We have Jamie Bennett here with his analysis and predictions for the upcoming Toronto Maple Leafs season.

The 2026 NHL offseason was the most important one in a decade for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

One year after losing hometown boy and former fourth overall pick Mitch Marner in a sign-in trade with the Vegas Golden Knights, which only netted the team depth center Nicholas Waugh, the Leafs missed the playoffs for the first time since losing to Columbus in the 2020 play-in, and their front office was already in transition.

Former GM Brad Treleving was shown the door before the season was over, and it looked like the Leafs were well on their way to handing a top 10 pick to their division rival, the Boston Bruins.

Shortly after the season ended, MLSC president Keith Pelley selected former Arizona Coyotes general manager John Chayka as the next leader of the franchise.

And with Chayka came the return of fan favorite Matt Sundin, who would join the team in an advisory role.

Response to the hiring was mixed, with both fans and media questioning the hire.

Take us back just a minute to your birth experiences as a first time mom, doing the hospital thing with the OB and how you moved from that to having an ecstatic home birth with your third.

Yeah, quite the journey.

With my first, I just really classically went into it very uninformed.

And I own that now looking back.

I just trusted my doctors and went along with what everybody does.

I just went to the OB that everybody else went to.

And even throughout that pregnancy, just in those offices, as you're sitting in the room, you just feel it.

How did you move from, I don't know, God to turning away clients? What does that journey look like?

Yeah, I've got

to say, I don't really know.

And again, in the U.S., we have so many financial institutions, probably way too many by any account.

But we have so many that they've had to specialize.

So there's one bank in New York City that essentially does all of the payroll for every Broadway show.

Right.

They needed to find their niche in the market.

What are the ways in which they can kind of stand tall and summon their heft and have some of these needs met?

Yeah, I've

got to say, I don't really know.

And again, in the U.S., we have so many financial institutions, probably way too many by any account.

But we have so many that they've had to specialize.

So there's one bank in New York City that essentially does all of the payroll for every Broadway show.

Right.

They needed to find their niche in the market.

What are the ways in which they can kind of stand tall and summon their heft and have some of these needs met?