2019–20 Toronto Maple Leafs season


The 2019–20 Toronto Maple Leafs season is the 103rd season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917.
The season was suspended by the league officials on March 12, 2020, after several other professional and collegiate sports organizations followed suit as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. On May 26, the NHL regular season was officially declared over with the remaining games being cancelled. The Maple Leafs advanced to the playoffs and are scheduled to face the Columbus Blue Jackets in the qualifying round.

Regular season

At the start of the season, John Tavares was named the 25th captain in the history of the Maple Leafs, filling a position that had been vacant since Dion Phaneuf was traded to the Ottawa Senators in February 2016. Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, and Morgan Rielly were named alternate captains. The Maple Leafs won their season opener 5–3 against the Ottawa Senators on October 3. Matthews scored two goals, becoming the fourth player in NHL history to score in each of his first four season openers. Ilya Mikheyev also had a goal and an assist in his NHL debut during the season opener.
On November 20, following a six-game skid and only two regulation wins in their past 16 games, the Maple Leafs fired head coach Mike Babcock, and replaced him with their AHL affiliation Toronto Marlies head coach Sheldon Keefe.

Standings

Divisional standings

Eastern Conference

Record vs opponents

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Schedule and results

Preseason

Regular season

Overtime statistics

Playoffs

The Maple Leafs will face the Columbus Blue Jackets in the qualifying round.

Skaters

Goaltenders

Player currently playing for the minor league affiliate Toronto Marlies of the AHL
Player is no longer with the Maple Leafs organization
Player previously played with another team before being acquired by Toronto

Bold/italics denotes franchise record.

Roster

Transactions

The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2019–20 season.

Trades

Free agents

Waivers

DatePlayerTeamRef
Nick Shoreto Winnipeg Jets
Dmytro Timashovto Detroit Red Wings

Contract terminations

Retirement

Signings

Draft picks

Below are the Toronto Maple Leafs' selections at the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, which was held on June 21 and 22, 2019, at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Leafs held on to four of their own seven picks. In January 2019 they had traded away their first round pick along with Carl Grundström to Los Angeles for Jake Muzzin. During last year's draft they traded away this year's 6th round draft pick to Buffalo in exchange for the Sabres' 2018 6th round pick. Finally, before their 7th round pick was made they traded it to St. Louis in exchange for the Blues' 7th round pick in 2020. They acquired an additional two picks this year through various trades.
Round#PlayerPosNationalityCollege/Junior/Club Team
253Nicholas RobertsonLWUnited StatesPeterborough Petes
384Mikko KokkonenDFinlandMikkelin Jukurit
4115Mikhail AbramovCRussiaVictoriaville Tigres
41241Nicholas AbruzzeseCUnited StatesChicago Steel
5146Michael KosterDUnited StatesChaska
72042Kalle LoponenDFinlandOulun Kärpät U20

Notes:
  1. The St. Louis Blues' fourth-round pick went to the Toronto Maple Leafs as the result of a trade on February 15, 2018, that sent Nikita Soshnikov to St. Louis in exchange for this pick.
  2. The Dallas Stars' seventh-round pick went to the Toronto Maple Leafs as the result of a trade on October 1, 2018, that sent Connor Carrick to Dallas in exchange for this pick.