Toronto Maple Leafs forward Calle Jarnkrok was placed on Long-Term Injured Reserve (LTIR) at the beginning of the season, so he'll miss the first 11 games but he could be traded before we know it.
If you're looking at the Toronto Maple Leafs roster right now, where does Jankrok fit?
The Leafs fourth-line looks set and can't get any more expensive, while Nick Robertson is currently locked into the third-line right wing position. At $2.1M for Jarnkrok versus $875K for Robertson, I'd have a hard time putting Jarnkrok back in that spot.
The Leafs barely have a penny to spare when it comes to the salary-cap right now, so adding Jarnkrok to the picture gets very tricky right now.
The Leafs could move Timothy Liljegren's $3M contract to make room, but I'd much rather have defensive help over a 33-year-old depth right winger, so I doubt that happens.
I don't have anything against what Jarnkrok brings but in a salary-cap world, you can't afford to have multiple players making $2M plus in the bottom-six, especially when you have better forwards who are less expensive. At this point, Jarnkrok's injury has forced him to become the odd-man out and he's bound to get traded ASAP.
As such, here are three trade destinations for Calle Jarnkrok.