The Toronto Maple Leafs are acquiring defenceman Darren Raddysh in a sign-and-trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n
Raddysh will sign an eight-year deal as part of the trade with an average annual value above $8 million.<\/p>\n
A late-round pick is believed to be going back to Tampa Bay in the deal, per TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old blueliner had a breakthrough season with the Lightning<\/a> this past year, recording 22 goals and 70 points in 73 games while averaging: 22:42 of ice time.<\/p>\n He added a goal and two points in seven playoff games while averaging 26:06 of ice time as the Lightning bowed out in the first round.<\/p>\n The 6-foot-1, right-shot defenceman was in for a significant raise after playing under a two-year, $1.95 million contract that carried a cap hit of $975,000.<\/p>\n This marks the second change to the blueline already for Maple Leafs John Chayka. He got to work earlier this week, acquiring Emil Andrae<\/a>, along with goaltender Samuel Ersson<\/a> and a third-round pick, from the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> in exchange for goaltender Joseph Woll<\/a> and defenceman Simon Benoit<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dreger reported earlier this week that more likely than not, veteran Morgan Rielly will be traded by the Maple Leafs this off-season and added teams are also checking in on defenceman Jake McCabe as Chayka reshapes the roster.<\/p>\n More details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs are acquiring defenceman Darren Raddysh in a sign-and-trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Raddysh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,267002,95645,3302,74650],"class_list":["post-747160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-darren-raddysh-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478178","tag-tampa-bay-lightning-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-14","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747160","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=747160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}