Days after the season ended in Boston for the second straight spring, we sorted through nine priorities that would define the Leafs’ offseason.



Let’s check back on their progress with training camp fast approaching.



1. The head coach



Kyle Dubas let it hang out there for 11 days: would Mike Babcock be back to coach the Leafs for a fifth season?



Finally, on May 6, Dubas fired word to Bob McKenzie that the Leafs were “all in on Mike and Mike is all in on us.” He declined to say more until the draft combine.



“I think at the end of every year people will find that I — maybe I just won’t answer (that question about whether the coach will return the following season) because I always like to take the time to analyze everything,” Dubas said in Buffalo at the end of May. “And like I said that day (at the end of the season), I want Shanny to evaluate me and for me to then — if I’m going...