This might be good but wont happen

As a leafs fan, this deal is pretty solid

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You go from offering Kuznetsov and a 4th for Kotkaniemi and Drouin to this?

Marner is worth more than that package alone. Marner isn't available, the entire core 4 isn't actually (as said by team management) but even IF he was, if your conversation didn't mention McMichael or a 1st, your call isn't even answered.

Toronto doesn't need a declining, older centre. They have that in Tavares. Toronto doesn't need a 4th line, PK specialist, they have plenty of those and frankly for Hagelin's $2.75M, Toronto would likely much rather have Engvall who is a similar player for less than half of that and he only has 1 year left. Alexeyev Is a nice piece but can't be the main piece in a Marner deal. & the picks won't be early enough to even blink an eye at.

Engvall = Hagelin
Marner >> Kuznetsov, Alexeyev, and 2 picks that aren't even in the 1st round.

McMichael in his draft plus one year scored about the same as Lafreniere in the same league. 9 months older, but still. Tor would have to add Liljegren to Marner to get McMichael. I doubt they consider that, given that, as you said, Marner is not available.

Just like MTL fans keep trading Drouin for Kuznetsov, Tor fans keep trading Marner for Kuznetsov. The core ideas aren't mine. I'm just trying to steer the conversation towards what I think could work for Washington, under the flat cap. Marner for an A+ center prospect and 10M of cap space is such a huge win for Toronto under a flat cap. They'll just sign RNH to cheaply replace Marner, and crack open the champagne over a free top prospect. And the Caps would lose Ovechkin.

Both Tavares and Kuznetsov have played a few games at LW. They could alternate at 2L and 2C depending whether the team needed goals or needed to protect a lead. Kuznetsov is slightly better at carrying the puck from end to end, and dishing out apples, but Tavares is better at getting back to protect his own net. I think they might each get 30 goals a year, together, given that Kuznetsov wouldn't be helping Ovechkin keep the goals lead, and could shoot more. I'm more curious about who Tor plays at 2R if they move Marner. Ideas?

LGuy54 >>TrueCanuck

Thanks. Do you think the Buffalo deal is close? What else would Buffalo need? And/or, is there anything WSH could throw in to score some kind of an RHD prospect off the Sabres?