Leafs would not be interested in 32 year old Laich. Johansson and Kadri have many commons stats, age, salary,....but I still think the Leafs believe Kadri has more upside.
So it's JVR for Burakovsky and a late 20s pick....Might not be enough for Leafs.
Switch Kadri to Bozak and Burakovsky to Vrana maybe?
That seems more reasonable. So much would ride on what the Leafs/Caps think of the youngsters involved. Hard for us to know, hard for hockey execs to know. Checking out Vrana, he seems to be a talented winger but is small. and the Leafs seem to have a lot of those in their prospects. Nylander, Marner, Kapanen, Brocchi, Johnsson, Brown all fit into that mode. Do they need more?