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Bobrovsky excited to play for Maple Leafs, in ‘capital of hockey’
While expressing his gratitude, Bobrovsky did just that when it came to Gavin McKenna, the 18-year-old selected by the Maple Leafs with the No. 1 pick of the 2026 NHL Draft. The rookie said this week that he would be transferring his old number 72 to Bobrovsky, who wears the same number, and did just that during a conversation the two had on Thursday.
“He’s a smart guy,” Bobrovsky said of McKenna. “He has very positive energy. And honestly, I’m excited to see him develop into a big superstar.”
That wasn’t the only welcome-to-Toronto moment Bobrovsky got since joining the Maple Leafs.
One of the first people to reach out to him was Maple Leafs goalie Anthony Stolarz, who served as Bobrovsky’s backup during the Panthers’ 2023-2024 championship season. Now they’re back together and Bobrovsky couldn’t be more excited.
“We had great relationships when we won the Cup that year,” he said. “We had a good bond. We helped the team. We worked together. We had a good time together.
“I’m excited to reunite with him.”
When asked how their goaltending partnership clicked, Bobrovsky said, “He’s an easy-going guy. It’s fun to be around him, to have some jokes and drills, or some jokes outside of practice. He’s just a nice person.”
Bobrovsky’s mentorship will also be on display with Artur Akhtyamov, who was named the Most Valuable Player of the American Hockey League playoffs after leading the Toronto Marlies to the Calder Cup.
The 24-year-old has said he grew up idolizing Bobrovsky.
“The young man, Artur, I spoke to him briefly once,” Bobrovsky said. “He seems like a smart guy too. He’s a nice guy. He has great potential. And I’m happy to be part of his development too.”
Signed by the Philadelphia Flyers as an undrafted free agent on May 6, 2010, Bobrovsky is 456-266-58 with a 2.61 GAA, .912 save percentage and 53 shutouts in 806 regular season games (791 starts) for the Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets and Panthers, ranking seventh in NHL history in wins. And in addition to his two Stanley Cup championships, he has also won the Vezina Trophy twice as the league’s top goaltender (2013, 2017).
It’s the kind of career that will have him one day inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
In the meantime, Bobrovsky is the focus of a busy offseason orchestrated by Maple Leafs general manager John Chayka and the Toronto Braintrust, which has shown clear confidence that he can bounce back from a poor season that saw the Panthers miss the postseason after three straight Stanley Cup Final appearances. The loss of Aleksander Barkov with ACL and MCL injuries to his right knee in September was a harbinger of bad things to come, Bobrovsky said.
“It was a tough season for our organization,” he said. “We had a lot of injuries. Our captain went down in the first training. So that was kind of the starting point of all this.
“It’s not easy either. You know, the NHL is a tough league. Every team has good players. The Stanley Cup is the hardest trophy to win for a reason. And to play all the way to the Finals three years in a row is not easy and I won twice. So it was a tough season. But again, every season brings some challenges.”
“There will never come a point where you say, ‘Okay, I know everything and I’ve experienced everything.’ There is always a challenge. And for me personally, I will be a student of this game for the rest of my life.”
A life, on and off the ice, that is now entering its next phase with the Maple Leafs.
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