The Toronto Maple Leafs have made their anticipated move with Max Domi officially at the start of the 2026-27 NHL season. Toronto has placed Domi on long-term injured reserve (LTIR), PuckPedia reported, confirming a move expected after months of uncertainty surrounding the veteran forward.
As part of this week’s swap with the Blue Jackets, there were some salary cap implications at play that resulted in Columbus retaining part of Elvis Merzlikins’ salary. Doing so allowed them to optimize their offseason LTIR placements.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have reportedly placed forwards Max Domi and Dakota Joshua on LTIR, giving the team $7 million in cap space, according to PuckPedia.
Can you name the players chosen as team captain for each NHL franchise in 2026-27?
It’s a shame Max Domi will miss time with his back injury. Not just because the Maple Leafs could use another forward. Because Domi is one of those players who makes a hockey game a little more interesting.
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.
Sometimes a few words can make a routine injury update much more interesting. That might be the case with Max Domi and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Domi underwent offseason surgery for an undisclosed injury he played through last season.
Max Domi missing the start of the season isn’t the kind of news that completely changes the Toronto Maple Leafs’ plans. But it is a problem Toronto probably didn’t need.
The Toronto Maple Leafs will be missing a key forward to start the 2025-26 season. While speaking with reporters in Toronto Wednesday, Leafs general manager John Chayka said forward Max Domi failed his physical and will be out indefinitely.
Toronto Maple Leafs news is back in full swing now that we’re into September. This week, the team has a golf tournament, the start of main roster training camp, and its first pre-season game.
The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without a veteran forward for the start of training camp. Max Domi will be unavailable as he continues to recover from an offseason surgery, general manager John Chayka told Joshua Clipperton of The Canadian Press.
The Toronto Maple Leafs aren’t expecting to have Max Domi back for the early part of the season. After it was announced in late May that the forward was
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.
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Max Domi is expected to miss training camp, and the start of the regular season, Daily Faceoff Toronto’s Nick Alberga reports.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are a much deeper team heading into next season and seeing how the internal competition plays out for their forward group is going to be one of the major storylines to following at training camp.
The Toronto Maple Leafs will only go as far as captain Auston Matthews will take them, and heading into next season, that could be into a deep Stanley Cup Playoff run.
Toronto Maple Leafs general manager John Chayka has put his fingerprints all over his roster heading into next season. Chayka hasn’t wasted any time since taking over for Brad Treliving, completing significant trades, adding via free agency, and ensuring the 2026-27 roster is full of new talent.
Max Domi can be a polarizing player in Toronto. Some people love the offence he brings. He’s a spirited player. There are plenty of people who believe that Max wants to be a Maple Leaf more than anything else because of his dad, and Mats Sundin.
If there was any doubt that the Toronto Maple Leafs would spend to the salary cap, that has been alleviated. PuckPedia currently lists the Maple Leafs as exceeding the cap by $2.75M, a non-issue given that Max Domi will likely begin the season on the long-term injury reserve, and the cap can be exceeded by $10.4M (10%) during the offseason.
News of a Max Domi injury last week came as a surprise to most around the hockey world, especially given that it was described as complications from offseason surgery.
The Toronto Maple Leafs announced on Monday that forward Max Domi will be out indefinitely due to complications arising from an offseason surgery. According to a statement released by the team, Domi had been undergoing surgery to address an issue he had been playing through during the 2025-26 season.
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Max Domi will miss the start of the 2026-27 season after undergoing offseason surgery to repair an injury he played through during the 2025-26 campaign.
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Max Domi underwent offseason surgery and will be re-evaluated at the start of training camp, the team confirmed Monday. Domi is out indefinitely, due to complications arising from the procedure.
Entering his third season with the Toronto Maple Leafs after a strong 2024-25 playoffs where Max Domi posted seven points across 13 games, the forward
The Toronto Maple Leafs are far from their best version.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have found the ideal replacement for Mitch Marner, backed by Craig Berube, and now by another important player.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have apparently chosen a solution for the void left by Mitch Marner, at least provisionally.
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