2026-27 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion | Official: Sundin & Chayka to lead front office

[dappleganger]

It's not quite enough room to activate Joshua off LTIR. I don't think so anyway. Cap space and LTIR is voodoo.

It does seem like the Leafs did a better job of navigating the salary cap when that Pridham guy was around...

 

[YYZ]

It does seem like the Leafs did a better job of navigating the salary cap when that Pridham guy was around...

Miles Wood ($2.5M) being recalled and immediately going on IR didn't exactly help the cap situation.

 

[cw]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2114705439917060345

Is it a coincidence the team starts to click once some older, slower heavily relied upon vets go down to injury?

I think we've now seen a second season where they seem to suffer defensively without Tanev. If he's healthy, he's an asset - their best defensive dman and the only pure defensive dman they have. But he aging with injuries as many thought he would.
Some of the improvement was identifying McKenna's defensive liabilities and containing them
Over the course of the season - particularly the playoffs, you need guys who will go to the dirty areas of the ice. And you need to win faceoffs. John does those things well. PPG player with 60% faceoff win% and was tied for the lead in PP pts. A hunk of his -ve +/- is on Nylander & McKenna. He's still the second best center the Leafs have in my opinion. They have little cap space or few contracts they can move this season and next to do much there - or it is very hard.