You have Auston Matthews on this team along with Marner and Willy just entering or in their primes

You go for it

Who cares for the 1st we dont need prospects rn who are not gonna be NHL ready for 3+ years. Matthews wont be doing this forever

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9dO_TmzvdPQ

I pray every night that we don’t spend the first and brads stated several times he isn’t moving the first I think we need to draft a D then we can spend a first every year

We dont need to draft a young Dman who wont be ready for 3+ years

Go get guys who can help now. Were in win now not wait and see

Matthews aint gonna be in his prime forever or he may not stick around after his new deals up

Well I kinda disagree. One reason the Leafs aren't true contenders is they keep on trading their picks for youngsters for upcoming UFAs. Then come the summer the Leafs are forced to try to find failing older UFA at prices. Instead of having good ELC players who play above their cap, Leaf get worse players to compliment the star.
Your could argue the Leafs were just as good when the had Matthews, Nylander and Matthews on their ELCs (losing in seven to to Bruins). cause they had so much cap to spend other players, well if they had spend that money wisely.
Actually next season the Leafs have a little more cap flexibilty., maybe that's a better chance of success rather than this year.

Difference there was when Matthews, Marner, and Nylander were on their ELC's Leafs management was to passive with their TDL moves

Brian Boyle
Thomas Plekenic

Like Lou never did anything to try and fix that awful Dcore and there was a good chance back in 2018 with JTM and McDonagh trade


In general prospects and ELC's are nice but so is winning a cup and our window aint big enough to wait for someone. We got Niemela, Greybokin, Minten, and Cowen good enough. Drafting top 4 Dman aint easy and were not gonna have a super high pick anyways. Spend the first on a nice Dman with term and go from there who can help now

Noah Hanifin, Rasmus Andersson, etc.

There are really few good Dmen with term available. Seems like waste this year if they spend young assets on a UFA. This summer Leafs have about 8m to spend on two UFA Dmen. Surely the Leafs can upgrade for 24/25.

Rasmus Andersson's name's been out there, Weegar could be made available, could do a sign and trade for Hanifin

Others: Adam Larsson, Dante Fabbro (RFA), etc

There be options out there. Leafs dont need to wait

They can add now and later to. As when u go to FA there no guarantee guy will sign and you may get outbid/overpay

I agree we need a good offseason and we can make a deep run we get Roy and we’re solid

Fabbro is the only realistic target we can’t afford to extend Hanifin so we aren’t paying the price for a rental and Larsson isn’t available he’s an original kraken

Leafs can afford to extend Hanifin. They got a lot of cap next year even with the Willy extension he can get 7.5m here no problem

And being original Kraken means jack all. Their first captain was traded to Toronto after a few months