Maple Leafs Join NHL Trade Deadline Flurry By Acquiring Joel Edmundson From The Capitals – News18

The Toronto Maple Leafs joined the NHL commerce deadline occasion Thursday by buying defenseman Joel Edmundson from the Washington Capitals.

Toronto despatched a 3rd-spherical choose on this 12 months’s draft, initially the New York Islanders’ choice, and a 2025 fifth to Washington for the rugged defender. Edmundson offers the workforce some wanted toughness on the blue line, at the same time as a left shot, which it already has loads of.

The Capitals are retaining half of what’s left of Edmundson’s wage after Montreal already has 50% from a commerce final offseason. That makes him fairly the discount for the Leafs at a cap hit of $875,000, simply above the league minimal.

Edmundson, 30, helped the St. Louis Blues win the Stanley Cup in 2019 and is a pending free agent. He has skated greater than 16 minutes a recreation this season with Washington.

Earlier within the week, Edmundson appeared content material with the potential for being traded to a contender, although his focus on the time was on serving to the Capitals.

“Everyone wants to win,” he mentioned. “I want to win every year, so I think once you get that feeling once, you just want it to happen every year and when you see other teams win it, you just kind of get jealous and frustrated. So yeah, we all want to win it every year.”

Toronto’s transfer for Edmundson comes after a flurry of trades made Wednesday by the New York Rangers, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers, Vegas Golden Knights and Edmonton Oilers. Nine of FanDuel Sportsbook’s prime 11 Cup favorites, have added a minimum of one vital participant because the All-Star break, going again to Vancouver getting Elias Lindholm and Winnipeg buying and selling for Sean Monahan igniting the wheeling and dealing within the Western Conference and Dallas buying Chris Tanev.

Lindholm, a pending free agent nonetheless with out an extension, has been talked about to be dealt once more this week, because the Canucks think about making an attempt to get a scoring winger — probably Jake Guentzel from Pittsburgh or Tyler Toffoli from New Jersey. With these gamers, Washington’s Nic Dowd and St. Louis’ Pavel Buchnevich amongst these obtainable, Boston Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes additionally may very well be energetic earlier than the three p.m. EST deadline Friday.

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