What Are the Early Returns on a Mixed Bag of Maple Leafs?

The Maple Leafs can’t try to trade their way to the top. It’s time to find out who they are

We're only 11 games into the season and some fans are demanding trades, but the Leafs need to determine they're actually capable of.

What are the early returns on a mixed bag of Maple Leafs?

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source The NHL’s new 84-date schedule has slightly skewed the mile markers in determining where a team is at and how far to go. Eleven games, or 13.09% completion, might be too small a number on the Maple Leafs odometer and the Atlantic Division […]

Early analysis: What are this year’s Maple Leafs?

On Monday’s edition of Real Kyper and Bourne, when the Toronto Maple Leafs were fresh off a disheartening 4-1 Saturday loss to the New York Islanders, I made a comment to Kyper that I hoped would be played back for me later in the season, but for positive reasons: I said that I believed this […]

Early analysis: What are this year's Maple Leafs?

Through 11 games the Maple Leafs have already faced some adversity, some ups and downs, and the group is starting to come together. But what is this team going to be, exactly? Justin Bourne shares his early thoughts on the 2026-27 Leafs.