the leafs have been busy looking for someone to back up no. 1 man frederik andersen and claimed curtis mcelhinney off waivers from columbus on tuesday. That left them with three healthy starters in the american hockey league and made enroth expendable.
Anaheim was searching for some depth with ahlers dustin tokarski and matt hackett both injured. Enroth will report directly to the san diego gulls.
the 28-year-old swede signed a $750,000, one-year deal with the leafs in late august but fell out of favour quickly with coach mike babcock. He made six appearances for the nhl team, including four starts, and had an .872 save percentage with no wins before being sent to the ahl last month.
asset-wise, the leafs came out ahead with the recent set of moves.
Mcelhinney’s salary is basically a wash with enroth’s – he’s making $800,000 on an expiring deal – and the team acquired him for nothing. Toronto then turned enroth into a late pick while dropping back to 47 total contracts, gaining flexibility ahead of the march 1 trade deadline.
The organization also freed up more opportunity for antoine bibeau and garret sparks to get ahl starts. They are now the only two healthy goalies working out of ricoh coliseum.
veteran jeff glass was released from his professional tryout with the marlies on monday and has since signed an ahl deal with the rockford icehogs. Karri ramo also remains in the picture but is expected to be out another month after recently undergoing a follow-up procedure on his injured left knee.
I wonder whether Anaheim enquired about Sparks or whether Toronto is actually holding onto him...
Or maybe the offer was 5/6th for Sparks...
I'm enjoying the fact that people think a 7th is worth anything. It's the next best thing to future considerations. Just be glad we dumped the guy and picked up a backup for free.
You know, I used to think that 7th rounders were essentially useless. However, a poster on this very forum once put up the following graph that made me rethink my whole position. 7th rounder = good!
I'm enjoying the fact that people think a 7th is worth anything. It's the next best thing to future considerations. Just be glad we dumped the guy and picked up a backup for free.
The best thing is we freed up a roster spot. Draft picks for nothing and the chicks are free.
Why not?Although likely, not all 7ths become worthless.
Lou made Anaheim an offer they couldn't refuse.
We got more for Enroth than we did Holland.
Offering them one of our goalies seem to be something they can't refuse
Toskala, Bernier, Enroth....
Maybe they just can't say no. It's a glitch in the system!
Sparks for Lindholm (C5)
Sounds like the Ducks AHL goalies are injured... so they needed a tender
Still I feel like they didn't have to give up a draft pick, even if it's a 7th rounder, to get one
And somewhere in Sweden Thommie Bergmann does a fist pump