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The Toronto Maple Leafs have selected defenceman Ethan MacKenzie with the 69th pick of the 2026 NHL Draft. MacKenzie, 19, is in his third year of draft eligibility, making him slightly older than most players in this draft class, but there’s enough talent to his game to understand why the Maple Leafs took the gamble….
For the first time, possibly ever, the Leafs had too many righties.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are involved in a trade Saturday with the St. Louis Blues, as Toronto continues to rebuild. Toronto is sending defenseman Brandon Carlo to St. Louis for two draft picks, per the team. Toronto is getting two third round NHL Draft picks, Sportsnet Canada reported. The selections are the 73rd and 76th […] The post Blues add stay-at-home defenseman in trade with Maple Leafs appeared first on ClutchPoints .
He is never too much man.
He is never too much man.
The summer of John Chayka continues at a dizzying pace! Toronto continued its defensive overhaul, trading Brandon Carlo to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for the No. 73 and No. 76 overall picks in the 2026 NHL Draft. It’s worth combating some revisionist history, to start: Carlo’s acquisition made sense at the time, as…
Toronto took a guy that teams hate to play against, genuinely. If you want a guy who can be an energy checker and a rat, he's a fun one.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have selected defenceman Alexander Bilecki with the 60th pick of the 2026 NHL Draft. Bilecki, 18, is a 6-foot-2 blueliner from Mississauga who was a member of this year’s Memorial Cup champion Kitchener Rangers. He was one of their most important defencemen down the stretch and saw his role grow as…
The Toronto Maple Leafs have taken Ethan MacKenzie with the 69th overall pick in the third round of the 2026 Entry Draft. Vitals MacKenzie is going to turn 20 in September, and it from Gavin McKenna's training base of Kelowna, BC. He is a left-shooting defender and
The Toronto Maple Leafs have taken Ethan MacKenzie with the 69th overall pick in the third round of the 2026 Entry Draft. Vitals MacKenzie is going to turn 20 in September, and it from Gavin McKenna's training base of Kelowna, BC. He is a left-shooting defender and
The Brandon Carlo era has come to an unceremonious end as the Maple Leafs have sent him to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for two third-round draft picks in 2026. It is significantly less than what the Leafs paid for him just 1.5 seasons earlier: Fraser Minten, a top-five-protected first-round pick, and a fourth-round […] The post Instant Analysis: Maple Leafs trade Brandon Carlo to STL for two third-round picks appeared first on Maple Leafs Hotstove .
The Toronto Maple Leafs got the ultimate slap in the face following the deal with the St. Louis Blues, jettisoning a previous mistakes. The post Maple Leafs Carlo Trade with Blues a Slap in the Face appeared first on HEAVY .
Carlo was originally acquired by the Leafs at the 2025 trade deadline in exchange for Fraser Minten and a first-round pick.
During the 2026 NHL Draft, the Toronto Maple Leafs traded defenceman Brandon Carlo to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for the No. 73 and No. 76 picks in this year’s event. Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman was the first to report. Carlo was on the trade block leading up to the draft, and Toronto recoups some…
There are two separate but connected conversations unfolding around the Toronto Maple Leafs right now. Both speak to how the organization views its future rather than its present. On one…
After being the subject of many trade rumors, Brandon Carlo’s time with the Toronto Maple Leafs is officially over.The Maple Leafs have traded Carlo to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for the 73rd and 76th overall picks of the 2026 NHL Entry Draft.Carlo was in need of a change of scenery, and he has […] The post TRADE: Maple Leafs Deal 6-Foot-5 Defenseman to Blues appeared first on HEAVY .
TORONTO — There is some anxious anticipation at the Doc Seaman Hockey Theatre at Ford Performance Centre, mixed in with tremendous, unabated excitement among the press corps. Gavin McKenna has arrived in Toronto, roughly 15 hours after the Maple Leafs selected him with the first overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. McKenna is the…
On Saturday morning, Toronto Maple Leafs first overall selection Gavin McKenna met the city’s media for the first time, alongside GM John Chayka and executive Mats Sundin. Sundin joined the Leafs organization in early May as a Senior Executive Advisor alongside Chayka. Shortly after, Toronto was awarded the first overall pick in the 2026 NHL…
As of Friday, June 26th, Gavin McKenna is officially a Toronto Maple Leaf, putting to bed any speculation that the Leafs might go off the board with their unprecedented first overall pick at the draft. McKenna, long touted as the consensus number one pick in the 2026 draft class, received a call from Maple Leafs…
The Toronto Maple Leafs are talking trade on several of their players, but that doesn't mean general manager John Chayka is going to make a move, just to make a move. Talks picked up in a major way the past few days, focused mostly on trying to land another top-10 pick, while also having defencemen Brandon Carlo and Morgan Rielly the center of talks. While Chayka is determined to reshape his blueline, which has already started with the acquisitions of Emil Andrae, and Darren Raddysh, the Lea...
GM John Chayka and Senior Executive Advisor Mats Sundin introduced Gavin McKenna as the Maple Leafs’ first-overall draft selection in the 2026 NHL Draft. John Chayka’s Statement on Drafting Gavin McKenna Chayka: Today is a special day — and hopefully, we expect, a historic day for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Any time you get a […] The post John Chayka on the Maple Leafs selecting Gavin McKenna: “We were lucky to have that [lottery] break, but we’re lucky this year to get Gavin as well” appeared...
The Toronto Maple Leafs made their long-awaited decision to select Gavin McKenna with the first overall pick of the 2026 NHL Draft on Friday. While there was some debate regarding whether he was the right pick to make in the weeks leading up to the pick being made official, it became clear pretty quickly that…
The Toronto Maple Leafs have made multiple changes to their roster already this offseason. They recently traded Joseph Woll and Simon Benoit to the Philadelphia Flyers and brought in Darren Raddysh from the Tampa Bay Lightning in a sign-and-trade. However, when looking at the Maple Leafs’ current roster, they should not be done yet.The Maple […] The post Maple Leafs Urged to Reunite With Blackhawks UFA Forward appeared first on HEAVY .
The Toronto Maple Leafs drafted winger Gavin McKenna with the first pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. McKenna made his goals very clear in an interview he gave to ESPN. “I’m a player who makes all the players around me better. I’ll do whatever it takes to win a Stanley Cup,” McKenna said to the […] The post Maple Leafs fans will love Gavin McKenna’s post-draft comments appeared first on ClutchPoints .
Gavin McKenna is a Toronto Maple Leaf. On Friday night, the Maple Leafs selected McKenna with the first overall selection in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft, bringing the 18-year-old officially into the organization. Speaking to the media following his selection, McKenna touched on what the moment was like when he heard his name called. “Special…