{"id":612692,"date":"2026-04-18T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612692\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:09:10","slug":"maple-leafs-place-michael-pezzetta-on-waivers-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612692\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs Place Michael Pezzetta On Waivers \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Maple Leafs placed forward Michael Pezzetta<\/a> on waivers on Friday per PuckPedia<\/a>. This move would allow Pezzetta to join the Toronto Marlies for the Calder Cup Playoffs, if he clears the waiver wire. He was in the minor leagues until mid-March and filled a depth role for Toronto through the last few weeks of the season.<\/p>\n

Pezzetta played in 37 games with the Marlies before a March 12th call-up. His season was limited by injuries in November and January. He finished the year with four goals, 10 points, and 52 penalty minutes. It was a quiet year in Pezzetta\u2019s return to the AHL, after he spent the last three seasons in a full-time role with the Montreal Canadiens. He was a nightly fixture of Montreal\u2019s 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons and combined 27 points and 136 penalty minutes in 124 games. That low-scoring fell to zero in 25 games of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n

That bumped Pezzetta to free agency this summer, where he signed a two-year, $1.6MM contract<\/a> with the Maple Leafs. He began the year in the AHL and quickly stood out as a bruiser. Pezzetta recorded 37 penalty minutes in the first 17 games of the Marlies season. He will return to that role on a Marlies team that clinched the last playoff spot from the AHL\u2019s North Division. The Marlies split their games without Pezzetta this season \u2013 26 wins and 25 losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs placed forward Michael Pezzetta on waivers on Friday per PuckPedia. This move would allow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[6066,49,48,21685,448,82,746,4584,48340],"class_list":["post-612692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-michael-pezzetta","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-transactions","tag-waivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612692","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=612692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}