{"id":190315,"date":"2025-10-04T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/190315\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:00:12","slug":"maple-leafs-forward-david-kampf-clears-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/190315\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs forward David Kampf clears waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kampf cleared waivers on Saturday, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1974536484243099694\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1974536484243099694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move to waive Kampf on Friday came at a curious time after fellow centre Scott Laughton was sidelined week-to-week with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Kampf skated on the third line with Max Domi and Dakota Joshua at practice on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has been with the Maple Leafs for the past four seasons, signing with the team as a free agent ahead of the 2021-22 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Chomutov, Czechia, native tallied five goals and eight assists in 59 games with the Maple Leafs \u2014 all of which were lows in his four seasons with the club.<\/p>\n<p>Over his eight-year career, the six-foot-two, 193-pound forward has 48 goals and 95 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Defenceman William Villeneuve also cleared waivers Saturday allowing him to be assigned to the AHL&#8217;s Toronto Marlies. The Leafs signed the 23-year-old defenceman to a one-year, two-way contract back in August. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kampf cleared waivers on Saturday, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reported. The move to waive Kampf on Friday came at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-190315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}