Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek on the 32 Ideas: The Podcast – Persuading Pettersson episode on the Toronto Maple Leafs, their goaltending, and potential roster crunch, and the Philadelphia Flyers probably in search of some low cost goaltending assist.
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Friedman: “Like this, this Toronto state of affairs, it’s fascinating as we talked about among the D that we expect they could possibly be occupied with and what they’re going to do. However, you recognize, their goalie state of affairs is fascinating.
, Woll was the primary when he received harm. Samsonov seemed prefer it was achieved, he resuscitated his season. Martin Jones, no person would have imagined he would have been the savior earlier than the season, he was. And I actually imagine that one of many causes Toronto’s not gonna put him on waivers is a workforce like Philadelphia.
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To me Philly, what they do within the subsequent week, one of many largest tells might be what they do in purpose. They waived (Cal) Petersen, he cleared. They’ve received (Felix) Sandstrom up, however I feel they might contemplate like a very cheap transfer, in the event that they actually wished to make the playoffs.
Like somebody stated to me in the event that they make an affordable transfer in purpose, like they’re not buying and selling a first-round or a second-round or for a goalie I don’t suppose, but when they might get somebody for a very low decide, that may be an indication that they’re very critical about making the playoffs.
However I feel if Jones ended up on waivers, like that’s the sort of workforce that may declare him. So I feel Toronto is gonna maintain three. I feel they’re effectively conscious of that.
And the opposite factor on this explicit recreation is that (Pontus) Holmberg get waivers he performed his seventieth recreation, so Toronto goes to have a little bit of a roster crunch. And you recognize, there’s solely two guys on the roster now (Matthew) Knies and (Nick) Robertson, who can go all the way down to the minors with out clearing waivers.
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So it’ll be attention-grabbing to see what sort of roster machinations they do however the largest factor is that Woll seemed superb I assumed in his first recreation again.”