The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded forward Dryden Hunt to the Calgary Flames in exchange for forward Radim Zohrona.
The last-minute trades are coming in hot.
The Toronto Maple Leafs made a depth move with roughly 30 minutes left until the deadline on Friday, trading forward Dryden Hunt to the Calgary Flames in exchange for forward Radim Zohrona.
The 27-year-old Hunt is in the final year of his current contract which carries a cap hit of $762,500 and will become a UFA at season's end.
The Flames become Hunt's fourth NHL team of the 2022-23 season with this trade, and the fifth team overall if you include his time spent with Toronto's AHL affiliate.
The scrappy winger has racked up three goals in 37 games this season while logging an average of just above eight minutes in ice time per night. On the Toronto Marlies, Hunt has fared much better offensively, finishing his AHL stint with four goals and five assists for nine points in 15 games.
Coming the other way is Zohrona, a hulking 6'6 winger who has suited up in eight games for the Flames at the NHL level and gone pointless. In 40 games with the AHL's Calgary Wranglers, Zohrona has chipped in an impressive 10 goals and 19 assists, emerging as a legitimate scorer at that level.
Zohrona likely won't see time with the big club in Toronto for the remainder of the season, but his addition should help the conference-leading Marlies bulk up ahead of a Calder Cup run.
Stay tuned. Trades are still rolling in.