Instant Analysis: Bobby McMann traded to Seattle for 2027 second-round pick & 2026 fourth-round...
The long-rumoured Bobby McMann trade finally happened, and the return is less than was hoped for from the Maple Leafs' perspective.
After months of speculation,...
Instant Analysis: Scott Laughton traded to LA for a conditional 2026 third-round pick
After sending Bobby McMann to Seattle, the Maple Leafs have traded Scott Laughton to Los Angeles for a 2026 third-round pick that could become...
Adrift Maple Leafs are neither winning nor learning anything right now
"You’re either winning or you’re learning" is one of my favourite sayings in sports.
It’s a constructive way to frame a game in a glass-half-full...
The 2025-26 Maple Leafs season is now in “tank and pray” mode, and the...
The rest of this 2025-26 Maple Leafs season will be a slog.
On the ice, there’s really nothing left to watch for or write about,...
Game Review: Bo Groulx torches Noah Dobson, nearly scores in Maple Leafs’ loss to...
As much as the title of this article is facetious, it is actually the type of thing the rest of the 2025-26 Maple Leafs’...
10 Thoughts: Leafs’ response to Gudas, Cowan’s first fight, Groulx’s shorty, and big nights...
10 thoughts after a refreshingly entertaining game/win over the Anaheim Ducks for the Maple Leafs, albeit with significant concerns about Auston Matthews' injury situation:
Regarding...
The Matthews incident, Bo Groulx’s emergence, and the tank setback – Maple Leafs Notebook
In November of 2011, then-Bruin Milan Lucic was chasing down a loose puck in Boston. Sabres goalie Ryan Miller, identifying that he could prevent...
Let there be no doubt: The Maple Leafs need to clean house this offseason,...
As the Maple Leafs' 2025-26 season slowly crawls to an end, all eyes have naturally shifted towards the offseason and the major question marks...
10 Thoughts: A night of fights and firings for the Maple Leafs in Anaheim
10 thoughts after a dramatic night in Leafland ended in a GM firing, a 5-4 overtime win, and 93 combined penalty minutes against the...
The house cleaning begins: Maple Leafs fire Brad Treliving eight games before season’s end
The inevitable has officially arrived, as the Toronto Maple Leafs announced that Brad Treliving has been relieved of his duties as General Manager.
https://twitter.com/MapleLeafs/status/2038779588659048951
The writing...
How deep will the organizational change go for the Maple Leafs? – Maple Leafs...
The first shoe has officially dropped: General Manager Treliving was relieved of his duties on Monday.
While much of the focus naturally shifts to the...
Is more urgency needed for getting the Maple Leafs’ new management in place? –...
On last week's 32 Thoughts podcast, Elliotte Friedman noted that the Maple Leafs are eyeing the Boston Bruins' retool with a similar goal in...
Game Review: AA gets shelled, a solid Leafs debut for Luke Haymes, and Berube...
On paper, this set up as one of the Maple Leafs' more interesting games in weeks, given their place in the standings.
Due to...
An eyebrow-raising start to the Maple Leafs’ executive search – Maple Leafs Notebook
While the Maple Leafs continue losing on the ice, giving fans some draft-pick hope, what’s happening off-ice is drawing the main attention, as the...
On cost-cutting, AI, Pelley, and the Maple Leafs’ 2025-26 season from hell
written in collaboration with Alec Brownscombe
It has been a long time since the Toronto Maple Leafs were this bad. In case you’d somehow forgotten...
The latest on the Leafs’ GM search, Mike Gillis, Mats Sundin, and Auston Matthews’...
On 32 Thoughts, Elliotte Friedman discussed the latest on the Leafs’ GM search, interest from MLSE/ownership in Mats Sundin joining the new front office,...
The Maple Leafs’ top job is too big for “learn as you go” candidates
Over the past few weeks, as the Maple Leafs’ 2025-26 season painfully wound down, all the attention shifted to who will take control of...
Maple Leafs Front Office Candidates, Part 1: Scott White, Evan Gold, Mike Gillis &...
It sounds like the Maple Leafs will announce a new leader at the top of their chain of command sooner rather than later.
As we’ve...
Maple Leafs Front Office Candidates, Part 2: Tim Barnes, Jason Spezza, Judd Moldaver &...
The scuttlebutt on the Maple Leafs' executive search -- who is in, who is out, who is the favourite -- is completely all over...

















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