With the impending doom of Toronto's Defence corps, and given the fact that Toronto's D-core is relatively deep this year, they should go all in this year. Hamonic is the perfect rental piece for Toronto. He is cheap and would be a great fit. He can be paired with Muzzin as the shutdown pairing, Rielly and Barrie could be the top pairing, and Dermott and Ceci could be a depth 3rd pairing. Contingent on Calgary giving him up and not using him as their own "rental".

In order to trade for Hamonic, the Leafs would have to clear some cap space. I know this is going to be a controversial trade but hear me out.

Nylander is going to be traded at some point its become a general consensus now. With Arizona trading for Phil Kessel and starting to make some noise, they would absolutely love Nylander. I believe there is a diamond in the rough in Christian Dvorak. In junior (London), Dvorak played on a line with Marner and Tkachuk and lead the team in scoring 2 years in a row. He also played his rookie year on a line with Domi and made him look really good. Now Dvorak has had off years due to the fact that he hasn't had the best fit in terms of complimentary players in Arizona. Domi and Strome were the same way and look what happened. Domi got traded to Montreal and broke out. Strome got traded to Chicago and broke out. Strome also tore it up in junior playing with DeBrincat. Having the right fit and right players is a big thing and I think Dvorak would flourish playing with Tavares ande Marner (not to mention the chemistry with Marner already). He also is cheaper and would save Toronto $2500000 - $3000000 in cap space that could be used to sign another defencemen next year (not to mention Dvorak is under contract for 6 more years). One more thing, the year he played with Domi in London, they didn't have a very good team, but Dvorak was still clutch in the playoffs ;)