Quoting: OldNYIfan
As an Anaheim guy, I've said before that it doesn't make sense to me for Toronto to trade Holl for Manson. Even if that's an upgrade (and you can see from other responses that an appreciable segment of the Maple Leafs fan base doesn't think so), it's merely an incremental improvement. If you want to upgrade the defense, add, don't just exchange.
My theory is irrelevant in this case anyway, as even the most optimistic of us Anaheim guys wouldn't ask for more than the two forwards and the future second. And we'd still get howls from north of the border.
Correct. It’s kind of funny because we’ve all been pretty chill on Manson. None of us expect a haul, and recognize that if they’re in a playoff spot, someone will have to slightly overpay for him.
The best part is that Manson has Toronto on his NTC, so every time I see one of these now, and the back and forth between leafs fans of “he sucks!” And “no, he’s the shutdown dman we need!!!!”, I get to chuckle, because he doesn’t even want to go there.
Pretty content to keep him. Even without trading him he benefits the development of a guy like Drysdale, by taking a lot of the hard minutes.
Now, if we could trade Dallas Eakins, I’d be all over that.