#William Nylander

#William Nylander

It was an intense contest between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Florida Panthers, who are leading the series 3-1 after a win by the Maple Leafs in this past evening's game between the two.This contest was indeed Toronto's make-or-break game, as the teams are heading back to Toronto for Game 5.
How did the Toronto Maple Leafs fare against the Florida Panthers?

The regular season in the NHL is almost over, with only a handful of games left.For the Toronto Maple Leafs, recent struggles without a key forward, Ryan O'Reilly, make it even more difficult to establish a solid forward formation.It is especially difficult when he will be coming back from injury to assert himself in the 2023 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.

If the Toronto Maple Leafs learned anything from the Vegas Golden Knights Stanley Cup victory, it's that they need to trade some of their offensive talent for defense.If you compared the Vegas Golden Knights and Toronto Maple Leafs based off talent alone, the Leafs would be better, but that's not what wins championships.

The Toronto Maple Leafs head into the most important off-season in team history with contract extensions for William Nylander and Auston Matthews as the main priority.The Toronto Maple Leafs off-season to date has been insane - they were set to bring back GM Kyle Dubas, then they fired him.After that, they hired Brad Treliving, and he brought in Shane Doan.

The Toronto Maple Leafs should, if they can, add more star players to the roster.The Toronto Maple Leafs have operated the last several years with a "studs and duds" salary cap strategy that has now more or less been adopted league wide.Now that every team has an analytics department, the fact that the NHL is a strong-link game where stars dictate results is no longer a secret.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have a Matt Murray problem on their hands.A goaltender who played mediocre for the club in just 26 starts in 2022-23, missing out on the team's postseason, and suffering several injuries throughout the campaign.The Toronto Maple Leafs netminder currently has 1-year left on his deal at $6.25 million AAV (average annual salary) along with a base salary of $8 million, a number that could make his contract untradable to practically every team, except one, the NHL's third richest franchise, the Montreal Canadiens.

This past Monday, the Montreal Canadiens announced that they had signed one of their young stars Cole Caufield to an eight-year extension, which led to Twitter battles about the Toronto Maple Leafs handling of the Mitch Marner contract.Fans from across the NHL have chimed in stating that former general manager Kyle Dubas caved to the Toronto Maple Leafs superstar forward in contract negotiations.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly held their annual pre-Stanley Cup press conference on Saturday.One of the major topics the two men were asked to discuss is the state of the league's salary cap.Bettman shot down any sort of idea that the cap would be increasing for the 2023-24 season more than the $1 million that was projected at the general manager meetings last March.

With the NHL offseason quickly approaching, the Toronto Maple Leafs have some tough choices to make when it comes to their upcoming group of free agents.One area of interest is their forward group.The Toronto Maple Leafs have numerous forwards on expiring deals, as well as many rumors about trading one of the "core four".

The Toronto Maple Leafs have been correct to ignore the media's attempts to run William Nylander out of town.However, the stars have aligned and it's time to trade him, and there is a team so obviously in need of what he brings, who just so happen to have such an obvious over abundance of what the Toronto Maple Leafs need, that the trade rumour creates itself.

The Toronto Maple Leafs held a press conference on Thursday morning to officially introduce Brad Treliving as their new general manager.He is the 18th GM in Toronto Maple Leafs franchise history.The press conference revealed what his priorities, and how he is excited to get down to work.One of the more notable things learned from the press conference is that Treliving can't be involved in the 2023 NHL draft.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have had a ridiculous three weeks.First, the Toronto Maple Leafs lost to the Florida Panthers despite being the better team in four out of five games.Second, they inexplicably fired their young GM after letting him learn on the job for five years.Now that he's easily the best.

As summer quickly approaches, newly hired Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving has to decide what to do about the Auston Matthews situation.Matthews has one year left on his contract (with an $11.6M salary cap hit).Beginning July 1, he is eligible to sign an extension with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the same day his full no-movement clause comes into effect.

According to Sportsnet, the Toronto Maple Leafs have hired former Calgary Flames General Manager Brad Treliving to take on the same role with the Maple Leafs.Treliving and the Flames agreed to part ways back in April after the Flames missed the playoffs this past season after taking the regular season Pacific Division title in 2021-22 with a 111 points.

As Kyle Dubas ' time as General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs has ended abruptly, now seems like the appropriate time to ask the question: what's next for one of the NHL's richest franchises?Working as the Toronto Maple Leafs GM for five years, Dubas' most memorable moment on the job came in July of 2018 with a quote during an interview with Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek, stating "We can, and we will" in regards to signing all four of the Leafs' core players.

Last week, Toronto Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan announced that the team is cutting ties with general manager Kyle Dubas.According to James Mirtle from the Athletic, the two Toronto Maple Leafs managers were at odds with each other.Shanahan allegedly prevented a few trades from happening during Dubas' time with the Leafs.

