Leafs Sign Calle Jarnkrok
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Another day and another Leafs signing,
Friday night the Leafs announced that that had signed Forward Calle Jarnkrok to
a four-year contract that carries an average annual value of 2.1 million
dollars. Calle began last season as a member of the Seattle Kraken after being
claimed from Nashville. As a member of the Kraken, he would collect a
respectable 26 points in 49 games played. He would then be traded to the
Calgary Flames at the deadline which I guess you could say things didn’t work
well in his favor because after joining the flames he would manage only 4
assists in 17 games but in 12 playoff games he would manage 4 points.
So, what does Jarnkrok bring to the Maple
Leafs? Well, with Ilya Mikheyev leaving and signing with Vancouver Calle
Jarnkrok will replace him and will be a nice addition to the teams bottom six
forward group whether it’s as a center or on the wing. Calle’s strength is the
defensive side of the game, he is like David Kompf he will put points up but
when there is a faceoff in Toronto’s end of the rink he will likely be on the
ice because once the puck is out of the defensive zone Jarnkrok’s agility and
speed will benefit the Leafs and their transitional style of play.
While reading up Calle Jarnkrok and the
Leafs cap situation I realized that in yesterday’s article I made a mistake
when I said that after signing Jordie Benn and Victor Mete that the Leafs only
had $560,000 in cap space. The two contracts that were signed are both one-way
deals which I was correct about I didn’t realize that at this moment that Benn
and Mete are listed as being in the minors. So, Toronto’s cap space after this
Calle Jarnkrok signing is actually $756,884 which still means the team will
have to move a player or two out to gain some more breathing room with the cap
which in my opinion means the likes of Justin Holl or Alex Kerfoot or who knows
maybe both could be on their way out but regardless someone is surely leaving.
That’s all for this quick write up if
anything else happens over the weekend I’ll write about it, thanks as always
for reading.
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