Rumor: Maple Leafs currently working on “something big.”

Now may be the time the Leafs go all in.

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Rumor: Maple Leafs currently working on “something big.”

The Toronto Maple Leafs may be looking to go all-in this offseason.

In a recent interview on Sportsnet 590 The Fan radio, Sportsnet insider Elliotte Friedman revealed that he would not be surprised if now was the time the Maple Leafs made a big move. 

 I think they’re sitting there and thinking, “what allows us to be the best team we can be for the next two years and make a charge at this?” It would not surprise me if they pull out something big that has us going, “Okay, not sure we really saw that [coming], but I’m not surprised it happened.”

While Friedman didn't go into any details about what that move may be, he did state his reasons fore why he thinks that the time to strike is now from the Maple Leafs perspective. 

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"The one thing that Toronto has that is a real advantage to them is they don’t have any issues with the expansion draft," said Friedman as per Maple Leafs Hot Stoveas per Maple Leafs Hot Stoveas per Maple Leafs Hot Stoveas per Maple Leafs Hot Stove. "If you look at Minnesota, they’re definitely tight still. Anaheim has to do some things to protect itself. One of the reasons Tampa made that deal yesterday with Drouin to Montreal and not to Minnesota — who was a team that I think was really chasing Drouin — is because Sergachev doesn’t hurt them in an expansion way. So, Toronto isn’t hurt by that; I think it gives them flexibility."

The question now becomes how the Leafs will use that flexibility, and more importantly who they plan to acquire as they make their big push moving forward.

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