gavin McKenna's No. 92 is real — the phone call to Jeff O'Neill was invented. A month-long viral fabrication says a lot about Toronto's rumour mill.

The NHL salary cap 2027-28 projection of $113.5 million lifts the maximum player salary to $22.7 million, framing Auston Matthews' next Maple Leafs contract.

The Andy O'Brien Maple Leafs hire hands Sidney Crosby's longtime trainer control of Toronto's sport performance department after an injury-wrecked season.

Anthony Stolarz went from a league-leading .926 to .893 in one year. With Bobrovsky at $7 million behind him, he has the most to prove on the Maple Leafs.

Unsigned RFAs Fantilli and Gauthier are holding league-wide cap space hostage. Toronto cannot shed salary until they sign, and camp is seven weeks away.

Toronto's toughest contracts total roughly $15 million for a fourth-line centre, a fourth-line winger and a 32-year-old defenceman. That is the whole margin.

The Oliver Ekman-Larsson trade case is about cap flexibility, not performance. Inside the $3.5-million contract, the 16-team no-trade clause and a thin market.

Hlinka Gretzky Cup 2026 begins Aug. 3 in Edmonton. Landon DuPont headlines a 2027 class the Maple Leafs will scout with a conditional Colorado first in hand.