It may only be seven games into the 2025-26 NHL season for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but it sure feels like an eternity with all the struggles that they have had so far this year. Not only that, it hasn’t helped that the Maple Leafs had been missing some key players right from the start of the season, and now may be faced with some more injury woes as well to their defense corps.
No matter how you put it, Toronto sure doesn’t look like the dominant group that we witnessed during their 2024-25 campaign. So what has happened to the team?