Click bait

Why is this a click bait?

I like this team but I think you would have to give up something more to get Brown, nothing significant but maybe a mid pick? The same with the Vegas deal, I don't think you'd get anything back, maybe give them a 3rd instead?

Babcock loves Brown and is exempt from the expansion draft. Why would the Leafs trade an exempt forward (who is only 23 and just scored 20 goals...), plus the defenseman they are likely to expose, for a defensemen that they would expose? The leafs already have to protect Rielly, Gardiner, and Carrick (most likely), they will not take on your player you can't protect for a good forward and a "mid pick".

Assumption is that they would go with the 4-4-1 protection scheme if Brown is out of the mix. I love Brown as much as anybody but the Leafs are going to have to give up somebody to get a defenseman and they're going into next season with Nylander/Marner/Kapanen/Brown/Soshnikov at RW. I think Pysyk is incredibly under-rated and would be a solid 4/5 defenseman for the Leafs long-term.