Canada's most talked-about team. Every move, every game, every storyline — covered in depth.
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Almost everyone treats the NHL's upper-body and lower-body language as a privacy rule the clubs are stuck with. Article 34 of the collective bargaining agreement says the opposite, in plain words, and it has said so since 2013.
The Leafs are the only NHL roster with nothing coming off the books for two full seasons. The interesting part is not the trivia. It is what the collective bargaining agreement charges for every other way out.
The reporting calls it when, not if. But a full no-move clause, a four-team list, his worst points total in five years, and Chayka's refusal to retain salary are not the setup for a trade. They are the reason there isn't one.
Patrick Kane to Toronto is the rumor every Leafs blog is running this week. It's also the one the reporting doesn't support. The Leafs are over the cap, their need is the opposite of what Kane offers, and the LTIR relief fans are counting on doesn't arrive until winter.
The analytics pioneer's first big move as Leafs GM was to fire the department built to give Toronto the edge he was hired to find.
Sergei Bobrovsky's playoff résumé is genuinely elite, and that's what Toronto paid for. But a goalie's spring peak only counts if you get there, and getting there rests on the 38-year-old regular-season version the Leafs need most and can least count on.
Gavin McKenna is the best player in this draft and the easiest decision Toronto will make all summer. He also doesn't fix a single thing that actually ends the Maple Leafs' seasons. Why the pick is the start of Chayka's job, not the answer to it.
