{"id":130176,"date":"2022-06-27T12:07:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=130176"},"modified":"2022-06-27T12:07:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:07:25","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-re-sign-timothy-liljegren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/06\/27\/toronto-maple-leafs-re-sign-timothy-liljegren\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs Re-Sign Timothy Liljegren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs re-signed pending restricted free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/liljeti01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Timothy Liljegren<\/a> to a two-year contract worth $2.8 million, or $1.4 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8SIGNING UPDATE\ud83d\udea8: Maple Leafs\u00a0sign D Timothy Liljegren to a two-year, $2.8 million contract extension&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Follow every deal in our Signing Tracker &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9G8sMTmZZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/9G8sMTmZZA<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TSNHockey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TSNHockey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UPw0w8sYkA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/UPw0w8sYkA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNHockey\/status\/1541440280301342724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Timothy Liljegren Re-Signs With the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/h2>\n<p>Over his short NHL career thus far, Liljegren has played exclusively for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He has put up 5 goals and 19 assists for 24 career points in 74 career games. He was originally drafted in the first round, 17th overall of the 2017 NHL draft by the Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored 5 goals and 18 assists for 23 points. He also added 14 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 55 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 2.3% at 5v5.<\/p>\n<p>Liljegren finished 11th in Calder Trophy voting this season for best rookie in the league.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>The Leafs lock up an excellent young defender for another two seasons. Liljegren really emerged this season, playing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giordma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Giordano<\/a> after he was acquired at the deadline. He was a key player in the regular season, as an excellent rookie defender. He established himself as someone that head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/keefesh01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheldon Keefe<\/a> can trust.<\/p>\n<p>Liljegren has been developed all the way through the Leafs organization and even won the Calder Cup with the Marlies. It&#8217;s important for the Leafs to lock up such key, young players when they&#8217;re tight against the cap. The Leafs have really strengthened their defence over the last two seasons, and the emergence of Liljegren is a major part of that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/17\/liljegren-future-leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">Timothy Liljegren should be a staple of the lineup<\/a>, and even a staple of the top-4 this coming season. He&#8217;s quickly made himself to be one of the Toronto Maple Leafs&#8217; best defencemen. He has shown his ability to play with any partner and on any pair for the Leafs, and locking up such a valuable asset like that is a great move by general manager Kyle Dubas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs re-signed pending restricted free agent Timothy Liljegren to a two-year contract worth $2.8 million, or $1.4 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2023-24 season. \ud83d\udea8SIGNING UPDATE\ud83d\udea8: Maple Leafs\u00a0sign D Timothy Liljegren to a two-year, $2.8 million contract extension&#8230; Follow every deal in our Signing Tracker &#8211; https:\/\/t.co\/9G8sMTmZZA#TSNHockey pic.twitter.com\/UPw0w8sYkA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":130177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,34,4548,18],"tags":[1696,1518,924,5951],"class_list":["post-130176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-leafs","tag-kyle-dubas","tag-mark-giordano","tag-timothy-liljegren","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-news"],"modified_by":"Oscar Elieff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}