The Toronto Maple Leafs are making strikes, as they lately acquired Dakota Joshua in a commerce with the Vancouver Canucks for a 2028 fourth-round choose.
Joshua has had a stable profession, and final season he had seven objectives and 14 factors in 57 video games. He missed the start of the season after having surgical procedure for testicular most cancers. He had the most effective season of his profession two years in the past, the place he recorded 18 objectives, 32 factors, and 245 hits in 63 video games. He additionally had 4 objectives and eight factors in 13 playoff video games.
He’s signed by the 2027-28 season and has a $3.25 million cap hit, which supplies the Maple Leafs some flexibility.
Joshua was initially drafted by the Maple Leafs in 2014 with the 128th general. They then traded his rights to the St. Louis Blues for future issues.
The Maple Leafs simply made a commerce over per week in the past, buying Henry Thrun from the San Jose Sharks and parting methods with veteran ahead Ryan Reaves. Thrun didn’t anticipate the commerce, however it looks as if he’s excited to show that he might be an vital piece to his staff.
“It was undoubtedly shocking,” Thrun stated by way of Nick Barden of The Hockey Information. “However as quickly as he instructed me the place I used to be traded, it was undoubtedly a pleasant method for that cellphone name to wrap up.”
Thrun recorded 25 factors throughout 119 NHL video games and averaged almost 19 minutes an evening with the Sharks, however at occasions, he felt like he wasn’t capable of present his full vary of abilities.
“I used to be very lucky to get an opportunity to interrupt in there and play a bunch of video games, and play plenty of minutes,” Thrun stated. “However at occasions, I feel it’s slightly difficult to be put in positions to maneuver the puck and become involved, and clearly there’s plenty of defending, which I used to be capable of get some expertise with.”
With the Maple Leafs, the hope is that he can really play his recreation and be free, in addition to Joshua.