Digging Deep into the 46 Players the Toronto Maple Leafs Signed This Week

CALGARY, AB – MARCH 2: Nick Shore #25 of the Calgary Flames skates against the New York Rangers during an NHL game on March 2, 2018 at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Gerry Thomas/NHLI via Getty Images)

In what has to go down as one of the strangest public relations announcements in NHL history, the Toronto Maple Leafs signed seven players yesterday.

Obviously we knew about some of these already – Nick Shore, Kenny Agostino – but it was nevertheless surprising when the Toronto Maple Leafs announced that they had signed seven players.

While most of these names are either already known or two-way contracts for no-namer players, the surprising pick up of Pontus Aberg was pretty cool.

The reason for not officially announcing contracts until now is pretty obviously to do with the salary cap, which seems to get more complicated by the day, but I’ll leave those details to the nerds – they don’t really concern me. There’s really only so many details about the salary cap a normal person needs to know.

I want to talk about the players

Toronto Maple Leafs Sign Seven

https://twitter.com/MapleLeafs/status/1154058952319127552

So what do we have here?

Let’s dig deep into the Toronto Maple Leafs free agent grab bag and see what we get.