{"id":773988,"date":"2026-07-01T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773988\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:16:08","slug":"bobrovsky-signs-3-year-contract-with-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773988\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobrovsky signs 3-year contract with Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobrovsky helped the Panthers win the Stanley Cup in back-to-back seasons in 2024 and 2025, defeating the Edmonton Oilers each time, going 32-15 with a 2.26 GAA, .910 save percentage and five shutouts in 47 playoff games in that span. Florida also made the Cup Final in 2023, losing to the Vegas Golden Knights in six games.<\/p>\n<p>Bobrovsky signed a seven-year, $70 million contract with the Panthers on July 1, 2019, and his 201 regular-season wins in that time are third in the NHL behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/andrei-vasilevskiy-8476883\" title=\"Andrei Vasilevskiy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> of the Tampa Bay Lightning (228) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-hellebuyck-8476945\" title=\"Connor Hellebuyck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Hellebuyck<\/a>\u00a0of the Winnipeg Jets (228).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Signed by the Philadelphia Flyers as an undrafted free agent on May 6, 2010, Bobrovsky is 456-266-58 with a 2.61 GAA, .912 save percentage and 53 shutouts in 806 regular-season games (791 starts) for the Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets and Panthers, ranking seventh in NHL history in wins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bobrovsky is 61-50 with a 2.71 GAA, .907 save percentage and six shutouts in 117 playoff games (111 starts).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He won the Vezina Trophy as the best goalie in the NHL in 2012-13 and 2016-17.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Maple Leafs also signed forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/colton-sissons-8476925\" title=\"Colton Sissons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colton Sissons<\/a> to a two-year, $8.5 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>Sissons, 32, had 11 points (six goals, five assists) in 66 regular-season games for the Vegas Golden Knights last season and eight points (two goals, six assists) in 22 playoff games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Nashville Predators in the second round (No. 50) of the 2012 NHL Draft, Sissons has 232 points (101 goals, 131 assists) in 756 regular-season games for the Predators and Golden Knights and 33 points (12 goals, 21 assists) in 93 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs finished second-to-last in the Eastern Conference last season with 32-36-14 record and won the No. 1 selection in the NHL Draft Lottery on May 5, which they used to select forward Gavin McKenna. On May 7, Toronto hired John Chayka as general manager and team legend Mats Sundin as executive adviser, hockey operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those were the first moves in an offseason of massive change in Toronto.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On June 16, Toronto acquired goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/samuel-ersson-8481035\" title=\"Samuel Ersson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Ersson<\/a>\u00a0and defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/emil-andrae-8482126\" title=\"Emil Andrae\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emil Andrae<\/a> in a trade with the Philadelphia Flyers for goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/joseph-woll-8479361\" title=\"Joseph Woll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Woll<\/a>\u00a0and defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/simon-benoit-8481122\" title=\"Simon Benoit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Benoit<\/a>. (Ersson was then traded to the Ottawa Senators on Friday for a fifth-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft). The next day, the Maple Leafs hired Jim Hiller as their coach, replacing Craig Berube (fired May 13).<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, Toronto acquired defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/darren-raddysh-8478178\" title=\"Darren Raddysh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Raddysh<\/a>\u00a0in a trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning for a fifth-round pick in the 2026 draft. As part of the sign-and-trade move, Raddysh signed an eight-year contract with the Lightning before being sent to the Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs also traded goalie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dennis-hildeby-8483710\" title=\"Dennis Hildeby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Hildeby<\/a> to the Tampa Bay Lightning for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicholas-paul-8477426\" title=\"Nick Paul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Paul<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bobrovsky helped the Panthers win the Stanley Cup in back-to-back seasons in 2024 and 2025, defeating the Edmonton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-773988","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\/773988","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=773988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}