The Toronto Maple Leafs dropped their season opener 3-2 to the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night. It was a rather expected performance for a team featuring ten new players playing for a new head coach.
William Nylander is now the third highest paid player on the Toronto Maple Leafs and for every year he stays with the team, his contract is going to look better and better.
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William Nylander enters the 2026-27 season as a core piece to the success of the Toronto Maple Leafs. After a frustrating season in which Nylander only
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
The Calgary Flames have agreed to terms on a one-year, two-way contract with forward Alex Nylander, the club announced Friday afternoon. Per the club release, the contract carries an NHL cap hit of $850,000.
The Toronto Maple Leafs stunned many of their fans earlier this offseason when they announced that former Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson, who had served the last several seasons with their divisional rival as an assistant coach, was transferring to their side of the Battle of Ontario.
After Tuesday’s practice, Jim Hiller discussed the impact of Sergei Bobrovsky’s presence on the team, his plans for the defense pairs, Easton Cowan’s potential linemates, and his relationship with William Nylander.
Gavin McKenna is the most compelling player at training camp, as media and fans alike were waiting to see what his initial deployment would look like. McKenna was paired with John Tavares and William Nylander during the first on-ice session of Toronto Maple Leafs’ training camp, and spoke to reporters about his first official NHL practice.
At one point, Toronto Maple Leafs forward William Nylander was a top-10 NHL winger. He’s a three-time 40-goal scorer and one of the most electrifying players in the league.
We’ve heard it time and again this summer: the Edmonton Oilers were looking for a different type of coach when they brought in Mike Babcock. The word that has resurfaced in articles and interviews has been accountability; the team’s leadership felt they needed more of this from their coach to get over the finish line.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
There is something a little funny about William Nylander talking about loyalty earlier this summer. Not because Nylander has done anything wrong, but because the Toronto Maple Leafs have spent the offseason making some pretty significant changes to the group he has spent most of his NHL career with.
Today, JFresh’s Newsletter released its 2014 First Round Retrospective: Projections vs. Outcomes for All 30 Players. The series looks back at what scouts thought they were getting on draft day and compares those projections with what those players actually became.
The Toronto Maple Leafs already know what William Nylander can do with the puck. He has spent years proving that. Even in a season when almost everything around him seemed to go sideways, Nylander scored 30 goals and 79 points in just 65 games.
One of the stranger things about William Nylander’s 2025-26 season was that it was sometimes difficult to understand what we were watching. Here was a player who finished with 79 points in 65 games, produced at nearly a 100-point pace, and remained one of the most dangerous offensive players on the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Former Toronto Marlies forward Alex Nylander will reportedly be signing a professional tryout with the Calgary Flames, according to PuckPedia. The younger brother of Toronto Maple Leafs star William Nylander had been in the Leafs’ organization for the past two years.
Unrestricted free agent winger Alex Nylander will attend the Calgary Flames’ 2026 training camp, PuckPedia reported Tuesday evening. Nylander, 28, will most likely join the Flames on a professional tryout deal, PuckPedia noted.
There are a couple of interesting Toronto Maple Leafs stories worth looking at today, and neither one is really about Auston Matthews, William Nylander or the big names at the top of the roster.
There was a little episode early last season that probably tells us more about William Nylander and Craig Berube than either one intended. Nylander was apparently fooling around at practice when Berube yelled at him to shoot.
If the Maple Leafs are serious about taking that next step, the simplest move might be the most obvious one. It might be time to put William Nylander back on Auston Matthews’ left wing full time.
William Nylander has seen his name pop up in trade rumors throughout his time with the Toronto Maple Leafs, though nothing has ever actually come to fruition.
Nothing went according to plan for William Nylander and the Toronto Maple Leafs on the ice last season, and that came with a fair share of issues off it as well.
Mitch Marner has certainly enjoyed his first postseason as a Vegas Golden Knight, and Sunday night’s Game 3 comeback win to take a 3-0 stranglehold on their third-round series against the Colorado Avalanche was just a continuation of that.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are already thinking about the 2026-27 season, following a disappointing 2025-26 campaign. The Canadian franchise has not yet hired a new general manager after the firing of Brad Treliving, but according to one expert, that is not the first step.
Despite the defeat, Toronto looked visibly better than in its three previous games, all of which it also lost.
Eyebrows were raised when William Nylander was absent from Team Sweden’s practice on Tuesday, which at the time put his status for Wednesday’s opener against Italy in question.
If things had gone according to plan for Mitch Marner and the Toronto Maple Leafs, he would have been one of the most popular players in the history of the franchise. He could have been, anyway. Maybe he even should have been.
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