Dont you want Kapanen or Johnsson for Stecher?

He's been pretty bad this year, his value is dipping

I think a johnsson for Stecher trade is probably fair value-wise. As a leafs fan though I’d rather the team forgo stecher’s upside and instead add a more proven guy who is consistently solid to the top-4

why would the canucks pay 7m for Barrie. he's not going to get 1pp time with Hughes there(and he's not productive otherwise). canucks will resign Tanev for less cap hit and term long before they over pay for Barrie and Tanev can play with either Hughes or Edler allowing them to play more offensively. Barrie doesn't instill much confidence on the defensive side of things
they are not going to make an overpay like that knowing they have 2 big RFA's to be resigned next year