Anaheim ain't taking that contract off your hands.

Sure. And Lucy doesn't pull the ball away from Charlie Brown.

Tavares aint waving his NTC to go a rebuilding team (no disrespect to the Ducks they have a rlly bright future)

Winnipeg isn't downgrading one year of Scheifele to one year of Nylander for free.

Winnipeg isn't downgrading one year of Scheifele to one year of Nylander for free.

What part of "I want to be here." Makes you think he waIves not his NTC but his NMC. The only thing they can do without his permission is buy him out. That however is the dumbest thing Toronto can do. The less than 700k cap saving doesn't even allow them to replace him with a league minimum contract

CHI farts in your general direction!

Toronto isn't downgrading from their most clutch forward to a one-dimensional mess of a hockey player.

Regardless of any of this, Toronto is allowed to ask. If they deem that it's the best move for them, Leafs management would be negligent in their duties if they did not ask. And if JT says no, they carry on. What is difficult to imagine is that, if JT said yes, Toronto would not do the right thing by him (as trading him to a non-contending team would indeed not be doing the right thing by their Captain and a consummate professional).

Okay 🙄 asking a question you already know the answer to that can only lead to hard feelings is moronic. They know he isn't waiving and by asking in that scenario makes it look like he isn't wanted . So, your theory that not asking is a form of GM mal-practice is inaccurate.