Toronto Maple Leafs are grappling with significant defensive injuries, prompting a potential search for reinforcements before the NHL trade deadline. Despite recent strong performances, the team's blueline depth is severely tested with key players sidelined.

Auston Matthews and Connor McDavid square up tonight, but it's the former that has our attention in these Oilers vs. Maple Leafs predictions.

It wasn’t just social media that was abuzz in the wake of a couple of blockbuster trades in the National Hockey League on Friday.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have spent years trying to solve their goaltending puzzle, and now, almost out of nowhere, they have the opposite problem: too much of a good thing.

Only 29 games into the 2025-26 season, Toronto has already deployed four different goaltenders in at least three starts apiece.