Overview
- The Maple Leafs put Groulx on waivers on Monday, starting the 24-hour period in which any NHL team can submit a claim to take him onto their roster.
- If no team claims Groulx, Toronto can assign him to the AHL Toronto Marlies; if claimed, he would join the claiming club under the league's waiver priority rules.
- Groulx, 26, was a key piece of the Marlies' Calder Cup run last season with 28 goals and 52 points, but he has played sparingly for the Leafs this year and is scoreless in seven NHL games.
- He is in the second year of a two-year, one-way contract with an $812,500 cap hit, a detail that affects salary charge but does not exempt him from waivers.
- Losing Groulx would remove a developed depth forward from Toronto's system and could alter short-term roster depth, while retaining him would return a Calder Cup contributor to the Marlies' lineup.