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Kevin McGran

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🔮 It’s hard to imagine where the Leafs would be without Stecher, who has raised his game with Chris Tanev hurt.

2026-10-25 · assertive framing · The Maple Leafs are rolling and the Jack Roslovic revenge tour played a part

🔮 On the ice, it felt like anything could happen with both teams possessing high-octane offence and questionable defence.

2026-10-25 · assertive framing · Maple Leafs vs. Oilers: Advantage Toronto in first Matthews-McDavid showdown of the season

🔮 It would be understandable if a new GM completely cleaned house, but Chayka largely inherited those players, and is rewarding them (and kept assistant GM Ryan Hardy with the organization).

2026-10-21 · assertive framing · The Marlies' Calder Cup run is paying off in spades for the Maple Leafs

🔮 The Leafs blew the game open with four goals in the second: Matthews and William Nylander scored 46 seconds apart while Easton Cowan scored short-handed. And as if to add salt to the wounds opened with the Marchenko trade, another ex-Blue Jacket — Jack Roslovic, who was born in Columbus — also scored that period and a rough night for Greaves was over. Adding two assists, Cowan had the first three-point night of his career.

2026-10-21 · assertive framing · Maple Leafs vs. Blue Jackets: Marchenko gets last laugh in Columbus homecoming

🔮 It will be his first game for the Maple Leafs winger against the team that drafted and developed him and ultimately agreed to trade him when he wanted out.

2026-10-20 · assertive framing · After a blockbuster trade on the eve of the season, Maple Leaf Kirill Marchenko returns to Columbus tonight

🔮 It was rumoured over the summer the Leafs coveted Stenberg as well but couldn’t pry the second overall pick from San Jose.

2026-10-20 · assertive framing · Maple Leafs vs. Sharks: McKenna prevails over Stenberg in battle of top picks

🔮 Meanwhile, Russia has been manoeuvring behind the scenes to get into the game’s good books, which may have cost Canada its spot in the September congress in Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands, that landed German Franz Reindl the IIHF top job.

2026-10-19 · assertive framing · How Canada lost its voice in international hockey, and what it could mean

🔮 Then the last few minutes of the period, we’re just trying to get out of that period, I guess you would say.

2026-10-16 · assertive framing · Why did Gavin McKenna play just six minutes in an OT loss? Only Maple Leafs coach Jim Hiller knows for sure

🔮 Kirill Marchenko’s smile could not have been wider after he got his fifth career hat trick on Thursday night in his 300th career game.

2026-10-16 · assertive framing · Kirill Marchenko scores a hat trick, but Maple Leafs fall in OT to visiting Sabres

🔮 Try as they might, the Maple Leafs couldn’t outscore their many flaws on display in a 5-4 loss to the Utah Mammoth on Tuesday night.

2026-10-14 · assertive framing · Maple Leafs vs. Mammoth: Toronto's weak spots exposed in Western road trip finale

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