{"id":555947,"date":"2026-04-19T11:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555947\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:12:47","slug":"maple-leafs-risk-losing-28-year-old-forward-with-roster-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555947\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs risk losing 28-year old forward with roster move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a logical move for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/toronto-maple-leafs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> to make, but it comes with a risk.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, they <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/toronto-maple-leafs-place-michael-pezzetta-waivers-nhl-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">placed<\/a> forward Michael Pezzetta on waivers.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year old could now be claimed by another NHL team, which would take him away from Toronto&#8217;s organization for good.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs aren&#8217;t doing this to get rid of Pezzetta, although it could come with that consequence.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re actually hoping Pezzetta clears waivers, which would allow him to report to the AHL Toronto Marlies for their postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs didn&#8217;t make their playoffs, but the Marlies did, and they could use Pezzetta.<\/p>\n<p>He had 10 points in 38 games this season for the Marlies, with four goals and six assists.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/buffalo-sabres\/news\/sabres-playoff-ticket-prices-cost-most-nhl\/abec1fee7f3924aad07fa727\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sabres&#8217; playoff ticket costs are mind-blowing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pezzetta played nine games down the stretch of the season with the Maple Leafs but didn&#8217;t score.<\/p>\n<p>He entered the league as a sixth-round pick in 2016 by the Canadiens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pezzetta does have legitimate NHL experience, including 63 games with Montreal in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not a high scorer from his forward spot, but rather a gritty player with a bit of skill.<\/p>\n<p>Pezzetta signed with the Maple Leafs before this season on a two-year contract worth $1.625 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a high cost if another team decides it wants to claim Pezzetta.<\/p>\n<p>But if no one does, Pezzetta will get to keep his hocky season going in the AHL playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a logical move for the Toronto Maple Leafs to make, but it comes with a risk.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-555947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-maple-leafs","10":"tag-mapleleafs","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","14":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116431080890008096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}