95% of Maple Leafs AGM’s:
*sees a big name player they want to trade for*
*slaps Alex Kerfoot, Ilya Mikheyev and Pierre Engvall on the table*

Wow 5 D. It will be a tough year again.

Have cap space to put menell there

If the Blues are win mode, they don't that deal if only because of retention. But really what is this fascination by Leafs fans with Tarasenko? He's a winger. Leafs are relatively strong at the wings. But they aren't deep at centre, so Kerfoot is needed. Liljegren has to looked at as long term Leafs. Kinda of a crazy post, trading Dermot and going with 5 Dmen.

This isn't possible with the Blues Cap space...

You forgot "asks for max retention".