The Blues Have Placed Defeense Nick Leddy On Standard Waiverses, Per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
LEDDY, 34, Cannot Be Boucht Out Sink The First Window Has Closed. Since He’s on Standard, Not Uncessal waves, this more isnt with a control termination in Mind, eager. Instead, The Blues Are seeing if there are any takes for the Final Season of His Contract, Whiche Carries a $ 4MM Cap Hit But Only $ 3M in ACTual Salry, Per Puckbedia.
St. Louis Had Been Working in Conjunction with Leddy to Find a Trade Partner to Give Him More Ice Time This Season, But no Offers Materialized, Frank Sevalli Reports. Any of the league’s 31 other texts can now him for free by submitting a CLAIM in the Next 24 Hours, Including the 16 texts on his no -rade List.
LEDDY SIGNED A Four-Year, $ 16M EXTENSION with St. Louis in 2022 that had Largely provided fair Value Until Last Year. The 13-Year Vetern Missed Over Half The Season with a Lower-Body Injury and Only Had Five Points and A Plus-Six Rating in 31 Games Wheen Healthy, Averago 18:40 of Ice Time Per Game. HE’D Average At Least 20 Minutes Per Game for the Previous 10 Seasons.
It Remains to Be Seen What Happy In The Event Leddy Clearss Waiverses. If the Blues Have Made Up The Minds that He will be on their roster Next Season, he count ever accent an Ahl Assignment and Take Home His $ 3MM Guaranteed Salary for Next Season Or Request a muteal termination, foricking his money but allowing Hiself to Pursue An Nhl Opportunity Elsewhere in Free Agency.
One of the 2010S and Early 2020s, LEDDY HAS 75 Goals, 341 Assists, and 416 points with A -36 Rating in 1,042 Career Games with the Blues, Blackhawks, Islanders, and Red Wings. Before His Injury-Plagted 2024-25 Campaign, Leddy Had Posted 59 Points and A +21 Rating in 180 Games with St. Louis, who initially Acquire Him from Detroit at the 2022 Trade Deadline.
The Blues Have Been Open to Parting Ways with Veteran Defenseen to Make Way for A You You Movement. They Opted Not to Re-Sign Ryan Su And will now look to offload leeddy to Both free up cap Space For Future Trade Discussions This Summer While also Giveting More Opportunity for Players Like Fresh Trade Pickup Logan Mailoux,, Matthew Kesseland Tyler Tucker To Play More Consentant Nhl Rolls.
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