The NHL trade deadline has come and gone and the Maple Leafs have made only a handful of small moves. The roster for their road trip through Florida this week will be the same as the one that went out on the ice and lost to the Hurricanes Saturday.

There’s a lot to work through here. Let’s start with links to our coverage of the actual moves yesterday, including a contract extension for Jake Muzzin.

Maple Leafs get a defenceman on trade deadline day
Maple Leafs trade Jordan Schmaltz for Matt Lorito
Toronto Maple Leafs gain draft pick, lose prospect in three team trade
Dmytro Timashov is claimed by Detroit
Maple Leafs swap Michael Hutchinson to Colorado for Calle Rosen

Here’s our opinion and commentary on the day and the notes from Kyle Dubas’ meeting with the press.

Back to Excited Episode 94: Trade Deadline Recap
It’s Time to Hit the Reset Button on This Season
Kyle Dubas speaks in post-deadline press conference

Tyson Barrie was not traded yesterday despite several days of speculation by the hockey insiders that a deal was in the works  and would likely be done with the Canucks. At the end of the day, Barrie is still here. His contract will end on June 30, and I suppose we anticipate he will walk away from the team the very next day to play somewhere else. Thus ends Kyle Dubas’ Tyson Barrie experiment.

As mentioned above, the Leafs are on a swing through Florida this week, playing the Lightning tonight and the Panthers on Thursday. Obviously important games, even in the sense that “they are all important now.”

We’ll have a preview of tonight’s game posted later this morning.

Other Teams Trades

Golden Knights begin road to unknown after trading for Robin Lehner - Knights On Ice
If you thought it was confusing before, it’s about to get more weird.

Buffalo Sabres acquire Wayne Simmonds - Die By The Blade
Buffalo nabs veteran forward for next-to-nothing.

Penguins add forwards Conor Sheary and Evan Rodrigues for Dominik Kahun - PensBurgh
An interesting reshuffling trade for the Pens who are tweaking their forward group today.

Sharks trade Patrick Marleau to Penguins - Fear The Fin
Who thought we’d say goodbye to Mr. Shark twice?

Lightning trade for Barclay Goodrow - Raw Charge
Barclay Goodrow. I seriously went “Who?”

Hurricanes acquire Vatanen from Devils, Skjei from Rangers - Canes Country
With minutes to go until the deadline, the Hurricanes closed two deals to acquire a pair of defensemen.

Panthers trade center Vincent Trocheck to Hurricanes - Litter Box Cats
Erik Haula, Lucas Wallmark, Chase Priskie and Eetu Luostarinen are the return

Capitals Trade Christian Djoos to the Ducks for Daniel Sprong - Japers' Rink
This is the loosest the Djoos has ever been.

Oilers Acquire Tyler Ennis From Ottawa - The Copper & Blue
Holland makes second successful deal on deadline day.

Senators Trade Pageau to Islanders For Massive Haul - Silver Seven
Ottawa gets a 1st and a 2nd this year, and a conditional 3rd in 2022.

Flames Acquire Derek Forbort from LA - Matchsticks and Gasoline
[SPECIES: Obligatory GIF below]

Other News

There was only one NHL game last night and a few Ottawa Senators were there to play in it. Literally only a few. They were short skaters because of all the trades and waiting for call-ups to arrive.

Seldo came up with the headline pun, by the way. Don’t take your anger out on me. Send all complaint letters to “Attention: Commenter Relations, PPP Kitten Ranch and Pun Factory GmbH & co. KG, Chemical Solvents Processing Centre Building 2, Sub-basement 3, Disputed Border Zone, Antarctica”

What are your thoughts on this trade deadline?

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WTF KYLE?130
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