The Toronto Maple Leafs Will Win the Atlantic Division

Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs finished the 2022-23 regular season in 2nd place in the Atlantic Division.

With the expected decline of the Bruins, the Leafs should be able to win their division for the first time since winning the North Division in 2021 during the pandemic.

Tyler Bertuzzi, Max Domi, and John Klingberg are the Toronto Maple Leafs key additions this off-season.

They replace the departing Michael Bunting, Alex Kerfoot, and Justin Holl. The Leafs also lost Erik Gustafsson, Luke Schenn, Ryan O’Reilly, and Noel Acciari.

However, the Leafs will give more playing time to rookie Matthew Knies, Pontus Holmberg, Sam Lafferty, Timothy Liljegren, and Conor Timmins.

The important thing to remember is that the Leafs main offensive threats are all still in the lineup. Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, William Nylander, John Tavares, and Morgan Rielly will be counted on to produce the majority of the teams offense. Newly signed Bertuzzi and Domi, give the Leafs additional scoring threats up front, and Klingberg provides an offensive threat from the blueline.

So long as the Toronto Maple Leafs get good goaltending from Ilya Samsonov, and Joseph Woll,  the team has the offense to win most nights.

This is why I believe the Toronto Maple Leafs will finish 1st in the division.