Can we stop with Meier? It’s unrealistic. He’s going to NJ or NYR. It would be nice, sure, mcdavid would be nice. The leafs don’t have the best assets apart from knies who I personally do not think we should trade. The leafs need help in the bottom six and barbashev is a good idea too. Also McCabe. Where do they put him? The only logical place is in place of holl who they trade in the package for McCabe, but then he plays on his off side, where? On the second pair? Bumping down liljegren who has been great? All of this seems too far fetched and getting a defenceman that isn’t bottom pair/7th d is impractical imo. Barbashev, lafferty, comtois, o Rielly, all relatively low priced forwards that wouldn’t be overly expensive and have low cap hits (ROR $3.75M with retention). It’s the better way imo.

That and the fact that offer is eh

Barbashev is so overrated don't even bother