In this edition of Toronto Maple Leafs News & Rumors, I’ll look at some of the team’s decisions that seem to remain up in the air. Those include defenseman Jani Hakanpaa, the Mitch Marner situation, and Nick Robertson.
Connor Dewar was born in The Pas, Manitoba. He is one of the few NHL players of Red River Métis descent. Jordin Tootoo is perhaps the most well-known Métis player in recent NHL history.
Quality goaltending is the most difficult element to predict year-over-year and the Toronto Maple Leafs made a smart, calculated bet on small-sample excellence for the next two seasons.
We recently wrote about the changes the Toronto Maple Leafs made on defense this offseason and investigated the acquisition of Chris Tanev to replace the departed TJ Brodie.
Being a Toronto Maple Leafs fan has been anything but easy in 2024. The team lost in the first round of the NHL Playoffs (again), saw head coach Sheldon Keefe…
TSN: Hockey Analyst Frankie Corrado was on SportsCenter with Jay Onrait and asked if we should discuss a contract extension for John Tavares with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Last month, during the NHL draft weekend, new Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube was asked to share his thoughts on forward Mitch Marner. As Maple Leafs fans know, Marner has been the focus of myriad trade rumors all summer following another disappointing performance in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Kyle Dubas’ tenure as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs will be remembered as a polarizing run. He did some good things, but his legacy will be that he never took the team far in the playoffs and he locked in four core players to deals that hampered the organization for years.
Nobody expected Fraser Minten to start the 2023-24 season with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Not even Minten himself. Drafted in the second round just a year prior, Minten was a long shot heading into camp.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have one of the most loyal fanbases in the entire NHL. With that being said, the loyalty also comes with criticism if the team is unable to find success in the postseason, and that’s exactly what happened last season when they were eliminated in the first round by the Boston Bruins.
The consensus this offseason was that the Toronto Maple Leafs had completely revamped their defence. But did they really? If we compare the Maple Leafs’ starting defence from October 2023 to the players they have signed now, we see that Morgan Rielly, Jake McCabe, Timothy Liljegren, and Conor Timmins are all returning.
Any way you slice it, the clock is ticking on Brendan Shanahan’s tenure as president and alternate governor of the Toronto Maple Leafs. It’s now or never.
One of Kyle Dubas’ lasting legacies with the Toronto Maple Leafs was his inability to reach team-friendly contracts with his superstar players — if you view this as a fault, of course.
Jean-Sébastien Giguère definitely learned a thing or two about what makes high-end goaltenders successful during his 16 seasons in the National Hockey League.
Chris Tanev’s name swirled around the Toronto Maple Leafs for years. The Ontario native is the missing piece of the Toronto blue line, but the question is whether this move comes a little too late.
The futures of Mitch Marner and John Tavares will be heavily debated this summer, next season, and possibly debated again after the Maple Leafs lift the Stanley Cup next June.
The Toronto Maple Leafs made significant moves this offseason in free agency, but reports say they missed on some key targets. Looking to land another forward for their top-six and a can’t-miss right-shot defenseman, GM Brad Treliving is coming back with the same mix of forwards and a bigger, but older and more injury-prone blue line.
Originally, I wanted to write on this topic a month or two ago, shortly after the Toronto Maple Leafs had hired Craig Berube. I was told to wait and see how the busiest points of the offseason played out for them before writing this.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have been looking for ways to make a deep playoff run for the past several seasons as they have consistently failed to make it past the first or second round.
It was recently revealed that the Toronto Maple Leafs were pursuing top defenseman Matt Roy, but ultimately, he signed a six-year, $34.5 million contract with the Washington Capitals.
What the future holds for Toronto Maple Leafs star forward Mitch Marner has been arguably the most debated topic of the NHL offseason.
Welcome to another edition of NHL Rumours! This edition looks at the Toronto Maple Leafs and how they may tinker with their bottom-six forward group. Rumour: Nick Kypreos believes there’s a good chance that the Maple Leafs trade David Kampf.
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