It also cleared two contract slots from the books, taking the Leafs down to 46 (against a max of 50), which buys them some flexibility to add more pieces before the deadline. Agostino has 85 career NHL games under his belt but last saw action at the top level in 2018-19 with Montreal and New Jersey. He can’t play centre at the NHL level. Mirtle’s take: I really like Granlund as a fit for the Leafs, either alongside Auston Matthews or John Tavares. The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired goaltender Veini Vehvilainen from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for defenseman Mikko Lehtonen, the club announced on … The 31-year-old netminder was a backup for San Jose from 2016-20, appearing in 107 games with a .908 save percentage, and was likely to be snapped up by one of several teams in need of goaltending around the league. We're looking for him to show that his game can translate seamlessly to this level,” Keefe said of expectations for Lehtonen on Monday. At this point, he’s likely only a depth player, as his poor defensive game means you have to shelter him. Puolustaja Mikko Lehtonen hakee vielä rooliaan Toronto Maple Leafsin paletissa. But Dom Luszczyszyn calculates he will provide $3.5 million in value per season the rest of the way. Open Article in App. So I’d keep expectations modest. He should be motivated, and it’s plausible he’s an upgrade on the Leafs fourth line, especially if injuries hit or if the Leafs lose players such as Pierre Engvall or Jimmy Vesey on waivers in the coming weeks. When the NHL's waiver deadline passed at noon, Dell had been claimed by the New Jersey Devils, while Spezza cleared. Kossila – Brooks – Anderson Vaahteranlehtipaitoja vastaan laulu kuitenkin muuttui totaalisesti Toronton voitettua tuplakohtaamiset 4-0 ja 3-0. He’s also capable of contributing on both special teams. He simply wasn’t going to get much of a chance in Toronto given his early struggles. He’s an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season here, and it’s a big year for him. You would obviously have to give both teams some assets to make a deal like that happen, but the advantage for Anaheim is they’d clear most of a big contract for the next several years while they’re rebuilding. There’s not a whole lot of downside for Toronto given Galchenyuk’s entire salary can be buried on the taxi squad. Hyman – Matthews – Marner If the Leafs can bring in someone with Granlund’s pedigree before the deadline for a couple of picks beyond the first round, that makes a lot of sense. One other creative manoeuvre I’ve always wondered about a team trying is doing a three-team trade where salary is retained multiple times. Dermott – Bogosian, Taxi squad: Agostino, Marincin, Robertson, Rosen, Galchenyuk – Petan – Barabanov He olisivat kumpikin NHL-kokemuksensa perusteella tulokkaita, mutta ikäsääntö sanoo toisin. Central Division “At the same time, Kyle was able to find a place for Mikko to go. Chartier – Gaudet – Sabourin TORONTO — The National Hockey League season is less than a week old, but the Maple Leafs are already performing salary-cap gymnastics, placing veterans Jason Spezza and Aaron Dell on waivers Sunday as they learned rookie Nick Robertson would miss at least four weeks with a knee injury suffered in Saturday’s win over Ottawa. “He’s probably an upgrade over Kerfoot,” according to Luszczyszyn. Frederik Andersen (lower body), Jake Muzzin (broken facial bone), Zach Hyman (foot) and Joe Thornton (undisclosed) did not play for Toronto. With the uncertainty surrounding who would or wouldn’t be available to the Leafs for Monday’s game against Winnipeg, head coach Sheldon Keefe decided Toronto would debut rookie defencemen Mikko Lehtonen with an 11-forward, seven-defencemen lineup against the Jets. While many of those bigger names have contracts that the Leafs can’t accommodate, it’s a fair question whether or not they could put some of the injured folks they have on long-term injured reserve and add temporary help using the league’s freebie bin. Get him out of low-scoring Nashville, and it feels like he could surprise. The Leafs can now add players who don’t require re-entry waivers from their taxi squad (or Stay Ready Squad, as Keefe’s coaching staff has dubbed it) onto the main roster