The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded forward Nikita Soshnikov to the St. Louis Blues for a fourth-round pick in 2019.

Soshnikov played only three games for the Leafs this season due to injury and simply being supplanted on the organization's depth chart.

The 24-year-old missed 28 games with an ailment the club would only classify as being of the "lower-body" variety. He was placed on injured reserve on Dec. 12.

He posted 17 points in 19 games with the AHL's Toronto Marlies in 2017-18 after appearing in 56 NHL games last season.

Soshnikov was signed by the Leafs out of the KHL in 2015.

Copyright © 2018 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.