The Toronto Maple Leafs are getting one key forward back from injury this weekend, but they are still missing one and will for at least a couple more weeks.
It may come as a bit of a surprise, but just literally weeks after being a huge part of a blockbuster trade between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Columbus Blue Jackets, defenseman Emil Andrae has been placed on waivers by the Blue Jackets.
The Toronto Maple Leafs landed Kirill Marchenko the day before the season began and immediately signed him to a long-term extension. It looked like a franchise-altering win.
Can you name every winner of the Hart Trophy, which honors the most valuable player in the NHL, since 1983?
Kirill Marchenko stands at his locker with a bemused grin as a throng of reporters slowly make their way towards his stall at the Ford Performance Centre.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are getting an early look at how quickly a season can change when injuries start piling up. One injury might seem manageable on its own, but when a team is already working through lineup questions, the next one can force decisions that weren’t necessarily part of the original plan.
The Toronto Maple Leafs provided multiple injury updates this afternoon, per TSN’s Mark Masters. The newest update is that newly acquired winger Kirill Marchenko is expected to miss the next few weeks with a lower-body injury after leaving Toronto’s contest on Monday against the Calgary Flames.
Marchenko suffered a lower-body injury during Monday night’s loss to the Calgary Flames.
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Kirill Marchenko is listed as week-to-week with a lower-body injury, the team confirmed Wednesday. Marchenko suffered the injury during Monday’s game against the Calgary Flames.
All good things must come to an end, but the Toronto Maple Leafs will surely be ruing their 5-2 loss to the Calgary Flames. The scoreline is flattering to the Flames, who netted two empty-net goals, but it was a largely flat, erratic performance from the Maple Leafs, who entered Monday’s game on a four-game winning streak.
The Toronto Maple Leafs couldn’t survive a hot start by the Calgary Flames, dropping Monday night’s game by a score of 5-2. But the dark cloud that was the injury to Kirill Marchenko in the second period makes an October loss to a Western Conference team look like nothing.
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.
Kirill Marchenko left Monday’s game for the Toronto Maple Leafs after an awkward fall that saw his leg bend under him. The Maple Leafs PR department said he would not return to the game.
The Toronto Maple Leafs confirmed Monday evening that winger Kirill Marchenko sustained a lower-body injury during the second period of their game against the Calgary Flames at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
Minnesota Wild defenseman Quinn Hughes made his first return to Vancouver on Sunday night as a visiting player, and, as has become a trend around the NHL this season, he did not get a warm reception from the Vancouver Canucks fans who spent six-and-a-half seasons cheering for him.
Since the Toronto Maple Leafs acquired Kirill Marchenko, he has provided an immediate impact and shone on the power play.
The 2026-27 Toronto Maple Leafs have a different feel to them than they did a season ago. Through 11 games, the Maple Leafs find themselves 5-4-2 and are coming off impressive wins on back-to-back nights over the San Jose Sharks and Columbus Blue Jackets.
On the surface, the Toronto Maple Leafs‘ game against the Columbus Blue Jackets was a standard Tuesday night affair to fill out the schedule. The Leafs were going into it on the second half of a back-to-back with travel and going up against a team that was rested.
After spending eight seasons as a member of the Ottawa Senators, forward Brady Tkachuk made his first return on Wednesday night as a visiting player with the Florida Panthers.
In his first game against his former team less than a month after being traded, Toronto Maple Leafs forward Kirill Marchenko had the last laugh, scoring the team’s first goal in a 6-2 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Adam Fantilli isn’t hiding his feelings about the Kirill Marchenko trade, and he says Columbus is better off for it. While the two were close, the Blue Jackets forward seems happy that what would have been a problem in the room is no longer there.
Kirill Marchenko blossomed into one of the league's most potent offensive performers in his first four NHL seasons, all with the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Previously, I wrote an article on why the early criticism of Toronto Maple Leafs rookie Gavin McKenna was completely unwarranted. McKenna responded with
Kirill Marchenko scored his first hat-trick with the Toronto Maple Leafs, which also happened to be his 300th career NHL game, facing off against the Buffalo Sabres Thursday night.
Kirill Marchenko will make his Toronto Maple Leafs debut on Tuesday night against the Montreal Canadiens in the season opener in Toronto.
Columbus Blue Jackets general manager Don Waddell has “made it known to his fellow general managers across the NHL” that star winger Kirill Marchenko is available to be acquired in a trade, “but only if the Blue Jackets get immediate scoring help in return,” reports Aaron Portzline of The Athletic.
Earlier this summer, Dan Millstein of Gold Star Hockey shared with ESPN’s Kevin Weekes that Kirill Marchenko wasn’t interested in extending with the Columbus Blue Jackets.
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