Équipe: 2022-23 Ducks d'Anaheim

Date de création initiale: 27 nov. 2022

Publié: 4 déc. 2022

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

I don't think that it creates a good team atmosphere to abandon hope on a season, but IF our new GM decides to pull the plug on 2022-2023, this is a possible blueprint for improving our draft positions at minimal cost.

Main trade made on January 2, with the second trade being made as soon as possible after that. This assumes, of course, that the Maple Leafs want Klingberg in the first place. Quite a few Toronto fans don't seem sold on the idea.

As you can see, I'm not as convinced as some of my esteemed Ducks colleagues that Klingberg will get us a 2023 first-round draft pick outright.

Benefits to Toronto: (1) Klingberg with 50% retention for Kerfoot is cap-neutral. (2) Toronto gets a veteran RhD while Reilly (and perhaps Brodie) are on the IR list. (3) Instead of giving up a first-round draft pick outright, Maple Leafs move back one full round and lose a third.

Benefits to Winnipeg: The Jets get a quality middle-6 forward who plays a lot of PK for half his cap hit and virtually no actual money without giving up a high draft pick outright but trading back two rounds in 2024, not 2023. (I think that Kerfoot is a superior alternative to Barron and Jonsson-Fjallby and anyone else on the third line at LW.)

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