Rasmus Sandin joins the Maple Leafs Taxi Squad

Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty ImagesYesterday, while the Leafs hosted the Jets in Toronto, they added two players from the AHL Marlies to the Taxi Squad.

The Marlies are currently not playing due to a COVID-19 concern of unidentified type affecting an unidentified player, and Nick Robertson spent one day on the NHL’s COVID protocol list as a precaution, since he’d recently been at Marlies practices.

The two players recalled to the squad must have been cleared to make this move to the Leafs practices — the main purpose of the Taxi Squad is to have the players available to practice and go on road trips. The moves that left the Taxi Squad currently at the maximum of six are: Rasmus Sandin and…