Forwards & Scoring

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.

Anders Lee is the Maple Leafs' top winger target for July 1. Why the net-front captain fits Toronto's core, the projected $6.6M deal, and the term risk.

Maple Leafs draft day has arrived: Toronto picks No. 1 overall tonight in Buffalo and is set to take Gavin McKenna, its first top pick since Matthews in 2016.

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.

Auston Matthews has told John Chayka he's all in, per Pierre LeBrun, settling the summer's loudest Maple Leafs question: the captain is staying for 2026-27.

A Matthew Knies trade is 'not probable,' John Chayka said Friday. After Knies posted 66 points in 79 games, keeping Toronto's young winger is the correct call.

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

Mitch Marner's Stanley Cup Final ended in a 3-0 Game 6 loss as Carolina took the title. The ex-Leaf led playoff scoring, then went pointless.

Mitch Marner and Vegas face elimination in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final, down 3-2 to Carolina. For Leafs fans, every shift is a reckoning with the trade.

A $104 million cap for 2026-27 makes the Maple Leafs' big contracts look better by the day — and hands Chayka real spending room. The risk is overusing it.

Should the Maple Leafs trade for Mason McTavish? The 23-year-old centre fits Toronto's $104M cap and Domi-thinned depth — but Anaheim's asking price is the catch.

Alex Tuch and the Maple Leafs are a logical fit. With $22M in space and a Marner-sized hole, here's why Toronto should chase the power forward on July 1.

Mitch Marner's Stanley Cup Final hat trick broke Maurice Richard's 69-year-old record, the fastest in Final history, as the former Leaf powers Vegas.

Chayka says Auston Matthews is 'a happy captain' who wants to win in Toronto. We break down what the GM's combine comments mean for the Maple Leafs future.

A Matthew Knies trade to the Canadiens reportedly came down to one minute at the deadline. What Montreal offered and why the new Leafs regime killed it.

Mitch Marner leads the 2026 playoffs in scoring for Vegas. A Leafs-angle on why the one that got away is thriving — and what it says about the core era.

Auston Matthews' future became a talking point after a guarded presser answer. Separating confirmed facts from rumour, and what Chayka must get right.

Inside the Matthew Knies trade saga: the six-piece offer Toronto declined, the Chris Johnston bombshell, and why John Chayka refuses to sell.

Max Domi's back surgery complications leave him out indefinitely, gutting the Leafs' centre depth and forcing John Chayka to chase a centre this summer.

Nylander's 72-point year on a collapsed Leafs roster was the most underrated story of 2025-26. His $11.5M deal through 2032 is aging like a bargain, and he's the franchise centerpiece for what comes next.

How the Toronto Maple Leafs' 2025-26 season came apart — from the July 1 Mitch Marner trade to Auston Matthews' MCL tear to the deadline where Toronto was a seller for the first time in a decade.