Speed, scoring potential and a walk-year contract made Michael Grabner appealing to the Toronto Maple Leafs. On Thursday, as NHL teams opened trainings camps, Grabner was on his way north from Brooklyn.The deal sends five younger players to the Islanders in exchange for Grabner, a 27-year-old forward.MORE: | Going to the Isles: forwards Carter Verhaeghe and Alex Verdugo Jersey Taylor Beck, defensemen Tom Nil son and Matthew Finn, and goaltender Christopher Gibson. Beck is the only one of the five to play in the NHL last season.None of the players was considered a top prospect for the Islanders, according to .Also on Thursday, the Islanders announced the signing of Steve Bernier, a 30-year-old forward who was on a tryout contract.Grabner "brings a tremendous amount of speed to the lineup," new Leafs executive Lou Lamoriello told . "I Babe Herman Jersey certainly have seen him enough. And it also allows us with the number of contracts that went back, it allows us to do other things at the right time."But a long string of injuries made Grabner expendable, and Isles GM Garth Snow had been weighing trade offers. Injuries, however, left the Isles facing diminishing returns in trade. Grabner might have struggled to make the roster, the reported.Grabner appeared in 34 games last season because of injuries, getting eight goals and five a sists. He mi sed Dylan Floro Jersey the first two months after surgery for a sports hernia, sufferedin the preseason. He had a second surgery in May.He will be paid $5 million this season, but his cap hit is $3 million.Leafs players were in Toronto for physicals and preparing to travel to Halifax, Nova Scotia, for a week's training and bonding.Grabner was the 14th overall pick in the 2006 NHL Draft by the Vancouver Canucks. He has 95 goals and 155 points in 317 Yasmani Grandal Jersey games over six NHL seasons. His best: 34 goals, 18 a sists in 76 games with the 2010-11 Isles.Lamoriello also said Grabner has upside as a penalty killer who "pushes the defense back."With room to make roster changes, Lamoriello suggested the Leafs might not be through. Their offseason included trading Phil Ke sel to the Penguins."We don't know what might come available," said Lamoriello, hired away from the Devils this summer as Brendan Shanahan's confidant and general manager, "you always want to have the availability to do anything and everything.""You always want to have the availability to do anything and everything," Hyun-Jin Ryu Jersey Lamoriello told a scrum of Toronto media members. "We spent a lot of time internally. This is a result of that."Does removing contracts mean the Leafs might make more deals? One name floating in the ether after the Grabner trade: Tyler Bozak, a center who was a hot topic early in the offseason.