As reported by Bob McKenzie on a recent game, the last one Garret Sparks played in to be exact, the Leafs had used three of the four recalls from the AHL that NHL teams are allowed to use from the trade deadline to the end of the regular season. They had one left, and today they’ve used it to bring Michael Hutchinson up to the NHL.
The timing isn’t ideal for Hutchinson, who just had a stinker of a game with the Marlies, where he was pulled for Kasimir Kaskisuo. But the stinker was atypical of his AHL season.