The Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that the hockey club has acquired defenceman Darren Raddysh from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Toronto\u2019s fifth-round selection in the 2026 NHL Draft. Raddysh has signed an eight-year contract extension with the Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thrilled to add a\u00a0defenceman of Darren\u2019s caliber to our organization,\u201d said Maple Leafs General Manager John Chayka. \u201cDarren has emerged as one of the NHL\u2019s premier two-way defensemen, combining elite puck-moving ability with poise, competitiveness, and strong play in all three zones. He strengthens our blue line in every situation and is exactly the type of player we want helping lead this team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raddysh, 30, skated in 73 games with the Tampa Bay Lightning last season, recording a career-high 70 points (22 goals, 48 assists), before registering a goal and an assist in seven playoff games. In 249 career NHL regular season games, all with Tampa Bay, the Toronto native has amassed 143 points (35 goals, 108 assists) while adding four points (two goals, two assists) in 20 playoff games.<\/p>\n
Previously,\u00a0Raddysh was named to the AHL\u2019s First All Star Team for the 2022-23 season and represented Syracuse as a member of the North All-Stars at the 2023 AHL All-Star Classic.<\/p>\n
As a member of the Ontario Hockey League\u2019s Erie Otters,\u00a0Raddysh captured the J. Ross Robertson Cup as an OHL Champion, was named to the OHL\u2019s First All Star Team, and received both the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the OHL\u2019s Most Outstanding Defenceman and the Leo Lalonde Trophy as the OHL\u2019s Overage Player of the Year for 2016-17. He was named to the Memorial Cup All Star Team in 2017 as the Otters finished as runners-up.<\/p>\n
Raddysh was originally signed to an entry-level contract by the Chicago Blackhawks on May 21, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that the hockey club has acquired defenceman Darren Raddysh from the Tampa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-313069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}