to get back as close as possible to the cap. Keefe has held a similar wait-and-see mentality with Lehtonen, who was never drafted by an NHL team before signing a one-year, entry-level contract with Toronto in May. He’s a good possession player and an excellent playmaker, which is important given both of Toronto’s top centres are shooters. Leafs’ crease belongs to Campbell for now, Peel incident presents the NHL with an opportunity, Matthews aims to snap scoring slump as rest benefits wrist injury, Mikko Lehtonen He expects Granlund could command something similar to recent deadline deals for Mats Zuccarello and Gustav Nyquist: a second- and a third-round pick. The same holds true for winger Alexander Barabanov, another off-season signing from the KHL who was demoted to the taxi squad after playing in Toronto’s first two games. All rights reserved. With that in mind, this post is going to serve as a continuously updated home for any trade news or notes about the Maple Leafs in the weeks to come. That may feel far off, but I don’t expect the fireworks to wait that long given that teams will want to acquire players earlier. “The expectation is we're going to go 11-7 today, and then determine who the 11th forward will be,” Keefe explained on a Zoom call with reporters. Maple Leafs trade deadline news: Mikko Lehtonen traded to Columbus for goalie Veini Vehvilainen By James Mirtle Mar 13, 2021 133 The NHL trade deadline this year is April 12. Third, KHL rookie Mikko Lehtonen is a notch up on Sandin on the depth chart. This deal indicates how unlikely it was that we’d ever see Korshkov again in Toronto, as he has no interest in playing in the AHL any longer. Try a week on us. Vesey – Spezza – Boyd, Rielly – Brodie The main reason for it was to get them some ice-time but in their debut, it looked like they’ve already been logging significant minutes. “We think, all things considered, we adjusted to the situation and gave him an opportunity to be in our top six. We had Travis Dermott on the outside through training camp and just made a decision once the games were getting going that Lehts needed more time, and it’s how it’s worked out. In this case, Henrique could be dealt to Team X with, let’s say, $1.5 million in salary retained. That way, when Robertson is placed on Long Term Injured Reserve, the Leafs will have an additional $800,000 to work with, and they can recall Lehtonen and others they want on the main roster while adhering to the constraints of the cap. , Getty Images. He had 26 goals last season, and he’s strong on draws. Adam Brooks took line rushes with Spezza and Wayne Simmonds on the team’s fourth line during morning skate, but that was only because Spezza’s availability for Monday’s game was still in question. “He’s definitely a talent, and he worked really hard here and waited for his chance. I think there’s something to be said for that as well, and we wish him all the best.”. Hoefenmayer. And the advantage for the Leafs would be pretty obvious: They get a good player, at a position of need, for not a lot of money. In the past week alone, these are some of the bigger names that have been waived by other NHL teams: Paul Byron (Montreal), Danny DeKeyser (Detroit), Devin Shore (Edmonton), Connor Carrick and Eric Comrie (New Jersey), Adam Henrique (Anaheim) and Frans Nielsen (Detroit). “What we’ve maintained from the start is not having exhibition games really made it difficult for any incoming player to get the chance to sort of get the bugs out, adjust to the league, show what they can do, earn some additional trust, all those things,” Keefe said on Saturday. “He's an established goaltender in the league and we knew when signing him it would be difficult to get him through waivers if it came to that,” Keefe said. Carolina couldn’t afford the luxury of a $1.05 million 14th forward. Lehtonen is coming off the best season of his career in 2019-20 with the KHL’s Jokerit Helsinki, producing 49 points in 60 games to earn the league’s Defenceman of the Year honours. “Now here we are, and we'll see how it goes for him today.”