Nazem Kadri joins the Maple Leafs insults during playoffs

Nazem Kadri joins the Maple Leafs insults during playoffs originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Toronto Maple Leafs haven't had great playoff history recently -- or really, in a long time.

One stat circulating social media helps emphasize that, and it came to light after Mitch Marner notched a hat trick on Friday night in his first season out of Toronto, playing now for the Vegas Golden Knights . He's only the second player drafted by the Maple Leafs to score a playoff hat trick in the salary cap era, according to Big Head Hockey. The other was Nazem Kadri.

And neither Marner nor Kadri did it while playing for the Maple Leafs. Every player drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs with a playoff hattrick, salary cap era: • Nazem Kadri • Mitch Marner And neither of them did it in a Leafs jersey. pic.

twitter. com/7wq2T2BU1O — Big Head Hockey (@bigheadhcky) May 9, 2026 MORE: The Mitch Marner irony of Auston Matthews' future with the Maple Leafs In other words -- the Leafs have never gotten a playoff hat trick from a player they drafted (in the salary cap era). And, well, that can't be good.