Pierre McGuire joins Kyle Andrew to break down the newest member of the Leafs, Gavin McKenna. They also discuss some of the changes to the Leafs’ defense and what moves they may still make.
00:05 Gavin McKenna Drafted
01:31 McKenna’s College Decision
03:02 College Hockey Challenges
07:18 Maple Leafs Draft Strategy
11:45 Morgan Riely’s Future
17:33 Leafs’ Rebuild Moves
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Leafs better not even try to get that blue jacket d-man trade knies plus Cowan and others to get him.. my gosh leaf fans freaked about trading knies for young player plus top draft pick. But rather 28yr old for 2yrs
I love how Peirre is so positive about things. Kyper is annoyingly negative about everything
McKenna is going to be sensational. He’s a line driver game breaker type of player. Somehow underrated but he had an extremely tough situation in NCAA with a weak team. Didn’t matter, 20% more expected points than Celebrini with far worse quality of linemates.
McKenna is going to a team that’s floundering and has mixed directions.
They missed Bedard this time around also!
Pretty sure Red Kelly would've started the season with McKenna and Holinka as Matthews' wingers.
F1= McKenna – Mathews – Nylander..
F2= Knies – Tavares – Robertson..
F3= Cowan – Koblar(PK) – _____ (PK)..
F4= Joshua – Groulx(PK) – Tverberg(PK)..
Pressbox = Lorentz(PK) , Pezz ?
D1= McCabe – Raddysh..
D2= OEL – Tanev..
D3= Rifai – Villenueve
Pressbox – RIelly. Trade him… For a mean R-shot RW with strong +/- and PK skills..
Gruden proved, Cowan needs a Tverberg on his line..
Find meaner, bigger version of Tverberg…. or is Holinka becoming an RW for 1st time in his life 🙂
Andrae = Marlies , for max TOI as a RFA Thrun replacement, or Villenueve replacement, or traded… by camp's end..
I was screaming my head off that Crosby was cut in 2006 and McKinnon not playing in 2014. I saw enough of McKinnon to wonder why no one was talking about that guy back in 2013-14.
Pretty sure Rielly doesn't care what fans say.
Matthews a team leader?
Maybe he is starting to be, because McKenna is now on the team, but in the past????????????
U 2 r so Friggin dishonest. He went there for 700000 US dollars. Get real
The leafs fans will probably run Mckenna out of town if he doesn’t have 100 points in his first year like marner .
Team Canada actually did repeat that mistake in 2026 leaving Matthew Schaefer off the team