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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.
2026-27 regular season · source NHL, data as of 2026-10-23. Goals per game exclude shootout deciders. Standings · All 32 teams
Computed by Play-Pause Hockey from the league play-by-play, 2026-27, 165 regular-season games. Where a rank is shown it is among the 32 clubs, 1st = best. PDO and zone starts carry none: a high PDO means hot rather than good, and zone starts are how a club is deployed rather than how well it plays. All 32 teams
| Player | GP | G | A | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Auston Matthews | 12 | 8 | 10 | 18 |
 William Nylander | 12 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
 Kirill Marchenko | 12 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
 Easton Cowan | 12 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
 Jack Roslovic | 12 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
 Morgan Rielly | 12 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
 Gavin McKenna | 12 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
 John Tavares | 7 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
 Colton Sissons | 12 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
 Darren Raddysh | 12 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
 Nick Paul | 12 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
 Brandon Duhaime | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
 Teddy Blueger | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Troy Stecher | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Zack MacEwen | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Chris Tanev | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Jake McCabe | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Marshall Rifai | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Nick Blankenburg | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Oliver Ekman-Larsson | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Bo Groulx | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Vinni Lettieri | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Goalie | GP | W | L | SV% | GAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Anthony Stolarz | 4 | 3 | 1 | .898 | 2.99 |
 Sergei Bobrovsky | 8 | 3 | 3 | .895 | 3.10 |
Puck and player tracking, 2026-27 regular season · source NHL EDGE. Ranks are among the 32 clubs, 1st = best; defensive-zone time ranks the least time first. All 32 teams
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.