. The Leafs do have some potential help coming with Nick Robertson and Alex Galchenyuk (see below item for more on him). “We wanted to give [Lehtonen] last week as a chance to watch the games and be in more meetings and get a better feel for things. The Leafs had already elevated Pierre Engvall earlier Monday from the AHL’s Toronto Marlies onto the taxi squad. Vehvilainen had some big seasons in Finland and could surprise in the role, if he gets a chance to play. (Andre Ringuette / NHLI via Getty Images), the Leafs pursued Mikael Granlund in the offseason, broke down the five players that Nashville, Already have the app? So, we want to get him going here today and really try to get a feel for how he can compete in the league and give him a chance to do that.”. This is his seventh NHL team since the summer of 2018, and he barely earned any minutes with the Sens, the last-place team in the league. Even in terms of dollars spent, they were committed to giving Warsofsky $400,000 in the minors, and he had zero chance of making an NHL impact. In placing both Spezza and Dell on waivers, the Leafs cleared up about $1.5 million in cap space, putting them just over $2 million below the NHL’s $81.5 million threshold. Mikko Lehtonen was off for tripping. Kerfoot – Engvall – Mikheyev As first reported at The Athletic, the Leafs pursued Mikael Granlund in the offseason, but couldn’t make the money work given their tight cap situation. So hit Ctrl + D, throw down a bookmark and check back here for the latest. We had Travis Dermott on the outside through training camp and just made a, decision once the games were getting going that Lehts needed more time, and it’s how it’s, Adam Henrique. The 27-year-old had been slotted onto the Leafs’ second power-play unit during training camp and even registered two assists in the full-team scrimmage they staged to replicate an exhibition game, but Keefe was adamant that Lehtonen would benefit from being held back. He adds that he expects the Leafs will attempt to add a top-six winger. Thornton, Hyman, Muzzin and Andersen are all day-to-day. Definitely a minor trade, but a relatively big name given he went third overall back in 2012. “That’s the greatest challenge for players like him is the nature of training camp and no exhibition season, you can't really get the kinks out, you can't make the adjustments, you can't make the mistakes in those games that don't matter and then have it cleaned up by the time you're playing for real.”. The Toronto Maple Leafs assigned Mikko Lehtonen to the taxi squad while recalling Kenny Agostino, per CapFriendly. Rubins – Hollowell At first Lehtonen had seemed a lock to dress for Toronto on opening night, but days before Keefe shuffled him from a top-six spot on the Leafs’ blueline to the team’s taxi squad, citing concern over whether the KHL import was ready for the demands of an NHL contest. Edmonton Oilers oli päässyt taalaliigassa hurjaan liitoon, kun se oli voittanut ennen Toronto Maple Leafs -kohtaamisia 13 ottelusta peräti 11. Mirtle’s take: This gives Toronto a little more goaltending depth and will allow prospect Joseph Woll to be with the Marlies instead of sitting around on the taxi squad. The Leafs acquired Galchenyuk from Carolina for minor-league depth defenceman David Warsofsky and former second-round pick Egor Korshkov, who is over in the KHL this year. Saints to forfeit sixth-round pick in 2022 draft for COVID-19 violations. And then we don't want too much time to elapse before he gets in a game. TORONTO, ON - FEBRUARY 22: Mikko Lehtonen #46 of the Toronto Maple Leafs skates with the puck against the Calgary Flames during an NHL game at … Galchenyuk’s making a little more than double that, but it’s not as if the Leafs are committing an extra $1 million here. (Jeff Curry / USA Today), Alex Galchenyuk. Maple Leafs trade deadline news: Mikko Lehtonen traded to Columbus for goalie Veini Vehvilainen. I think, at the same time, we’ve got a number of other people in the organization that didn’t get the opportunity even that Mikko had here this season that (the trade will) open up a little more space and opportunity for (Rasmus Sandin and others). Waivers has been more active than ever this season given the flat salary cap and the presence of the taxi squad, which teams are using to shuttle back and forth bigger contracts to save some money. Him today.” same time, Kyle was able to find a place for Lehtonen! 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