{"id":746281,"date":"2026-06-19T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746281\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:19:09","slug":"maple-leafs-working-on-sign-and-trade-for-lightnings-darren-raddysh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746281\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs working on sign-and-trade for Lightning&#8217;s Darren Raddysh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Chayka is closing in on his first blockbuster as general manager of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs are working on a sign-and-trade for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"tampa-bay-lightning\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/darren-raddysh\/5852aa1f-ee0b-45c7-9d44-ed34c375c464\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"5852aa1f-ee0b-45c7-9d44-ed34c375c464\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Darren Raddysh<\/a>, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reported in the early hours of Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Raddysh, 30, had a breakout season with the Lightning in 2025-26, posting 22 goals and 70 points. He was also a plus-21 and averaged 22:42 of ice time. All were career highs.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto native was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1. <\/p>\n<p>Raddysh was signed by the Lightning as a free agent on July 28, 2021, and has career totals of 35 goals and 108 assists for 143 points in 249 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Chayka is closing in on his first blockbuster as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-746281","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\/746281","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=746281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}