Quoting: palhal
I don't understand trading for McCann unless you weren't going to protect him. Leafs could have protected 7 forwards and 3 Dman. One of Holl or Dermot would have been selected.
If the Leafs didn't make the trade, Kraken would have picked Kerfoot over Dermot, then the Leafs would have had 3.5m to find a 3C...which shouldn't be difficult.
Quoting: DartGuy86
agreed. I feel like this is a Dubas self-own here. Totally overthought it. Unless he's got something else coming up that we're unaware of, which is possible I guess.
Quoting: MatthewsFan
I don’t even think the go after Holl or Dermott if they went 7-3-1. With some of the selections I could have seen them take Joey Anderson. Then you’d have your D and McCann + Kerfoot 🤷♂️
apparently there was reason to believe that holl was going to get taken, bc he's actually good (something people somehow refuse to accept every summer lol)
oleksiak and larsson both signed for $4M plus, played LESS than holl, were on worse defensive teams than holl and had less points than holl
holl is outstanding value for a top 4 defensemen, and for whatever reason when paired with jake muzzin, he punches far above his weight class/salary grade - he's hugely valuable
idk why when we had arguably a top 5 blueline in the league (GA wise), we want to lose bogosian, dermott and holl in one offseason lol
now instead of losing kerfoot for nothing and having hallander and a 7th as trade chips (i.e. worthless), we lost hallander and a 7th and now have kerfoot as a trade chip - we're objectively better off lmao