Dave Pagnotta of The Fourth Interval was on with Steve Kouleas and Anthony Stewart on Sirius XM NHL Community Radio and was requested what’s subsequent for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Is it only a high six winger the Leafs are after?
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NHL Rumors: Toronto Maple Leafs GM on Filling the Prime-Six Gap
Anthony Stewart: “What are your ideas on Toronto, and do they discover that top-six winger that has been eluding them to date.”
Dave Pagnotta: “Yeah. I imply, that’s subsequent on their listing. They’re one of many groups which can be beginning to, or had been beginning to go searching the commerce market extra so than the free agent market to herald a high six winger so as to add to their group. In a phrase, over the past couple of days, began to counsel that a few of these free brokers both had been enthusiastic about going to the Leafs or exploring different choices.
Clearly, we noticed (Brock) Boeser keep in Vancouver, (Brad) Marchand stays in Florida, and so forth, so on. So that they began to discover the commerce market. So that they took loads of give attention to depth items. Proper now, from a free agent standpoint, I believe something that they attempt to do, from an affect aspect of issues, they’re going to proceed to discover the commerce market to see what’s on the market and accessible to them.
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I believe they poked round on (Nikolaj) Ehlers. I’m unsure the place that’s gone, to be completely frank. However I do know that they’ve been beginning to poke round, look to see what choices could also be accessible to them as they attempt to fish for a top-six man, a winger to herald.
The issue is that they don’t have a ton of belongings. And so they may sit again and see if a possibility pops up afterward in the summertime, or anticipate subsequent season and see if a child like Easton Cowan can declare a kind of spots internally.”
NHLRumors.com Be aware: The Toronto Maple Leafs proceed to search for a top-six winger even after the addition of Matias Maccelli from the Utah Mammoth. Toronto is related to a few of the remaining unrestricted free brokers, together with Jack Roslovic. To not point out, although he doesn’t match the top-six function, there are rumblings that they wish to deliver again Max Pacioretty on their backside six. However because the previous saying goes, high six forwards don’t develop on timber, and costs stay steep. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see how the Maple Leafs fulfill this want.
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