The Toronto Maple Leafs may be shopping a defenseman.
According to Nick Kypreos, recently scratched Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Justin Holl is on the market, and earlier in the week, Elliotte Freidman mentioned that Travis Dermott was potentially available.
This is very interesting news, because it very much confirms that the Leafs believe Timothy Liljegren should be a full time NHL player, and because the Leafs lost a pretty good player earlier in the summer to protect Justin Holl in the expansion draft.
Let’s dig in.
Toronto Maple Leafs Expansion Draft
Justin Holl is right handed, cheap for a top four defenseman, and is one of the Leafs only physical defenseman with size (not that he’s overly physical, but in the context of everyone else on the Leafs, save Jake Muzzin, he’s positively Darius Kasperitis).