Why add PLD?

Well you see, there's this thing called a "cap" and it is in place for teams other than Toronto, too.

Also, the Kings aren't moving Brandt Clarke to move PLD. That's laughable.

Thanks so much for getting me caught up on the basics. So why would Toronto downgrade from Nylander to PLD?

They wouldn't. Trade isn't realistic for either side.

Right, and yet you brought up cap space as if the issue was in getting the number to work...

Hawks decline. They might give up the Ottawa '24 3rd for Lilypad. Hawks would have zero interest in Robertson.

And your Marner trade to Utah isn't technically possible. Marner can't sign an extension until 7/1. The '24 draft (AZ 1st) is before that. Just pointing it out.

You asked why PLD was included. IF this trade were to go through, in the vacuum of common sense, it would be because cap needed to be going out of LA as well.