Overview
- The Maple Leafs did not tender a qualifying offer to Matias Maccelli on Monday, which converts him from a restricted free agent into an unrestricted free agent able to sign with any team.
- Maccelli posted 39 points in 71 games for Toronto in 2025–26, scoring 14 goals while finishing with a minus-23 plus-minus and modest defensive counting stats such as 17 blocks and 24 hits.
- Qualifying offers are set by a player’s prior contract and would have required roughly a $4.11 million tender for Maccelli because his three-year deal carried a high final-year cash salary.
- Team evaluations cited that figure, his middling impact and roster overlap with younger wingers — including the emergence of Gavin McKenna — as reasons Toronto moved on.
- Toronto traded for Maccelli from Utah last summer for a third-round pick and can still try to re-sign him at a lower rate while other clubs will have open-market access to a 25-year-old playmaking winger.