No deal for both sides on every trade

I find that Buffalo trade pretty decent. Not sure others will agree.

Why is NSH trading a 1st for Nolan Vesey lol. He is terrible. So is the FLA offer - FLA wouldn't touch that.

Ya. Most trades don't make sense. I like Reinhart but that's a significant haul heading back the other way. Also, no team can have more than 3 retained salaries on the books at one time.

Nashville is having trouble signing their prospect Jimmy Vesey, Nolan's older brother who's actually good. There's rumours that Leafs will sign him and Nashville could cry foul over tampering. So instead of that mess, just trade Nolan Vesey to them for 1st round pick.
From last season, it appears that Florida is keen on winning now. Bozak and VanRiemsdyk makes them much better up front and they both only have one year left on their contracts but could be resigned. I think all they'd need is a top four UFA defenceman.
Huberdeau Barkov Jagr
Bjugstad Trochek VanRiemsdyk
Jokinen Bozak Smith

Also:
Detroit is trying to dump Datsyuk's salary, Robidas's 3M cap hit can be written off like the Leafs did last season, Cowen's contract can be bought out at reported (something along the lines of) 650K cap credit this season and 750K cap hit the season after.

Chicago is also trying to dump Bickell's contract, they demoted him to AHL last season. Hence the draft picks.

Not too confident about Edmonton trade, though looking at their lineup I think Hunwick would fit nicely with their young blueline and play more when needed. Yakupov who has underachieved is rumoured to be available but I'm not sure what the Edmonton would want. I figured Kadri after comparing stats.

If you have Percy, Harrington, Scrivens, Bickell, Holland and Junco playing for the Leafs......well if the team could finish lower than 30th they would.

Some interesting trades there.

Really don't like the Buffalo trade, Reinhart has been playing wing for Buffalo and we are giving up 3 first rounders including first overall for him plus the 8th? Seems to heavily favour Buffalo..

Reinhart is a natural centre, he played wing in Buffalo because they have O'Reilly and Eichel and it was his rookie season. I think Reinhart is pretty good but not sure what the right balance would be. I think the price would be steep as he had strong rookie debut and was the 2nd overall pick.

So because the Leafs may have "tapered" Nashville gives us a 1st????

hahaha,..yes, obviously. "Sorry Nashville for speaking with your player and telling him to sign with us...here...accept his no-skill brother as our apology and allow us to take that onerous 1st round pick off your hands."

LOL. This is very true

Reinhart is a center but if I remember correctly there was talk of him being a wing in the NHL when he was drafted. When you are giving 1st overall + for and second overall pick the plus needs to be on the other side. I don't think Reinhart and the player you get at 8 given the drop off in the draft is greater than the number 1 pick that gets you a potential franchise center. In Reinhart's year nobody was putting the franchise tag on him.

HAHA, it'd be Reinhart++ for the 1st overall pick. Value on every trade here is way off

After reading this, my eyes hurt.

Seriously, Kadri for Yakupov?

I love Sam Reinhart... But I would walk up one side of him and down the other wearing stilletto heels to get to Auston Matthews.

I see you slipped Poile a roofie to get him to make that trade.

There's no ideal option for Predators on Jimmy Vesey. Option A: Let him walk as a UFA. Option B: Trade his rights to Toronto for a draft pick Option C: Acquire his brother at a cost. Nashville is ready compete now not in the future, Jimmy Vesey is ready contribute now. So paying extra to acquire his brother is far better than getting a low draft pick for him. Poile won't be thrilled to make this trade but its better than losing him. Either way any Vesey trade will be dressed up as "hockey deal". Also the Vesey camp will have to be okay with this arrangement so that upon completing the trade Jimmy Vesey doesn't say anything about tampering. This is assuming that the Leafs have talked to him in secret.

Also I made some changes and tweaks.