{"id":775773,"date":"2026-07-02T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775773\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:58:11","slug":"duhaime-signs-3-year-contract-with-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775773\/","title":{"rendered":"Duhaime signs 3-year contract with Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandon Duhaime<\/a> signed a three-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old forward, who completed a two-year, $3.7 million contract with the Washington Capitals ($1.85 million average annual value) signed on July 1, 2024, had nine points (four goals, five assists) in 82 games with the Capitals last season.<\/p>\n

The fourth-round pick (No. 106) by the Minnesota Wild in the 2016 NHL Draft, Duhaime has 70 points (33 goals, 37 assists) in 375 regular-season games for the Wild, Colorado Avalanche and Capitals and five points (four goals, one assist) in 33 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n

Duhaime is the sixth player signed by the Maple Leafs since the start of free agency on Wednesday and the 11th player added to the Toronto roster in the past eight weeks.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Maple Leafs signed goalie Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a>\u00a0to a three-year contract and forwards Colton Sissons<\/a>, Teddy Blueger<\/a>, Jack Roslovic<\/a> and Zack MacEwen<\/a>\u00a0to two-year contracts.<\/p>\n

On June 16, Toronto acquired goalie Samuel Ersson<\/a>\u00a0and defenseman Emil Andrae<\/a> in a trade with the Philadelphia Flyers for goalie Joseph Woll<\/a>\u00a0and defenseman 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, who was fired May 13.<\/p>\n

Two days later, Toronto acquired\u00a0defenseman Darren Raddysh<\/a>\u00a0in a trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning for a fifth-round pick in the 2026 NHL 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

The Maple Leafs also acquired forward Nick Paul<\/a> in a trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning for goalie Dennis Hildeby<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Duhaime signed a three-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-775773","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\/775773","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=775773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}