Good morning Toronto Maple Leafs fans!
It's that's special time of year where we become inundated with trade speculation and rumours and we need to sort out what's what.
To start I'll point you to an older article from our own Acting the Fulemin about real vs fake rumours:
*Nick Ritchie*
On Hockey Night in Canada Elliott Friedman said the Maple Leafs were working on trading Nick Ritchie, even if it means retaining some salary. They'll keep up to $300,000 as that's the cost of buying him out in the off-season.
The former 10th overall pick has 2 goals and 7 assists in 33 games for the Maple Leafs who signed him to a 2 year deal with an AAV of $2.