Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek on the 32 Ideas: The Podcast – Persuading Pettersson episode on the Toronto Maple Leafs, their goaltending, and potential roster crunch, and the Philadelphia Flyers probably searching for some low cost goaltending assist.
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Friedman: “Like this, this Toronto scenario, it’s fascinating as we talked about a number of the D that we expect they may very well be thinking about and what they’re going to do. However, you realize, their goalie scenario is fascinating.
You recognize, Woll was the primary when he obtained harm. Samsonov seemed prefer it was completed, he resuscitated his season. Martin Jones, no person would have imagined he would have been the savior earlier than the season, he was. And I actually imagine that one of many causes Toronto’s not gonna put him on waivers is a group like Philadelphia.
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To me Philly, what they do within the subsequent week, one of many largest tells will probably be what they do in objective. They waived (Cal) Petersen, he cleared. They’ve obtained (Felix) Sandstrom up, however I believe they might contemplate like a very cheap transfer, in the event that they actually wished to make the playoffs.
Like somebody stated to me in the event that they make a cheap transfer in objective, like they’re not buying and selling a first-round or a second-round or for a goalie I don’t suppose, but when they might get somebody for a very low decide, that might be an indication that they’re very critical about making the playoffs.
However I believe if Jones ended up on waivers, like that’s the sort of group that might declare him. So I believe Toronto is gonna maintain three. I believe they’re properly conscious of that.
And the opposite factor on this specific recreation is that (Pontus) Holmberg get waivers he performed his seventieth recreation, so Toronto goes to have a little bit of a roster crunch. And you realize, there’s solely two guys on the roster now (Matthew) Knies and (Nick) Robertson, who can go all the way down to the minors with out clearing waivers.
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So it’ll be attention-grabbing to see what sort of roster machinations they do however the largest factor is that Woll seemed excellent I believed in his first recreation again.”
