The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed an undrafted NCAA free agent this week that is eeriely similar to a player they just sold at the trade deadline.
If the Maple Leafs were going to actually compete for anything worthwhile in the coming years, Bobby McMann would most likely still be on the team. Instead, as Toronto sinks down to the bottom of the standings and the power winger was sent off to the Seattle Kraken, traded for a pair of draft picks in a deadline deal.
But instead of being comfortable without having a player of his skillset on the team or possibly on the team in the near future, the Leafs signed what could be an easy fit directly out of college.