"Luca Caputi, another hometown kid the Maple Leafs hoped would bloom in familiar surroundings, is now the latest to board the Anaheim express.

In the seventh move Leaf general manager Brian Burke has made with his old Ducks team since 2009, the low-output Caputi was traded Tuesday for centre Nicolas Deschamps. The latter, a second rounder (35th overall) in 2008, will report directly to the Toronto Marlies, simplified with his Syracuse Crunch in town the same day to play the Leafs‚ farm team.

Caputi, whose troubles began with major surgery in 2011, played 21 games for the Marlies this year, with two goals and an assist. Originally acquired from Pittsburgh for Alexei Ponikarovsky in 2010, the native of Maple had six points in 26 career Leafs games. He was operated on for a sports hernia in Montreal, then went to Vail, Col, where renowned orthopaedic surgeon Marc Philippon performed a major labrum operation."