{"id":139055,"date":"2023-07-01T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=139055"},"modified":"2023-07-01T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T19:51:09","slug":"ryan-reaves-contract-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/07\/01\/ryan-reaves-contract-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Enforcer Signs With Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/06\/28\/toronto-maple-leafs-have-re-signed-depth-forward-pontus-holmberg\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> have announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/reavery01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Reaves<\/a> contract this afternoon. Toronto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/maple-leafs-sign-ryan-reaves-to-three-year-4-05-million-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed the veteran forward<\/a> to a three-year deal worth $4.05 million. The average cap hit will be $1.35 million person season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ryan Reaves in TOR will be 3x$1.35 when it&#39;s done<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1675174708700930049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Maple Leafs Sign Ryan Reaves Contract<\/h2>\n<p>Reaves has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/06\/25\/st-louis-blues-and-scott-perunovich-settle-for-one-year-deal\/\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/06\/29\/pittsburgh-penguins-acquire-winger-from-vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/06\/30\/nhl-rumours-stars-penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/06\/13\/new-york-rangers-hire-new-head-coach\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/06\/14\/nhl-rumours-sabres-and-wild\/\" target=\"_self\"> Minnesota Wild<\/a> in his 13-year NHL career. The Winnipeg native netted five years and 10 assists for 15 points in 73 games. He also supplied 43 penalty minutes in the 2022-23 campaign. Reaves has been known to provide sandpaper with every team that he&#8217;s been on. However, he hasn&#8217;t exceeded 100 penalty minutes since the 2017-18 season. His Corsi for was 45.9 and a relative Corsi of -4.8.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has 59 goals and 70 assists and 129 points in 828 career games. He&#8217;s also racked up 1,023 penalty minutes and has been in a number of scraps. The Blues originally drafted Reaves in the fifth round, 156th overall of the 2005 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<h3>Impact of Ryan Reaves Contract<\/h3>\n<p>This is a bit of a puzzling signing for general manager Brad Treliving. There&#8217;s always the want to add toughness to protect the finesse players that the Maple Leafs possess. However, Reaves is at the tail-end of his career. He&#8217;ll be 39 when the contract is over if he&#8217;s not bought out before that.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is also trying to sign extensions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/matthau01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Auston Matthews<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nylanwi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Nylander<\/a>. Both are eligible to extend their deals after today. However, Reaves will eat a little bit into that cap number.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves can give the Leafs toughness, but maybe Toronto could have gone in a different direction. There&#8217;s also the question of the term of the deal. This deal could have been more digestible if it were maybe for one year. A multi-year deal is puzzling from Treliving, who is trying to put his mark on his new team.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Nick Wosika-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have announced the Ryan Reaves contract this afternoon. Toronto signed the veteran forward to a three-year deal worth $4.05 million. The average cap hit will be $1.35 million person season. Ryan Reaves in TOR will be 3x$1.35 when it&#39;s done &mdash; Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July 1, 2023 Maple Leafs Sign Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":139062,"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":[18,4547,34,4548],"tags":[1594,1206,5951],"class_list":["post-139055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leafs","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-brad-treliving","tag-ryan-reaves","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139055","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}