Quoting: python3504
Muzzin is on LTIR so they are not shedding any cap moving him.
Well, by moving Muzzin, the Leafs can accure cap space during the season, so depending on how tight they get, that would be the logic. Can't do that with LTIR of that magnitude.
Quoting: SMH
Because they need a goalie and cap space
Leafs have Woll (no longer waiver exempt) and Samsonov, so Allen is redundant.
Quoting: mv21227
Don’t completely hate it from a Canucks perspective, but not sure if they’d want to move that far back
Can’t see Toronto doing that though. They already have Samsonov and Woll so they don’t need Allen, and giving a 1st + Niemela for Beauvillier and to dump Murray seems like too much
More than that. The Leafs organizational defensive depth is ridiculously thin. Moving from a complete position of weakness. That is why this doesn't work.
Now.....
Beauviller and Ylönen may add offensive depth to the Leafs at a reasonable contract cost, neither solve what is needed the most in the top 9 - and that is sandpaper.
Knies looks like he can supply some of that, but more is needed. Players that can get in the trenches and open up ice for the "core 4". Beauviller and Ylönen simply do nothing to move the needle.
So, the Leafs trade.... Given everything? The only benefit would be clearing Muzzin's contract, and at that cost, much further ahead to hang in to it.
But I like the outside the box thinking.