The Toronto Maple Leafs signed an enforcer to a three-year contract in 2023.
Earlier this summer, the Toronto Maple Leafs signed Ryan Reeves for above the league minimum, and it’s hard to think of any contract any team signed this year that was more universally lambasted.
The reason the deal is so ridiculous is because it pays a player who is incredibly old and who wouldn’t ever make an NHL team, except to fight, and fighting has been declining for years.
Since teams no longer dress enforcers, and since the Leafs hadn’t employed one since Nonis and Burke were in charge, it was a weird signing that deserves all the criticism is gets.