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The Toronto Maple Leafs are getting set for the 2024-25 season by placing multiple key names on waivers. With rosters due across the NHL in a little over 24 hours, the Maple Leafs have placed goalie Matt Murray and defenseman Marshall Rifai on waivers.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs have placed defenseman Marshall Rifai and goaltender Matt Murray on waivers, according to several reports, including one from Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman. Both players were considered longshots to be a part of the team's 23-player maximum roster.

A two-time Stanley Cup winning goaltender in Pittsburgh (2016 and 2017), Murray was heralded as the Leafs’ saviour in net when he arrived from Ottawa in the summer of 2022. But multiple injuries — an adductor injury that October, an ankle injury in late January, a head injury in April — got in the way. And in the summer of 2023, it was his hips.