The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded defenseman Brandon Carlo to the St. Louis Blues for two third-round picks. Those picks are the 73rd and 76th selections of the 2026 draft.

Toronto selected Zach Olsen with pick No 73, and Mans Gudmundsson with pick No. 76.

Carlo, 29, has played in 75 regular-season games for the Maple Leafs across the past two seasons. This past year, the right-handed defenseman featured in 55 appearances, recording seven assists, averaging 19:22 of ice time per game.

In total, Carlo registered 10 assists as a member of the Maple Leafs, with no goals to his name, and a plus-eight rating. In fact, since joining Toronto, he has the second-best plus-minus rating on the team, just behind Chris Tanev's plus-13

The Maple Leafs sent Carlo to the Blues after Toronto acquired him from the Boston Bruins at the 2025 NHL trade deadline.

In that deal with the Bruins, the Leafs gave up center Fraser Minten, a conditional 2026 first-round pick (which will be pushed to either 2027 or 2028 draft) and a fourth-round pick in 2025, which turned out to be Vashek Blanar.

Carlo is in the final year of his six-year contract with an annual salary of $4.1 million. However, he costs $3.485 against St. Louis' salary cap because the Bruins retained 15 percent of the blueliner's salary.

With this trade, the Maple Leafs now have $22.28 million in salary cap space going into 2026 free agency.

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