The Leafs make another splash ahead of the deadline
If you don’t want to read into the graphs, we don’t blame you, but McCabe played some stellar hockey on a club that is outright tanking.Lafferty is in the midst of the best season of his career, recording 10 goals and 21 points in 51 games with the Blackhawks. The 27-year-old is a right-handed center who generates opportunities with plus-speed and will fortify Toronto’s bottom-six forward corps.
It’s possible Lafferty bumps Zach Aston-Reese out of the lineup and shifts over to the right wing on a line with newly-acquired. There is no certainty that Lafferty will receive playing time, but Toronto now has ample depth in its bottom-six and can test out a few different pairings throughout the March road trip. He is under contract through the 2023-24 season at a reasonable cap hit of $1.15 million.
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