Quoting: wojohawk
If this is the best the Leafs will do, they will be buying Murray out. If you want to get serious about moving him and not having a 2 million buyout hit on the cap next Summer, you'll need to put a 1st or one of Minten/Niemela with a mid round pick (2nd-4th) on the table cause the Hawks are not taking Murray and his 6 million dollars owed for a 3rd and a B prospect. Voit would be hard pressed to make the Hawks top 15 prospects and a 3rd to a team that has 12 better picks in the next to drafts won't get it done.
1000% this. I don't even know if the Hawks could buy out Murray, at this juncture. If not, I understand the actual cash layout for him this year is on the order of $8mm!
All this could so easily been done prior to the draft with the Hawks likely taking Murray along with Boston's pick #28 in the draft, in exchange for (likely) a second round pick. The Hawks would then have bought Murray out (a la Bailey). Many experts had Easton Cowan ranked, too, such that he may well have STILL have been available in the second round for TOR to take him (or, if not, still a good prospect.) TOR would have won that trade, in TWO ways.
Instead, now, TOR is gonna have to buy out Murray, pay him big $ in actual cash, and still have his cap hit rise to a significant number next year. That, or they're going to have to WAY overpay to have someone take him off their hands now.
SMH... It seems as though it could have all been so easily avoided.