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Toronto Maple Leafs made a significant addition to their roster on Monday by signing Finish defenseman Mikko Lehtonen. The 26-year-old comes to NHL as a free agent, having negotiated a contract termination with KHL side Jokerit last month. Lehtonen inked a one-year entry-level contract with Toronto, which will pay him $925,000 for the 2020/21 NHL season. https://twitter.com/MapleLeafs/status/1257293998328291329 Lehtonen was KHL's highest-scoring defenseman last season, netting...

New York Jets are taking an unusual approach trying to help their running back Le'Veon Bell return to form after a disappointing 2019 NFL season. Instead of giving him more carries, the Jets are looking to reduce Bell's load this year. Bell joined the Jets in 2019 on a four-year, $52.5 million contract, but failed to make a significant impact....

Star Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne has admitted that he may have to look for a new team depending on the results of an appeal to the two-year Champions League ban that his team received for Financial Fair Play violations this season. https://twitter.com/JollofSports/status/1256657749594853377?s=20 City, which has qualified for the competition in each of the past nine seasons, is set to...

After the Bengals selected prized quarterback Joe Burrow with the first overall pick of the 2020 NFL Draft, it appears that former starter Andy Dalton's tenure with the team has come to a close. https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1255848283043508225?s=20 The news that the Bengals would release Dalton, the all-time franchise leader in touchdown passes and the team's primary starter since 2011, came only a week...

Houston Rockets definitely had their ups and downs in the 2019/20 NBA season. Rockets were able to beat the toughest opponents on one night and lose the game they were favored in the next. According to their sixth man Eric Gordon, this inconsistency is the reason why the team never reached their peak. In a recent chat with Cayleigh Griffin of SportsNet Southwest,...

Kansas City Chiefs are not being sentimental as they gear up to defend Super Bowl title in 2020. The team confirmed on Wednesday that they are releasing punter Dustin Colquitt, who leaves Kansas City after spending 15 seasons with the franchise. Colquitt's departure is most likely cap-inspired as Chiefs saved $2 million.  They were down to just $3.55 million prior to his release. Chiefs are...

New York Giants aren't ready to spend big on outside linebacker Markus Golden, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't want to keep him around. According to ESPN's Field Yates, Giants elected to place a rarely-used unrestricted free-agent tender on the 29-year-old. The unrestricted free-agent tender allows Golden to freely negotiate with other teams. However, if he fails to secure a deal until the training...

Former National Hockey League forward Joel Ward announced his retirement from the sport of hockey in the form of an essay published on The Players' Tribune on Monday. https://twitter.com/NHLdotcom/status/1254808124868919296?s=20 Ward spent eleven seasons playing in the league for the Minnesota Wild, Nashville Predators, Washington Capitals, and San Jose Sharks from 2007 until 2018. The right winger, a native of Ontario, was not...

The New Orleans Saints re-signed backup quarterback Taysom Hill to a two-year contract over the weekend, allowing the signal caller to continue learning behind starter Drew Brees. https://twitter.com/Saints/status/1254474288184385536 Hill, who has spent the entirety of his NFL career with the Saints after being signed out of BYU in 2017, has agreed to a contract that contains $16 million in guaranteed money...

NBA suspended the 2019/20 season in early March, and there's still no indication of when the league could resume its activities. This is why some players like Toronto Raptors' guard Fred VanVleet are preparing for the worst-case scenario. In a recent chat with reporters, VanVleet admitted he isn't overly optimistic about the season resuming anytime soon. He even believes that the...