Max Domi, the latest Maple Leafs signing, joins Bertuzzi, Klingberg and Reaves
The Toronto Maple Leafs signed a one-year, $3 million US contract for Max Domi on Monday.
Domi, 28, scored 20 goals and 56 points in 80 regular season games between Chicago and the Dallas Stars last season.
In 19 playoff games with the Stars, he produced three goals and 10 assists.
The Winnipeg-born player is the son of Tie Domi, who played for the Maple Leafs from 1995 to 2006 and became a fan favorite as an enforcer.
“Home,” Domi tweeted, with a blue heart emoji and a picture of Tie holding him to his locker, draped in a Maple Leafs jersey.
Domi joins his seventh NHL team after stints with the Arizona Coyotes, Montreal Canadiens, Columbus Blue Jackets, Carolina Hurricanes, Chicago and the Stars.
Toronto also announced on Monday that it has signed Dylan Gambrell to a one-year contract worth $775,000.
Gambrell, 26, skated in 60 games last season with the Ottawa Senators, recording four goals and 10 points. In 233 NHL regular season games with Ottawa and San Jose, the Bonney Lake, Washington native has 40 points on 17 goals and 23 assists.
Gambrell was drafted by San Jose in the second round (60th overall) in 2016.
Domi and Gambrell are the latest moves in an active free agency for the Maple Leafs. Toronto signed winger Tyler Bertuzzi to a one-year, $5.1 million contract on Sunday, a day after signing defenseman John Klingberg and stalwart Ryan Reaves.
Toronto also bid farewell to eight players over the weekend as forwards Ryan O’Reilly, Michael Bunting, Noel Acciari and Alexander Kerfoot, along with defenders Luke Schenn, Justin Holl, Erik Gustafsson and goaltender Erik Kallgren skipped town.
Lightning dump salary
The Tampa Bay Lightning traded winger Patrick Maroon and a prospect to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for a seventh-round pick in the 2024 draft.
The 35-year-old Maroon, a three-time Stanley Cup winner, owes $1 million for the final year of his contract in 2023-24. The Lightning keep 20 percent of that salary.
Tampa also sent Max Cajkovic to Minnesota in the deal, which was announced late Sunday night.
Maroon scored five goals, 14 points and 150 major penalty minutes in 80 regular season games last season, his fourth in Tampa Bay. He has 288 points in 12 seasons with five clubs. He won a Cup with the St. Louis Blues (2019) and two with the Lightning (2020, 2021).
Cajkovic, 22, recorded 10 goals and 27 points in 41 games with the ECHL’s Orlando Solar Bears last season.
