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Maple Leafs sign forward Calle Järnkrok to four-year deal

The average annual value of the reliable penalty killer’s contract is $2.1 million, bigger than any of the Leafs other signings this week, including goalie Ilya Samsonov ($1.8 million).
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The Toronto Maple Leafs made their biggest — albeit still modest — splash in the NHL’s free agency market, signing forward Calle Järnkrok to a four-year, $8.4 million US contract on Friday.

The average annual value of the contract is $2.1 million, bigger than any of the Leafs other signings this week, including goalie Ilya Samsonov ($1.8 million).

Järnkrok can play both centre and wing, and comes with playmaking ability and good hockey IQ. He’s not particularly physical, but he is a reliable penalty killer. The Leafs lost two key penalty killers — Ilya Mikheyev and Ondrej Kaše — to free agency.

With his signing, as well as the additions of Samsonov, goalie Matt Murray, forwards Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Adam Gaudette, and defencemen Victor Mete and Jordie Benn, the Leafs appear to be over the salary cap by a very modest $800,000. Teams are allowed to go over the cap by 10 per cent, or $8.25 million, over the summer. The team still has restricted free agents Rasmus Sandin and Pierre Engvall to sign.

GM Kyle Dubas has many tools to deal with the cap overage, including sending players to the minors if need be.

The 30-year-old Järnkrok split the 2021-22 season between Calgary and Seattle, registering a combined 30 points (12 goals, 18 assists) in 66 games while adding four points (one goal, three assists) in 12 playoff games with the Flames.

In 574 regular-season NHL games, the Gävle, Sweden native has collected 241 points (106 goals, 135 assists) and recorded 19 points (four goals, 15 assists) in 75 playoff games.

Järnkrok was originally drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the second round (51st overall) of the 2010 NHL draft.
 
Menzinger said:
Though I doubt his icetime changes too much. Keefe definitely liked having a shutdown unit with that line.
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Thats fair, I just always like a 3rd line that can still produce some offensive as well and I feel like that won't really happen with Kampf there
 
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Ziggdiezan said:
Thats fair, I just always like a 3rd line that can still produce some offensive as well and I feel like that won't really happen with Kampf there
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I don't disagree. It's tricky because Kampf does the defense stuff so well.

I figure we may see the 4th and 3rd lines have close to balanced icetime. One getting the D zone starts the other the offensive zone ones
 
Menzinger said:
I don't disagree. It's tricky because Kampf does the defense stuff so well.

I figure we may see the 4th and 3rd lines have close to balanced icetime. One getting the D zone starts the other the offensive zone ones
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Ya he is the definition of a player who when they are on the ice nothing happens. That can be a very beneficial trait.

Ya I could definitely see it going that way. Though I saw other posters saying maybe Jarnkrok plays RW on that 3rd shutdown line which we may see too. I just don't know who would be playing 4C in that instance
 
fahad203 said:
Can someone tell me how Janrock plays ? Like a comparable
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Analysis: Calle Järnkrok signs a four-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs continued their offseason shopping on Friday by adding Swedish forward Calle Järnkrok on a four-year contract worth a cap hit of $2.1 million AAV. Järnkrok, who will turn 31 in September, is a player coming off an odd season: pretty solid results in Seattle were undercut...
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Calle Järnkrok Scouting Report

Courtesy of McKeen’s Hockey Yearbook

Aggressive, skilled and intelligent forward, fully capable in all three zones .. undersized but urgent, with quickness in pace… quick, darting skater with excellent lateral agility and speed… hops awkwardly in startup and crossovers… full stride is long and smooth however – backed by effective footwork… skilled and comfortable in traffic… shifty puckcarrier, proactive shooter – quick wristshot features a strong release – drives at defenders feet… can over-fixate on firing shots at times… excels as an F1 forechecking torpedo – driven by tenacity and a non-stop engine… feet remain activated, and powers through checks… wins a lot of puck duels over bigger foes .. feisty, goes to hard areas, sticks his nose in scrums and dirty areas… mature defensively, aware and dedicated to system structure… stays behind the puck, supports pinching mates.
 
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Menzinger said:
I don't disagree. It's tricky because Kampf does the defense stuff so well.

I figure we may see the 4th and 3rd lines have close to balanced icetime. One getting the D zone starts the other the offensive zone ones
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That is what I expected too, but if Engvall is put on Jarnkrok's line, I wonder if the Leafs plan on eating up as many defensive zone starts for the top 6 as possible.

