Desharnais is playing very well for the Oilers and he's cheap, there's no reason to move him right now.

Leafs accept but we’d like to keep Sammy we can send jones instead

Leafs don't have the cap space for both players then and would cost insane amount more for philly to retain on Laughton

Isn't Jones having a good season?

Leafs have tons of cap space especially if you take kampf back lol I love this deal but we would like to keep Sammy

He had a great start but hasn’t looked good for a bit now so we definitely need Sammy

Leafs have 30k deadline cap space trading jones and kampf is 3.5m trading for Laughton and seeler is 3.8m which puts them over the cap. Sure they may be able to send them down but I think the point of including Samsonov over jones would be to flip him to a team elsewhere as teams would likely take a chance on Samsonov than jones. Also trading Samsonov over jones gives toronto over 2m in cap to trade for someone else (tanev 50%, depth forwards like dowd). Basically jones may be swapped in would cost more in prospects and picks or include Samsonov in the deal keep those assets and have room for another move. If Samsonov is not the starter come playoffs I don't see why he shouldn't be included.