2 of the 5 Worst UFA Signings This Summer Were Ex Toronto Maple Leafs

Ilya Lyubushkin

Another former Leaf makes the list. Lyubushkin signed with the Dallas Stars on a two-year deal with an AAV of 3.25 million dollars.

Lyubushkin was traded from Anaheim to the Leafs at the deadline and the Leafs got him making less than the league minimum against the cap due to having double salary retention in the deal.

Even then, I wasn't excited about the trade.

Lyubushkin is a stay-at-home defenseman who scares me with the puck on his stick but is another physical presence on the ice.

It is a shorter term deal which makes it more tolerable than the Edmundson deal and Lyubushkin is also a right-hand shot. Typically, you have to pay more for the right-hand shot defenseman.

The Stars lost Tanev in the offseason who was spectacular for them after acquiring him last deadline.

While it was always going to be tough to replace him, this Lyubushkin deal as well as another signing they made which I will get to was head-scratching.

The Stars are a very well-run organization but outside of the one-year deal worth three million dollars they gave to Matt Duchene, their offseason has been head-scratching.