The Toronto Maple Leafs had quite an eventful day in terms of roster activity on Wednesday, which marked the beginning of the NHL's free agency period.

Leafs GM John Chayka was aggressive throughout the day, acquiring goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, signing five forwards, and making two trades.

However, aside from the acquisition of Darren Raddysh on June 19 and Emil Andrae on June 16, Chayka didn't make any further changes or upgrades to the Maple Leafs' defense on Wednesday.

Leading up to July 1, there was plenty of discussion around Morgan Rielly and his status with the team. It got to the point where Rielly reportedly handed a short list of Western Conference teams that he would accept a trade to. Eventually, it got to the point where Chayka didn't see a trade coming to fruition any time soon. As a result, Rielly's name didn't really come up on Wednesday.

As for the rumors about Columbus Blue Jackets superstar Zach Werenski, it doesn't seem like anything will materialize with him on the trade front, even if the Maple Leafs were believed to be one of the front-runners for the reigning Norris Trophy defenseman.

But any chance that Werenski would get dealt in the next few days was nixed after he released a statement on Wednesday, saying he wants to remain in Columbus.

On Wednesday's media availability, Chayka was asked about the interest Toronto may or may not have had in Werenski and if any additional upgrades are coming to the back end.

"Yeah, I think our blue line's in a pretty good place overall," Chayka said. "I'd say I can't comment on any specific players, but as a general theme, we were able to put this roster together by actually adding futures if you look at it."

However, the Leafs GM did indicate that he believes that his team is in a position to be flexible if they need to be improved or upgraded down the road.

"We've maintained kind of our future flexibility and capital, and as players do become available or there's opportunities that we want to pursue, we maintain now the flexibility to pursue those things," he said.

"A big part of this is we wanted to be the best possible team we could for this year but also continue to build for the future and build some capital to then add to this team at the right time, and we think we achieved that today."

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