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Peca signed a one-year, $2.5 million deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday. The 32-year-old Toronto native made $3.99 million last season with Edmonton when he recorded nine goals and 14 assists in 71 regular-season games and six goals and five assists in 24 playoff games. "My willingness to play in Toronto goes beyond being from Toronto," Peca said. "It's recognizing an organization that prides itself on wanting to win." |
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Peca has 160 goals and 234 assists in 693 career games spanning 11 seasons. The veteran center has twice won the Selke Trophy as the NHL's top defensive forward. Peca spent only one season with the Oilers after being traded from the New York Islanders on Aug. 3 for Mike York and a fourth-round draft pick. |
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Wellwood signed a two-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday. The 22-year-old center had 11 goals and 34 assists in 81 games for Toronto last season, ranking ninth in scoring among rookies. |
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Toronto re-signed Ondrus to a two-year contract on Friday. Terms were not disclosed. The right wing had 18 penalty minutes in 22 games. Ondrus played 53 games in the AHL, recording 12 goals and 29 points. |
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Raycroft signed a three-year, $6 million contract with Toronto on Tuesday, after being acquired by the Maple Leafs last month. The 26-year-old goalkeeper will make $1.8 million next season, $2 million in 2007-08 and $2.2 in 2008-09. Raycroft was 8-19-2 with a 3.71 goals-against average and .879 save percentage for Boston last season before being traded to the Maple Leafs at the NHL draft in exchange for goalie prospect Tuukka Rask. |
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Raycroft spent his first five seasons with the Bruins, going 43-46-10 with a 2.62 GAA. He won the Calder Trophy as the NHL's top rookie in 2003-04 when he posted a 2.05 GAA and .926 save percentage. The Maple Leafs did not pick up the option on starting goalie Ed Belfour last week. |
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Gill signed a three-year, $6.3 million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. |
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Gill, who made just under $1.6 million last season, had one goal, nine assists and 124 penalty minutes in 80 games with the Boston Bruins. The 31-year-old native of Concord, Mass., has 20 goals and 77 assists in 626 career games, all with the Bruins. |
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Kubina agreed to terms on a four-year, $20 million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. |
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Kubina had five goals and 33 assists for Tampa Bay last season, his eighth with the team. The 29-year-old defenseman, who made $2.58 million in 2005-06, added a goal and an assist in five playoff games. |
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Toronto bought out Domi's contract on Friday to help create cap room, meaning the 36-year-old enforcer will become a free agent. He had five goals and 11 assists last season, but didn't fight as much as in the past. Domi is the Maple Leafs all-time leader in penalty minutes and is third in NHL history with 3,515. |
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Toronto re-signed Pohl to a two-year contract on Wednesday, keeping the 27-year-old center in the mix for playing time. Pohl, who was acquired from St. Louis last August, had three goals and an assist in seven games for the Maple Leafs last season. |
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McCabe and the Maple Leafs agreed to a new five-year contract on Thursday that will reportedly pay the standout defenseman between $5.5 million and $6 million per year. He was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent on Saturday. McCabe was third among NHL defensemen this season with 19 goals and 68 points, both career-highs. |
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McCabe has 95 goals and 243 assists in 781 career games. He's also spent time with the New York Islanders, Vancouver and Chicago. |
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The Bruins traded Raycroft on Saturday to the Toronto Maple Leafs for the rights to goalie prospect Tuukka Rask. Raycroft won the Calder Trophy as the NHL's top rookie in 2004 when he was 29-18-9 with a 2.05 goals-against average. However, hampered by a right knee injury and inconsistent play, he struggled this past season and went just 8-19-2 with a 3.71 GAA. |
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Raycroft will get a chance to start with the Maple Leafs, who aren't expected to exercise a contract option for next year on 41-year-old Ed Belfour. Belfour had back surgery during the 2005-06 season and went just 22-22-4 with a 3.29 GAA. |
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Kilger was re-signed by Toronto to a $2.7 million, three-year contract on Monday. The Maple Leafs' forward, who would have become an unrestricted free agent this summer, has a career-high 17 goals and 11 assists in 78 games this season. |
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Sundin scored four goals and had two assists in Tuesday's 6-5 overtime win over the Panthers. The Maple Leafs' center was one short of his career high of five goals, set March 4, 1992. |
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Sundin has scored in three straight games and has 27 goals and 44 assists in 66 contests this season. |
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Tucker ended a 16-game scoring drought with two goals in the Maple Leafs' 3-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Wednesday. The win moved Toronto within six points of Tampa Bay for eighth place in the Eastern Conference. |
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Tucker has a career-high 26 goals this season to go along with 25 assists in 67 games, but hadn't scored since Feb. 28 against the Washington Capitals. The 31-year-old Toronto winger has 153 goals and 349 points in 676 career games. |
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Allison underwent surgery to repair a broken bone in his left hand, the Maple Leafs said Thursday. The 30-year-old Toronto center will miss the rest of the season as his recovery will take roughly six weeks. |
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Allison finished his first campaign with the Leafs with 17 goals and 43 assists in 66 games. Not bad numbers, but far below the career-high 36 goals and 59 assists he garnered with Boston in 2000-01. |
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Aubin made 28 saves in his second start of the season in the Maple Leafs' 3-2 win over Philadelphia on Tuesday. |
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Aubin, playing in place of the injured Ed Belfour and the struggling Mikael Tellqvist, improved to 2-0-0 with a 2.50 goals-against average since being called up from the AHL on March 14. The 28-year-old goaltender is 65-72-0 with 11 ties and a 2.91 GAA in 170 career games. |
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Peca is hoping to return to the Oilers' lineup during their four-game road trip after missing six games with an injured groin. The Oilers will start their road trip with a game against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday, before facing the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday, and finishing the trip with two games against the Minnesota Wild on Sunday and Tuesday. |
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Peca has scored seven goals and 19 points in 50 games for the Oilers this season. |
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The Toronto Maple Leafs signed defenseman Kaberle to a five-year contract extension through the 2010-11 season. The terms of the agreement were not immediately disclosed. |
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The 27-year-old ranks fifth among defensemen in scoring with six goals and 37 assists in 56 games. Kaberle has 47 career goals and 220 assists since getting drafted in the 1996 draft. |
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Sundin has scored just one goal in 11 January games, but the Toronto star has been more productive of late. He has picked up four assists in the Maple Leafs' last three games. For the month, he has a goal and nine assists. |
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The Leafs could use more production from Sundin. They face Florida Monday in the midst of an eight-game losing streak. For the season, Sundin has 10 goals and 34 points in 38 games. |
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Colaiacovo sustained a concussion and was taken off the ice on a stretcher Monday after his head struck the boards following a collision with the Ottawa Senators' Vaclav Varada. The Maple Leafs' 22-year-old defenseman raised his right thumb to the crowd as he was taken off on a stretcher. |
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Colaiacovo's return from this frightening incident has yet to be determined, though he did travel with the team back to Toronto. He has two goals and five assists in 21 games this season. |
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The Toronto Star reported McCabe, suffering from a groin injury sustained during a 1-0 road loss to the Calgary Flames Jan. 6, will miss Tuesday night's game against the Vancouver Canucks. |
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McCabe has scored 15 goals and 49 points in 42 games for the Maple Leafs this season. |