You couldn't do that as much with Spezza/Simmonds on the 4th line, but with the guys we have there now, you don't need to shelter anyone.
 
hockeywiz542 said:
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Analysis: Calle Järnkrok signs a four-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs continued their offseason shopping on Friday by adding Swedish forward Calle Järnkrok on a four-year contract worth a cap hit of $2.1 million AAV. Järnkrok, who will turn 31 in September, is a player coming off an odd season: pretty solid results in Seattle were undercut...
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Calle Järnkrok Scouting Report

Courtesy of McKeen’s Hockey Yearbook

Aggressive, skilled and intelligent forward, fully capable in all three zones .. undersized but urgent, with quickness in pace… quick, darting skater with excellent lateral agility and speed… hops awkwardly in startup and crossovers… full stride is long and smooth however – backed by effective footwork… skilled and comfortable in traffic… shifty puckcarrier, proactive shooter – quick wristshot features a strong release – drives at defenders feet… can over-fixate on firing shots at times… excels as an F1 forechecking torpedo – driven by tenacity and a non-stop engine… feet remain activated, and powers through checks… wins a lot of puck duels over bigger foes .. feisty, goes to hard areas, sticks his nose in scrums and dirty areas… mature defensively, aware and dedicated to system structure… stays behind the puck, supports pinching mates.
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Sounds a lot like Kase, but without the injury concerns and more versatility.
 
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Sizing up the Maple Leafs free agent moves - NorthStar

Calle Järnkrok is poised to go where very few Toronto Maple Leafs have gone before.

After signing an $8.4-million, four-year contract on Friday, the versatile forward became just the fourth player on the team’s NHL roster to sign a deal covering the 2024-25 season – joining John Tavares, Mitch Marner and Morgan Rielly.

That looms as a big season in Toronto, with extensions for Auston Matthews and William Nylander potentially kicking in, and it’s created a barrier the front office has generally tried to avoid breaking.

Term was the biggest reason why goaltender Jack Campbell wasn’t retained this off-season and none of Toronto’s other free-agent additions before Järnkrok got anything resembling security.

The entire bunch of them – Ilya Samsonov, Nicolas Aubé-Kubel, Adam Gaudette, Denis Malgin, Victor Mete and Jordie Benn – arrived on one-year contracts.

Matt Murray, acquired in a trade from Ottawa, had two years remaining on his deal.

What this tells us about Järnkrok is the Leafs really like him. The Swede had at least one other four-year offer on the table, so he had some leverage to push for term during the negotiations.

An established middle-six forward with more than 600 games of NHL experience, Järnkrok is comfortable playing centre or either wing.

He’s an experienced penalty killer, too.

While his arrival doesn’t automatically signal that Alexander Kerfoot will be shipped out in a subsequent trade this summer, it does provide the Leafs with insurance ahead of Kerfoot’s potential departure as a free agent in July 2023. It basically arms the front office with another option.

Kyle Dubas has largely tinkered at the margins this off-season – keeping his core intact after a record-setting 115-point season. The bottom-six forward group is getting an overhaul and the goaltending will be entirely different, with a Murray-Samsonov tandem working under new coach Curtis Sanford, but otherwise they’re running it back.

Most of Dubas’s heavy lifting appears done now, with only new contracts needed for restricted free agents Pierre Engvall and Rasmus Sandin. Beyond that there could be a cap-clearing trade – Kerfoot and Justin Holl are the most likely possibilities – and perhaps some further depth shopping in the bargain aisle of free agency.

Dubas noted this week that there’s virtually no limit to the amount of forwards he might bring in to challenge for jobs, although he’s hoping for some internal options to step into the available slots.
 
Don't know anything about the guy. Is he capable of scoring a couple of goals in a Game 6 or 7?
 
hockeywiz542 said:
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Analysis: Calle Järnkrok signs a four-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs continued their offseason shopping on Friday by adding Swedish forward Calle Järnkrok on a four-year contract worth a cap hit of $2.1 million AAV. Järnkrok, who will turn 31 in September, is a player coming off an odd season: pretty solid results in Seattle were undercut...
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Calle Järnkrok Scouting Report

Courtesy of McKeen’s Hockey Yearbook

Aggressive, skilled and intelligent forward, fully capable in all three zones .. undersized but urgent, with quickness in pace… quick, darting skater with excellent lateral agility and speed… hops awkwardly in startup and crossovers… full stride is long and smooth however – backed by effective footwork… skilled and comfortable in traffic… shifty puckcarrier, proactive shooter – quick wristshot features a strong release – drives at defenders feet… can over-fixate on firing shots at times… excels as an F1 forechecking torpedo – driven by tenacity and a non-stop engine… feet remain activated, and powers through checks… wins a lot of puck duels over bigger foes .. feisty, goes to hard areas, sticks his nose in scrums and dirty areas… mature defensively, aware and dedicated to system structure… stays behind the puck, supports pinching mates.
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