After the Los Angeles Kings locked up the final spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Maple Leafs saw their return from the Scott Laughton trade get sweeter.<\/p>\n
As part of the deadline deal, the Maple Leafs received a conditional 2026 third-round pick, which was to become a second-round selection if Los Angeles qualified for the post-season.<\/p>\n
To clinch, the Kings had to defeat the Seattle Kraken in any fashion, and the San Jose Sharks had to defeat the Predators in regulation.<\/p>\n
With just one game remaining in their season, Toronto has a 32-35-14 record, sitting second-last in the Eastern Conference and 28th in the league overall. <\/p>\n
The Maple Leafs failed to qualify for the playoffs this season for the first time since 2016. They were officially eliminated from contention on April 2 after a loss to the Sharks.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Toronto also must await the final outcome of another previous trade. The 2026 first-round pick the Maple Leafs dealt in the Brandon Carlo trade last season had a condition: if it turns out to be a top-five selection, Toronto keeps the pick. However, if it is any later, it goes to the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Los Angeles Kings locked up the final spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Maple Leafs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-605876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}