Opening night of the 2026-27 season has come and gone, and the Toronto Maple Leafs found themselves on the losing end against their forever rivals in the Montreal Canadiens.
On Tuesday, September 29, the Toronto Maple Leafs kicked off the 2026-27 NHL season with a 3-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens. With essentially half the
The Toronto Maple Leafs don't have much time to think about their opening-night loss to Montreal. The New York Islanders are in town tonight, and suddenly the Maple Leafs are playing their second game in two nights.
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 Toronto Maple Leafs made a huge bet on Darren Raddysh. That’s ancient history. But when looking at the move following Tuesday night’s Opening Night loss to the Montreal Canadiens, there may be some cause for concern.
The Toronto Maple Leafs finally embraced taking the heel turn when they dropped a hype video across their social media platforms that went viral. In it, they acknowledged that the team has a lot of people who hate them and that they don’t mind it one bit because it fuels the passion of the fanbase that will stand behind them no matter what.
Gavin McKenna made his NHL debut with the Toronto Maple Leafs Tuesday night, going minus-two with 15:19 of ice time, including 2:33 on the power play against the Montreal Canadiens.
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Bo Groulx will make his season debut against the New York Islanders, head coach Jim Hiller confirmed Wednesday. Groulx was a healthy scratch for Tuesday’s 3-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens.
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, the Detroit Red Wings still haven’t reached a contract agreement with Simon Edvinsson with opening night just days away.
Morgan Rielly is the longest-tenured member of the Toronto Maple Leafs and is uniquely qualified to point out how this season may differentiate from others during his career.
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.
Even though it was a loss, a few Toronto Maple Leafs players had something to feel good about after last night’s 3-2 game against Montreal, and William Nylander was the obvious one.
Matthew Knies loved being a Toronto Maple Leaf, but he’s certainly not going to miss all the off-ice distractions. The 23-year-old power forward was shipped to the Columbus Blue Jackets in a seven-piece blockbuster on the eve of the season opener.
Tuesday night was Gavin McKenna‘s first night as an NHL player in a regular-season game. The tradition is to let a rookie take a lap on his own, and for the Toronto Maple Leafs, letting McKenna hear the support and have his moment was a big deal.
The Toronto Maple Leafs dropped their season opener 3-2 to the Montreal Canadiens, but it was to no fault of Kirill Marchenko. The brand new Maple Leaf was acquired in a deal involving Matthew Knies on Monday and wasn’t even confirmed to be in the starting lineup until late afternoon on Tuesday.
The Toronto Maple Leafs made the major decision to part ways with Matthew Knies and bring in the more win-now player and more skilled winger in Kirill Marchenko from the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday afternoon.
TORONTO — Gavin McKenna’s first NHL game was always going to be subject to international attention, after bursting onto the scene as a 14-year-old prodigy.
There was no shortage of storylines as the Toronto Maple Leafs opened their 2026-27 season against their long-time Original Six rival, the Montreal Canadiens, on Tuesday night at Scotiabank Arena.
Auston Matthews had a terrific debut for the Toronto Maple Leafs that made us all think that he could be one of the best ever players in franchise history.
Sergei who? The Florida Panthers faced the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday at Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, in a clash of the past two Stanley Cup champions.
In the fallout of the blockbuster deal between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Maple Leafs general manager is opening up about how things went down.
A lot of things have to go right for the Toronto Maple Leafs to get back to the playoffs this season after a bitterly disappointing 2025-26. Offseason additions such as goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky and defenseman Darren Raddysh have to step right in and be difference makers.
Former Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube has responded to criticism of his system and his handling of Auston Matthews, and he isn’t walking any of it back.
The preseason is winding down, and soon the Toronto Maple Leafs will have to stop being an interesting collection of new players and start being a hockey team.