{"id":282236,"date":"2025-11-13T17:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282236\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:55:11","slug":"maple-leafs-to-waive-david-kampf-for-purpose-of-contract-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282236\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs to waive David Kampf for purpose of contract termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> will waive the centre on Thursday for purposes of terminating his contract, sources confirm to Sportsnet.<\/p>\n<p>Kampf was previously waived before the season and sent to the AHL&#8217;s Toronto Marlies, where he played four games before stepping away from the team to ponder his future.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, Toronto suspended him without pay on Nov. 2. The Maple Leafs are not currently incurring his $1.25-million buried cap charge while he&#8217;s in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>K\u00e4mpf has another season remaining on the four-year, $9.6-million deal general manager Brad Treliving signed him to in 2023. He\u2019s due a $1.35-million signing bonus on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Across 536 career NHL games with Toronto and the Chicago Blackhawks, the 30-year-old Czech has 143 points (48 goals, 95 assists).<\/p>\n<p>If he clears waivers, he will be eligible to sign with any NHL team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs will waive the centre on Thursday for purposes of terminating his contract, sources confirm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-282236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}