The Toronto Maple Leafs Add a Penalty Kill Specialist
The NHL Exchange Due date was a really calm day for the Toronto Maple Leafs as the as it were exchange common supervisor Brad Treliving completed came right within the final minutes.
The Toronto Maple Leafs procured 24-year ancient Connor Dewar from the Minnesota Wild in trade for their claim fourth circular choose within the 2026 NHL Passage Draft.
Dewar may be a previous third circular choose by the Wild from the 2018 draft (Rasmus Sandin draft) after a 38-goal, 68-point season with the Everett Silvertips.
The Pas, Manitoba local was one of the substitute captains for the Silvertips that season and wrapped up moment on the group with 26-points in 22 playoff recreations making a difference his club to the WHL Championship where the group would lose in six recreations to the Quick Current Broncos.
The Toronto Maple Leafs Include a Punishment Murder Master
In his to begin with post draft season, Dewar would be named captain of the Silvertips and wrapped up with 81-points in 59 diversions. The 5’10” center would turn professional in 2019-20 investing two seasons within the American Hockey Association with the Iowa Wild some time recently fighting for an NHL spot in 2021-22 and getting to be a Minnesota Wild regular last year.
Dewar is averaging somewhat over a 11-minutes a night this season with the Wild with more than two minutes a night being on the punishment slaughter. The Sportsnet board expressed he was a solid skater and physical player, which his stats page shows he has as of now dished out about 100 hits this season which would be among the pioneers of the Maple Leafs advances.
The previous Wild center comes with 173 diversions of NHL encounter amassing 18-goals and 38-points. He is within the last year of a two-year deal that he marked within the summer of 2022 that comes with a cap hit of $800,000. He will ended up a limited free specialist this summer with arbitration rights which the administration will have to be qualify him at $892,500.
Amid Brad Treliving’s media accessibility after the due date had past, he expressed that Dewar was protectively dependable and competitive.
The Maple Leafs will presently have a log stick on the fourth line with the as it were certainty being David Kämpf. Dewar will compete with Pontus Holmberg, Noah Gregor and Ryan Reaves for getting into the line-up. In a perfect world, Dewar will discover himself next to Kämpf and Holmberg.
Due to the later battles on the punishment murder you’ve got to assume that the unused expansion will have the upper hand on Reaves and Gregor. In a physical amusement on Thursday night, Reaves was about imperceptible letting his littler partners handle the unpleasant stuff.