Please god no Subban.. Kadri and Kappy for Ellis and prospect.

I would do that trade in a heartbeat

Edmonton trade is laughable

you want to walk Marner to UFA without buying out any UFA years and either pay him 16 then or lose him?

Marleau not going anywhere.
Edmonton not in the business of doing other teams favors anymore.

How about lets not get any players that are turning 29 and are just about to start a long term massive contract that they will have no hope of not declining midway through. Ellis is great but there has been a very small handful of players that stay at a high level into their 30's. The decline is massively real and his contract is massively risky. Kadri at his price is too valuable. Kap I think could be traded for something but honeslty I think I'd rather them find a guy similar to Hyman to play with Matthews and Nylander.

Yeah they did the same thing with matthews its more important to keep the cap down. But marner would still be Rfa at the end of that deal. Zaitsev deal is a fair deal. the oilers player has yakapov bust potential the leafs are taking all the risk. zaitsev is at least a proven decent nhl d man with a long term contract.