For better or worse the trade deadline is now in the rearview mirror and while the results of the effort or lack thereof won’t fully be known until the after the last playoff game, the moves made by Brad Treliving and Co.
The trade deadline cannot come fast enough. By the time 3pm ET on Friday hits we will have discussed every mid-level defensive talent in the league on a lottery bound team.
In this post, I’m going to look at the eight Toronto Maple Leafs defensemen who have played for the team this season. I’ll leave out John Klingberg, whose season was cut short with an injury.
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John Klingberg will still be out for the remainder of the season, but the latest edition of Insider Trading revealed that the Swedish defenceman is working his way back to the NHL for next year.
No one wants to see someone’s year come to a close with season ending surgery and with a giant question mark around if their career will continue at all.
The John Klingberg experience has ended after Brad Treliving revealed to the media that the defenceman will have hip surgery that will shut him down for the rest of the campaign.
John Klingberg’s tenure with the Toronto Maple Leafs looks to be over.
Klingberg was moved to long-term injured reserve at the end of November without disclosing the injury at the time. He will now miss the remainder of his first season with the Maple Leafs
For a variety of reasons, this week could prove to be the perfect time for the Maple Leafs to finally pull the trigger on acquiring a defenceman. Most importantly, in addition to the whole salary cap thing, John Klingberg and his future this season is firmly attached to this entire situation.
That’s the quintessential recipe for a Toronto Maple Leafs victory in 2023-24. It’s exciting. It looks appetizing when you watch the highlight reel. But you don’t want to look too closely at all the individual ingredients. The calories begin to look awfully empty.
Matt Larkin was joined by Steven Ellis to talk about John Klingberg’s injury on the latest episode of "Daily Faceoff Live."
In a corresponding move, the Toronto Maple Leafs have recalled forward Alex Steeves from the AHL’s Toronto Marlies.
The Toronto Maple Leafs placed defenseman John Klingberg on long-term injured reserve (LTIR) on Thursday.
The Toronto Maple Leaf have placed defenseman John Klingberg on LTIR. With the move, and after placing Klingberg’s $4.15M on LTI, the team now has five players and $16,962,500 in cap hit on LTIR.
The New York Rangers will go all in for a Stanley Cup this season. They’re really close to being the league favorite to win it all, even when they lost some firepower in the offseason with Patrick Kane departing and having to find a new backup goalie.
John Klingberg’s struggles since joining the Leafs have been well-documented. He was brought in to provide some additional offence on the backend but his defensive shortcomings have overshadowed any positive impacts he may have provided.
According to Chris Johnston of The Athletic and the Leafs Report podcast, Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman John Klingberg might not return to the team this season.
John Klingberg, the defenseman acquired by the Toronto Maple Leafs just 13 games ago, found himself as the seventh defenseman during the team’s recent practice session on Thursday.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are not getting enough out of defenseman John Klingberg and at a time of desperate need, things need to change in a hurry. Klingberg wasn’t signed to a one-year $4.1 million contract to win the Norris.
In the ever-evolving chess game of the NHL, one-year deals have become a regular occurrence. In Toronto, the team signed a handful of them this summer.
The Toronto Maple Leafs received encouraging news as defenseman John Klingberg returned to practice after recovering from an upper-body injury sustained on September 27.
The John Klingberg signing could prove to be a massive steal for the Toronto Maple Leafs. That is, of course, if the 31-year-old blue liner, who’s coming off arguably his worst NHL season, can somehow re-discover his game again.
If ever there was a time when a needy team found a needy player, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ recent signing of defenseman John Klingberg on July 1 was such an example. Klingberg is an elite NHL blueliner.
Klingberg came over from the Ducks at the trade deadline and has a goal and three assists in nine games since joining the Wild.
One of the biggest defensemen on the trade market has been moved at the last minute.
While this development won’t have any impact on the Ducks’ long-gone playoff hopes, it could have an effect on the trade deadline.
Last season, Klingberg posted 47 points (6 goals, 41 assists) in 74 regular-season games.
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