**Two teams help the leafs at the cost of their own team for some unknown reason

That would be a better title

Maybe jarnkrok straight up for zadorov. Don't know why we're trading down in the draft in this scenario.

That's awful for Anaheim and not good for Calgary.

We should have known when clicking on a Toronto AGM

Why are the Flames trading down in the draft to help you?

Let's start by saying yes, in the Anaheim trade, Toronto is giving up the best player in Nylander. I can understand where you are coming from.

However, Nylander is a pending UFA, as is Brodie. Brodie we would not be resigning, and has a 7.5 million salary this season which is wholeheartedly unappealing for us. We would move maybe a 4th to acquire Brodie. This takes us back to Nylander, which you are saying is worth Terry, a first, and a 2nd (assuming Vaaks is also worth a mid/late pick, makes Brodie Vaaks a wash as far as Anaheim is concerned)

Nylander is not worth Terry plus a 1st and a 2nd, even with an extension in place. We're one of the few teams who can take a big swing at him as a UFA and not run into cap issues, and I fully expect we will. We're not even certain we would do Terry for Nylander straight up, as Terry is going to come in a few million cheaper AAV than Nylanders new contract.

So we really don't see how Toronto is helping us by sending two pending UFAs for top assets, the one who we actually want to sign is likely a flight risk we have to pay UFA money to ANYWAY, we might as well keep our assets and just pay him UFA money on the open market.