The Toronto Maple Leafs need to do whatever it takes to re-sign Ryan O'Reilly this offseason.When you look back the 2022-23 Toronto Maple Leafs season, the Ryan O'Reilly trade was the most significant move of the campaign.The team finally went "all-in" and although it didn't translate into a Stanley Cup, it wasn't due to the lack of effort by O'Reilly.

The Toronto Maple Leafs face an interesting offseason this summer and many questions surround the team, mainly their forward group.Many Toronto Maple Leafs forwards are about to enter free agency, such as Michael Bunting and Ryan O'Reilly, and may not return to the team.Also, more questions surround the Leafs "core four," as many fans and analysts want one of them gone to shake up the roster.

The Toronto Maple Leafs were a big talking point on the Monday, May 15th edition of the 32 Thoughts podcast with Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek.During the podcast, they discussed the future of the Toronto Maple Leafs core four of Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares, and William Nylander.Of these four players, the situation with Matthews is the top priority.

The Toronto Maple Leafs season once again ended with disappointment.Fans, analysts, and social media continue debating what they should do this offseason.One player's name is coming up more often than not as a potential trade piece for the Toronto Maple Leafs, that being William Nylander.However, I believe Nylander is an extremely valuable part of this Leafs team and he should stick around for next season.

Now that the Toronto Maple Leafs season has ended, it's time to start thinking about the off-season.Which free agents stay, and which ones leave?The Toronto Maple Leafs have ten unrestricted free agents on their active roster and 14 if you include players from the AHL's Toronto Marlies.There will not be enough cap space to keep everyone.

In the end, the biggest problem when you find yourself in an 0-3 series hole is that you need everything to break just right for four straight games.In Game 4, it did.The Leafs played well, of course, but they also scored a goal off a referee's shinpad.In Game 5, they probably deserved to win.They had a ton of chances, but they now end the playoffs on a seven-game streak of scoring two goals per game.

The Toronto Maple Leafs entered game four of their second-round series against the Florida Panthers with their backs against the wall.With their top goaltender Ilya Samsonov out due to injury, the Toronto Maple Leafs decided to play Joseph Woll.Not having their number-one goaltender playing in an elimination game could have cost the Leafs, but they rallied around Woll and played their best game of this entire series.

Brandon Montour scored at 1:41 of overtime and backup goaltender Alex Lyon made 38 saves as the visiting Florida Panthers downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Wednesday to energize to their flickering playoff hopes.Sam Reinhart and Anton Lundell scored the other goals for Florida (37-31-7).Montour added an assist for a two-point night.

Last night, the Toronto Maple Leafs had their season on the line, needing a win to keep their Stanley Cup hopes alive.It's safe to say they earned their right to keep playing.The Toronto Maple Leafs faced a glaring 3-0 series deficit heading into last night's game 4.
With fans and analysts all over social media acting like the series was over, it wouldn't have been surprising if the Leafs came out with a poor effort.

The Toronto Maple Leafs find themselves in a 3-0 hole after losing 3-2 against the Florida Panthers in game three on Sunday.In all three games against the Panthers, the Toronto Maple Leafs have only been able to score two goals in each game.Unfortunately for them, it has not been enough to win.There have been stretches in each game where Toronto is in complete control of the game, but for whatever reason, the Leafs let that control slip away.

It's very ironic that the Toronto Maple Leafs slogan is "the passion that unites us all" when their players showed zero passion during Game 3 against the Florida Panthers.Being a Toronto Maple Leafs fan is the worst.Even when they have their most successful season in 19 years, this team still finds a way to disappoint us.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have spent a lot of time in Florida recently.First, they took down the Tampa Bay Lightning.Now they're fighting to keep their Stanley Cup dreams alive against the Florida Panthers.Oh, Florida.The land of sunshine, beaches, and theme parks.Sounds like paradise, doesn't it?Well, not exactly.

After Thursday night's game two loss, many fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs and media pundits had their fair share of criticisms of forward William Nylander's play.As per usual, when a team goes down 2-0 in a playoff series, there will always be players being used as scapegoats, fairly or unfairly.The Leafs' winger has been a lightning rod for the majority of his career.

Once again, the Toronto Maple Leafs lose game one of a playoff series.Game ones have not been kind to Toronto this year, but hopefully, the series-ending result of winning will continue.Yes, the Toronto Maple Leafs lost 4-2 in game one against Florida, but it wasn't for lack of effort.Toronto players were buzzing around the Panthers' net all night with many scoring chances.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have seven forwards becoming unrestricted free agents (UFA) this off-season.A few spent most of the 2022-23 season playing on the left wing.Each will be looking for a raise, but should the Toronto Maple Leafs pay up or let them walk?Calle Jarnkrok is under contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs for three more seasons at $2.1 million.

The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Florida Panthers last night on the backs of a two-goal Auston Matthews performance.Though many are quick to excuse the Toronto Maple Leafs recent horrible play by referencing the new players and line combinations, I don't think it's that simple.Without Ryan O'Reilly in the lineup, the Leafs are simply a worse team than they were before the deadline, because Rasmus Sandin and Pierre Engvall are superior to the rest of the players they added.