{"id":18342,"date":"2017-10-28T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=18342"},"modified":"2017-10-28T18:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T22:45:24","slug":"kasperi-kapanen-recalled-eric-fehr-loan-marlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/10\/28\/kasperi-kapanen-recalled-eric-fehr-loan-marlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs Recall Kasperi Kapanen, Send Eric Fehr to Marlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/maple-leafs\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> completed a pair of roster moves this morning. The Leafs have recalled speedy forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kapanka01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kasperi Kapanen<\/a><\/strong>, subsequently sending veteran forward\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fehrer01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Fehr<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to the Leafs AHL affiliate, the Toronto Marlies.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Toronto Maple Leafs Recall Kasperi Kapanen, Send Eric Fehr to Marlies<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MapleLeafs<\/a> have loaned forward Eric Fehr to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TorontoMarlies?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TorontoMarlies<\/a> (AHL). Forward Kasperi Kapanen has been recalled from the Marlies.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/924246308407275521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eric Fehr\u00a0cleared waivers on October 24th. He found himself as the odd man out in a competition\u00a0with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mooredo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dominic Moore<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for the fourth line centre position. Fehr was placed on waivers just eight games into the season, failing to record a point.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Kasperi Kapanen\u00a0was recalled this morning with both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vanrija01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James van Riemsdyk<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=martima02,martima01&amp;search=Matt+Martin&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Martin<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>unable\u00a0to play in\u00a0Saturday&#8217;s\u00a0game\u00a0against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flyers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia\u00a0Flyers<\/a>. Kapanen has three goals through six games in the AHL this season. He was a point a game player in 43 games last season with 43 points (18 goals, 25 assists).<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs have found themselves a little banged up this weekend. Both\u00a0Kasperi Kapanen and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/leivojo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Leivo<\/a><\/strong> will make their season debuts tonight. Leivo has been in the dubious position as the 13th forward for Toronto to this point in the season. Tonight, he will draw in for his first game this season, as he has been a healthy scratch for the first 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Winger James van Riemsdyk played through the pain Wednesday but Mike Babcock is content to give him the night off to rest versus the Philadelphia Flyers. Matt Martin, who briefly left the Leafs bench for repairs during the game Wednesday, will also sit tonight.<\/p>\n<p>When asked after yesterdays practice if van Riemsdyk was good to go, Babcock said\u00a0<em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kristen_shilton\/status\/923959347692130308\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I don&#8217;t know&#8230;Leives is dying to play anyway<\/a>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A significant number of Leafs fans will be happy to finally see these two young, talented forwards make their season debut. It will be interesting to see what this will mean to the Toronto lineup moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: <a id=\"Mjp5cd03SDtQPImAOu0NLQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/851272702\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Mjp5cd03SDtQPImAOu0NLQ',sig:'f8DiZQd-3OOLC8STdAFbjAf8QMkcQMWYriybDTjfj8k=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'851272702',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have made a pair of roster moves, sending Eric Fehr to the Marlies and recalling Kasperi Kapanen due to injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2319,"featured_media":18345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[34,18],"tags":[1316,37,2220,38,72],"class_list":["post-18342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-leafs","tag-eric-fehr","tag-hockey","tag-kasperi-kapanen","tag-nhl","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342","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\/2319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}