A better trade is Libor Hajek for Jake Guentzel with 50% retention. Much more fair trade.

Neither goalie signs that. Campbell is gonna leverage the beginning of the season for more money somewhere and georgiev could make the same amount over 1 year if he takes the QO (and potentially more in arbitration).

For the trades, i doubt seattle wants 2 expiring UFAs. They probably want guys with term bc they arent competing next year.
Isles easily decline. Pageau might not be having a good offensive season but at least hes still a great FO guy and a great penalty killer and shutdown center. Muzzin had a terrible year defensively which is his forte plus he probably hit an age decline as well as having injury problems. No thanks.
Rangers counter with nemeth for sandin. Laf isnt a bust even if so far he hasnt lived up to expectations (also remember how high those expectations were). Hes still only in his 2nd year and has been producing at 5v5.
Nobodys taking the mrazek conttact off your hands for free. And before you say anything about cap floor ARI will do what they did last offseason, leverage that cap space for half the 2nd round.

Islander fans sure like to tell Leaf fans how their team can't make their roster work.

I would think a guy who's showing to be more a bust than a game a game breaker along with a backup with not very good stats is more than a 2nd away from being worth a near point a game player in his prime.

Leafs can do better moving Nylander regardless if the capfriendly rule of "all leaf trades need to destroy the leafs"

The Seattle trade is bad as well. The Leafs move the better forward and have to pick up Larsson who sucks. And the Islanders trade is bad as well. Pageau isn't worth his contract, muzzin could be moved for a better deal.

The Rangers, bad for the Rangers talent wise, and cap wise. Mrzarek wasn't claimed own waivers, why now? No thanks to 3 more years of Larsson, who doesn't waive anyway.
Pageau is so overpaid, with way too much term (as is Muzzin) but Muzzin doesn't waive.

Laf the bust with 7 points in his last 6 games. Keep in mind, he has one of the highest goals/60 at 5v5 than most 1st round picks through his first 120 games. Also, he’s a bust so that’s why people on this site keep trading for him.


https://twitter.com/hockeystatminer/status/1508214434673606663?s=21&t=mH3oz6E2nzSyDHN_w_0QEg

Yup typical of this site. 6 games washes the previous 114 games. I will wait to reply again until Nylander scores 5 points in 2 games and then that will be my soul argument. What a joke

The Nylander-Laf trade is probably fair in terms of value (trading an expensive but very productive player for an ELC player with high upside), but the Rangers are unlikely to have the cap room to make that kind of deal. The bigger issue here is Georgiev and the contract you're giving him - why in the world would he sign 2x$1.25M when his QO is $2.65M? You're paying him less total over 2 seasons than he should be getting paid for one. He is *not* signing that deal.

I like Larsson & Tanev as players but taking on *both* those contracts is a bit much, Tanev especially. You're basically extending the Kerfoot cap hit for 2 extra years for a player without the offensive upside that Kerfoot brings. I also think Seattle would want a little more coming back than the two UFAs and a 3rd.

Mrazek is going to be tough to move without attaching an asset to him. Arizona is also a bad destination because taking him on goes against the type of cap dumps they usually go after - for example, Andrew Ladd was dumped with 2x$5.5M left on his deal but his actual payout was $8M in cash, not $11M, because his contract was front loaded. Mrazek's is backloaded - he has 2x$3.8M left but $8.6M in cash owed on a $7.6M hit. Someone will eat that cap, somewhere, but you're probably better off just buying him out and keeping whatever asset you'd have to unload for him at this point (penalty would be 4 years, $1.03M, $833K, $1.43M, $1.43M.)

Both teams decline that JGP-Muzzin trade. If I'm the Islanders, I'm worried about paying $5.6M for the next two years to a 33-year-old LD with concussion issues. If I'm the Leafs, I'm wary of paying $5M for the age 30-33 seasons of a 3rd line center when I already have 2 other Cs pulling close to 40 minutes a night for me.

No from NYI. We're not moving Pageau.

Muzzin has become the new Dermott, I see. You will have to pay someone to take him at this point, until he proves he can still be effective. The Isles absolutely pass.