{"id":510573,"date":"2026-02-28T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510573\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:31:08","slug":"nhl-trade-buzz-stamkos-says-zero-chance-he-waives-no-movement-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510573\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Trade Buzz: Stamkos says ‘zero’ chance he waives no movement clause"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n

Scott Laughton<\/a>\u00a0said he wants to remain with the Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n

Toronto (27-23-9) is last in the Atlantic Division, eight points behind the Boston Bruins for the second wild card in the Eastern conference.<\/p>\n

“I want to be in the fight with these guys,” Laughton told reporters on Saturday. “I’ve loved my time here and I’ve loved playing with these guys, so I want to be in the fight with these guys and continue to move forward.”<\/p>\n

Laughton was acquired by Toronto in a trade with the Philadelphia Flyers on March 7, 2025 along with two draft picks for forward prospect\u00a0Nikita Grebenkin<\/a>\u00a0and a conditional first-round draft pick.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been in the rumors since as long as I can remember in Philly since I signed my deal so it’s always there,” Laughton said. “You try and clear your mind but at the end of the day it is your life, it’s where you live, it’s where your family is and it is different when you have a family now. I’m just going to continue to try to play my game, help these guys as best I can and hopefully I’m here.”<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old forward is in the final year of a five-year contract ($3 million average annual value) he signed with the Flyers on April 12, 2021, and can become an unrestricted free agent after the season.<\/p>\n

He has 11 points (eight goals, three assists) in 41 games this season and is averaging 13:42 of ice time per game.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t really changed much,” Laughton said. “I take pride in trying to be consistent in every facet of coming into the rink, being positive around the guys. It’s out of our control. It’s in nobody’s control except the staff and we have to go out and do a job and play for each other and hold each other accountable and make it difficult on teams and make it hard for them to come back in games.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs Scott Laughton\u00a0said he wants to remain with the Maple Leafs. Toronto (27-23-9) is last in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-510573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510573","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=510573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}