I said the same about Johnsson playing over Martin, Moore and Leivo... and yet, here we are. Grundstrom was loved by Babcock in training camp and spoke highly of him. He's been great for the Marlies in the 2 games he played and then he sat out last night... Perhaps Mirtle heard something about the Leafs and Grundstrom and is just putting 2 and 2 together.
Johnsson is all ready playing in place of Kadri, technically. Now with Komarov very likely out, they have to play one of the 3 bench warmers or with a Marlies call-up if they don't like their bench warmers.
Johnsson like Kapanen before him played some nhl games after playing the bulk of the year in the AHL. Grundstrom has played 2 AHL games after the bulk of the year on big ice in Sweden. It’s not the same, the leafs have done nothing to show they would bring a player trough this quickly he has played 2 games in NA ice in his career.