The past 24 hours sure have been a hectic bunch for those in Leafs Land.
First, there was yesterday’s Fedor Gordeev news, as reports began to surface in the mid-afternoon which stated that the former 2017 5th-rounder will be allowed to re-enter this year’s draft after being declined an ELC by the Maple Leafs prior to the June 1st deadline, which was then quickly followed up by Toronto actually trading his signing rights to the Minnesota Wild for a conditional 7th round draft pick in 2020.
A few hours later, word that Nikita Zaitsev had requested a trade filtered out.