Former Maple Leaf Pierre Engvall's Season Likely Comes to an End
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Former Toronto Maple Leafs fan-favorite and current New York Islander Pierre Engvall will likely miss the rest of the 2025 season after undergoing ankle surgery.
It's been a disappointing few seasons for former Maple Leafs forward Pierre Engvall ever since he left the team to join the New York Islanders in a trade, then signing a massive 7-year contract offered by his old GM Lou Lamoriello.
He hasn't turned out to be the player they needed him to be, and found himself waived multiple times, injured, and just ineffective.
Engvall Undergoes Surgery After Reinjuring Himself Before the Season Began
Recorvering from offseason hip surgery this year, it seems like Engvall's season is over even before it began.
According to sources, the New York Islanders are expecting Engvall to miss the majority, if not the entirety of the season due to ankle surgery:
NEWS: #Isles say Pierre Engvall will likely miss the remainder of the season after undergoing ankle surgery yesterday.
He has not played a game this season due to rehabbing offseason hip injury. He's in year 3 of a 7-year, $3M AAV contract.
He has not played a game this season due to rehabbing offseason hip injury. He's in year 3 of a 7-year, $3M AAV contract.
When it rains it pours for Engvall, and this might signal the end of his time not only with the Islanders, but perhaps in the NHL altogether, especially having to recover from two separate surgeries.
Engvall, 29, was drafted 188th overall by the Maple Leafs in 2014 and managed to carve out a fairly decent career with the team and while he was never a superstar, fans loved the tenacity and energy he brought each game.
In four seasons with Toronto, Engvall put up 83 points in 226 games (42 goals, 41 assists) while playing above average defense and played well enough to earn a massive raise when Lamoriello went to the Islanders.
But there he has been a shell of what he used to be with only 52 points in 154 games and has missed a total of 28 games over the last two seasons and will now miss an extended period of time.
His defense tanked, his physicality dropped, and it looked like perhaps the Islanders pulled a Toronto and signed a player off one good stretch, only to have them falter once coming over.
Engvall was a bright spot at one point for Toronto, where they really only had a handful of stars surrounding a mishmash of role players, and things were looking up.
But now, that brightness has quickly dimmed and the spotlight may be shut off for Engvall permanently if he can't recover, and end the career of what was once a promising NHL career.
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