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Toronto Maple Leafs: What’s Nikita Zaitsev’s Value?

It’s been a quiet past month in Toronto Maple Leafs Media. There has been no news and speculation has been slow. Following another first round exit there has been absolutely nothing interesting in Leaf land outside the Mitch Marner contract. That is however, until Nikita Zaitsev set Maple Leaf media into a frenzy with an interview he did back in Russia. Many Europeans rarely speak with media during the season. This is likely due to the fact they aren’t extremely confident with the language and want to avoid any miscommunication through translation. This does however lead to instances such as Nikita Kucherov’s comments a couple years back about his team’s lack of effort and now Zaitsev’s comments.