The Toronto Maple Leafs will play their final two preseason games against the Detroit Red Wings.
Detroit revealed its entire preseason schedule on Tuesday. The schedule features two games against each of the Maple Leafs, Buffalo Sabres, Chicago Blackhawks, and Pittsburgh Penguins. Toronto's two games against the Red Wings will be on Oct. 2 in Toronto and Oct. 4 in Detroit.
The 2025-26 NHL season officially starts on Oct. 7, but it's unknown when the Maple Leafs' regular season will begin. Toronto played six preseason games last fall — two each against the Red Wings, Ottawa Senators, and Montreal Canadiens — before their regular season started on Oct. 9 in Montreal.
Toronto announced its preseason schedule on Wednesday afternoon, with six games on the docket. The full schedule is below.
Before Maple Leafs training camp opening last fall, 26 of Toronto's top prospects played two games in Montreal at the Bell Centre in the 2024 Prospects Showdown. Toronto and Montreal's prospects went head-to-head on back-to-back days, but the Maple Leafs' young guns got the better of the Canadiens.
Toronto is preparing for the NHL Draft with six picks (64, 86, 137, 153, and 185). Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving and director of amateur scouting Mark Leach will speak to the media on Thursday, one day before the draft officially gets underway.
In last year's draft, Toronto picked eight times. They selected Ben Danford with the 31st pick, Victor Johansson at 120, Miroslav Holinka at 151, Alexander Plesovskikh at 152, Timofei Obvintsev at 157, Matt Lahey at 200, Sam McCue at 216, and Nathan Mayes at 225.
Unless the Maple Leafs attempt to move into the first round on Friday, all of their picks will come on Saturday in rounds two to seven.
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