Maple Leafs News & Analysis

The Andy O'Brien Maple Leafs hire quietly restructures how Toronto trains, feeds, rehabs and thinks. Four Cup rings, Sidney Crosby's trainer, and a Chayka partnership older than Chayka's GM job.

An Easton Cowan trade would be the obvious way to fund a Leafs difference-maker. It also converts Toronto last cheap production into big salary.

The Maple Leafs 2026-27 projection spans redemption story to tire fire. The variance is really Auston Matthews knee and Sergei Bobrovsky age.

Toronto is about $2.75M over the ceiling. The Maple Leafs salary cap fix runs through Max Domi LTIR, and it buys less flexibility than fans think.

The Maple Leafs Atlantic Division climb starts from last place at 78 points, and Buffalo, Montreal, Tampa and a reloaded Florida all improved too.

The Maple Leafs difference-maker trade Friedman flagged hasn't landed. Here's what Chayka has left to deal, and why the cap makes a blockbuster unlikely.

Pavel Buchnevich trade talk is back. His $8 million cap hit runs through 2030-31 with full trade protection, and the Maple Leafs should stay well out of it.

Vladimir Tarasenko remains a free agent with camp three weeks away. Why the cap-strapped Maple Leafs should offer the 34-year-old a professional tryout anyway.

The Maple Leafs prospect pool now ranks 12th in the NHL after one offseason. The problem: it has almost no natural finishers, and Toronto will need one by 2029.

The Gavin McKenna ranking landed at No. 18 on The Athletic's under-23 list of 156 players. Why that number is not the demotion it looks like.

The Max Domi role question has no clean answer: five new bottom-six forwards, a $3.75M cap hit Toronto needs on LTIR, and no line for him to skate on.

Maple Leafs draft rights lapsed on Hlacar, Mayes and Miller this summer under three different clocks. How the rules work, and why 2027 changes all of it.

The Maple Leafs contract limit sits at 49 of 50. With paper transactions banned and Toronto $2.75M over the cap, the last slot is the whole cupboard.

A Philippe Myers trade is the cleanest move left before camp: one year at $850,000, no path to minutes, and a front office reportedly willing to listen.

Morgan Rielly praised John Chayka's direct approach. It marks a real shift in how the Maple Leafs handle players — and a bill that comes due by February.

The Gavin McKenna nine games rule decides the Leafs' fall. A tenth appearance burns the entry-level slide forever. The rule, the money, and what Toronto does.

A Morgan Frost trade fits what Toronto needs — a 27-year-old centre off a career year on an expiring $4.375M deal. The case, the cost, and where we would stop.

The Morgan Rielly trade talk is done for the summer. Speaking in Brampton, the Leafs defenceman said he expects to start his 14th season in Toronto.