The Trade
Maple Leafs get: forward Jared McCann.
Penguins get: forward Filip Hållander and a 2021 seventh-round pick.
The Grades
Sean Gentille: The expansion draft was always going to create league-spanning issues. It was only a matter of how teams would resolve them … or how they’d make the attempt. The McCann trade is an example of two ways of solving a common problem: Both Pittsburgh and Toronto were set to lose quality forwards, and both tried to offset the impact on Saturday afternoon.
McCann’s obvious fit on the Leafs is as a replacement for
