Toronto Maple Leafs top pick Gavin McKenna reveals that he's changing his jersey number

Toronto Maple Leafs No. 1 draught prime Gavin McKenna has already been connected nan crystal pinch nan squad arsenic it held its improvement campy this week, but nan highly-touted rookie is going to person to make a large alteration for this fall.

His number.

When he was playing for nan Western Hockey League's Medicine Hat Tigers and past again astatine Penn State this past season, McKenna wore nan No. 72.

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Toronto Maple Leafs apical prime Gavin McKenna has revealed that he'll beryllium opting for a caller number for his rookie campaign. (Photo by Brian Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images)

The anticipation was that McKenna would deterioration No. 72 pinch nan Maple Leafs, and he did truthful this week astatine improvement camp. Plenty of fans person besides already ordered No. 72 jerseys pinch his sanction connected nan back.

On astir rosters, No. 72 is unsocial capable that he wouldn't tally into immoderate issues wearing it. However, connected July 1, nan Leafs signed two-time Stanley Cup champion goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, who has worn No. 72 for astir of his career, isolated from during his first 2 seasons pinch nan Philadelphia Flyers, erstwhile he wore No. 35.

So, immoderate were wondering really this would activity out. Would nan Leafs want their caller franchise subordinate to get his prime of nan number litter, aliases would they defer to a two-time Vezina winner?

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Gavin McKenna wore No. 72 successful juniors, arsenic good arsenic past play astatine Penn State. (Photo by Richard T Gagnon/Getty Images)

Well, it turns retired that McKenna will beryllium nan 1 swapping numbers, and he'll beryllium switching to No. 92 this season.

McKenna had to get imaginative present because nan evident number changes were a no-go successful Toronto. Adding 7 and 2 would beryllium 9, but that was retired successful grant of Charlie Conacher and Ted Kennedy.

Another action would've been to flip nan digits and spell pinch No. 27, but that was retired successful grant of Frank Mahovlich and Darryl Sittler.

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So, 92 it is.

However, McKenna reached retired to 1 of nan 3 erstwhile players to deterioration nan number, Jeff O'Neill, to inquire whether he was comfortable pinch him utilizing it.

It's adjacent to opportunity he was down pinch nan idea.

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McKenna will beryllium a cardinal portion of a Maple Leafs squad that is looking to bounce backmost aft a nightmare 2025-26 run that saw them decorativeness past successful nan Atlantic Division.