Recalled/Assigned: Leafs demote Holmberg to Marlies
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Weird choice of "demote". Leafs have done this for years, cap related most of the time.
He's clearly still got a spot on the Leafs. This is likely conditioning.
He's clearly still got a spot on the Leafs. This is likely conditioning.
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More likely, as per the tweet, the Marlies appear to be short handed in the middle, and since he's got no waiver issues, he's been sent down the street to fill in for the night.
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He won't be there for long. As others have said, almost certainly to do with cap and or roster space for a smaller period of time.
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Who’d a thunk Holmberg leading Slafovsky and Wright in scoring with like 19 less GP? 
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Isaac Nootin
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Holmberg just scored the Marlies 3rd goal.
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I've been seeing leaf fans advocating for him to play with the Leafs since pre-season. Is it still perplexing, or maybe he just doesn't have the kind of thing Keefe is looking for...
Against Florida I was thinking how much better the Leafs would be if Holmberg were playing.
He's waivers-exempt, so this has nothing to do with waivers.
The Leafs are in LTIR, so this doesn't accrue any cap space.
He's coming off an injury, and if it were for conditioning they could have made a conditioning loan.
They had a full 23-man roster, and this brings them down to 22.
Adding a body?
Incoming trade?
He's waivers-exempt, so this has nothing to do with waivers.
The Leafs are in LTIR, so this doesn't accrue any cap space.
He's coming off an injury, and if it were for conditioning they could have made a conditioning loan.
They had a full 23-man roster, and this brings them down to 22.
Adding a body?
Incoming trade?
He's looked like he belongs.
BertCorbeau
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Probably a conditioning game .. perhaps coming off of an illness they wanted to him in a game before Saturday. And keep him out of the lineup against the Jets, which they're expecting be a physical game.
He'll be back .. I think Keefe likes him too much.
He'll be back .. I think Keefe likes him too much.
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If Brodie is coming back off IR soon, they needed to send someone down.
TheDoldrums
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He's been our best bottom 6 player full stop. I really don't like the idea of risking him getting hurt in meaningless AHL games, he can work on conditioning in practice.
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Did anything else come out about why Holmberg was sent down? Do the Leafs just want to play Simmonds rather than Holmberg? Is the choice between him and McMann? I’m super confused about the demotion because I thought he gave our bottom 6 a bit of stability and identity.
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Stephen
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Guess they needed to put Dryden Hunt on waivers first?
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So do they move McMann down to the 4th line and put Kerfoot back with Kampf and Engvall? Or does Kerfoot slide over to the wing on the 4th line with Holmberg at center?
I really liked that Kerfoot/Kampf/Engvall line. That means a 4th line of ZAR/Holmberg/McMann which I wonder if Keefe would be comfortable with.
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He was really sick for a good week so they wanted him to get back up to game speed.
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Yikes at Kerfoot on the 4th, cannot afford that cap hit being wasted like that. A change of scenery is in order.
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