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Kivihalme was drafted 140th overall by the Nashville Predators in 2013 but never played a game with the organization.
The 23-year-old was born and raised in the United States but is a dual citizen. He has spent the past two seasons with Karpat in Finland’s Liiga after a three-year stint at Colorado College.
Kivihalme is a 6-foot, 181-pound left-shot blueliner who had nine goals and 30 points in 60 games during the 2018-19 campaign.
In the past week, the Maple Leafs have also signed KHL forwards Ilya Mikheyev and Egor Korshkov.
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