Fansided · May 5, 2020
Toronto Maple Leafs: Don’t Be So Quick To Assume Lehtonen Makes Dermott Expendable
The Toronto Maple Leafs scored a great victory yesterday.
With competition from many other teams, the Toronto Maple Leafs signed KHL free agent Mikko Lehtonen, who is the best defenseman in the KHL and its sixth leading scorer overall, this past season.
At the very least, Lehtonen will provide the Leafs with a solid 3rd pairing player making under a million dollars per year.
That’s at the very least. He definitely has upside which could see the Leafs suddenly having one of the better groups of blue-liners in the NHL.