{"id":40140,"date":"2019-01-28T19:29:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T00:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=40140"},"modified":"2019-01-28T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T00:31:44","slug":"jake-muzzin-trade-toronto-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/01\/28\/jake-muzzin-trade-toronto-maple-leafs\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings Trade Jake Muzzin To Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> have traded long-time defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/muzzija01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Muzzin<\/a><\/strong> to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for <strong>Carl Grundstrom<\/strong>, rights to <strong>Sean Durzi<\/strong> and a first round pick in 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportChek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SportChek<\/a> Player Alert: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MapleLeafs<\/a> have acquired defenceman Jake Muzzin from Los Angeles in exchange for forward Carl Grundstrom, the rights to Sean Durzi and Toronto\u2019s first-round pick in the 2019 NHL Draft.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeafsForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LeafsForever<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3DYt3w0dc1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/3DYt3w0dc1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1090040754238615553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Maple Leafs Acquire Jake Muzzin<\/h1>\n<p>In Muzzin, the Leafs get a solid two-way defender who is an absolute minute eater. In 50 games this season, Muzzin has scored four goals and added 17 assists. He has also recorded 33 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Over his career, Muzzin has scored 51 goals and recorded 162 assists for 213 points in 496 games. He was originally drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/penguins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> in the fifth round, 141st overall in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. However, he&#8217;s spent his entire NHL career with the Kings.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means For The Future<\/h2>\n<p>Acquiring Muzzin bolsters the clubs defense drastically. Muzzin is a solid puck mover who is capable of playing on both special teams. Muzzin is a big defenceman, but still skates well for his size. He is a minute eater, and will certainly prove to be a big acquisition down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Muzzin is that he is not your typical rental player. Muzzin still has another year remaining with a very cap friendly average annual salary of $4 million. This is a huge benefit for the Leafs. If Muzzin doesn&#8217;t work out, the club can certainly look to flip him at next year&#8217;s deadline to a team who would be looking for a rental defenceman for a playoff push. If he does, Muzzin will certainly earn a nice raise from his current $4 million per season salary.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"kqSuuIlkSlNANVe1a3uemA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1089810334\" 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:'kqSuuIlkSlNANVe1a3uemA',sig:'MLb1H4iNQFQ-7TYt8yXYvKWyvo0t5QwvOZNmCxCmAqw=',w:'594px',h:'423px',items:'1089810334',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Kings have traded long-time defenceman Jake Muzzin to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Carl Grundstrom, rights to Sean Durzi and a first round pick in 2019. .@SportChek Player Alert: The @MapleLeafs have acquired defenceman Jake Muzzin from Los Angeles in exchange for forward Carl Grundstrom, the rights to Sean Durzi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2506,"featured_media":40767,"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":[18,24,34],"tags":[37,393,38,72],"class_list":["post-40140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leafs","category-kings","category-news","tag-hockey","tag-jake-muzzin","tag-nhl","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"modified_by":"Ariel Melendez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40140","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\/2506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}