It’s a brand new month and on Saturday, the Toronto Maple Leafs and ahead Nicholas Robertson prevented arbitration by agreeing to a one-year deal that may pay the 23-year-old $1.825 million within the 2025-26 season. The Maple Leafs and Robertson had an upcoming arbitration listening to on Sunday.
The deal comes after Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported that the 2 sides had been greater than $1 million aside on what they’d set the participant’s worth at with Robertson searching for $2.25 million per season and the crew desirous to settle at $1.2 million.
Robertson, who performed nearly all of the season within the crew’s middle-six, performed a career-high 69 video games in 2024-25, scoring 15 targets and 22 factors over that span. He additionally averaged a career-high 12 minutes per recreation and appeared to have his offence sparked every time that head coach Craig Berube held him out of the lineup.
On high of the offence, Robertson completed final season with profession highs in blocked photographs (33) and hits (79) demonstrating that he was shopping for into Berube’s system. Nevertheless, come playoffs, Robertson was the odd man out once more with the Maple Leafs making a second-round exit in opposition to the eventual Stanley Cup profitable Florida Panthers.
Since being draft by the Maple Leafs within the second spherical of the 2019 NHL Draft, Robertson has performed 156 common season video games racking up 32 targets and 56 factors, including three factors in 13 playoff video games.
The deal helps the 2 sides keep away from one other sticky scenario following final offseason when Robertson made it recognized to the crew that he wished to be traded – a request that was later retracted following a dialogue with incoming coach Berube.
Whereas Robertson will nonetheless need to struggle for a spot within the lineup this season, coming in as a veteran of 150-plus video games might lastly give him the higher hand.
