The Toronto Maple Leafs traded Denis Malgin this week in exchange for Dryden Hunt.
There’s no secret that Denis Malgin was a Toronto Maple Leafs great.
Sorry, let me rephrase that. He was a Toronto Maple Leafs preseason great, lighting up the league against out-of-shape and AHLers in September and early October this year.
This was the second stint for Malgin with the Leafs and it basically went the same way the first one did. The undersized winger couldn’t score at the NHL-level and was ultimately traded away for a fourth-liner.
Instead of sticking with Malgin and hoping that he could produce some offense, Dubas made the right decision to send him packing for a player who can provide an impact, in a different way than scoring.