The Toronto Maple Leafs are currently far out of a playoff spot, and that leads to the uncomfortable reality: almost no one is untouchable. Outside of Auston Matthews, William Nylander, and Matthew Knies, the organization has to be open to almost anything.
Ahead of the NHL Trade Deadline, the Toronto Maple Leafs are positioned as clear sellers for the first time in a decade. Toronto is eight points out of the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference prior to Monday’s games, and the rest of the year is looking bleak.
While the Toronto Maple Leafs have been playing inconsistently all season long, there’s enough talent on this team to make you believe that they could do serious damage down the stretch if they get hot at the right time.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have finally begun to accept the reality that they may need to act as sellers ahead of the March 6 trade deadline for the first time in the Auston Matthews era.
Watching Max Domi these days, there’s a sense of déjà vu. Not exact, but familiar. When I watch Domi play with Auston Matthews on the Toronto Maple Leafs first line, the player who keeps coming to mind is Nazem Kadri.
There's more to hockey than scoring goals and stopping pucks. For some players, putting up points came second to their main task: angering their opponents.
It sounds a lot like Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews is sticking around—and he wants to do so with no drama and no second thoughts. Even as the Maple Leafs appear to be falling apart and are in tough to make the playoffs this season, Matthews is committed to the team.
The Marlies hosted the Laval Rocket last night, the top team in the division. It was a battle of a game, with the team's trading goal until it went to OT where the Marlies lost, 3-2.
The Toronto Maple Leafs were back in the win column Saturday night, as it took a complete team effort to come out on top of the Vancouver Canucks with a 3-2 shootout win.
The Toronto Maple Leafs entered Saturday’s game against the Vancouver Canucks with the league’s longest active playoff streak in jeopardy while navigating a six-game losing streak.
Brad Treliving’s philosophy that he has frequently stood by is that the offseason is the time for overhauling the roster not the regular season. That maybe
Hockey is a tough, punishing sport. Injuries happen; it’s part of the game, everyone accepts that. But the Toronto Maple Leafs this season have been injured far more than usual, and it’s hard to ignore the pattern.
Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews reportedly maintained his commitment to the team as they began to become sellers at the trade deadline, according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
The Toronto Maple Leafs finally got back into the win column on Saturday night, snapping their six-game losing streak with a 3-2 shootout win over the Vancouver Canucks.
It’s not exactly ‘damned if you, damned if you don’t’ territory for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but few could be pleased with the result of Saturday’s game.
The visiting Toronto Maple Leafs snapped their six-game losing streak with a 3-2 shootout win over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night. Auston Matthews redeemed himself with the game-winning shootout tally after he missed a penalty shot in overtime, adding an assist in regulation.
A tough and premature end for one of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ core players. As the third period began between the Leafs and the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night, Toronto announced that defenseman Morgan Rielly wouldn’t return to the game due to an upper-body injury.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are activating forward William Nylander from the injured reserve for the second time in the last three weeks. Additionally, the team has reassigned Jacob Quillan to the AHL’s Toronto Marlies in a corresponding roster move.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have reached the stage of the season where losses don’t just hurt in the standings — they change the entire conversation around the short and long-term future of the team.
The Bobby McMann noise isn’t slowing down, and the latest chatter from the Real Kyper and Bourne show only cranked it up. Suddenly, the question isn’t if the Toronto Maple Leafs would move him.
Some nights, you watch the Toronto Maple Leafs and can almost feel the weight they’re carrying. It’s not one problem or one bad stretch—it’s the cumulative drag of six straight losses, costly mistakes, and a fan base that’s starting to wonder if this group has forgotten how to play their game.
If you asked Toronto Maple Leafs fans last season if they would be last in the Atlantic and potentially selling assets at the trade deadline this year, they would have laughed in your face.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are in serious trouble as their season continues to slide. Toronto is currently on a six-game losing streak and sits 10 points outside a playoff spot with just 29 games left in the regular season.
William Nylander is ready to return, but the frustration is clear. The Toronto Maple Leafs forward has missed seven straight games with a groin injury.
With the NHL’s Olympic break and trade deadline fast approaching, general manager Brad Treliving has to decide to either sell of players and effectively punt on the season, or hold onto his cards and hope for a late-season run.