Report: Badgers’ Gardiner signs with NHL’s Maple Leafs

Jake Gardiner has signed an entry-level contract with the NHL?s Toronto Maple Leafs and will forego his senior season at the University of Wisconsin, according to a report on the Minneapolis Star-Tribune?s website. Michael Russo, who covers the Minnesota Wild and the NHL, broke the news and later tweeted that he had validated the report “100 percent.”