Maple Leafs have traded Mitch Marner to Vegas

Maple Leafs Complete Trade With Vegas | Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that the hockey club has acquired centre Nicolas Roy from the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for forward Mitch Marner. Roy, 28, skated in 71 games with Vegas in 2024-25, registering 15 goals and 16 assists. The 6’4, 201-pound centre has appeared in 369

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Mitch Marner's tenure as a Leaf is officially over as he does a sign and trade to go to the Vegas Golder Knights. The point of this exercise is to allow Vegas to get there first and outbid everyone else before they're even in the room.

There have been rumours and stories for days leading up to this deal – speculation about tampering accusation, speculation about players moving.

We'll post details when we have them.

This means it's a sign and trade, and not the rumoured four-year deal.

I'll take this man's word for it:

Nicolas Roy is a depth forward – on a team that usually have very good ones – and he has a cap hit of $3 million for two more years. He is 28 a right-shooting centre/winger and most recently was the fourth-line centre on a team very strong down the middle.

His impacts are almost entirely defensive, and he used to be better than he was this past year. Not by a lot, but he is a good player for the money. No one should complain about some centre depth that was essentially free.

Hockey Viz's model likes him a lot better than Evolving Hockey's does, but still focused on five-on-five defence. It can be difficult to carry those impacts from one team to the next when the players around you just can't do what the old team did. But we'll see. He makes the depth better.