Maple Leafs News & Analysis

The Maple Leafs opening night roster left Easton Cowan off for Jacob Quillan — a $1,500 LTIR cap manoeuvre, not a demotion. Here is the math behind it.

Bo Groulx is the Maple Leafs' cheapest versatile forward and a Calder Cup champion. With two forwards banged up, he should dress Tuesday — not watch from above.

Monday's Maple Leafs roster deadline forces a cap-compliant 23-man list. The Domi LTIR math, the Lorentz burial and the $70,000 cushion, explained.

Nick Paul injury update: day-to-day, no practice, uncertain for Sept. 29. What it does to Toronto's centre depth, the cap sheet and the 13th-forward decision.

Steven Lorentz waivers headline an eight-player Maple Leafs batch. The cap math, the risk of losing him for nothing, and what it does to the fourth line.

Nine Maple Leafs debuts are possible on opening night against Montreal. What John Chayka's roster overhaul actually targeted, and where it could go wrong.

Maple Leafs opening night roster: two spots left. Stecher, Andrae or Blankenburg on defence, Groulx or Cowan up front, and the cap math that decides both.

Maple Leafs waivers: Mermis and McWard hit the wire on a 34-player day. The Sept. 28 deadline math, Bo Groulx's claim risk and the cap layer beneath it.

Fifteen players hit the wire Sept. 22, six from Detroit. Why the Maple Leafs waivers answer is no claims, and why Toronto's own exposure is the real story.

The biggest Maple Leafs roster cuts of camp landed Monday: 30 players to the Marlies, the group down to 32, and Easton Cowan still standing.

Maple Leafs roster decisions come down to one split-squad night in Ottawa and Toronto. Cowan, Blankenburg, the seventh defenceman and McKenna's nine games.

The Maple Leafs training camp roster is 73 players: 41 forwards, 25 defencemen, seven goaltenders. Jim Hiller has 13 days and four games to sort all of it.

John Chayka's Maple Leafs overhaul gets its first real test as camp opens Wednesday. The roster he spent 19 weeks building has 15 days to look like a plan.

Maple Leafs trade protection leaves John Chayka about eight movable players on the roster. Toronto leads the NHL in clauses — and it costs him a deadline.

The Maple Leafs 50-contract limit is now a hard wall after the Brendan Brisson signing. Any addition requires John Chayka to move a contract out first.

Calle Jarnkrok's Berube complaint, delivered on his way to the SHL, is the most specific criticism yet of the deployment problem Jim Hiller inherits in Toronto.

Maple Leafs roster age is the quiet story of Chayka's first summer: why Toronto bridged with veterans, and where an 84-game schedule breaks the plan.

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.