TORONTO - The Maple Leafs are moving ahead without Mitch Marner.

The star winger bolted the team he cheered on as a kid for the Vegas Golden Knights in the off-season following nine campaigns in Toronto.

Leafs captain Auston Matthews says he and Marner had a "tough" conversation when the latter informed his teammate he would be moving on, but added the pair will remain lifelong friends as training camp opened Wednesday.

Matthews, meanwhile, says he's feeling "really good" after being hampered by a lingering upper-body injury most of last season — a campaign that saw his goal total drop from 69 to 33 compared to 2023-24.

Toronto head coach Craig Berube enters his second camp minus last season's leading scorer, but has three new forwards in Nicolas Roy — acquired from Vegas in the sign-a

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