Maple Leafs News & Analysis

Maple Leafs Arizona bonding trip: Matthews hosted in Scottsdale, Chayka broke the Muskoka routine, and Toronto flew home three days before hosting Montreal.

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.

The Rielly-Raddysh pairing is Toronto's plan, not an experiment. Jim Hiller wants two offence-first defencemen together, started in the offensive zone.

The Dakota Joshua injury is now a real problem. Jim Hiller would not commit to the winger for Sept. 29, and Joshua has still not played a preseason game.

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.

Samuel Hlavaj was among the best goalies at the 2026 Olympics. Now he is Toronto's fourth-stringer on $850,000, behind an ageing NHL tandem.

Auston Matthews offensive zone freedom is Jim Hiller's real change, undoing the Berube structure. The takeaway numbers explain why. The risk is real.

Morgan Rielly is back with the Leafs main group after a viral condition — and Jim Hiller put Emil Andrae on his left. That pairing is the real story.

Matthew Knies trade rumours ended with a direct message from John Chayka. Knies turned it into a standard — and Auston Matthews says his ceiling is untouched.

The Gavin McKenna preseason debut is Saturday at Scotiabank Arena, on Tavares' wing. Three things worth watching, and why the scoresheet is not one of them.

Jack Roslovic drew the first look on Auston Matthews' wing at Leafs camp. Why the signing is better than its reception, and what he has to prove by November.

Easton Cowan was Jim Hiller's day one standout at Leafs camp. The Cowan-Paul-Sissons matchup line is the real signal about his 2026-27 role.

Maple Leafs training camp lines, day one: Roslovic with Matthews and Knies, McKenna with Tavares and Nylander, and a surprise on the second defence pair.

Gavin McKenna has to earn his spot in the Leafs lineup, Jim Hiller says. Why a sheltered start is right for an 18-year-old facing 84 games.

The Morgan Rielly viral condition slows his start to Leafs camp. He should be ready for September 29, but 13 days leaves no time to catch up.

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.

The new NHL CBA is live: 84 games, seven-year contract maximums and a 13-day camp. What changed September 16 and what it costs the Maple Leafs specifically.

A Morgan Rielly trade never got close, John Chayka says. Inside the quote, the contract that blocked it and where Rielly fits in Jim Hiller's first Leafs camp.