Leafs had to give up a first for cap space to dump Marleau's contract. You need to sweeten the deal, his cap hit is not good for the player you're getting. Add some 1sts.

Kovi's NMC kills a trade to Vancouver.

Why would we want Kovi?

gotta love a leafs fan thinking their team set the bar.... sorry bud, your team got hosed because they didn't want to take a bad contract back... CHI and OTT just did a 1 for 1 swap in chicago dumping Anisimov.
that NMC does kill this, at least with LE we can bury him for a bit of cap relief, wouldn't be able to do that with IK.

leafs gave up a first in order to sign kapenen and johnsson for less than marleau and open up more space for marner. both players are worth more than a late first.

anisimov wasn't a cap dump.

eriksson is a 30 point guy whose aging and has a contract riddled with signing bonuses. you're losing something valuable to dump that.

not if you're taking back an equal player in kovalchuk on an equally bad contract, and Anisimov was 100% a cap dump. not as big as this but still a cap dump

Anisimov cap hit for each of the next two years $4,550,000 but after his July 1 bonus this year he will only receive $5,000,000 in real money from Ottawa over the next two years $2,500,000 per year, it helps them get a higher cap hit with low actual payroll, smart move