{"id":599557,"date":"2026-06-15T22:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/599557\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:03:20","slug":"leafs-sign-tinus-luc-koblar-to-entry-level-contract-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/599557\/","title":{"rendered":"Leafs Sign Tinus Luc Koblar To Entry-Level Contract \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have come to terms with one of their top prospects. Forward <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/882367\/tinus-luc-koblar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tinus Luc Koblar <\/a>has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/mapleleafs\/news\/maple-leafs-sign-forward-tinus-luc-koblar-to-three-year-entry-level-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed<\/a> a three-year, entry-level contract. This move will move Koblar to North America on the heels of a strong performance with Team Norway at the 2026 World Championship. He finished the tournament with a team-leading nine goals in 10 points as Norway pushed to their first World Championship medal since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto drafted Koblar with a 2025 second-round pick. He was a gutsy pick after posting just 21 points in 43 games with Leksands IF\u2019s U20 roster and one point in five games at both the World Junior Division-1 Championships and World U18 championship. The Maple Leafs must have seen the same potential that Leksands saw, though, as Koblar was promoted to a full-time pro role this season. He scored 14 points in 47 SHL games this season.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, the pro move seemed to bring much more confidence to Koblar\u2019s game. He became a force in international tournaments with 10 points in five games at the World Junior Division-1 Championship before his breakout at the World Championship. All year long, the puck-moving center excelled at pushing play down the ice. He plays with a strong stick and hard shot, bringing an impact on both sides of the puck while also posting a solid, 45 percent faceoff success rate.<\/p>\n<p>Koblar will now look to keep his momentum rolling with the Toronto Marlies. He joins the Maple Leafs as the club\u2019s fifth-highest draft pick since 2021. That standing will put some pressure on Koblar\u2019s relative inexperience at the Swedish level. At the same time, his skinny frame and heads-up thinking will present major potential for the Leafs to hone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs have come to terms with one of their top prospects. Forward Tinus Luc Koblar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,178,1970,17802,66,31,5171,405],"class_list":["post-599557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-hockey","tag-maple-leafs","tag-mapleleafs","tag-nhl","tag-prospects","tag-shl","tag-tinus-luc-koblar","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-torontomapleleafs","tag-transactions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116756388459046394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599557","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=599557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}