5 Most Overrated NHL General Managers for 2025-26 Mike Fink | August 26, 2025 Building a Stanley Cup contender starts at the top. Ownership might not build the roster, but a general manager (GM) does. Bill Zito’s work with the Florida Panthers turned a…
Maple Leafs’ Offseason Has Been a Nightmare Justin Giampietro | July 18, 2025 The Toronto Maple Leafs had a long time to prepare for Mitch Marner’s departure. With an expiring deal entering the 2024–25 season, it was a known possibility, at the very…
Treliving & Maple Leafs Have Managed Offseason Well Despite Loss of Marner Ben Fisher | July 10, 2025 A purely qualitative analysis on the Toronto Maple Leafs’ offseason to date would not reflect particularly well on the club. From an assets-in / assets-out standpoint, they have parted ways…
Maple Leafs’ Treliving Discusses Free Agency, Marner’s Likely Exit & Ongoing Talks With Tavares and Knies Corey Abbott | June 27, 2025 Toronto Maple Leafs general manager (GM) Brad Treliving met with the media on Thursday (June 26) to discuss where the team stands before the busiest dates on the offseason calendar,…
Getting to Know Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment CEO Keith Pelley Ben Fisher | May 30, 2025 With last week’s news that the Toronto Maple Leafs would be parting ways with their long-time team president Brendan Shanahan upon the conclusion of his contract, focus naturally settled on…
Maple Leafs’ Draft Work Has Led to Current Success Ben Fisher | May 8, 2025 It might seem that the NHL Entry Draft hasn’t been a particularly important building tool for the Toronto Maple Leafs. The club has only held onto its first-round pick in…
Rogers Buys Bell Out of Share in Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment Harrison Smajovits | September 18, 2024 Rogers Communications is now the majority owner of Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment (MLSE). The company owns the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, the American Hockey League’s (AHL) Toronto Marlies,…
Do the Maple Leafs Have Too Many Voices in the Boardroom? The Old Prof | August 26, 2024 Toronto Maple Leafs fans are far from happy. They seem to be pointing all sorts of fingers. However, the big bogeyman continues to be an unbalanced salary structure that continues…
Brad Treliving Reshaping Maple Leafs in His Own Image The Old Prof | July 22, 2024 The Toronto Maple Leafs have made the playoffs consistently but have fallen short in the postseason. Under former general manager (GM) Kyle Dubas, the team had the elite talent to…
Maple Leafs Score Big with Scouting Director Mark Leach The Old Prof | July 19, 2024 On Thursday (July 18), the Toronto Maple Leafs announced that general manager (GM) Brad Treliving was hiring Mark Leach as the team’s new director of amateur scouting. Leach replaces Wes…
Comparing the Chris Tanev & Zach Hyman Contracts The Old Prof | July 18, 2024 When Zach Hyman left the Toronto Maple Leafs to sign a seven-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers in 2021, it was met with skepticism primarily due to the term and…
Nick Robertson Could Be Kyle Dubas’ Next Reclamation Project The Old Prof | July 17, 2024 One thing that former Toronto Maple Leafs general manager (GM) Kyle Dubas likes more than anything else is a reclamation project. In his time with the Maple Leafs, he had…