When I read the headlines that the Toronto Maple Leafs made a trade for this guy, I was pretty excited because I think Pickard has some potential.
The official trade has Pickard coming to the Leafs in exchange for Tobias Lindberg and a sixth-round pick in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.
Pickard was recently put on waivers by the Golden Knights after they added Malcom Subban to their depth chart, so my initial curiosity was why they just didn’t pick him up off of waivers.
Well, had they done that, he would’ve had to be sent back down through waivers, so this was a smart play, but there’s probably more on that to come, my guess is that Lou Lamoriello still has some tricks up his sleeve.